Fort Worth...the way we were

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1908
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PARKS: PUBLIC and AMUSEMENT PIONEERS   PORTAL TO
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1896
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1889-1890
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1940
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Automotive

Used Car Lot   Horseless Carriages in front of T&P   City's 15 Cars in front of T&P - 1904   Bob Cooke Ford Celebrates 30 Years
Lillard's Barbecue & Magnolia Service Station   Lillard's Manual "Visible Pump"   Preacher's Service Station   First Automobile Purchased by Fort Worth 1
First Automobile Purchased by Fort Worth 2   1912 New "Motorized" Fire Trucks   Four New 1938 Buicks For FWFD Fire Chiefs   Why Fire Trucks Are Painted White
FWPD Motorcycle Patrolmen in 1920   1926 Water Department Fleet   Gas Station Prototypes   Ford Motor Co. at 200 Commerce - 1917
Cities Service Oil Co. at 7th & Penn   Hammack Bros. Garage at 7th & University   Just Like Jack White's 1928 Chevy   Texas Motor Speedway #1
Texas Motor Speedway #2 1920 Automotive Newspaper Ads #1 1920 Automotive Newspaper Ads #2  T. E. Lewis Car Dealer
Fort Worth Auto Supply Garage Humble Beginnings of Public Transit Before The "T" Southwestern Bell Linemen's Work Truck - 1927
New Car Show at Casa Maņana - 1936 Frank Kent Ford - 1950s

 

Aviation

Meacham Field in 1942   Private Plane at Meacham Field in 1942   Greater Fort Worth International Airport Part 1   Greater Fort Worth International Airport Part 2
Greater Fort Worth International Airport Part 3   Greater Fort Worth International Airport Part 4   Greater Fort Worth International Airport Part 5   Greater Fort Worth International Airport Part 6
1991 Rendering of Alliance Airport   Amon Carter Helps Start Airline   Russell Field   Mid-West Airport
2005 View Of DFW Airport And International Terminal   William G. Fuller, Godfather of Local Aviation   Fort Worth Municipal Airport Meacham Field
FDR Visits Air Force Plant 4 in 1942 Air Force Plant 4 - 1949 Air Force Plant 4 - 1950 Air Force Plant 4 - 1986
Top Secret Tornado 1952 Remembering Pappy Spinks, Aviation Pioneer PBY Aircraft on Lake Worth "Hiding From Hurricane" - November 1940 PBY Aircraft on Lake Worth - The Real Story
Aircraft Produced at Fort Worth
B-24 Assembly Line at Consolidated, 1940s B-32 Assembly Line at Consolidated   Consolidated's B-32 DOMINATOR - Only 118 Built Air Force Plant 4's First B-36 Begins Propaganda Barrage
Air Force Plant 4, Lake Worth, and an Unusual B-36 in 1947 Air Force Plant 4's Supersonic Marvel, the B-58 "HUSTLER"        

 

Cemeteries

Hebrew Rest Cemetery   City of the Living, City of the Dead        

 

Churches and Other Religious Buildings

Historic Churches   Old Rock First Christian Church   First Christian Church   St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church - 7th & Lamar
St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church - 10th & Burnett   Broadway Presbyterian Church   Early Baptist Churches Part 1: Broadway   Early Baptist Churches Part 2: First Baptist
Early Baptist Churches Part 3: First Baptist   Early Baptist Churches Part 4: Largest in World   Early Baptist Churches 5: Final Chapter of 1st Baptist   Early Baptist Churches 6: Evans Av. & Sagamore Hill
Early Baptist Churches Part 7: College Av. & Connell   Early Baptist Churches Part 8: Travis Av.   Early Baptist Churches Part 9: Goodwill Center Home   Early Baptist Churches Part 10: First Deaf Church
Downtown's Church Row: Taylor Street   First Baptist Tower Never Completed   St. Andrew's Episcopal Church   Enhanced Postcard First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church -5th & Penn   St. Patrick Cathedral - 1930's   St. Ignatius Postcard   1st Presbyterian & Broadway Presbyterian
May 1957 Dedication of First Prebyterian Church - 1   May 1957 Dedication of First Presbyterian Church - 2   Four Early 1900's Methodist Churches   Black Churches in the 1930's
Six Early 1900's Churches   Six More Early 1900's Churches   1879 Fourth St. Methodist Church   Fourth St. Methodist Church
St. Paul's & Missouri Ave. Methodist Churches   St. Patrick's Missing Steeples   Mulkey Methodist Church - Part 1   Mulkey Methodist Church - Part 2
Jewish Buildings in Downtown   First Congregational Church   College Ave. Baptist Church   1927 Photos of 1st Presbyterian and 1st Christian Science Churches
YMCA Builds First Building at Texas & Monroe   YMCA Gospel Wagon   YMCA - Carter Family & Foundation   McDonald YMCA - 1600 Jones
Dedication of San Jose Catholic Church - Part 1   Dedication of San Jose Catholic Church - Part 2   Dedication of San Jose Catholic Church - Part 3   Dedication of San Jose Catholic Church - Part 4
Fort Worth High School and Cumberland Presbyterian Church - 1891 Broadway Presbyterian and First Christian Churches Restored St. Ignatius Academy - 2009 First Methodist Church, 7th and Taylor
College Avenue Baptist Church - 1919 J. Frank Norris' Bible Baptist Seminary J. Frank Norris - First Baptist's Giant Pastor J. Frank Norris Was a Busy Preacher
St. Steven Presbyterian Church - 1960s Trinity Lutheran Church - 1960s Arlington Heights United Methodist Church - 1960s First Baptist Church Radio Towers - 1927
Meadowbrook United Methodist Church - 1928 Riverside Baptist Church - 1904

 

Commercial Buildings

Drug Store - NE corner of 7th & Houston   Dundee Bldg. - 7th & Houston   John Peter Smith Memorial, W.T. Waggoner, & Library   O.B. Macaroni
Flatiron Building Saved and Restored   Busch Brewery   Earliest First National Bank Building   Capain Loyd Starts First National Bank
First National Moves from 2nd St. to 7th St.   First National & FW National Banks - 1913   First National Bank in Early 1910's and Late 1920's   Burk Burnett Building - 1913-14
Three F&M Bank Buildings - 7th & Main Streets   Hoxie Building - 7th & Main   Early Grocery Store   Board of Trade Building
Chamber of Commerce Bldg. Postcard   Chamber of Commerce - 5th & Throckmorton   Chamber of Commerce - Lord's Supper   Modern Design, but Short Lived Building
American Home Life; NW Corner 8th & Houston - 1913   5th & Main - 1904 & 1929   H. H. Pitman, Grocer
1886
  Capps Building, Throckmorton at Fifth, Early 1900s
Wyatt C. Hedrick's Buildings Part 1   Wyatt C. Hedrick's Buildings Part 2   Wyatt C. Hedrick's Buildings Part 3   Wyatt C. Hedrick's Buildings Part 4
Wyatt C. Hedrick's Buildings Part 5   Wyatt C. Hedrick's Buildings Part 6   Wyatt C. Hedrick's Buildings Part 7   August 31, 1919 Star-Telegram Front Page
Tivoli Hall Bar   Trial Balloon by Architects   Funeral Director and Livery Stables   Burrus Mills - 1949
Turner & Dingee Grocery, 502 Houston   Continental National Bank/Landmark Tower Part 1   Continental National Bank/Landmark Tower Part 2   Continental National Bank/Landmark Tower Part 3
Bewley Mills Part 1   Bewley Mills Part 2   Bewley Mills Part 3   Bewley Mills Part 4
Bewley Mills Part 5   Bewley Mills Part 6   The Natatorium   Photos from Frank Leslie's Weekly
Joseph H. Brown, Grocer by Leslie's and Wellge   1886 Wellge Bird's Eye Building Drawings   Grocery Store Interior - 1907   North Side's Transit House
Amon Carter & Jesse Jones 7th Street   Washer Bros. Part 1   Washer Bros. Part 2   Washer Bros. Part 3
The Fort Worth Club
Part 1
  The Fort Worth Club
Part 2
  The Fort Worth Club
Part 3
  Anders Cafe #1
Tandy Corporation Part 1   Tandy Corporation Part 2   Tandy Corporation Part 3   H. Dugan Wagon Yard
World's First Drive-In Restaurants Started Here During The 1920s.   Singer Sewing Machine Salesmen at FWNB   Texas Brewing Co. - 9th & Jones   Electric Building Before The Hollywood Theater
Canary Cafe in 1942   Arlington Downs Racetrack   Century Life Building -  1950   1922 Industrial Plants
Jack Walton's Barbecue on E. Lancaster in 1942   August Clothiers - 7th & Main   Continental Nat'l Bank & First Presbyterian   Safeway Distribution Center in Downtown
TexIce Plant - 1000 Jones   Tyler & Simpson Wholesale Grocery   1893 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map   Alcon Labs Start on W. 10th in Downtown
Amon Carter's 1904 Star-Telegram Building   Parham's Barber Shop Around 1920   Fort Worth Star-Telegram 1922 Brochure   Medical Arts Building and Burnett Park, 1942
Monnig's - Part 1   Monnig's - Part 2   Monnig's - Part 3   Monnig's - Part 4
Monnig's - Part 5 Monnig's - Part 6   Monnig's - Part 7   Woolworth's - 1920's
Haltom's Jeweler's
Part 1
  Haltom's Jewelers
Part 2
  Haltom's Jewelers
Part 3
  1301 Houston St.
Roe Lumber Block/FW Club Construction   Powell Block - 208-10 Main St.   Hell's Half Acre   Artesian Ice Co. about 1890 - Houston & Bluff
Lewis Blacksmith Shop - 1800's   Draughon's Business Colleges   Evans Dry Goods - NW Corner 1st & Houston   Kelsay Lumber
and Public Market
Original Tandy Center Master Plan Rendering Part 1   Original Tandy Center Master Plan Rendering Part 2   Omni Hotel & Carnegie Under Construction May 2008   Wheat Building - 1890
 1911 Main Street at Tenth   Nash Building - 1910   Joseph's Cafe,
8th at Houston
   1914 Main Street at Sixth #1
1914 Main Street at Sixth #2   1914 Main Street at Sixth #3   1914 Main Street at Sixth #4    1914 Main Street at Sixth #5
1907: Beginning of The Downtown Building Boom   Western National Bank, Texas State Bank, Houston Place Lofts #1   Western National Bank, Texas State Bank, Houston Place Lofts #2   Carling Brewery On South Freeway - 1963
G. T. Leonard's Grocery Fort Worth Grain and Cotton Exchange in Neil P. Anderson Building, 1922 - #1 Fort Worth Grain and Cotton Exchange in Neil P. Anderson Building, 1922 - #2 Fort Worth Grain and Cotton Exchange in Neil P. Anderson Building, 1922 - #3
Fort Worth Grain and Cotton Exchange in Neil P. Anderson Building, 1922 - #4 Fort Worth Grain and Cotton Exchange in Neil P. Anderson Building, 1922 - #5 Fort Worth Grain and Cotton Exchange in Neil P. Anderson Building, 1922 - #6 Fort Worth Grain and Cotton Exchange in Neil P. Anderson Building, 1922 - #7
Fort Worth Iron Works - 1889 Elks' Club - 7th & Lamar Shady Oaks Country Club Before the Fire Shady Oaks Country Club New Building
Knights of Pythias - 3rd & Main Two Different Knights Arlington Heights Country Club - 1907 Elks Club - Seventh And Lamar - 1913
Western National Bank, Texas State Bank, Houston Place Lofts #1 Western National Bank, Texas State Bank, Houston Place Lofts #2 Shriner's Mosque On Lake Worth, 1919 Demolition Of Long Time Ridglea Landmark - 2009
W. C. Stripling! One Of The "Big Three" Retailers 1 W. C. Stripling! One Of The "Big Three" Retailers 2 From Steve's to Lucille's: 4700 Camp Bowie Most Vital Business In 1908 - Axtell Mfg. Company Windmills #1
Most Vital Business In 1908 - Axtell Mfg. Company Windmills #2 Most Vital Business In 1908 - Axtell Mfg. Company Windmills #3 Who Were Sanguinet and Staats In Pioneer Fort Worth History? The Tarrant County Courthouse Could Have Looked Like This!
Sanguinet and Staats Original Concept of Texas Spring Palace Renderings by Sanguinet and Staats Current Photos of Sanguinet and Staats Buildings A Shipment of Windmills From The Aermotor Company, 1896
Andre J. Anderson, Norwegian Immigrant and Entrepreneur #1 Andre J. Anderson, Norwegian Immigrant and Entrepreneur #2 Andre J. Anderson, Norwegian Immigrant and Entrepreneur #3 Andre J. Anderson, Norwegian Immigrant and Entrepreneur #4
Andre J. Anderson, Norwegian Immigrant and Entrepreneur #5 American Dyeing & Dry Cleaning, 806 Throckmorton, 1920 Terminal Hotel and Fort Worth State Bank - 1914 Washer Brothers Store, 8th & Main - 1908
Eitelman Family Horseshoeing and Carriage Business - Early 1900s Fort Worth Club and Elk's Club - Downtown Stone Cutters Pose at Farmers & Mechanics Bank - 1889 Grammer's Drug Store
circa 1900
Leonard Bros. Start on the Courthouse Square Leonard's Department Store - 1926 Unusual View of Old Post Office Building Lowe's Wrecking Yard - 1930s
Fort Worth Club Building - 2008 Shady Oak Country Club Interior Before the 2003 Fire AT&T's WAlnut Exchange Building on West Bowie Street Mystery of Unfinished Building on West Vickery
Fort Worth Children's Museum - 1960s Universal Mills - 1947 Fort Worth National Bank Construction Photos by Reed Sass Early Changes to Fort Worth National Bank, Main at Fifth
Fort Worth National Bank Rebuilds Again P.B Binyon's Transfer Office and Freight Wagons - Early 1880s Kell Cleaners in Handley - c1940 Kell Cleaners Interior View
Robertson Funeral Home - Early 1900s Haltom Jewelers #1 Haltom Jewelers #2 Haltom Jewelers #3
Haltom Jewelers #4 Burton-Peel Drygoods #1 Burton-Peel Drygoods #2 Bill Wood, Photographer
Ellison Furniture's Mattress Factory - Early 1900s Ol' South Pancake House and Forest Park Lanes Bowling Ellison Furniture Company #1 Ellison Furniture Company #2
Early Chamber of Commerce - 1900s

