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History, Fort worth (tex.), Texas, historyPlaces
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Table of Contents
The fort: where the West began
Camp Bowie: call it "camp quick"
Camp Taliaferro: the wild blue yonder
Helium plant: now this was a filling station
On a roll.
Railroads: along came a spider
Streetcars and the interurban: "all aboard"
Trolley parks: day trippers' delight
M&O Subway: cowtown underground
Just call cowtown "Ford Worth"
Where affluence hung its silk hat.
Samuels Avenue: first and, for a while, foremost
Quality Hill: cattle barons and bankers
Teaching and preaching.
Fort Worth University: why "College Avenue"?
Fort Worth High: first home of the purple and white
First Baptist Church: limelight and brimstone
Edifice wrecks.
St. Joseph Hospital: tycoons, engineers and sisters of charity
Ethel Ransom Memorial Hospital: "first class service"
Texas Brewing Company: very near beer
The hotel block: "deathly perfume" and a golden goddess
St. Elmo Hotel: at the corner of "what" and "if"
Diversions.
White Elephant Saloon: belly up to the forty-foot bar
Hell's half acre: Sodom on the Trinity
Jacksboro Highway: highway to hell
Spring Palace Exhibition: a blaze of glory
Casa manana: out-dallasing dallas
The Opera House: culture arrives by stage
The Nat: home of the electric bath
Crystal Springs: where the music flowed
History on the hoof
Stockyards and packing plants: "Chicago of the Southwest"
The Eitelmans: men of steel
Entrepreneurs.
Oaks: when history grew on trees
Sanger brothers: "forward with Texas since 1857"
Randol Mill: wheels of progress
Max Mehl: the Midas of pocket change
KFJZ: there's no place like ohm
Poly pop: a toast to the ghost of Paul Hollis
Italian Inn: when heresy became heritage.
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Includes bibliographical references (145-147) and index.
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