Crystal Springs Dance Pavillion
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Posted 17 February 2010 - 01:11 PM
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Posted 17 February 2010 - 03:37 PM
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Posted 17 February 2010 - 03:45 PM
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Posted 17 February 2010 - 04:36 PM
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Posted 02 April 2010 - 10:19 PM
I attempted to find out exactly where the club was located awhile back and, based on everything I was able to piece together, that old sign is located at the site where the club was. Until a few years ago, there was a Crystal Springs Mobile Home Park located on the land and a dirt road went in there past a bunch of rather old looking single wide trailers. At the time I went through there were only a few trailers still left. The next time I went past the trailers were gone.
There was also a small spring fed lake on the site and I have seen old photos with a sign on the building advertising "dancing and swimming." I have not been able to figure out from looking at google photos or my drive through the site any evidence of the lake.
Crystal Springs was most famous as the place where Milton Brown, known as the father of Western swing, regularly performed until he died as a result of injuries sustained in a single car accident on Jacksboro Highway in April 1936 after the car he was driving hit a telephone pole. Many believe that Brown suffered from narcolepsy. A 16 year old girl who slipped away from her house without her parents' knowledge to go to Crystal Springs with friends was killed in the crash. Brown had agreed to give the girl a ride home. Brown was taken to Methodist hospital where his injuries were initially believed to not be life threatening. However, one of his broken ribs had punctured a lung and pneumonia set in and he died a few days later. The site of the crash was in the southbound lane of Jacksboro Highway directly across the street from the Avalon Motel which is still there. After the crash, the headlights from Brown's car beamed directly into the motel's office window. Here is a view of the hotel from the approximate location of the crash.
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Posted 03 April 2010 - 12:19 AM
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Posted 17 April 2016 - 04:08 PM
Is this the same spring that feeds Burger's Lake ?
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Posted 23 April 2016 - 01:39 PM
Is there still a spring on the site ?
Is this the same spring that feeds Burger's Lake ?
A few months ago I took a long walk along the Trinity Trails and ended up in close proximity to the Crystal Springs site. As Ghost Writer mentions, the spring fed lake was filled in a long time ago. I saw no sign any sort of water, flowing or otherwise. The only thing I could see that might possibly have been associated with the old dance hall was a very old pole sign - but it is possible that the pole sign was used to advertise the Crystal Springs trailer park that was on the site in the final years of the dance hall and for a number of years afterwards. I saw some random debris that was obviously from some sort of buildings. But it also looked like the addition of fill dirt and other sorts of dumping had also taken place on the property. In short, other than the pole sign, I saw nothing there that I found to be at all interesting. Of course, it is possible I did not know where to look.
It would not have been the same spring that feeds Burger's lake which is some distance upstream along the Trinity of where Crystal Springs' lake was.
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