 

North of the Courthouse:
Our Stockyards and Livestock Legacy

Googins Building, North Main at NW 20th.   1922 Stock Yards Cartouches   Stock Yards & Swift - 1922   1913 Swift & Co. Water Derrick
Fort Worth Packing Co. 1921 KKK Auditorium on North Main   Second KKK Auditorium on North Main "What Fat Stock Show?"
Groundbreaking for Armour & Swift Plants Molly & Pigeon on Live Stock Exchange   Stockyards Club at N. Main & E. Exchange Armour and Swift Meat Packing Plants - 1936 #1
Armour and Swift Meat Packing Plants - 1936 #2 Cowtown Longhorns Shannon's North Fort Worth Undertaking Company, 1920s Longhorn Steer at Swift Meat Packing Plant
Swift Meat Packing Plant - Early 1900s Quanah Parker at 1909 Livestock Show First Stock Yards Hotel & Exchange Stockyards Hotel
Stock Show Carnival Midway On The North Side, 1922 #1 Stock Show Carnival Midway On The North Side, 1922 #2 Stock Show Carnival Midway On The North Side, 1922 #3 1950 Stock Show Parade
1953 Stock Show Parade from 6th & Main 1953 Stock Show Parade from 7th & Main Armour Plant & Livestock Pens Cattle Pens at Stock Yards
Wooden Stock Yards Hotel   1971 Stock Yards 1974 Stock Yards 1975 Stock Yards #1
1975 Stock Yards #2 Live Stock Exchange circa 1980 Site Where Stockyards Station Was Built on Exchange Avenue Exchange Ave. Looking East - 1980
Two Views of Armour and Swift Meatpackers - 1912  

 

Fire Stations

Fire Station No. 1   Original Wooden Central Fire Station No. 2 - 1888 Part 1   Original Central Fire Station Part 2   Original Central Fire Station Part 3
1899 Central Fire Station No. 2   1899 Central Fire Station
No. 2 Part 1
  1899 Central Fire Station
No. 2 Part 2
  Temporary Fire Station No. 3 - 1610 Houston St.
Original Fire Station No. 3   Fire Station No. 3 - 1911   Fire Station No. 4   Fire Station No. 4 Replacement from 1920's
Fire Station No. 5   Fire Station No. 6   Fire Station No. 7   Fire Station No. 8
Fire Station No. 9   Fire Station No. 10   Fire Station No. 11   Fire Stations Nos. 12, & 13
Fort Worth's First City Hall/Fire Station - 1877   Central Fire Station
No. 2 - 1930
  Charles Swartz Photographs the Fire Department in 1901    Fire Station Number One
FWFD 1959 Annual Report

 

Notable Disasters, Natural and Man-Made

The Great Flood of 1949
Double Disaster at the Ballpark   Was Flood Caused By Human Error? Colonial Golf Tournament Succumbs to Flood Stockyards Spared From Flood
Panoramic Flood Scene, University at West 7th, 1949 Horses Walked On Roofs During 1949 Flood Aerial View of 1949 Flood Boaters on West Belknap and West Seventh - 1949
Boaters Coming Ashore on West Seventh - 1949 View of Flood From West Lancaster - 1949 The Great Trinity Flood of May 17, 1949  
When Disasters Strike
Fort Worth's Towering Inferno Great Fort Worth Fire of 1909 The Great Fire of 1909 The Great 1909 Fire
Flooding - 1908 1922 Flood Top Secret Tornado 1952 Tornado Aftermath, March 28, 2000
Wall Of Burning Building Falls On Firemen In 1957 -1   Wall Of Burning Building Falls On Firemen In 1957 -2 Fort Worth National Bank Tower Before and After May 2000 Tornado  
1904 T&P Station Fire
1904 T&P Station Fire Part 1   1904 T&P Station Fire Part 2 1904 T&P Station Fire Part 3   1904 T&P Station Fire Part 4
1904 T&P Station Fire Part 5  

 

Hotels

Metropolitan Hotel   Early 1930's W.D. Smith Photo of Hotel Texas   1930's W.D. Smith Photo of Hotel Texas   First Worth Hotel
First Worth Hotel Part 1   First Worth Hotel Part 2   First Worth Hotel Part 3   Worth Hotel & Theater Looking Down 7th Street
Worth Hotel & Theater, Fort Worth Club about 1927   Westbrook Hotel   Blackstone Hotel   Fortune Arms Hotel & Apartments
First Stock Yards Hotel & Exchange   Green Oaks Inn   Downtown's First Rooftop Swimming Pool   Ye Old Arlington Inn - Merrick & Byers
Series of Hotels on NW Corner of 4th & Main   Stockyards Hotel   Everywoman & Keystone Hotel - 1919   Ethel and Elmo Enix Identified
Mansion Hotel - 4th & Commerce   Ellis Hotel - 3rd & Throckmorton   Trav-o-tel on E. Lancaster   Fort Worth's First Motel?
El Paso/ Pickwick/Delaware Hotel, 1877-1907 Construction of Park Central Inn, Downtown, 1960 Waterman Hotel, 11th and Main - 1886   Hotel Olive - Jennings at 10th
Westbrook Hotel - 1912 Savoy Hotel and Theater - 1920s Touraine Hotel 1916 - 1929    

 

Institutional - Hospitals, Schools, Universities

Schools, Universities
Fort Worth University Part 1   Fort Worth University Part 2   Ann Waggoner Hall - TWU Part 1   Ann Waggoner Hall - TWU
Part 2
TCU: Hell's Half Acre, Thorp Spring, and Waco   Laying of the Cornerstone at TCU   TCU: Early Years   TCU: Historic Photos 1
TCU: Historic Photos 2   TCU: Historic Photos 3   TCU: Historic Photos 4   TCU: Historic Photos 5
TCU: Historic Photos 6   TCU: Historic Photos 7   TCU: School of Education Expansion   TCU Color Aerial from Early 1950's
1961 TCU Acquisition of Worth Hills Golf Course   1949 New TCU Fine Arts Building   Aerial Rendering of New TCU Commons   TCU Sports Facilities
TCU: Lupton Stadium   TCU's Big Barn Burner in 1953    TCU Bandstand and Jarvis Hall - 1920   Arlington Heights Schools in 1923 Snow
First Ward School - 1883   Second Ward School - 1883   Location Of Second Ward School On West Belknap 4th Ward's Sam Houston Elementary - 1892
Fort Worth High School Part 1   Fort Worth High School Part 2   Fort Worth High School Part 3 Fort Worth High School Part 4
Fort Worth High School Part 5   Fort Worth's Six High Schools on FWISD Magazine Cover - 1924 1919 High Schools And Country Clubs WPA Laborers At Arlington Heights High School
Construction of Fort Worth High School - 1911    TCU's Medical School - 1911   Polytechnic College (TWU) - Early 1900's   Expansion of Trinity Terrace - 2008
TWC - Texas Womans College   Circle Park School As Remembered by Jack White - #1 Circle Park School As Remembered by Jack White - #2   M.G. Ellis School
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary   TCC's Grandiose Dream/Nightmare Failed Radio Shack Venture To Make Great TCC Campus Destruction of TCU's Memorial Arch
Our Lady of Victory College and Academy For Women, 1909-1958 2008 Addition to Amon Carter Stadium Fort Worth Business College - 1898 1924 Class of Central High School Part 1
1924 Class of Central High
School Part 2
Aerial View of TCU Sports Fields TCU Lupton Baseball Stadium Record Crowd Sees Frogs Beat Utah - 2009
Photos From The 1930 TCU Student Yearbook
Montgomery Ward Store - 1930   1930 Aerial of North Main Electric Power Plant   1930 Aerial of Meacham Field Airport   1930 Aerial of Downtown 7th Street "Canyon"
Hospitals
All Saints Hospital   Old Harris Hospital   Fort Worth Medical College   City/County Hospitals
St. Joseph's Infirmary 1   St. Joseph's Infimary 2   Five St. Joseph's Hospital Buildings Medical Arts Building and Burnett Park, 1942
Medical Arts
Building - 1927
James and Eunice West Center - 1993 Protestant Sanitarium, Main and Vickery

