[Inside of the Crazy Water Bottling Plant]

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Handwriting on the back of this photograph identifies it as "Crazy Fiz 1930s" It is a section of the Crazy Water Bottling Plant, where carbon dioxide appears to have been added to the mineral water in order to compete with the popular soft drinks of the era. Note the bottling machine in the right foreground of the picture. Women are packing the carbonated "fizz water" for shipment.

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Creator: Unknown. 1930/1939.

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This photograph is part of the collection entitled: A. F. Weaver Collection and was provided by the Boyce Ditto Public Library to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 164 times. More information about this photograph can be viewed below.

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Description

Handwriting on the back of this photograph identifies it as "Crazy Fiz 1930s" It is a section of the Crazy Water Bottling Plant, where carbon dioxide appears to have been added to the mineral water in order to compete with the popular soft drinks of the era.
Note the bottling machine in the right foreground of the picture. Women are packing the carbonated "fizz water" for shipment.

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A. F. Weaver Collection

This colorful panorama covers Mineral Wells' founding and its mercurial growth as a resort center and army town to the present. Photos are from local historian and photographer A.F. Weaver, local families and research sources.

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  • 1930/1939

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  • Oct. 17, 2007, 2:34 p.m.

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  • Nov. 11, 2022, 1:04 a.m.

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[Inside of the Crazy Water Bottling Plant], photograph, 1930/1939; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29448/: accessed March 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.

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