The Flood of 1949
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Posted 04 May 2005 - 11:31 AM
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Posted 06 May 2005 - 10:21 AM
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Posted 06 May 2005 - 01:16 PM
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Posted 10 June 2005 - 12:36 PM
I have begun to collect photos from the Flood of 1949. Does anyone know where to get photos, or more infomation on what happened. I live in Crestwood and I love researching this topic. I find it interesting that just a year ago in June the flood waters nearly spilled over into the neigborhood..i snapped a bunch of pics..when my husband and I bought our home this year we had to get flood insurance.I alway thought that it was a 50 yr flood plain...apparently i was wrong....
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Posted 10 June 2005 - 12:46 PM
I have a few personal photographs that my mom had. They lived at 3413 W. 7th in 1949 and the flood waters just miss them. There was a flood in 1922, but the lived in the 2400 block of West 7th and they had to escaped the flood and lost many old documents and photographs in the flood.
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Posted 10 June 2005 - 01:54 PM
Thanks
Courtnie
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Posted 16 June 2005 - 06:33 PM
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Posted 16 June 2005 - 08:47 PM
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Posted 21 June 2005 - 03:42 PM
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Posted 21 June 2005 - 07:55 PM
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Posted 21 November 2008 - 08:48 AM
I know this message thread is ancient now, but anyone interested in seeing '49 flood photos will find a few
here. My folks had just moved to Ft. Worth, and the photographs were taken by my father.
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Posted 21 November 2008 - 05:27 PM
I know this message thread is ancient now, but anyone interested in seeing '49 flood photos will find a few
here. My folks had just moved to Ft. Worth, and the photographs were taken by my father.
i do remeber the water stain on the wards building
lake bridgeport was also built from 29 31 for flood control in fort worth
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Posted 22 November 2008 - 03:16 AM
The second, and more painful memory, is one having to get typhoid shots because the water supply had been contaminated. This is back in the days when you went to the doctor's office and they came at you with a big glass syringe that had a big old needle on it. I think we had to get something like two shots over a period of a couple of weeks.
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Posted 22 November 2008 - 06:46 AM
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Posted 22 November 2008 - 10:53 AM
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Posted 11 August 2009 - 04:55 AM
Fort Worth Texas
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Posted 11 August 2009 - 10:11 AM
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Posted 11 August 2009 - 11:16 AM
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Posted 21 August 2009 - 08:21 AM
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Posted 21 August 2009 - 08:31 AM
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Posted 23 October 2009 - 12:31 AM
No. I am sorry. You have part of that incorrect. Crestwood was not flooded in 1957. The Trinity levies were in place at that time. I lived at the top of Bailey street in Crestwood in 1947 before the levies were built. Lower Crestwood was underwater. Some houses were flooded over the roof. I remember walking down Bailey street daily, with my parents to see if the water was getting higher or going down.
Forth Worth Man
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Posted 04 January 2010 - 01:51 AM
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Posted 12 January 2010 - 07:40 AM
But I do remember a picture of it in Kleinschmidts (sp?) Bakery on 7th street. They had a bunch of pictures of birthday and wedding cakes they had made through the years. In that mix was a picture of someone standing outside the bakery shooting toward Montgomery Wards and downtown. You could see the water up to the second floor of Montgomery Wards.
I liked that bakery. Glad Harper's is still around because I don't know of any others, might be some in Dallas.
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Posted 24 July 2010 - 03:22 PM
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Posted 16 March 2011 - 01:34 PM
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Posted 16 March 2011 - 02:23 PM
As I have never seen that photo, is it an original? Sometimes on E-bay you buy a one-of print and sometimes you buy a print that is one of a thousand. If this is an original you really have something value. If it is a copy you just have a great print.
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Posted 16 March 2011 - 02:39 PM
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Posted 16 March 2011 - 04:21 PM
The second, and more painful memory, is one having to get typhoid shots because the water supply had been contaminated. This is back in the days when you went to the doctor's office and they came at you with a big glass syringe that had a big old needle on it. I think we had to get something like two shots over a period of a couple of weeks.
I remember going to the Mrs. Baird's bakery on Summit Avenue to get a typhoid shot -- it was on high ground, and the city, the public health service, or some such body was giving out shots. I was only 4 and it didn't seem like a very good idea to me.
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Posted 16 March 2011 - 04:32 PM
From the location of the old grain silos on the left, I would say this was taken looking east on Lancaster from near University Dr. I tried to locate an old photo I have looking east on Lancaster around this spot but can't find it to confirm.
I was going to swim across the flooded plain but never made it past the Liquor and Beer.
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Posted 17 March 2011 - 07:31 AM
From the location of the old grain silos on the left, I would say this was taken looking east on Lancaster from near University Dr. I tried to locate an old photo I have looking east on Lancaster around this spot but can't find it to confirm.
I was going to swim across the flooded plain but never made it past the Liquor and Beer.
I agree that this scene is of Lancaster Av. looking east. It looks like cars are stopped and turning around on the Trinity River bridge (1938-39) in the background. My father went swimming in that floodwater and got impetigo.
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Posted 17 March 2011 - 03:05 PM
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