 

Public Buildings

Artist's Painting of the Fort   Bronze Bas-relief at Houston & Belknap   Log Cabin Village   1876 Courthouse
1876 Courthouse - 1887   1876 Courthouse with Clock Tower Added   Retouched Photo of 1876 Courthouse   Second Damaged Photo of 1876 Courthouse
Courthouse Chronology   Jail & Courthouse in 1890   Construction of Tarrant County Courthouse about 1894   The County Seat Fight Part 1
The County Seat Fight Part 2   City Prison and Waterworks   Jail, Courthouse, Traction Company...and junkyard   Courthouse with Tidball & Van Zandt Bankers, Late 1890's
Tarrant County Courthouse - 1922   John Stryker view of Tarrant County Courthouse   Tribute to Dr. June Rayfield Welch Part 1   Tribute to Dr. June Rayfield Welch Part 2
Tarrant County Courthouse from Roof of Grand Hotel 1   Tarrant County Courthouse from Roof of Grand Hotel 2   Louis Daniel View of Tarrant County Courthouse 2004   Courthouse Fountain Part 1
Courthouse Fountain Part 2   Neon Flag on
Courthouse Dome
  1896 U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Part 1   1896 U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Part 2
1896 U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Part 3   1896 U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Part 4   1896 U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Part 5   1896 U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Part 6
1896 U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Part 7   1896 U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Part 8   1896 U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Part 9   1896 U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Part 10
1896 U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Part 11   1896 U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Part 12   Texas Spring Palace Part 1   Texas Spring Palace Part 2
Texas Spring Palace Part 3   Texas Spring Palace Part 4   Texas Spring Palace Part 5   Texas Spring Palace Part 6
Texas Spring Palace Part 7   Texas Spring Palace Part 8   Texas Spring Palace Part 9   Texas Spring Palace Part 10
Texas Spring Palace from Top of Board of Trade   Spring Palace Interior Views   Local Professor's Texas Spring Palace Sculpture   1893 City Hall with Water Line Construction
1893 City Hall Proposed But Not Built City Hall - 1910   1938 City Hall   1971 City Hall Concept
Amon Carter Museum!   Front of  Will Rogers Memorial Center   Will Rogers Memorial Center from Northwest - 1936   Will Rogers Photo That Never Was and Never Will Be
Tarrant County Convention Center   Post Office Interior   Farmers Market on Jones   Willard Barr's Town Hall Meeting at Will Rogers
Architect's Rendering of General Worth Square   FW Public Library - Great Historical Resource   Hyde Park Painting What Were They Thinking? Artsy Decor On Convention Center Garage and Coliseum
Marine Creek Flood Control Project Part 1   Marine Creek Flood Control Project Part 2   Who Stole The Courthouse Dome? Second Tarrant County Courthouse - 1879
West Face of Courthouse - 1940s   Courthouse Research Detective Work   Courthouse Original and Restoration - #1 Courthouse Original and Restoration - #2
Courthouse Original and Restoration - #3 West View of Courthouse And Jail - 1906 Stone Cutters Pose at Post Office Construction - 1893 Courthouse Clock and Dome Restoration - #1
Courthouse Clock and Dome Restoration - #2 Courthouse Clock and Dome Restoration - #3 Courthouse Clock and Dome Restoration - #4 Courthouse Clock and Dome Restoration - #5
Courthouse Clock and Dome Restoration - #6 Courthouse Clock and Dome Restoration - #7 Courthouse Clock and Dome Restoration - #8 Aerial View of Courthouse - 2009
Public Health Center in Botanic Garden - 2009 New Museum of Science and History - 2009 Fort Worth Children's Museum - 1941 Original Museum of Science and History Prepares For Omni Theater
First Tarrant County Jail Circa 1882

 

Public Parks and Amusement Parks

Six Flags Over Texas 1961 - #1   Six Flags Over Texas 1961 - #2   Six Flags Over Texas 1961 - #3   Six Flags Over Texas 1961 - #4
Six Flags Over Texas 1961 - #5   Seven Seas Theme Park 1972 - #1   Seven Seas Theme Park 1972 - #2   1913 Entrance to Trinity Park
Lake Worth's New 9-Mile Bridge, Casino Park, Ballroom and Boardwalk Casino Beach   Casino Ballroom Lake Worth's Casino Park - 1927
Burk Burnett Park at Christmas Snow Patterns in Fort Worth Water Gardens Entrance Gates To Forest Park Zoo - 1927 Botanic Gardens: Formerly Known As Rose Gardens
Before Burnett Park Was This Park - 1920s Scale Model Of Water Gardens, A 1971 Carter Foundation Gift Medical Arts Building and Burnett Park, 1942 Amon Carter: "Go To Dallas For Education, Come To Fort Worth For Entertainment" 1936
Late Night Visit to Fort Worth Water Gardens on Youtube Zoo Expansion Victim - the Record Aquarium Botanical Research Institute of Texas #1 Botanical Research Institute of Texas #2

 

Residences

John Peter Smith House   VanZandt Cottage - Crestline Road   VanZandt Home - 7th & Penn St. - 1879   VanZandt Mansion - 7th & Penn St.
Boaz House   Levy House - SE Corner of 7th & Lamar   Millionaire Gooseneck Bill McDonald's Mansion & Bank   Jack White's First Home
Shotgun Houses   Shotgun Houses Still Standing   Favorite Photos: Shotguns & Railroad Tracks   Park Hill Plat
E.E. Chase Residence   Another Fine Home On Chase Court   Mayor Bryce...His Home, His Office   Artist's Sketch of VanZandt's Cottage
Old House Being Demolished On South Henderson, 1960s Prequel To Old House Being Demolished On South Henderson, 1960s W. T. Waggoner's Mansion On Quality Hill
1919
W. T. Waggoner's Ghost Trees, Summit at West Lancaster
A. J. Roe Residence - 1891 A. J. Roe Residence #2 H. W. Tallant Residence - 1891 A Few Attractive Residences
Jack White's Home Featured In Fort Worth Press Sam Rosen Residence William Monnig's Home - 1905 and Now Beginnings of Arlington Heights - 1890
House For Sale by Owner - 1912
The Houses of Quality Hill
Quality Hill Introduction   Quality Hill Homes -
Owners and Addresses
  R. D. Hunter Home #1   R. D. Hunter Home #2
R. D. Hunter Home #3 R. D. Hunter Home #4 Richard Vickery Home Bernie Anderson Home
Thomas B. Ellison Home

 

Railroads and Streetcars

1904 T&P Station Fire at Main & Front (Lancaster)   Early 1900's T&P Passenger Station from Front & Calhoun   T&P Station Fire Part 1   T&P Station Fire Part 2
T&P Station Fire Part 3   T&P Station Fire Part 4  

T&P Station Fire Part 5

 

T&P Railyard

Bunting Covered T&P Station for Roosevelt's Visit  

Texas & Pacific Railway
Terminal - 1931

 

Texas & Pacific Warehouse Under Construction

 

T&P Freight Building in 1905

Electric Streetcars Come to Main Street - Late 1800s Electric Streetcars and Buggies Share Main St. - Early 1900s Interurban at Main & Lancaster, Early 1900's Main Street Trolly South of Courthouse - 1886
Laying Streetcar Tracks on Jennings at West 13th.  

Laying of Streetcar Tracks on Camp Bowie 1

  Laying of Streetcar Tracks on Camp Bowie 2   Streetcar End of the Line McCart & Biddison Part 1
Streetcar End of the Line McCart & Biddison Part 2   Streetcar End of the Line McCart & Biddison Part 3   Interurban Power Generation Plant    Downtown Interurban Terminal Building
Interurban Line at Courthouse - 1915  

Interurban on
Main Street - 1915

  Interurban Equipment and Tracks - 1915    Interurban Terminal and Warehouse - 1915
Interurban West Handley Station, Lake Erie - 1915   Leonard's M&O Subway/Tandy Free Parking - 1   Leonard's M&O Subway/Tandy Free Parking - 2   Electric Trolley By St. Patrick's
Paddock's Famed Tarantula Map Paddock's Tarantula That Ate The World Fort Worth & Denver's "Texas Zephyr" Pulls Out Of Town, 1953 Busiest Rail Crossing In America
Amon Carter Museum Provides A Unique T&P Depot Image #1 Amon Carter Museum Provides A Unique T&P Depot Image #2 Trinity Railway Express at the Intermodal Transportation Center Union Pacific Rail Yards
Diesel Power T&P Train Leaving Station Demolition of Texas & Pacific Depot, 1931 Trolley behind St. Patrick's
1800s Railroad Bridge Over Cold Springs Road Texas & Pacific Facilities Electric Streetcars Come to Main Street - Late 1800s Electric Streetcars and Buggies Share Main St. - Early 1900s
Electric Streetcars Come to Main Street - Late 1800s Interurban at Main & Lancaster, Early 1900's Relative of Lisa Helbing With MK&T Locomotive 564 Handcar at Rural Railroad Depot
Streetcar Crisis! The 1915 "Jitney Menace"   Streetcar Crisis! The 1915 "Jitney Menace" #2 Handley As Seen From an Interurban Rail Car Interurban Cars on Belknap by County Jail - Early 1900s.

