I knew of the Candy Company. I had no idea the family owned a drug store, ice creamery,, and cafeteria in addition to the candy manufacturing plant.Assassin said:
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Texas chuckwagon around 1900
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After reading this menu, what do you think HT Pangburn died of?Assassin said:
Texas Chuckwagon around 1930 .... ahhhh progress.....Assassin said:
Texas chuckwagon around 1900
Directors of the 1933 Fort Bend County Fair. My grandfather standing, 2nd from left.
BK ad circa 1955
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Back in the days when a heater was an option.Assassin said:
BK ad circa 1955
"Sic em yesterday, sic em today, sic em forever"
Everything about this Chuck Wagon photo is fantastic. Soft drink machines with the wooden bottle crates for the empties. Wonderful look back.BU84BEAR said:Texas Chuckwagon around 1930 .... ahhhh progress.....Assassin said:
Texas chuckwagon around 1900
"Sic em yesterday, sic em today, sic em forever"
Alonzo Pierce with horse, circa 1910-20s
Snyder, Texas
New York Times:
Disunion
The Great Hanging at Gainesville
By Richard Parker and Emily Boyd
October 16, 2012 12:49 pmOctober 16, 2012 12:49 pm 30
Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded.
October is the time when summer finally releases its grip on the flat plain of North Texas. But in the fall of 1862 this part of Texas was in the grip of a cycle of violence: Texan against Texan, even as the Civil War pitted Southerner against Northerner.
"Texas had been divided about secession deeply," says the Temple University professor Gregory Urwin, who has researched Civil War atrocities. "So the threat was now internal as well as the threat of Union invasion itself" in the eyes of slaveholders. Confederate supporters "responded to that threat now the way they did to Indians and Mexicans before. It was life and death."
By 1862, the fragile order of this frontier state was breaking down under the pressures of an unpopular draft and a capricious martial law. In 1861, the idea of secession had been seductive. But the reality of war on the home front in Texas was disillusioning, grim and terrifying in its lawlessness. In the fall of 1862, in North Texas, more than 40 men, most guilty of nothing more than not reporting for the draft that day, would hang or be shot in a military atrocity by Confederate troops that remains the largest case of vigilante justice in America.
Already that year, Confederate troops had ambushed a party of German immigrants on the Nueces River, killing 19, executing 9 more and then hunting down still more on the Rio Grande. The ambush and executions far exceeded the legal authority of the Confederate commanders, who should have arrested the Germans for attempting to flee conscription. The following year nine more men, Confederate troops on leave, were hanged near Bandera in the Hill Country by other Confederate troops on patrol.
In Texas, the Confederate military, which was supposed to ensure security, posed an increasing threat to civilians through its mix of powerful and often incompetent officers and undisciplined troops left to guard the home front. Brig. Gen. Paul Octave Hbert, the state military commander, though a West Point graduate, had logged just five years of active duty military experience before becoming a rich sugar planter and governor of his native Louisiana only to rejoin the military after secession. His troops despised him as arrogant, and even Gov. Francis Lubbock said Hbert seemed "somewhat bewildered by the magnitude of the task assigned him."
The imperious Hbert practically installed himself as a military governor. He issued proclamations for every able-bodied man to be able to serve in the militia if not in the army; they went largely ignored. He put all of Texas under martial law and his personal authority, going against Jefferson Davis's explicit wishes. He then doled out sweeping authority to his state militia commanders, who in turn did the same with local provosts men who, in many cases, had limited military experience but vested interests in the local economies or, worse, old scores to settle.
Hbert's autocratic control virtually guaranteed that conflict would break out on the North Texas plains, where the controversies of secession and slavery still seethed. The region, northeast of Dallas, had been settled by newcomers from the Upper South and the Midwest, without slaves, though a minority of older settlers did own slaves. In the run-up to secession, the editor of the Sherman Patriot newspaper had even called for the secession of North Texas from Texas itself. Slave owners and sympathizers fought back with fear-mongering; they even sparked a lynching of blacks for a series of rumored arsons that never took place.
In Gainesville, a town in Cook County about 75 miles northwest of Dallas, only 1 in 10 white males owned slaves and anti-secession, anti-war sentiment abounded: a branch of the Peace Party was still active in Cooke County, long after Texas joined the Confederacy. As the Confederacy's unpopular Conscription Act went into effect exempting slaveholders from military service but requiring it of non-slaveholders a Union League had formed to protest the law in a petition to Richmond.
