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B. F. MAUPIN

Member Since 19 Dec 2014
Offline Last Active Mar 28 2015 08:16 AM
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In Topic: B.F. Maupin's Historic Photographs

28 February 2015 - 10:33 AM

The Internet address   FORTWORTHSTOCKYARDS.COM    is a exellect source of information and will answer your question.

The Livestock Exchange Building nearby houses a large museum on this subject.

B.F.  MAUPIN

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In Topic: Crystal Springs on the River

24 February 2015 - 10:02 AM

CRYSTAL SPRINGS HISTORY: Use Google and enter   SPRINGS OF TEXAS click the option displaying the author's name BRUNE.

1939 a large facility there was called, "CRYSTAL SPRINGS DANCE PAVILION" located just North of where the White Settlement Road  bridge crosses the Trinity River.  Their Fort Worth telephone number then was  7-0141.  I was six years old and my Mother and Father would go there dancing.  I would stand near the railing on the Trinity River side of the building. I could look down over the railing and see those people swimming in a pool on the level below. A employee would come over and ask me if I was hungry. I always said yes when anyone asked me.  She would take me by the hand to the kitchen dining room.  Eggs, sausage and toast was cooking. There were one or two drunks in there eating.  There were bunks on the other end of the room.  After I ate,  the employee would invite me to go lay down on a bunk.  I did.  The next thing I knew my Father was picking me up and carrying me out to our family car a  1928 Hupmobile. Back to home we went....

B.F.  MAUPIN

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In Topic: Cold Springs

14 February 2015 - 01:49 PM

SUBJECT: EARLY COLD SPRINGS ROAD SOUTH OF EAST OF NORTHSIDE DRIVE.

A 1978 ariel photograph shows reminants of Cold Springs Road heading directly South across the Trinity River.  The Road further South can't be seen anymore due to a then plowed vegetable field..    B.F. MAUPIN


In Topic: Cold Springs

09 February 2015 - 04:52 PM

Information regarding COLD SPRINGS  formerly known as SILVER SPRINGS in the late 1800s.

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The book name is   SPRINGS OF TEXAS

Author    GUENNA BRUNE

Publisher:   BRANCH-SMITH INC.   Fort Worth Texas    1981

ISBN   0-9604766-0-1

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This publication is on the   INTERNET  for your reading.

GOTO  page   418 and move on down to   COLD SPRINGS.

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B.F. MAUPIN

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In Topic: Reading through old threads

08 February 2015 - 04:17 PM

I am grateful for DISMUKE s lengthy comments.  What Fort Worth really needs is another Amon G. Carter or a  B.B. Paddock.

Neither of these Guys were geniuses.  They were able to secure the Publics attention.....  B.F. MAUPIN ...

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