 

Theaters

Byers/Greenwall Opera House/Palace Theater   First Majestic Theater - 1905   First Majestic Theater Converted to Parking Garage   Second Majestic Theater
Part 1
Second Majestic Theater
Part 2
  Second Majestic Theater
Part 3
  Second Majestic Theater
Part 4
  Second Majestic Theater
Part 5
Neighborhood Movie Theaters   Egypt Theater   Palace Theater - 1968   Hippodrome Theater - 1921
Parkway Theater - 1935

  Tivoli Theater & Rockyfeller's on Magnolia   Panteges/New Liberty Theater   "Show Row" Marquees in 1940
New Queen Theater
Ideal Theater
  Palace Theater Light
Bulb - 100 Years Old
  Majestic Theater Playbill -1930 - Page One   Majestic Theater Playbill - 1930 - Page Two
Majestic Theater Playbill -1930 - Page Three   Majestic Theater Playbill -1930 - Page Four   Majestic Theater Playbill -1930 - Page Five   Majestic Theater Playbill -1930 - Page Six
Billie Rose Provides Girls Galore At Casa Maņana in 1936   Girls Star Again at Casa Maņana in 1937 and 1939   Original Casa Maņana - 1936   Casa Maņana - 1937
Billy Rose and Casa Maņana Last Casa Maņana Show Featured Stars, Girls and "Ice" - 1939 Casa Maņana Dinner Menu New Car Show at Casa Maņana - 1936
Belknap Drive-in Theater Cowtown Drive-in Theater Pike Drive-in Theater Majestic Theater Upgrades to "Talkies"
Majestic Theater Demolition by Louis Daniel and Joe Dulle - #1 Majestic Theater Demolition by Louis Daniel and Joe Dulle - #2 Majestic Theater Demolition by Louis Daniel and Joe Dulle - #3 Majestic Theater Demolition by Louis Daniel and Joe Dulle - #4
Majestic Theater Demolition by Louis Daniel and Joe Dulle - #5 Majestic Theater Demolition by Louis Daniel and Joe Dulle - #6 Majestic Theater Photos From Carter Museum Postcard Collection - #1 Majestic Theater Photos From Carter Museum Postcard Collection - #2
Majestic Theater Photos From Carter Museum Postcard Collection - #3 Majestic Theater Photos From Carter Museum Postcard Collection - #4 Majestic Theater Photos From Carter Museum Postcard Collection - #5 Majestic Theater Photos From Carter Museum Postcard Collection - #6
Majestic Theater Photos From Carter Museum Postcard Collection - #7 Old And New ISIS Theater - #1 Old And New ISIS Theater - #2 Old And New ISIS Theater - #3
Old And New ISIS Theater - #4 Old And New ISIS Theater - #5 Downtown Rescue Mission and Liberty Theater 1921 Hippodrome Theater
Phillips Movie Theater The Original Majestic Became the Savoy "The Last Frontier" by Billie Rose #1 "The Last Frontier" by Billie Rose #2
"The Last Frontier" by Billie Rose #3 Savoy Hotel and Theater - 1920s

 

Utilities

Reddy Kilowatt & TXU North Main Power Plant   TESCO: Gridiron Club "Yellow Jaundice" Ad   Telephone Wires   Southwestern Bell's First Home in Fort Worth
Telegrams Were Phone Co. Big Business   Southwestern Bell 1925 Truck   SW Bell Pole Installer Crew   Barnett Shale Gas Drilling
Southwestern Bell History - Part 1   Southwestern Bell History - Part 2   Southwestern Bell History - Part 3   Southwestern Bell History - Part 4
TESCO Stack Scrubber   Construction of Lake Worth Dam and Spillway - 1912   Why we are here: Trinity River WATER #1   Why we are here: Trinity River WATER #2
Why we are here: Trinity River WATER #3 Why we are here: Trinity River WATER #4 Why we are here: Trinity River WATER #5 Why we are here: Trinity River WATER #6
Why we are here: Trinity River WATER #7 Why we are here: Trinity River WATER #8 Why we are here: Trinity River WATER #9 Why we are here: Trinity River WATER #10
Why we are here: Trinity River WATER #11 Why we are here: Trinity River WATER #12 Why we are here: Trinity River WATER #13 Holly Pump Station - 1907
TESCO Smoke Stacks - 1970s First Telephones in Fort Worth - 1877

 

Street Scenes

Earliest Fort Worth Street Scene 1st FW Club & Main Street   7th Street, West of Lamar - 1930   7th Street "Show row"
Trolley behind St. Patrick's   1918 & 1920 Panorama Comparison   Signs on Houston Street buildings in the 1800's   Looking South from
4th & Main - 1936
Looking north on Main from Front Early 1890's   Bill Wood -13th & Main   Looking Southwest from 9th & Houston - 1927   Commercial Club - 6th & Main 1913
1920's Bank Panic - 8th & Main   Boaz And Battle Cotton Yards, Two Views From 1880s   Market Day - Courthouse Square about 1878   1920 Houston St. Parade
Looking West from 7th & Main in 1910   Looking South From 3rd & Houston in 1911   Looking North from 7th & Houston in the 1920's   Looking North From 8th & Houston in 1952
Looking West on 7th from Houston   Looking North from 11th & Throckmorton   Looking North from Main & Lancaster in 1942   7th & Main - 1950
Before the Paddock Viaduct   9th & Main Early 1920's   11th & Houston Through The Years   Houston Street Views
Mystery Photo: Fort Worth or Not?   Mystery Photo Identified   Lower Main Street - 1906   10th & Houston - Early 1900's
8th & Houston - Early 1900's   8th & Houston Detail - Early 1900's   1952 Main Street/General Worth Square   When the Courthouse was our Skyline
Houston Street from Eighth - 1907 Main Street from Ninth - 1906 12th Street at
Jennings - 1920
  Signs Along W. 7th
Main South of
Courthouse - 1886
  Iron Bridge on North Main   W. 7th at Penn Traffic   1886 Main St. From Courthouse
Color Photo of 10th & Main About 1950   Houses Along 8th Ave.   TCU Drag - 3000 Block S. University Drive   Closing of W. 10th Street
Ryan Place Gates at College Ave. 1912   Boarding House & Street   Who Owns History?   Bill Wood Photo Company
Looking North from 9th & Main - Early 1900's   Looking South from 7th & Main in 1904   Looking North from Houston & 7th   Looking East from Courthouse in 1884
Looking East on 7th From Burnet in 1920's   Looking West From 7th & Houston in 1968   Houston at Ninth, 1890, Future Site of Flatiron Building Houston Street - 1950s
1958 West Freeway Looking East from Hulen Dec. 1956: Opening of South Freeway (US 81) Paddock Viaduct Leonard's Beat
7th Street in 1941   1926 12th Street Extension to Jennings   Camp Bowie Blvd. - 1927 101 S. Jennings - 1956
Well Machinery Company, 1886 - 1956 Well Machinery Building Demolished - 1956 1870's Courthouse Square Northeast View From Courthouse Clock Tower
Westward View From Courthouse Tower - Turn of Century #1 Westward View From Courthouse Tower - Turn of Century #2 Westward View From Courthouse Tower - Turn of Century #3 Westward View From Courthouse Tower - Turn of Century #4
1936 Texas Frontier Centennial #1 1936 Texas Frontier Centennial #2 1936 Texas Frontier Centennial #3 1936 Texas Frontier Centennial #4
Amon Carter Museum Images of the 1936 Frontier Centennial #1 Amon Carter Museum Images of the 1936 Frontier Centennial #2 Amon Carter Museum Images of the 1936 Frontier Centennial #3 Amon Carter Museum Images of the 1936 Frontier Centennial #5
Store East of Courthouse on Belknap Street Downtown From City Hall
1896-1897
Pennsylvania Avenue Business District,  1920 - 1960 Hand Finishing Cement On Jacksboro Highway
1904 Swartz Photo of the North Main Iron Bridge When Buicks had Portholes and Russell Stover Sold Candy South Main at Vickery - 1936 West 1st Street at Lamar - 1956
Interesting Tales From Houston & 10th, Early 1900s - #1 Interesting Tales From Houston & 10th, Early 1900s - #2 Interesting Tales From Houston & 10th, Early 1900s - #3 Interesting Tales From Houston & 10th, Early 1900s - #4
Interesting Tales From Houston & 10th, Early 1900s - #5 Interesting Tales From Houston & 10th, Early 1900s - #6 A Quite Holiday on Throckmorton - 1978 7th and Main - 1919
700 Block of Main Street - 1930 9th and Throckmorton - early 1900s West Freeway's Pedestrian Bridges - 1958 Bus and Cab Activity, Commerce at 9th. - 1955
Street Scenes During An 1899 Snow Storm #1 Street Scenes During An 1899 Snow Storm #2 Street Scenes During An 1899 Snow Storm #3 Street Scenes During An 1899 Snow Storm #4
Street Scenes During An 1899 Snow Storm #5 1958 Downtown Neon Lights on Youtube. 8mm Movie by Don Pyeatt 2009 Downtown at Night on Youtube. Video by Brian Luenser Late Night Visit to Fort Worth Water Gardens on Youtube
"Going Purple" for TCU #1 "Going Purple" for TCU #2 "Going Purple" for TCU #3 "Going Purple" for TCU #4
When Main Street Was Dirt, With Horse Trolleys - 1880 The Magnificent Snowwoman - 1963 500 Block of Main Street - Before the Burk Burnett Building Main Street Through a Long Lens - 1962
An Evolution at Third and Main

 