The commander of the area's military district, Brig. Gen. William Hudson, feared that the agitation among Kansas Jayhawkers and Oklahoma unionists would spill over the nearby border and so ordered draft dodgers arrested. The Unionist and draft dodger circles were quickly penetrated by a pair of self-appointed spies, brothers who supported the Confederacy, who reported their findings to the local provost, Col. James Bourland. A plantation owner in Cooke County, Bourland carried out the arrests and teamed up with Col. William Young, who hand-selected a jury, composed mostly of slave owners, to try the prisoners. Bourland and Young had a strong motivation to tamp down dissent: together they owned a third of all slaves in Cooke County.
The arrests began early on the morning of Oct. 1. The skies darkened through the day, unleashing a torrent of rain. By noon, 70 men were in chains; a few escaped and still others were shot trying to escape. By the end of the day, 150 men were in a makeshift prison in Gainesville. That number would swell to nearly 200.
The very next day the men went on trial for treason against the Confederacy and avoiding the draft. Despite the composition of the town, 7 of the 12 jurors sitting in judgment were slave owners. Some were powerful men with mutual ties: Daniel Montague had served under Colonel Young, Jeremiah Hughes collected war taxes for the Confederacy and William Simpson was a member of the home guard unit rounding up the prisoners now on trial. The remainder of the jury was composed of illiterate farmers or fresh arrivals from the Deep South.
Initially, the court considered the evidence against them so flimsy that it moved to acquit and release nearly all the prisoners of treason and insurrection; only seven Unionists were to be condemned at all. But a mob was growing outside, and it threatened to break into the prison. The court quickly acceded to its demands for rough justice.
On Oct. 12, a cold Sunday morning in Gainesville, the mob had enough of the deliberations inside and stormed the courtroom, demanding a list of the men on trial; the jury complied and handed over the names of 14 of them, chosen at random; all were hanged the next day, under the supervision of Young (coincidentally, three days later he was killed by bandits preying along the Red River).
The fear of spreading factional violence prompted two jurors to flee service. They were replaced by two men, Newton Chance and William Howeth, who wanted all suspected Unionists hanged. The cycle of violence tightened. There would be no mass acquittal or release. Instead, the men were retried; 19 were condemned to death. Young's son oversaw the next round of hangings. Most of the condemned men had done nothing more than fail to report for the draft, itself a crime without formal punishment under Confederate law.
Chaos soon took over North Texas. Hundreds of families fled the state, fearing for their lives. Military commanders alternately helped lynch mobs or tried to quell them. In Decatur, Capt. John Hill supervised the hanging of five more men while in Sherman, Brig. Gen. James Throckmorton who had opposed secession as a legislator but donned the gray uniform out of loyalty to Texas arrived in time to save five men from the noose. The editor of the Sherman Patriot was murdered. In Denton, a man shot a prisoner dead. A North Texas company serving in Arkansas nearly mutinied upon learning of the violence back home.
Texas newspapers hailed the hangings while Lubbock, the governor, applauded the military. But President Davis was humiliated; he had been pressing for an investigation of Union atrocities in Missouri but now was faced with atrocities by his own military against his own people. The Northern press seized on the episode as an example of Southern barbarity. Davis summarily dismissed Hbert from his command.
On his way out the door, Hbert banned the export of cotton already made nearly impossible by the Union blockade off the coast except by authorized agents of the Confederacy. Of course, these authorized agents would receive a fee. Hbert's final order proved wildly unpopular during the remainder of the war. To the injury of atrocities against its own civilians in Texas, the Confederacy could now add the insult of economic punishment, even as it demanded more troops and more cattle for a losing war. At least on the home front in Texas, the tide of the Civil War had begun to turn.
Disunion
The Great Hanging at Gainesville
By Richard Parker and Emily Boyd
October 16, 2012 12:49 pmOctober 16, 2012 12:49 pm 30
Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded.
October is the time when summer finally releases its grip on the flat plain of North Texas. But in the fall of 1862 this part of Texas was in the grip of a cycle of violence: Texan against Texan, even as the Civil War pitted Southerner against Northerner.
