THE SUSPENSION BRIDGE -Waco 1913 flood

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gobears20
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During Flooding in 1913. This photo is from the book "A Pictorial History of Waco" by Roger Conger, and appears here courtesy of The Texas Collection at Baylor. Photo by Fred Gildersleeve.


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Edmond Bear
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That is an awesome pic. Thank you for sharing.

The Bull Durham sign. The clock tower. The building on the left with a french influence. I guess the tornado destroyed way more history than I imagined.
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Edmond Bear said:


That is an awesome pic. Thank you for sharing.

The Bull Durham sign. The clock tower. The building on the left with a french influence. I guess the tornado destroyed way more history than I imagined.

It destroyed many beautiful buildings and set the city back decades. It would be very interesting to see what Waco would have become without the tornado. Thankfully, we're currently seeing quite the resurgence.
whitetrash
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Edmond Bear said:


That is an awesome pic. Thank you for sharing.

The Bull Durham sign. The clock tower. The building on the left with a french influence. I guess the tornado destroyed way more history than I imagined.

Clock tower was on the old city hall that was torn down and replaced in the 1930s. There is a Bull Durham sign still visible on Elm St about 3 blocks off the river. May have been hidden lo these many years by a building next door that was torn down.
gobears20
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No problem! There is so much history about Waco that I don't even know and I was born here.
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whitetrash said:

Edmond Bear said:


That is an awesome pic. Thank you for sharing.

The Bull Durham sign. The clock tower. The building on the left with a french influence. I guess the tornado destroyed way more history than I imagined.

Clock tower was on the old city hall that was torn down and replaced in the 1930s. There is a Bull Durham sign still visible on Elm St about 3 blocks off the river. May have been hidden lo these many years by a building next door that was torn down.
i believe the clock is now in heritage square- they pulled an old clock from the city storage to use there...
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From what I have been told, in the late 1800's to early 1900's Waco was a very cosmopolitan city, probably more so than Austin. With Baylor, TCU, Paul Quinn, Toby's Business College, Waco was called the Athens of the South. While cotton was king, actual Kings and Emperors stayed at the Raleigh Hotel. The boll weevil changed all that. Waco has a truly rich and varied history.
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What's truly amazing is that Waco was so far ahead of its time in environmental wokeness. There is consensus that there were no floods, tornadoes or hot summers before Global Warming. Who knew Waco was so cutting edge?
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