Skylines and Aerials

1884: Earliest Known Skyline Photo Part 1   1884: Earliest Known Skyline Photo Part 2   1884 Skyline & 2005 Skyline from Same Location   View from Jennings Railroad Overpass, early 1900's
1925 Skyline from 7th & Summit   1930 Skyline from 5th & Summit   W.D. Smith 1936 Skyline from 7th & Summit   Bill Wood 1931 Aerial of T&P
Power Plant & Skyline - 1970's   Trinity River Below Courthouse   1908 & 1922 Floods   Two Views of 1908 Flood
Panorama of 1949 Flood   Trinity River Vision   New City Truck & Skyline Construction in 1930   Old City Wagon & Skyline Construction in 1930
1953 Aerial from South   Lancaster Rail Yards - 1930   1940's Skyline from Jacksboro Hwy. Bridge   1960's Aerial of Cultural District
1930's Aerial of Casa Maņana after a Snow   Fort Worth Skyline in 1872 and 1972   Industrial Fort Worth - 1910   West Freeway - 1958
Construction of Spur 280 and 1963-64 Skyline   Festival of Lights   Festival of Lights at Sunset from 1960's   Festival of Lights from 1960's
Festival of Lights - 1970   Festival of Lights - 1990   W.D. and Gordon Smith Downtown Aerial 1930's   1949 Stock Yards Aerial
Panther Park (Before LaGrave Field)   Old LaGrave Field   W. 7th from 1980   DFW Airport Construction
Part 1
DFW Airport Construction
Part 2
  DFW Airport: International Parkway Construction   Skyline from Oakwood Cemetery   1920's Futuristic Skyline Image
Texas & Pacific Facilities   1941 Automobile Row   W.D. Smith 1941 Skyline from 7th & Summit   1955 Bill Wood Skyline from Montgomery Ward
1960 Skyline from West Freeway   1926 Skyline from Lower Main   1966: The Good Life   Turnpike Stadium
1876 Morse Bird's Eye View   Fort Worth Major Seaport?   First Known Commissioned Aerials Part 1   First Known Commissioned Aerials Part 2
1899 Skyline from Post Office   Comanche Peak Power Plant   Watercolor Skyline Painting   Amon Carter's Faked 1922 Skyline
West Freeway Skyline View   TESCO Power Plant   Farmers Market Aerial   Downtown Aerial Quiz 1: How Many Bldgs. Remain?
Downtown Aerial Quiz 2: Identify Buildings   Will Rogers Memorial Center in 1950   Will Rogers & Casa Maņana in 1958   2007 - A Flock of Cranes
Trinity River Vision from 1970's Part 1   Trinity River Vision from 1970's Part 2   Arlington Downs   Classic 1913 "Bird's Eye" View
Trans American Life/Aviation Building   1949 Stryker Skyline Photo   1952 Stockyards   1949 Aerial
1949 Bomber Plant   New 1952 Olds & Skyline   New 1955 Olds & Skyline   New 1960 Olds & Skyline
South Freeway at Seminary Drive - 1949   Hobbs/Fruehauf Blue Mound Plant   Color Swift Plant Aerial-1970's   Snowy Stock Yards in 1920's
1964 Cultural District   1936 Aerial of Casa Maņana & Surrounds   1958 South Freeway at Vickery   Fort Worth Nat'l. Bank Announces 37 Story Tower
1940's Armour & Swift Aerial   1950's Downtown Aerial   Sunset October 16, 2005   Chesapeake Plaza Sunset November 14, 2004
1960 Aerial of Southwestern Bell   1960 Aerial of Buildings Demolished For Convention Center and Water Garden   1952 City Skyline And Stock Show Midway   Moonset September 15, 2008
1970s Christmas Skyline From Lancaster And Henderson   1990s Christmas Lighted City Skyline   Jennings Street Bridge, Front Street, Spring Palace Site, 101 Building   Who Stole The T&P Building?
"Google Maps" Provide Modern Aerial Views of Fort Worth Aerial Of Downtown And I-30 About 1962 When Stockpens Stretched From Exchange Ave. to NE 28th Street Skyline View Of Downtown Looking Southeast
1950 Aerial View of WRMC Complex #1 1950 Aerial View of WRMC Complex #2 1950 Aerial View of WRMC Complex #3 1950 Aerial View of WRMC Complex #4
1930 Ad by Chamber of Commerce South Downtown Skyline circa 1905-10 Before The Cultural District 1971 Stock Yards
1974 Stock Yards 1975 Stock Yards #1 1975 Stock Yards #2 9th and Throckmorton - early 1900s
General Dynamics 1987 Downtown Aerial The Great Trinity Flood of May 17, 1949 Aerial of Buildings To Be Demolished Between 11th and 14th Streets Air Force Plant 4, Lake Worth, and an Unusual B-36 in 1947
Proposed Downtown Routing of I-30 in 1956 Only One Jail in the Early 1970s Aerial View of TCU Sports Fields Southside Suburbs - Early 1900s
Aerial View of 1949 Flood 1920s Illustration of "Futuristic" Downtown 1930 Downtown Aerial WRMC, Medical School, Cultural District and Trinity Park - 2010
Downtown From the Medical District - 2010 Fog Over Downtown - 2010 A Foggy "Trinity Vision" - 2010 Skyline With RR Trestle - 2010

November 2009 Views From The Courthouse Dome

Photographed by Courthouse Restoration Architect Art Weinman

Introduction Orientation Downtown to the Southwest West on Belknap
To West Northwest Northwest Northeast East to Belknap and Weatherford
Southeast Over New Courts Building South on Main

 

Public Art

 PLEASE READ THE INTRODUCTION TO THIS SECTION:

 PUBLIC ART PARTNERS

Al Hayne Memorial - Part 1   Al Hayne Memorial - Part 2   Bas Relief on Back of Al Hayne Memorial   Al Hayne Memorial's Gargoyles
The Vortex - Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth   Road Building Rock   Veterans Park   The Zipper
Bas Reliefs at Farrington Field   Addison and Randolph Clark on TCU Campus   John Justin on Baby Blue   Amon Carter Museum's Upright Motives
Alexander Calder's Eagle   Mural on Old Dr. Pepper Building   Jumping Frogs at Botanic Gardens   Solar Disk at Botanic Gardens
Naiads at Botanic Gardens   Charles Tandy   Kimbell Nude Sculpture in Courtyard   Fort Worth Public Market
Fogel Mural in Federal Building   Jake's White Trash & Pink Lemonade Hair Salon   Botanic Garden Sculpture Walk   Eagle on Texas & Pacific Passenger Terminal
Christ in Front of First United Methodist Church 1   Christ in Front of First United Methodist Church 2   Leger's "Running Flower" at the Kimbell   Moore's "Figure in a Shelter" at the Kimbell
Miro's "Woman Addressing the Public"   Four Horses at Greenwood Cemetery   The Modern's "Conjoined" Stainless Steel Trees   TCU's "15 Cubes" near Neeley Business School
Frog Fountain relocated on new TCU Commons   TCU's "Stonehenge"...art or landscaping?   "On Top Of The World" at TCU   "Yearning To Know" bronze at TCU's Starpoint School
Will Rogers Bust At WRMC   Picasso At The Modern   Is This Plagiarism?   "Triangles" at City Hall
"Briefcase Man" at Burnett Park   Is The "Briefcase Man" The Fuller Brush Man?   "Fishing Rock" Bronze Cranes at Botanic Gardens   Chief Quanah Parker Statue
"Homeward" At Public Library Noguchi Sculpture Plaza #1 Noguchi Sculpture Plaza #2 Original Orientation of Al Hayne Monument #1
Original Orientation of Al Hayne Monument #2

Mark Twain in Trinity Park

Midnight, The Most Famous Rodeo Horse Chisholm Trail Mural
Will Rogers Ceramic Mosaic Murals 1   Will Rogers Ceramic Mosaic Murals 2   Will Rogers Ceramic Mosaic Murals 3   Will Rogers Ceramic Mosaic Murals 4
Will Rogers Ceramic Mosaic Murals 5   Will Rogers Ceramic Mosaic Murals 6   Will Rogers Ceramic Mosaic Murals 7   Will Rogers Ceramic Mosaic Murals 8
Will Rogers Ceramic Mosaic Murals 9   Will Rogers Ceramic Mosaic Murals 10   Will Rogers Ceramic Mosaic Murals 11   Will Rogers Ceramic Mosaic Murals 12
Will Rogers Ceramic Mosaic Murals 13   Will Rogers Ceramic Mosaic Murals 14   Will Rogers Mosaic Murals: Amon Carter Jr. Exhibit Hall   Will Rogers Mosaic Murals: Amon Carter Jr. Exhibit Hall
Will Rogers Mosaic Murals: Amon Carter Jr. Exhibit Hall Will Rogers Mosaic Murals: Equestrian Center & Richardson-Bass/Burnett Will Rogers Mosaic Murals: Equestrian And Livestock Will Rogers Mosaic Murals: Moncrief Building
Chapel Hill Sculptures Statuary or Taxidermy? TCU's Great Horned (Kissing) Toad A Parking Garage - Officially "Art"
Lancaster "Avenue of Light" #1 Lancaster "Avenue of Light" #2 Lancaster "Avenue of Light" #3 City Hall Sculpture, Original vs Present
Sculptures at Botanic Garden Conservatory Evaline Sellors' "Finials" in Botanic Garden Longhorn Steer Heads on Lancaster Bridge - 1938 Police and Firefighters Memorial - 2009
Convention Center Garage By Day And Night "Avenue of Lights" at Night Business Use Of Art To Attract Attention The Pythias Knight - Old and New
Statuary at Fort Worth Children's Hospital "Four Backs" by Matisse, and Art Patron Anne Marion

 

Pioneers

William Jenkins Worth

 

Press Farmer

 

Six Early Pioneers

  Winfield Scott
B. B. Paddock   John Peter Smith K. M. VanZandt Part 1 K. M. VanZandt Part 2
K. M. VanZandt Part 3 K. M. VanZandt Part 4 K. M. VanZandt Part 5

K.M. VanZandt - 1850 and 1930

Charles Turner, First Here   J. J. Jarvis   Major Ripley Arnold   Dr. Carroll M. Peak

 

Vignettes of Fort Worth History

The President & The Rancher-Oilman   Landmark Fort Worth Dates: 1841-1973 - Part 1   Landmark Fort Worth Dates: 1841-1973 - Part 2   Landmark Fort Worth Dates: 1841-1973 - Part 3
Landmark Fort Worth Dates: 1841-1973 - Part 4   Landmark Fort Worth Dates: 1841-1973 - Part 5   From 1510 Cooper St. to Theatrical Fame   Ginger Rogers' Historic Home Razed
Bayard Friedman   First Escalator in Leonard's Department Store   William G. Fuller, Godfather of Local Aviation   Sam Rosen
Charles Swartz Killed at 40   How Fort Worth Became Panther City - Part 1   Panther City - Part 2   Panther City - Part 3
Panther City - Part 4   Panther City - Part 5   Fireman Jim Noah   Old FW Photos From Fans - Hubb Diggs Ford
Old FW Photos From Fans - Bill & Stub's Place   Carshon's Kosher Delicatessen   Monroe Odom, Amon Carter's Newsboy Part 1   Monroe Odom, Amon Carter's Newsboy Part 2
Hats Were Big at Travis Ave. Baptist - c.1923   Fort Worth's Post Toasties Connection   Ormer Locklear, Daredevil Aviator - Part 1   Ormer Locklear, Daredevil Aviator - Part 2
Alonzo Carter - Early FW Photographer   1922 Ford Dealers   The Man Who Bricked Exchange Avenue   Top Secret Tornado 1952
11-22-63: A Date of Destiny for JFK   Bob-O-Link Gas Station   Vernon Castle Saga's Sad Fort Worth Ending   Remembering Pappy Spinks, Aviation Pioneer
Man of Distinction: Architect Wyatt C. Hedrick   How Hell's Half-Acre Drove TCU From Fort Worth   Wall Of Burning Building Falls On Firemen In 1957 -1   Wall Of Burning Building Falls On Firemen In 1957 -2
Amon Carter Gives Charlie McCarthy A Shady Oak Hat   Two Lots In Arlington Heights For $5 Per Month   Amon, Ruth and Nenetta Carter Welcome Paul Whiteman - 1936   When Coming In Second Made Big News
Pony Photographers in 1930s - A Depression Era Innovation Television Debuts In Fort Worth In 1934 When Lake Worth Froze in 1930 Part 1   When Lake Worth Froze in 1930 Part 2
When Lake Worth Froze in 1930 Part 3  

The Shady Oak/Shady Oaks Hat Tradition 1

 

The Shady Oak/Shady Oaks Hat Tradition 2

 

