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[News Clip: Curry]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a story about West Texas State University Student Nathan Curry being released on bond for two separate charges of rape and robbery in Amarillo, Texas. This story includes footage of the 1961 murder trial for which Curry was acquitted of the murder of Florence Hussey in Palo Pinto, Texas.
Date: March 4, 1969
Duration: 36 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[The Crazy Hotel After the Fire of 1925]

Description: A handwritten note on the back of the photograph identifies the picture as "Crazy Hotel southside [sic] after fire of March 15, 1925." Shown is the skeleton of the first Crazy Hotel, after a fire destroyed the entire Crazy "complex." The original hotel complex consisted of the two adjoined hotel sections with a common lobby, the Crazy Flats (a drinking pavilion with rooms for rent), a Bath House, and a drugstore (in which the fire started). The second Crazy Hotel opened two years … more
Date: March 15, 1925
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[The Crazy Water Well--1974]

Description: What is said to be the original Crazy Woman's Well is preserved under the sidewalk at the northwest corner of the Crazy Hotel. This is supposed to be the well the mentally-challenged (or the once-designated "Crazy woman") drank from that "Cured" her dementia. Stories are in conflict about how many women there were--and whether the water actually cured any of them of epilepsy. Subsequent analysis of the water refuted a rumor that there was any Lithium was in it. … more
Date: March 24, 1974
Creator: Weaver, A. F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library

[The Burning of the Crazy Flats]

Description: The "Crazy Flats" drinking pavilion, with rooms for rent, replaced a two-story Crazy Water drinking pavilion in 1909. The first Crazy Hotel was built in 1912, and an annex was added to it in 1914. A fire in the Drug Store of the "Crazy Flats" (SE corner of the Crazy Flats building) on March 15, 1925, destroyed the entire Crazy block. The burned-out site of the Crazy Hotel was bought in 1926 by Carr Collins. A "New", completely rebuilt, Crazy Hotel was promoted as fireproof, since it was bui… more
Date: March 15, 1925
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Boyce Ditto Public Library
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[News Clip: Jail (Mineral Wells)]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: March 8, 1978
Duration: 2 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Greyhound]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10pm.
Date: March 18, 1987
Duration: 1 minute 43 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: White trial]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.
Date: March 2, 1968
Duration: 2 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: White trial]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.
Date: March 2, 1968
Duration: 18 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Crazy Hotel Fire

Description: Photograph of Mineral Wells as seen from an observation tower on East Mountain. The panoramic view of the town reveals a plume of smoke covering much of the town's center.
Date: March 5, 1925
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Palo Pinto County Historical Association
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