Thank you for your comment. The numbers written on the photo were put there probably in the mid 1940's. Since this was a cold storage warehouse site, it was common in the industry to be able to identify each seperate building so as to locate where customer's commodites were stored for insertion and retrieval. The complex had the capability to store commodities at a temperature that was lower than the outside air temperature. The complex even had "blast" freezers than could lower commodities to temperatures below zero degrees very rapidly.
You may notice a small building located in right portion of the complex labled "Out". This building was the Safeways building (photo elsewhere in this forum). It was demolished for a more modern and larger building in the early 1950's titled the "Tex-Egg" building. The architecture of the "Tex-Egg" building was of the Post Modern style. The function was an egg seperation plant for large institutional companies such as bakeries. The famous cornnering of the egg commodities market of the Chicago Stock exchange was done from this site in the early 1950's. People did not know, at the time, that the market price of eggs was controled from little old Fort Worth. However, that is another story.
Dear fortworthman - I'm really curious about this and your other photos photo of Texas Ice. I see you've numbered all the buildings. My father retired from Texas Ice when it was demolishedin the 70's having worked there since the late 30's and we'd be really interested in finding out more.