"Texas had been divided about secession deeply," says the Temple University professor Gregory Urwin, who has researched Civil War atrocities. "So the threat was now internal as well as the threat of Union invasion itself" in the eyes of slaveholders. Confederate supporters "responded to that threat now the way they did to Indians and Mexicans before. It was life and death."
By 1862, the fragile order of this frontier state was breaking down under the pressures of an unpopular draft and a capricious martial law. In 1861, the idea of secession had been seductive. But the reality of war on the home front in Texas was disillusioning, grim and terrifying in its lawlessness. In the fall of 1862, in North Texas, more than 40 men, most guilty of nothing more than not reporting for the draft that day, would hang or be shot in a military atrocity by Confederate troops that remains the largest case of vigilante justice in America.
Already that year, Confederate troops had ambushed a party of German immigrants on the Nueces River, killing 19, executing 9 more and then hunting down still more on the Rio Grande. The ambush and executions far exceeded the legal authority of the Confederate commanders, who should have arrested the Germans for attempting to flee conscription. The following year nine more men, Confederate troops on leave, were hanged near Bandera in the Hill Country by other Confederate troops on patrol.
In Texas, the Confederate military, which was supposed to ensure security, posed an increasing threat to civilians through its mix of powerful and often incompetent officers and undisciplined troops left to guard the home front. Brig. Gen. Paul Octave Hbert, the state military commander, though a West Point graduate, had logged just five years of active duty military experience before becoming a rich sugar planter and governor of his native Louisiana only to rejoin the military after secession. His troops despised him as arrogant, and even Gov. Francis Lubbock said Hbert seemed "somewhat bewildered by the magnitude of the task assigned him."
The imperious Hbert practically installed himself as a military governor. He issued proclamations for every able-bodied man to be able to serve in the militia if not in the army; they went largely ignored. He put all of Texas under martial law and his personal authority, going against Jefferson Davis's explicit wishes. He then doled out sweeping authority to his state militia commanders, who in turn did the same with local provosts men who, in many cases, had limited military experience but vested interests in the local economies or, worse, old scores to settle.
Hbert's autocratic control virtually guaranteed that conflict would break out on the North Texas plains, where the controversies of secession and slavery still seethed. The region, northeast of Dallas, had been settled by newcomers from the Upper South and the Midwest, without slaves, though a minority of older settlers did own slaves. In the run-up to secession, the editor of the Sherman Patriot newspaper had even called for the secession of North Texas from Texas itself. Slave owners and sympathizers fought back with fear-mongering; they even sparked a lynching of blacks for a series of rumored arsons that never took place.
In Gainesville, a town in Cook County about 75 miles northwest of Dallas, only 1 in 10 white males owned slaves and anti-secession, anti-war sentiment abounded: a branch of the Peace Party was still active in Cooke County, long after Texas joined the Confederacy. As the Confederacy's unpopular Conscription Act went into effect exempting slaveholders from military service but requiring it of non-slaveholders a Union League had formed to protest the law in a petition to Richmond.
The commander of the area's military district, Brig. Gen. William Hudson, feared that the agitation among Kansas Jayhawkers and Oklahoma unionists would spill over the nearby border and so ordered draft dodgers arrested. The Unionist and draft dodger circles were quickly penetrated by a pair of self-appointed spies, brothers who supported the Confederacy, who reported their findings to the local provost, Col. James Bourland. A plantation owner in Cooke County, Bourland carried out the arrests and teamed up with Col. William Young, who hand-selected a jury, composed mostly of slave owners, to try the prisoners. Bourland and Young had a strong motivation to tamp down dissent: together they owned a third of all slaves in Cooke County.
The arrests began early on the morning of Oct. 1. The skies darkened through the day, unleashing a torrent of rain. By noon, 70 men were in chains; a few escaped and still others were shot trying to escape. By the end of the day, 150 men were in a makeshift prison in Gainesville. That number would swell to nearly 200.
The very next day the men went on trial for treason against the Confederacy and avoiding the draft. Despite the composition of the town, 7 of the 12 jurors sitting in judgment were slave owners. Some were powerful men with mutual ties: Daniel Montague had served under Colonel Young, Jeremiah Hughes collected war taxes for the Confederacy and William Simpson was a member of the home guard unit rounding up the prisoners now on trial. The remainder of the jury was composed of illiterate farmers or fresh arrivals from the Deep South.