The Shady Oak/Shady Oaks Hat Tradition 3

President Theodore Roosevelt Visits Fort Worth - 1905 #1   President Theodore Roosevelt Visits Fort Worth - 1905 #2   President Theodore Roosevelt Visits Fort Worth - 1905 #3   President Theodore Roosevelt Visits Fort Worth - 1905 #4
The Swartz Brothers Importance To Our History 1   The Swartz Brothers Importance To Our History 2   Streetcar Crisis! The 1915 "Jitney Menace"   Streetcar Crisis! The 1915 "Jitney Menace" #2
1894 Fort Worth High School Letter   R. D. Hunter - Saint or Sinner?   Sidewalk Photographers of the 1930s and 1940s - #1   Sidewalk Photographers of the 1930s and 1940s - #2
Sidewalk Photographers of the 1930s and 1940s - #3   When Banks Printed Their Own Money - #1   When Banks Printed Their Own Money - #2   Fort Worth's Golf Hero: Ben Hogan
TV Channel 5's News Team - 1971   Marsha Hadfield - the "That's My Bank" Girl   CAPTURED! The 7th Street Gang   Diamond Jubilee - 75th Anniversary 1923 #1
Diamond Jubilee - 75th Anniversary 1923 #2   Santa Claus Special and Bus Driver Choir   Fort Worth National Bank 50th Anniversary - 1923   Willard Barr Changes City Politics
A Cop Murdered and a Near-Hanging - 1892   A Cowtown Original - Richard Don Simms        
"Why Fort Worth?"
Booklet by Jack Williams AutoMall - 1986
Gateway to West Texas   Our "Grand Old Lady", the Majestic Theater   Fifty Years of Progress   Lake Worth Amusement Center
Arlington Downs Racetrack   Bob Wills and the Light Crust Doughboys   Hollywood Theater   Curb Service and Amon G. Carter
Speakeasy Era Ends, Stock Yards Here to Stay            

 

Visionary City Plans

The Gruen Plan:

  1955 - Greater Fort Worth Tomorrow Part 1    1955 - Greater Fort Worth Tomorrow Part 2    

The Halprin Plan:

1970 Plan to Revitalize Downtown Part 1   1970 Plan to Revitalize Downtown Part 2   1970 Plan to Revitalize Downtown Part 3   1970 Plan to Revitalize Downtown Part 4
1970 Plan to Revitalize Downtown Part 5   1970 Plan to Revitalize Downtown Part 6   1970 Plan to Revitalize Downtown Part 7   1970 Plan to Revitalize Downtown Part 8
1970 Plan to Revitalize Downtown Part 9            
Trinity River Vision
Historic Structures within Trinity River Vision Re-routing The Trinity In The TRV Plan George Kessler - Father of Trinity River Vision?

 

Military

World War I and Camp Bowie
Map of Camp Bowie in Relation to Fort Worth   Detailed Map of Camp Bowie   Camp Bowie Airfields   Camp Bowie Aerial Photograph 1
Camp Bowie Aerial Photograph  1922   Camp Bowie Hospital   Camp Bowie Barracks   Camp Bowie - Jack White's Personal Connection
Trolley Service to Camp Bowie  

Laying of Streetcar Tracks on Camp Bowie 1

 

Laying of Streetcar Tracks on Camp Bowie 2

  36th Division Parade from 9th & Houston - 1918
36th Division Parade - April 11, 1918 - Part 1   36th Division Parade - April 11, 1918 - Part 2   36th Division Parade - April 11, 1918 - Part 3   36th Division Parade - April 11, 1918 - Part 4
36th Division Parade - April 11, 1918 - Part 5   36th Division Parade - April 11, 1918 - Part 6 36th Division Parade - April 11, 1918 - Part 7 Ormer Locklear, Daredevil Aviator - Part 1
36th Division Parade from 9th & Houston - 1918 Ormer Locklear, Daredevil Aviator - Part 2   Vernon Castle Saga's Sad Fort Worth Ending   Royal Flying Corp Marker at Greenwood Cemetery
Letter Home From France by John N. White - 1918    
Army/Navy Helium Extraction Plant
WWI Helium Production Plant Construction of Helium Plant - 1918        
WWII, Air Force Plant 4 and Carswell Air Force Base
1951 MacArthur Parade on Houston Street FDR Visits Air Force Plant 4 in 1942   PBY Aircraft on Lake Worth "Hiding From Hurricane" - November 1940 PBY Aircraft on Lake Worth - The Real Story
Top Secret Tornado 1952 B-24 Assembly Line at Consolidated, 1940s B-32 Assembly Line at Consolidated Air Force Plant 4, Lake Worth, and an Unusual B-36 in 1947

 

Looking Back 120 Years at the
Texas Spring Palace

Introduction To This Section   Texas Spring Palace - Page 2   Texas Spring Palace - Page 3   Texas Spring Palace - Page 3a
Texas Spring Palace - Page 4 Texas Spring Palace - Page 5 Texas Spring Palace - Page 6 Texas Spring Palace - Page 7
Texas Spring Palace - Page 8 Texas Spring Palace - Page 9 Texas Spring Palace - Page 10 Texas Spring Palace - Page 11
Texas Spring Palace - Page 12 Texas Spring Palace - Page 13 Texas Spring Palace - Page 14 Texas Spring Palace - Page 15
Texas Spring Palace - Page 16 Texas Spring Palace - Page 17 Texas Spring Palace - Page 18 Texas Spring Palace - Page 19
Texas Spring Palace - Page 20 Texas Spring Palace - Page 21 Texas Spring Palace - Page 22 Texas Spring Palace - Page 23
Texas Spring Palace - Page 24 Texas Spring Palace - Page 25 Texas Spring Palace - Page 26 Texas Spring Palace - Page 27
Texas Spring Palace - Page 28 Texas Spring Palace - Page 29 Texas Spring Palace - Page 30 Texas Spring Palace - Page 31
Texas Spring Palace - Page 32 Texas Spring Palace - Page 33 Texas Spring Palace - Page 34 Texas Spring Palace - Page 35

 

Sanquinet and Staats Architecture From 1896
Courtesy Amon Carter Museum

Introduction To This Section

 

S and S Architecture - #2

 

S and S Architecture - #3

  S and S Architecture - #4
S and S Architecture - #5   S and S Architecture - #6 S and S Architecture - #7 S and S Architecture - #8
S and S Architecture - #9   S and S Architecture #10   S and S Architecture #11   S and S Architecture #12
S and S Architecture #13   S and S Architecture #14   S and S Architecture #15   S and S Architecture #16
S and S Architecture #17            

 

Fort Worth In Pictures
1940 Fort Worth Photos by W. D. Smith

W. D. Smith Photos, 1940 - #1

 

W. D. Smith Photos, 1940 - #2

 

W. D. Smith Photos, 1940 - #3

  W. D. Smith Photos, 1940 - #4
W. D. Smith Photos, 1940 - #5        

 

Fort Worth In Video and Sound
Vintage Movies and Other Multimedia

INTRODUCTION TO THIS SECTION

 

The Master's Voice 
Amon G. Carter

 

Lisa Helbing's Family Movies of Fort Worth in the 1930s

 

Late Night Visit to Fort Worth Water Gardens on YouTube

1958 Downtown Neon Lights on YouTube. 8mm Movie by Don Pyeatt 2009 Downtown at Night on YouTube. Video by Brian Luenser Downtown Building Implosion Implosion of Medical Arts Building - July 1, 1973
Fort Worth Fire Department Vintage Photos on YouTube Fort Worth Fire Department Engine #2 Responds to Medical Emergency on YouTube   Aftermath of March 28, 2000 Tornado on YouTube   1957 Soapbox Derby on YouTube. 8mm Movie by Don Pyeatt
Requiem to the 7th and 11th Bomb Wings at Carswell AFB on YouTube. Video by Don Pyeatt Fort Worth Texas on YouTube   Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind on YouTube   Erection of Weather Radar Antenna at Greater Southwest Airport on YouTube. 8mm Movie by Don Pyeatt
Fort Worth Habitat Buildings Leaving Downtown on YouTube. Video by Brian Luenser JFK Receives Shady Oak Hat at Hotel Texas, November 22, 1963   The Great Flood of 1949 by UTA Special Collections   1936 Frontier Centennial by UTA Special Collections

 

Postcards From The Past

Old Postcards from Past:
T&P Passenger Depot
  Old Postcards from Past:
Trinity River Tour Ride
  Old Postcards from Past:
Western Hills Hotel
  Old Postcards from Past:
Carnegie Library
Old Postcards from Past:
Main Street
  Old Postcards from Past: County Courthouse - 1915   Old Postcards from Past: First Methodist Church - 1915   Old Postcards from Past:
9th & Throckmorton; Day
Old Postcards from Past:
9th & Throckmorton; Night
  Postcard Artist's View of TCU Stadium   Postcard of Original Nine Mile Bridge   Postcard of City-County Hospital Before it was JPS
Postcard of Live Stock Exchange Building   1930's Postcard of Westbrook Hotel   Postcard of Arlington Heights Country Club   Postcard of Baptist Seminary
Postcard of Early Masonic Home & School   NTTC's Electric Postcard Studio   Postcard of Billy Rose's Jumbo Theater   Postcard of Old Central Fire Station
Postcard of Will Rogers Memorial Center   Postcard of 1936 Centennial Cancellation   Postcard of Greewall's Opera House   Postcard of 9th & Main
Postcards of 9th & Houston   Postcard of 7th Street Bridge from 1920's   Postcard of Narcotic Farm & Federal Prison   Postcard of 1930's Fort Worth Public Library
Postcard of Interior of Union Station   Postcard of Casino Beach   Postcard of Pennsylvania & 8th Avenue   Postcard of City Hall, Early 1900's #1
Postcard of City Hall, Early 1900's #2   Postcard of Trinity Park Dam   Postcard of Trinity Park Dam - Different View   Postcard of Live Stock Exchange from 1920's
Postcard of First Methodist Church   1999 Postcard of Fort Worth Herd   Postcard - Horse Show At North Side Coliseum - Early 1900s    Postcard - Aerial View of Courthouse and The Bluff - 1924
Postcard - Rail Service to Handley and Lake Erie   Postcard - Lake Erie in Handley   Postcard - Houston Street, North From 8th, 1905    Postcard - TWC - Texas Womans College
Postcard - Fort Worth High School   Postcard - Fort Worth High School 2   Postcard - Fort Worth Medical College   Postcard of Carter-Riverside
& Poly High Schools
Postcard - Horse Show At North Side Coliseum   Postcard - Five St. Joseph's Hospital Buildings   Postcard - Old Post Office/Federal Building   Postcard - St. Joseph's Infirmary, South Side
Postcard - T&P Passenger Station - Early 1900s   Postcard - Central High School   Postcard - Central Fire Station - Early 1900s   Four Postcards of North Side Coliseum
Postcard - McLean/Paschal High School   Postcard - Jennings Avenue Bridge Over Railroad Tracks   Postcard - DeZavala Elementary School   Postcard - Main Street At Sixth - 1920s
Postcard - Before the Hollywood Theater was built - 1920s Golden Goddess In Westbrook Hotel Lobby Westbrook Hotel In The 1920s Billy Rose's "Jumbo"
Knights of Pythias Balloon View South Downtown Skyline circa 1905-10 Main Street from Ninth - 1906 "Artistic License" by Postcard Artists
John Stryker Postcards West View of Courthouse And Jail - 1906 Altered Skyline on 1929  Postcard City Hall and Central Fire Station - 1920
Interurban Cars and Jail on Belknap - Early 1900s 1893 City Hall, Throckmorton and Tenth

