The old Fort Worth Farmer's Market, 1110 Jones Street, c. 1935.
This photo view is taken from the roof of the Fruits and Produce Terminal Building looking southwest. The shed extension was fairly new in this photo and built after 1930. Notice the Texas and Pacific Railroad building and station in the distance. It was hazy this morning, which was typical in Fort Worth at the time. Much of the industrial machinery and railroads used fossil fuel (coal) burning. Thus a lot of smoke and pollutants existed in those days. There was always a lot of activity at.this area. (See early photo of Farmers Market in this forum)
In the 1930s, small family owned groceriey stores were the common. The old Farmer's Market supplied much of the wholesale produce for these stores as well an intitutionlal sales to schools, hospitials, family owned restuants. This is where small farmers and even sharecropers in surrouding counties from Fort Worth sold their harvest.
Across from this market, on Jones St. was a larger wholesale market, Jim Hill Produce. It supplied a larger wholesale market in a higher volume and recieved it's wholesale produce mostly by railroad cars behind Tex-Ice Co. The Santa Fe railroad. Occasionally, Jim Hill Produce would fall short of some of its customers produce need and Jim Hill Produce would purched produce from the Famer's Market.
Indeed, from before the sun would come up on any week day, to sundown this was a very, very busy place. It was a very significate place of commerce in Fort Worth's history.
As noted in other post, this building (s) was sold in the early 1970s and demolished soon after. It was a public parking lot for many years. The Amon Carter Foundation purched it and it was used for facilities to the Civic Center built nearby.
FortWorthMan