Initially, the court considered the evidence against them so flimsy that it moved to acquit and release nearly all the prisoners of treason and insurrection; only seven Unionists were to be condemned at all. But a mob was growing outside, and it threatened to break into the prison. The court quickly acceded to its demands for rough justice.
On Oct. 12, a cold Sunday morning in Gainesville, the mob had enough of the deliberations inside and stormed the courtroom, demanding a list of the men on trial; the jury complied and handed over the names of 14 of them, chosen at random; all were hanged the next day, under the supervision of Young (coincidentally, three days later he was killed by bandits preying along the Red River).
The fear of spreading factional violence prompted two jurors to flee service. They were replaced by two men, Newton Chance and William Howeth, who wanted all suspected Unionists hanged. The cycle of violence tightened. There would be no mass acquittal or release. Instead, the men were retried; 19 were condemned to death. Young's son oversaw the next round of hangings. Most of the condemned men had done nothing more than fail to report for the draft, itself a crime without formal punishment under Confederate law.
Chaos soon took over North Texas. Hundreds of families fled the state, fearing for their lives. Military commanders alternately helped lynch mobs or tried to quell them. In Decatur, Capt. John Hill supervised the hanging of five more men while in Sherman, Brig. Gen. James Throckmorton who had opposed secession as a legislator but donned the gray uniform out of loyalty to Texas arrived in time to save five men from the noose. The editor of the Sherman Patriot was murdered. In Denton, a man shot a prisoner dead. A North Texas company serving in Arkansas nearly mutinied upon learning of the violence back home.
Texas newspapers hailed the hangings while Lubbock, the governor, applauded the military. But President Davis was humiliated; he had been pressing for an investigation of Union atrocities in Missouri but now was faced with atrocities by his own military against his own people. The Northern press seized on the episode as an example of Southern barbarity. Davis summarily dismissed Hbert from his command.
On his way out the door, Hbert banned the export of cotton already made nearly impossible by the Union blockade off the coast except by authorized agents of the Confederacy. Of course, these authorized agents would receive a fee. Hbert's final order proved wildly unpopular during the remainder of the war. To the injury of atrocities against its own civilians in Texas, the Confederacy could now add the insult of economic punishment, even as it demanded more troops and more cattle for a losing war. At least on the home front in Texas, the tide of the Civil War had begun to turn.
On this day in 1919, Navy Cross recipient and Pearl Harbor hero Doris "Dorie" Miller was born in Waco, Texas.
In 1896, two men, J.C. Weaver and C.H. Briggs had a single vision to create a successful industrial service company that would become an industry leader.
They opened Briggs-Weaver Machinery Company in Dallas. The business provided service for pump installations, machinery and industrial supplies, hardware, and eventually lift trucks and material handling. It quickly gained a reputation of providing the best industrial equipment and services to many industries throughout the southwest.
The business was known as The Briggs and Weaver Machinery Company and was located beginning in 1905 at the corner of Market and Ross, now known as Market Ross Place which houses anongst other shops, office space, and restaurants, the Hofbrau Steak House in this building
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth680178/m1/1/
the gateway to the West End in Dallas.
Briggs Weaver Machinery Company is now Briggs Equipment, the largest material handling supplier in the world.
They opened Briggs-Weaver Machinery Company in Dallas. The business provided service for pump installations, machinery and industrial supplies, hardware, and eventually lift trucks and material handling. It quickly gained a reputation of providing the best industrial equipment and services to many industries throughout the southwest.
The business was known as The Briggs and Weaver Machinery Company and was located beginning in 1905 at the corner of Market and Ross, now known as Market Ross Place which houses anongst other shops, office space, and restaurants, the Hofbrau Steak House in this building
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth680178/m1/1/
the gateway to the West End in Dallas.
Briggs Weaver Machinery Company is now Briggs Equipment, the largest material handling supplier in the world.
http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/the-real-history-of-ross-ave-7147763
Speaking of Ross Avenue, it was named after the Ross Brothers, direct descendants of beloved flagmaker Betsy Ross, manufactuers of Ross Bros Cough Drops, and inventors of menthol, named after one of the brothers. The brothers owned the land where Ross Ave is today.
Their grandson Steve Ross was CEO of Time Warner and founder of Warner Communications.
Their story is told at the link above.