 

Yesterday and Today

Early Telephone Bldgs. & AT&T Today   Medical Arts Bldg. & Burnett Plaza   Thistle Hill Mansion - 1904 to Today   Southside Grain Elevator
The Case For Historic Preservation: Before and After, 8th and Houston The Two Eras of TCU Architecture: 1910-1950 and 1950 to Present First Fort Worth Stockyard Was On South Side, Not North Side #1 First Fort Worth Stockyard Was On South Side, Not North Side #2

 

1882 City Directory

Courthouse in 1882 City Directory   Photo Engraving of Huffman Residence   Two Hotels   Courthouse in 1882 City Directory
   Pages From 1882
City Directory - 1
  Pages From 1882
City Directory - 2
   

 

Downtown Renewal, 1960s, 70s and 80s

Jack White's Downtown Rebuild
7th and Main ~1969   Sixth and Taylor   Leonard Brothers Department Store's Subway   7th Street Canyon ~ 1968
7th Street Buildings in 1967 Now Gone   Work Begins on City Center II   Sundance Square 2nd and Main   Brick Street Pavers Reclaimed
300 Block of Houston Now Rebuilt   4th and Commerce Demolition   Americana Hotel   Erection of City Center Towers
Erection Begins For City Center II   Expansion of SW Bell Building   Burk Burnett Park Makeover   The "CELLAR", a Fort Worth Beatnik Heaven
Demolition For Bass Hall, Fourth and Calhoun   Erection of Continental Plaza, Main at Seventh   Erection of Federal Building, Tenth and Taylor   Completion of Federal Building, Tenth and Taylor
Fire Station Number One   South From Seventh at Main   South From Seventh at Lamar   Land Title Block Building
Flatiron Building From Main at Ninth   Don't Do This !!   CNB Building - No Longer Tallest   Restoration or Replication?
Sundance Square Begins Amidst Construction   Throckmorton North of Fifth Now All Gone   War-like Disarray During Construction   Seventh Street - Once City's Busiest
Building Implosions
Implosion of the Worth Hotel - 1972   Implosion of the Medical Arts Building - 1973   Implosion of the Medical Arts Building #2   Implosion of the Westbrook Hotel Part 1 - 1978
Implosion of the Westbrook Hotel Part 2 - 1978 Implosion of the Westbrook Hotel Part 3 - 1978   Westbrook Hotel Implosion From 4th and Calhoun - 1978   Implosion of Stripling's Department Store - 1979
Buildings Demolished For Convention Center
View from Hotel Texas   Rear of Building on Main   Looking South on Lower Main   W. 11th & Houston Streets
Part 1
W. 11th & Houston Streets
Part 2
  Looking Northwest from 10th & Houston   Looking Northeast from 10th & Houston   Looking East on 10th from Houston
Looking North on Jennings from Lancaster   Demolished Block Between Monroe & Taylor   Looking North from Lower Main   Main Street
Looking Southwest from Main & 12th   Looking South from Lower Main   Looking Southeast from 9th & Main   Weber's Pawn Shop - 1301 Main
Looking Northeast from Lower Main   Looking Northeast from 12th & Main   Wider View from 12th & Main   1300 Block of Main Street
Trinity Hotel: SE Corner of 13th & Main   Looking Southeast from 14th & Main   Looking Southwest Along 9th from Main   Looking Northeast from 12th & Throckmorton
Looking North on Main Street   Looking South from 10th & Main   Looking Northeast from 9th & Main   Looking Northeast from 10th & Throckmorton
Lower Main and Throckmorton & Lancaster   Ideal Theater on Main   c.1983 Farmers & Mechanics Nat'l Bank   Sidewalk on Lower Main
Majestic Theater   Looking Southwest from 9th & Main   Demolition of Monnig Dry Goods on Main Part 1   Demolition of Monnig Dry Goods on Main Part 2
Demolition of Trinity Hotel - 13th & Main   Closeup of Demolition for Convention Center   Monnig Dry Goods Just Before Wrecking Ball   Demolition at Main & 13th
Demolition of Big Ben's Pawn Shop   Early Convention Center Arena Construction  Part 1   Early Convention Center Arena Construction Part 2   Aerial of Convention Center & Water Gardens
Alaska Building - Main and Tenth Alley Scene at 100 E. Tenth Alley Scene at 1100 Main Store Fronts at 1100 Main
Downtown Rescue Mission and Liberty Theater Tenth Street Drug Store Aerial of Buildings To Be Demolished Between 11th and 14th Streets Trinity Hotel, 13th and Main
Old Post Office and Library - 1959
Dave Pearson's Demolished Buildings
Capps Building at 5th & Throckmorton - Part 1   Capps Building at 5th & Throckmorton - Part 2   Continental Trailways Bus Station - Eighth and Commerce   Trailways Bus Station - 1970 and 2008 Compared
Johnnie Johnson Tire Co. at 4th & Commerce   Army Store at 100 Commerce   Bars in Army Store Bldg. - 100 Commerce   100 Commerce Update - Temporary Home of TCU
Bargain Box at 201 Main   Garage at 2nd & Calhoun   Savoy Furniture Co. at 111 Main Street   Survivor: Famous Hamburgers at 1st & Main
Radio Center in 1300 block of Houston   Meadows Printing in 1200 block of Houston   1300 and 1400 blocks of Houston   1910 John Peter Smith Second Ward School
200 Block of Commerce Street Smiley's 7th Street Snack Bar 600 Block of Houston

 

From The Pages of The Fort Worth Telegram,
Special Rotogravure Edition, 1908

The Kentucky Liquor House   Metropolitan Hotel
Downtown Block
  Metropolitan Hotel Dining Room   Metropolitan Hotel Lobby and Office
Nelson-Draughon Business College   Fort Worth's Streets
First Paved in 1908
  Tenth Street Paved   Belknap at Courthouse Paved
Hemphill Street Paved   Rusk And Weatherford Streets Paved   Byers Opera House   A. T. Byers and
Y. M.  Milam
Anchor Mills "Bewley's Best" Flour   Fort Worth Light and Power Downtown Office   Fort Worth Light and Power Gas Appliance Showroom   Fort Worth Light and Power Storage Tank
Panorama of Polytechnic College (TWU)   Fort Worth Auto Supply Garage   Texas Implement and Transfer Company   Building at Houston and 7th Lost To History
T. E. Lewis Car Dealer   Eagle Steam Bakery   Christopher Piano Company   Trinity Park
Entrance - 1908
City Hall and
Fire Station - 1908
  Eppstein Building, Home of Jersey Cream   First Downtown YMCA Building    

 

Photos From The 1904 "BOHEMIAN"

The Bohemian Magazine,  1904 Souvenir Edition
Intro 1
  The Bohemian Magazine,  1904 Souvenir Edition
Intro 2
  The Bohemian Magazine,  1904 Souvenir Edition
Intro 3
  The Bohemian Magazine,  1904 Souvenir Edition
Intro 4
Main Street View From The T&P Lake Erie Resort at Handley #1 Lake Erie Resort at Handley #2 Handley Interurban Train
Masonic Widows and Orphans Home #1 Masonic Widows and Orphans Home #2 Hotel Worth, New Addition? Charles Swartz Photo, Downtown Looking North
Charles Swartz Photo, Original North Main Bridge Mansion Hotel, Main at Fourth C. L. Swartz, Camera View or Scenic Artist C. L. Swartz Does a "Cut and Paste"
Charles Swartz Photo, First Elks Club Building Residence of W. T. Maddox at 918 Lamar Portraits of B. B. Paddock and K. M. VanZandt Northern Texas Farmhouse
Wheat Harvest Along The T&P Tracks City Park Dam in 1904 1891 View Shows True Location of City Park Dam Carnival Parade in 1904
Classified Ads from 1904 More Classified Ads from 1904 Prof. Draughon's Business College Psychic Healer, Osteopath...And "Messeuer"
Fort Worth National Bank - New In 1904 Mexican War Vets On Courthouse Steps - 1902 New Tarrant County Courthouse Old Courthouse Image Sparks Research
Main Street View From 9th Street With Wheat And Hurley Buildings W. L. Ligon Residence, 1221 Pennsylvania Ave. Thank You, Mr. and Mrs. Gorman! Fort Worth Business College

 

The Steve Brown Collection

Fort Worth Board of Trade
7th & Houston
  Hurley Building
7th & Main
  Wooden Stock Yards Hotel   Cattle Pens at Stock Yards
Fort Worth High School   T&P Engine 900   Texas Eagle Streamliner & Old Locomotive   T&P Passenger Terminal Looking West
T&P Passenger Station   Vintage Postcard of T&P Passenger Station   2nd Vintage Postcard of T&P Passenger Station   3rd Vintage Postcard of T&P Passenger Station
4th Vintage Postcard of T&P Passenger Station   5th Vintage Postcard of T&P Passenger Station   T&P Passenger Terminal From Main & Front   Interior of T&P Passenger Station
Airbrushed 1931 T&P Railway Terminal   T&P Complex With Overhead Freeway   T&P Complex With Art Deco Bowen Bus Center   Red and Cream Color Bus at T&P Railway Terminal
Postcards of 1931 T&P
Railway Terminal
  T&P and now
Demolished Canopy
  Original Leonard Bros. on Courthouse Square   1943 Postcard of
Leonard Bros.
Looking North from 9th & Houston in 1950   Looking North from 9th &
Main in 1950's
  Varsity Theater on E.
Rosedale across from TWU
  Hunt Humble Station at E. Belknap & Sylvania
Postcard of Stock Yards   Postcard of Central High School   Postcard of Carter-Riverside
& Poly High Schools
  Postcard of North Side & Arlington Heights High Schools
Postcards of 7th Street &
Hotel Texas
  Postcard of
Lake Worth Casino
  1910 Postcard of
Metropolitan Hotel
  Postcard of Arlington Downs
Postcard of 10th & Main in 1920's   Postcard of 10th & Main in 1925   Postcard from 9th & Houston in 1920's   Postcard of Reynolds Building NW Corner 8th & Houston
Postcard of DFW Airport   Reversed Skyline Postcard   Two Postcards of 1893
City Hall
  Postcard of Seminary South
Postcard of Kress Building   Early Postcard of
Carnegie Library
  Postcard with Bird's Eye view of Carnegie Library   Postcard of 9th & Main
Around 1904
Postcard of FWST with Home Delivery & Animated Baseball   Postcard of City Hall   Postcard of Fort Worth National Bank    