Speaking of Ross Avenue, it was named after the Ross Brothers, direct descendants of beloved flagmaker Betsy Ross, manufactuers of Ross Bros Cough Drops, and inventors of menthol, named after one of the brothers. The brothers owned the land where Ross Ave is today.
Their grandson Steve Ross was CEO of Time Warner and founder of Warner Communications.
Their story is told at the link above.
That is coolBU84BEAR said:
Cotton Palace-Waco TX (former home of Baylor Football (though it was played there after this picture)
BU84BEAR said:I knew of the Candy Company. I had no idea the family owned a drug store, ice creamery,, and cafeteria in addition to the candy manufacturing plant.Assassin said:
My mother would send those in a goodie bag to Baylor for me. That could put the weight on you quick.lolBaylorProud77 said:BU84BEAR said:I knew of the Candy Company. I had no idea the family owned a drug store, ice creamery,, and cafeteria in addition to the candy manufacturing plant.Assassin said:
The Justin family sometime prior to 1918. The Nocona Boots Company founded in 1897.
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In 1939, Enid Justin organized a re-enactment of the Pony Express, which traveled from Nocona to the World's Fair in San Francisco. The route followed the old Overland Mail Trail established in 1839. The original trail entered Texas at Colbert's Ferry in Oklahoma and stretched west through Gainesville on to El Paso, Tucson, Phoenix, Yuma, Los Angeles, and then up the Pacific Coast to San Francisco. The trip, from start to finish, was approximately two thousand miles. Here, Enid Justin cuts the starting line ribbon. Image courtesy of Tales 'N' Trails Museum.
More of the story and additional pictures:
http://www.valleyview1872.com/files/longest_horse_race.pdf
Produced by legendary cattleman Colonel Charles Goodnight, this film presents a narrative of his relationship with the Kiowa tribe who inhabited the area in and around Palo Duro Canyon and the JA Ranch. The film documents scenes from bison hunts, daily life in the Kiowa camp and the JA Ranch, and rituals and customs of the tribe. Included is footage of the last buffalo hunt that Charles Goodnight held on the ranch and invited the Kiowa to attend.
http://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php/Old_Texas
Silent film from 1916
http://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php/Old_Texas
Silent film from 1916
http://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php?title=Category:1900s
Films of the wreckage of at the time, the worst natural disaster in US history, the 1900 Galveston Hurricane
Films of the wreckage of at the time, the worst natural disaster in US history, the 1900 Galveston Hurricane
This newsreel from 1913 captures some of the movements of Francisco "Pancho" Villa and his army during the Mexican Revolution. Villa experienced a number of military victories during this time, including Tierra Blanca and Ojinaga. As a result, the United States Army began to study his war tactics, and Hollywood even signed a contract with Villa to film his movements, with 50 percent of the profits going towards his revolutionary efforts. In this footage, General Luis Aguirre Benavides first makes an appearance in Juarez. Next, troops are loaded ontoand atopa train prior to the Battle of Tierra Blanca. Then, Villa himself poses for the camera. Finally, the footage captures scenes (and dramatizations) from the Battles of Ojinaga and Mesa, including a shootout along the skirmish line, the capture and execution of a Federal sharpshooter, and the burial of enemy soldiers. The film also features a scene of Federal soldiers searching for hidden treasure.
http://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php?title=2015_01105
http://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php?title=2015_01105
Possibly the earliest known footage of Houston, this film features scenes from a Shriners parade in 1915. Visible are a number of segments of the parade, including a marching band, horse drawn carriages, an automobile, and even a procession of elephants. Transferred from the original negative, this film is in quite poor condition and shows the signs of nitrate deterioration.
http://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php?title=The_Sloane_Collection,_no._1_-_Shriners_Parade,_Houston,_1915
http://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php?title=The_Sloane_Collection,_no._1_-_Shriners_Parade,_Houston,_1915
http://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php?title=The_Historic_Brownsville_Museum_Collection,_no._6_-_The_Snake_King_of_Brownsville
This footage of the Snake King was compiled from several decomposed reels of nitrate film. Featured are W.A. King "The Snake King of Brownsville" and his wife participating in a rattlesnake catching contest held at Fort Brown during Brownsville's Annual Mid-Winter Fair of 1914. The Snake King and his wife won the contest in 3 minutes and 45 seconds. Of course one participant had to withdraw after being bitten, while another chickened out after seeing the bite. W.A. King moved to Brownsville at the turn of the century after working with snake exhibits in circuses and fairs. While working with snakes, he discovered that these exhibitors had a real need for some type of wild animal supplier. Since he needed a tropical climate to raise reptiles and wild animals, King settled in Brownsville, where he developed Snakeville to collect and raise wild animals and earned the name "The Snake King of Brownsville." In later years, The Snake King began training his animals, and his son, Manuel, gained notoriety as the World's Youngest Wild Animal Trainer. Special thanks to the Library of Congress Motion Picture Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
This footage of the Snake King was compiled from several decomposed reels of nitrate film. Featured are W.A. King "The Snake King of Brownsville" and his wife participating in a rattlesnake catching contest held at Fort Brown during Brownsville's Annual Mid-Winter Fair of 1914. The Snake King and his wife won the contest in 3 minutes and 45 seconds. Of course one participant had to withdraw after being bitten, while another chickened out after seeing the bite. W.A. King moved to Brownsville at the turn of the century after working with snake exhibits in circuses and fairs. While working with snakes, he discovered that these exhibitors had a real need for some type of wild animal supplier. Since he needed a tropical climate to raise reptiles and wild animals, King settled in Brownsville, where he developed Snakeville to collect and raise wild animals and earned the name "The Snake King of Brownsville." In later years, The Snake King began training his animals, and his son, Manuel, gained notoriety as the World's Youngest Wild Animal Trainer. Special thanks to the Library of Congress Motion Picture Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Touted as the precursor to the Miss Universe Pageant and a Galveston tradition from 1920 to 1932, the Bathing Girl Revue signaled the beginning of the summer tourist season. In 1925, the 3-day long event was held May 16 - 18. Events included two parades, one in which the entries wore sports wear, and the other in which they wore bathing costumes (pictured in this film). The final pageant in which the judging was held took place on the last evening in the city auditorium. In its heyday, the bathing revue attracted far larger crowds than usual; the local newspaper reports tens of thousands of people thronging to the island for the occasion.
http://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php?title=The_Sloane_Collection,_no._4_-_Galveston_Bathing_Girl_Revue,_1925
http://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php?title=The_Sloane_Collection,_no._4_-_Galveston_Bathing_Girl_Revue,_1925
This very early industrial film from the late 1920s features footage of Beaumont oil fields alongside informative title cards. The first clip includes scenes from the Refinery of the Magnolia Petroleum Company, the second clip includes scenes of the South Texas State Fair Grounds and the third clip includes scenes of the Spindletop Oil Field. Miles Frank Yount, "the Godfather of Beaumont," founded the Yount Oil Company (which would later become the Yount-Lee Oil Company) in 1913, and among other discoveries, was responsible for the oil booms of Sour Lake, High Island, Barbers Hill, Hull, and a second boom at Spindletop. The Yount-Manion Films were given to Lamar University by Greg Riley and Fred McKinley. The pair discovered the films while researching their 2005 book, Black Gold to Bluegrass: From the Oil Fields of Texas to Spindletop Farm of Kentucky, which chronicles the legacy of Frank and Pansy Yount.
http://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php?title=2015_02898
http://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php?title=2015_02898
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Some good friends brought this back to life in 2008 or 2009 and it is still going today.BU84BEAR said:
Touted as the precursor to the Miss Universe Pageant and a Galveston tradition from 1920 to 1932, the Bathing Girl Revue signaled the beginning of the summer tourist season. In 1925, the 3-day long event was held May 16 - 18. Events included two parades, one in which the entries wore sports wear, and the other in which they wore bathing costumes (pictured in this film). The final pageant in which the judging was held took place on the last evening in the city auditorium. In its heyday, the bathing revue attracted far larger crowds than usual; the local newspaper reports tens of thousands of people thronging to the island for the occasion.
http://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php?title=The_Sloane_Collection,_no._4_-_Galveston_Bathing_Girl_Revue,_1925
http://www.galvestonbeachrevue.com/
Pretty sure BrooksBear donned a speedo...
Good stuff. I'm curious if he or the others had seen this video.Brian Ethridge said:Some good friends brought this back to life in 2008 or 2009 and it is still going today.BU84BEAR said:
Touted as the precursor to the Miss Universe Pageant and a Galveston tradition from 1920 to 1932, the Bathing Girl Revue signaled the beginning of the summer tourist season. In 1925, the 3-day long event was held May 16 - 18. Events included two parades, one in which the entries wore sports wear, and the other in which they wore bathing costumes (pictured in this film). The final pageant in which the judging was held took place on the last evening in the city auditorium. In its heyday, the bathing revue attracted far larger crowds than usual; the local newspaper reports tens of thousands of people thronging to the island for the occasion.
http://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php?title=The_Sloane_Collection,_no._4_-_Galveston_Bathing_Girl_Revue,_1925
http://www.galvestonbeachrevue.com/
Pretty sure BrooksBear donned a speedo...
PS, the panoramic shot on the video you provided, consisting of multiple contiguous photos, is pretty cool
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Most of them work(ed) for or volunteer at the Galveston Historic Foundation when we lived there. I'm sure they've seen it all as GHF does a pretty good job of preservation.BU84BEAR said:Good stuff. I'm curious if he or the others had seen this video.Brian Ethridge said:Some good friends brought this back to life in 2008 or 2009 and it is still going today.BU84BEAR said:
Touted as the precursor to the Miss Universe Pageant and a Galveston tradition from 1920 to 1932, the Bathing Girl Revue signaled the beginning of the summer tourist season. In 1925, the 3-day long event was held May 16 - 18. Events included two parades, one in which the entries wore sports wear, and the other in which they wore bathing costumes (pictured in this film). The final pageant in which the judging was held took place on the last evening in the city auditorium. In its heyday, the bathing revue attracted far larger crowds than usual; the local newspaper reports tens of thousands of people thronging to the island for the occasion.
http://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php?title=The_Sloane_Collection,_no._4_-_Galveston_Bathing_Girl_Revue,_1925
http://www.galvestonbeachrevue.com/
Pretty sure BrooksBear donned a speedo...
PS, the panoramic shot on the video you provided, consisting of multiple contiguous photos, is pretty cool
BrooksBear! Smokin!!Brian Ethridge said:Some good friends brought this back to life in 2008 or 2009 and it is still going today.BU84BEAR said:
Touted as the precursor to the Miss Universe Pageant and a Galveston tradition from 1920 to 1932, the Bathing Girl Revue signaled the beginning of the summer tourist season. In 1925, the 3-day long event was held May 16 - 18. Events included two parades, one in which the entries wore sports wear, and the other in which they wore bathing costumes (pictured in this film). The final pageant in which the judging was held took place on the last evening in the city auditorium. In its heyday, the bathing revue attracted far larger crowds than usual; the local newspaper reports tens of thousands of people thronging to the island for the occasion.
http://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php?title=The_Sloane_Collection,_no._4_-_Galveston_Bathing_Girl_Revue,_1925
http://www.galvestonbeachrevue.com/
Pretty sure BrooksBear donned a speedo...
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Assassin said:BrooksBear! Smokin!!Brian Ethridge said:Some good friends brought this back to life in 2008 or 2009 and it is still going today.BU84BEAR said:
Touted as the precursor to the Miss Universe Pageant and a Galveston tradition from 1920 to 1932, the Bathing Girl Revue signaled the beginning of the summer tourist season. In 1925, the 3-day long event was held May 16 - 18. Events included two parades, one in which the entries wore sports wear, and the other in which they wore bathing costumes (pictured in this film). The final pageant in which the judging was held took place on the last evening in the city auditorium. In its heyday, the bathing revue attracted far larger crowds than usual; the local newspaper reports tens of thousands of people thronging to the island for the occasion.
http://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php?title=The_Sloane_Collection,_no._4_-_Galveston_Bathing_Girl_Revue,_1925
http://www.galvestonbeachrevue.com/
Pretty sure BrooksBear donned a speedo...
He's got bigger moobs.
1st Texas Capital Building West Columbia Texas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/smu_cul_digitalcollections/3967003172/in/album-72157622481695214/
Capitals of the Republic of Texas
The provisional government of the Republic of Texas met at Washington-on-the-Brazos March 1, 1836. This convention, in which all powers of sovereignty were claimed and exercised, adopted the Declaration of Independence on March 2. They also wrote a constitution and inaugurated executive officers. Because of the movement of Santa Anna's troops, President Burnet selected Harrisburg on Buffalo Bayou as the temporary capital.
As Mexican troops moved eastward after their victory at the Alamo, President Burnet and part of his cabinet boarded the steamboat Cayuga at Harrisburg on April 15, 1836, making it the de facto capital of the Republic until the Texas officials went ashore at Galveston on April 26. The capital then moved to Velasco until October.
In October 1836, Columbia (today's West Columbia) became the first capital of an elected government of the Republic of Texas. President Houston, on Dec. 15, 1836, ordered the seat of government removed to Houston. The government began operating from Houston on April 19, 1837.
In 1839, the Capital Commission selected the "site of the town of Waterloo, on the north bank of the Colorado" as the permanent capital. This was confirmed by the Texas Congress Jan. 19, 1839, and the place was renamed Austin in honor of Stephen F. Austin. President Mirabeau B. Lamar and his cabinet moved there October 17, 1839.
When Mexican troops threatened San Antonio in March 1842, President Sam Houston ordered the government moved to Houston. Officials moved to Washington-on-the-Brazos, in September, and Houston sent men to Austin to fetch the archives. Austin citizens feared that if the papers were moved, Austin would lose its status as capital permanently. In an action known as the Archive War, the citizens stopped Houston's men and returned the archives to Austin. Austin became the capital again in 1844.
The first permanent Capitol in Austin burning in 1881.
Capitols of Texas
No trace is left of most of the early buildings in which the seat of government was housed. The Spanish Governors' palace still stands, however, at San Antonio. A replica of the one-story frame building that served as the Capitol at Columbia has been built at West Columbia. A frame structure where the Rice Hotel stands today was the Capitol at Houston. When Austin was selected as the capital, several log buildings were used until the first permanent structure was erected. This burned Nov. 9, 1881, and a temporary Capitol located off the Capitol grounds at the head of Congress Avenue served until completion of the present structure, which was opened May 16, 1888.
based on an article written by Mike Kingston, then editor, for the Texas Almanac 19861987.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/smu_cul_digitalcollections/3967003172/in/album-72157622481695214/
Capitals of the Republic of Texas
The provisional government of the Republic of Texas met at Washington-on-the-Brazos March 1, 1836. This convention, in which all powers of sovereignty were claimed and exercised, adopted the Declaration of Independence on March 2. They also wrote a constitution and inaugurated executive officers. Because of the movement of Santa Anna's troops, President Burnet selected Harrisburg on Buffalo Bayou as the temporary capital.
As Mexican troops moved eastward after their victory at the Alamo, President Burnet and part of his cabinet boarded the steamboat Cayuga at Harrisburg on April 15, 1836, making it the de facto capital of the Republic until the Texas officials went ashore at Galveston on April 26. The capital then moved to Velasco until October.
In October 1836, Columbia (today's West Columbia) became the first capital of an elected government of the Republic of Texas. President Houston, on Dec. 15, 1836, ordered the seat of government removed to Houston. The government began operating from Houston on April 19, 1837.
In 1839, the Capital Commission selected the "site of the town of Waterloo, on the north bank of the Colorado" as the permanent capital. This was confirmed by the Texas Congress Jan. 19, 1839, and the place was renamed Austin in honor of Stephen F. Austin. President Mirabeau B. Lamar and his cabinet moved there October 17, 1839.
When Mexican troops threatened San Antonio in March 1842, President Sam Houston ordered the government moved to Houston. Officials moved to Washington-on-the-Brazos, in September, and Houston sent men to Austin to fetch the archives. Austin citizens feared that if the papers were moved, Austin would lose its status as capital permanently. In an action known as the Archive War, the citizens stopped Houston's men and returned the archives to Austin. Austin became the capital again in 1844.
The first permanent Capitol in Austin burning in 1881.
Capitols of Texas
No trace is left of most of the early buildings in which the seat of government was housed. The Spanish Governors' palace still stands, however, at San Antonio. A replica of the one-story frame building that served as the Capitol at Columbia has been built at West Columbia. A frame structure where the Rice Hotel stands today was the Capitol at Houston. When Austin was selected as the capital, several log buildings were used until the first permanent structure was erected. This burned Nov. 9, 1881, and a temporary Capitol located off the Capitol grounds at the head of Congress Avenue served until completion of the present structure, which was opened May 16, 1888.
based on an article written by Mike Kingston, then editor, for the Texas Almanac 19861987.
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