 

Our Historians' Personal Photos

From Contributors' Old Fort Worth Photo Albums
Relative of Lisa Helbing With MK&T Locomotive 564   Charles Swartz Photo of Lisa Helbing's Great-Great Grandmother circa 1900   Elmer Magoffin Family circa 1920   Unknown Family Children With 1920 Touring Car
Unknown Family Around Watering Tank - Early 1930s   Founding Member of Assembly Of God Church at Meacham Field - 1929   Unknown Family With 1920 Touring Car   Lisa Helbing's Original Swartz Photo and Horse-drawn Buggy
More Swartz Photos and a Request Rock Island Railroad Freight Crew - 1904 Young Jack White Rides a Pony in 1932 West 1st Street at Lamar - 1956
Family Photos by Richard Don Simms #1 Family Photos by Richard Don Simms #2 Family Photos by Richard Don Simms #3 Family Photos by Richard Don Simms #4
Family Photos by Richard Don Simms #5
Unknown Family Photos From Fort Worth Water Department Photo Album
FWWD Family Photos #1 FWWD Family Photos #2 FWWD Family Photos #3 FWWD Family Photos #4
FWWD Family Photos #5 FWWD Family Photos #6 FWWD Family Photos #7 FWWD Family Photos #8
FWWD Family Photos #9 FWWD Family Photos #10 FWWD Family Photos #11 FWWD Family Photos #12
FWWD Family Photos #13 FWWD Family Photos #14 FWWD Family Photos #15 FWWD Family Photos #16
FWWD Family Photos #17 FWWD Family Photos #18 FWWD Family Photos #19 FWWD Family Photos #20
FWWD Family Photos #21
The Way We Are by The Way We Were Historians
Fort Worth's Water Gardens   2009 Komen Race For The Cure Charity Race   Pier One and Grackles at Sunset, 11-9-2004   Before The Bi-Centennial Storm, July 4, 1976
Wayne Feeds Grain Storage   South on Taylor From West Third   North on Taylor From West Third   A View Of The Library Before The Carnegie
Tornado Aftermath, March 28, 2000    Outpost On The Trinity    Fort Worth And dallas Seen In One Photo    North On Throckmorton From The "Old" City Hall
Missouri Pacific Trestle in Z Boaz Park Cloud Over Main Street Arts Festival Views From Hospital Room - 2009 Downtown and Trinity Uptown Site
Diesel Power Color vs Monochrome Downtown Neighbors Founder's Bluff at Sunset
The Essence of Fort Worth Underneath the Mixmaster Fort Worth Club Building - 2008 Cowtown Marathoners on Paddock Hill
Lightning Strikes Downtown A Rainbow and a "UFO" Downtown From the Medical District - 2010 Fog Over Downtown - 2010
A Foggy "Trinity Vision" - 2010 Skyline With RR Trestle - 2010
Haynes-Stegall Family Photographs
House on Helen St.
(later Pulaski St.)
  Fort Worth High/Parker Jr. High School   Handcar at Rural Railroad Depot   Country Relatives Part 1
Country Relatives Part 2   Country Relatives Part 3   Portrait of Relatives   Robert L. Haynes Retirement in 1952
Original 1904 Swartz Photo of T&P Fire            
Lisa Helbing's Rare Photos
Main From Ninth - Only the Courthouse Remains   Previously Unknown Board of Trade Building   Central Fire Station Photo   Old Fire Bell in Stryker Photo
Fort Worth University on College Avenue   Fort Worth High School Before it Burned   Draughon's Business College, Main at 14th.   Old City Hall, Throckmorton at Tenth
Old Post Office, Jennings at 11th., 1905    John Stryker Photo of Lamar at Tenth    Commercial Club, 6th and Main, ~1890    Construction of Neil P. Anderson and Star-Telegram
High Bridge Over Trinity River - 1891 The Natorium - 1891 Hendricks Building and Board of Trade - 1891 Texas Brewing Company - 1891
Unidentified Building - 1891 A. J. Roe Residence - 1891 H. W. Tallant Residence - 1891 Unidentified Industrial Building - 1891
Fort Worth High School and Cumberland Presbyterian Church - 1891 Albright Bridge - 1911 Leonard's M&O Subway Parking Lot Billy Rose's "Jumbo"
Dainty Lunchroom and Jitney Courthouse and the Old Jail Old County Jail, 1883-1921 When Reddy Kilowatt Climbed the 'Stack
Shaw Bros Dairy, 1900 #1 Shaw Bros Dairy, 1900 #2 Shaw Bros Dairy, 1900 #3 Meacham Field - 1950s
David Hogan's 40-year Driving Career #1 David Hogan's 40-year Driving Career #2 David Hogan's 40-year Driving Career #3 David Hogan's 40-year Driving Career #4
David Hogan's 40-year Driving Career #5 Early Family-Owned Delivery Services Knights of Pythias Balloon View South Downtown Skyline circa 1905-10
Washer Brothers Store, 8th & Main - 1908 First Methodist Church, 7th and Taylor Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #1 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #2
Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #3 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #4 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #5 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #6
Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #7 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #8 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #9 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #10
Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #11 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #12 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #13 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #14
Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #15 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #16 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #17 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #18
Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #19 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #20 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #21 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #22
Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #23 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #24 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #25 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #26
Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #27 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #28 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #29 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #30
Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #31 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #32 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #33 Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #34
Downtown Street Scenes, May 1975 - #35 The Great 1909 Fire The Great 1909 Fire #2 WPA Laborers At Arlington Heights High School
Lobby of Savoy Hotel Lake Worth Bridge Construction - 1928 Details In 1937 Photo College Avenue Baptist Church - 1919
Lake Como Pavilion - 1909 Martha Washington Candies Co. - #1 Martha Washington Candies Co. - #2 Masonic Home Main Building, 1899-1924
John Stryker Postcards Sam Rosen Residence Construction of Fort Worth High School - 1911 T&P Train Leaving Station
Lake Erie Pavilion Rebuilt After 1907 Fire Electra Waggoner Goes For A Ride Westbrook Hotel - 1912 "We're For Smoke"
William Monnig's Home - 1905 and Now Unusual View of Old Post Office Building Holly Pump Station - 1907 7th and Main - 1919
West Face of Courthouse - 1940s Trinity Hotel, 13th and Main Lisa's Family Movies of Fort Worth in the 1930s Zoo Expansion Victim - the Record Aquarium
Interurban Cars and Jail on 100 Block of Belknap - Early 1900s
Carol Crabtree Peacock's Old Photograph Collection
Carol's Family Photo Album   Carol's Father Photographs The 1949 Flood   Park Department Patrolman Who Hated Bathing   Big Dandy Bread Company
Vernon Castle's Funeral - February 1918 #1   Vernon Castle's Funeral - February 1918 #2   City Electric Crew At Work circa 1890s   Early Family Automobiles
Residence On Lexington Ave. circa 1910   Family Gathering Photo Ops   Typical 1900s Neighborhood Houses   Earl Jennings Cleaners - Hemphill at Magnolia
Luther Grocery - Weatherford and Houston - 1904   Bread Delivery To White House Sandwich Shop   Walker Bread Company "Big Dandy" Deliverymen   1920s TCU Football Game
Fort Worth's First
Letter Carrier - 1886
           
Don Pyeatt's Photos
North Side of 7th Looking West From Throckmorton - 1948   North Side of 7th Looking East From Throckmorton - 1948 Looking South on Main From Westbrook Hotel - 1948   Looking South on Houston From Westbrook - 1948
North Face of Tarrant County Courthouse - 1948 North on Main - 1948
Especially Beautiful Photos of Fort Worth
By our Historians
Sunrise on Lancaster T&P Lofts on Lancaster City View From Museum District Apartment Christmas Carriage
Dallas Skyline From Downtown Fort Worth Evening Storm Over Dallas When Crepe Myrtles Bloom Our Christmas Tree - 2009
Christmas Tree at Sundance Square Christmas Tree on Main Street Halloween Sunset - 2009 South Downtown From Above
City Lights at Dusk Main Street at Dusk View From Tower Apartments - 2009 Omni Hotel at Dawn
Bluff View From Paddock Viaduct Downtown Trees and Buildings Downtown From Near-West Side Moonset at Dusk From East Second Street
On The Waterfront

 

Tourists' Photos of Fort Worth

Botanic Gardens and 1st Methodist Church   Botanic gardens and Bass Performance Hall   Downtown at Night   Statuary at Cowgirl Hall Of Fame and Will Rogers Coliseum
Fort Worth Stock Yards   Night View of Downtown   Tarantula Train   Downtown Skyline
Storm Clouds Over Downtown at Night   Cattle Drive Through The Stockyards   Public Western Bronze Statuary   Botanic Gardens In Bloom
Public Art Abounds Here More Nighttime Photos Botanic Gardens Artistic Views of Buildings
Vivid Sunsets Photoshop Alterations

 

Historical Markers In And Near Fort Worth

K. M. Van Zandt at Oakwood Cemetery   First Presbyterian Church, 1000 Penn Street   Zane-Cetti Building, 8th and Commerce   W. M. McDonald at Oakwood Cemetery
First Christian Church, 6th at Throckmorton   Neil P. Anderson Building, West 7th at Lamar   Euday Louis Bowman at Oakwood Cemetery   Royal Flying Corp Marker at Greenwood Cemetery
 General William Jenkins Worth at Worth Square, Main at Eighth   Leonard Brother's Department Store, Houston Street at the Court House   Quanah Parker Plaque At Stock Yards   Plaques at Star-Telegram Building
Heritage Trails Markers Downtown

 

The PORTAL to
TEXAS HISTORY

Great Resource For Old Fort Worth Photos   Early Fort Worth Bar - or is it a Pharmacy?   Gernsbacher Cafe Supply   B-24 Assembly Line at Convair, 1940s
L. A. Barnes Souvenir Booklet #1   L. A. Barnes Souvenir Booklet #2   L. A. Barnes Souvenir Booklet #3   L. A. Barnes Souvenir Booklet #4
 L. A. Barnes Souvenir Booklet #5   L. A. Barnes Souvenir Booklet #6   Main Street, 1887   Our Lady of Victory College and Academy For Women, 1909-1958
Store East of Courthouse on Belknap Street Belknap Drive-in Theater Cowtown Drive-in Theater Pike Drive-in Theater
Pages From 1919 Chamber of Commerce Brochure 
Broadway Presbyterian and First Christian Churches Fort Worth Club and Elk's Club - Downtown Attractive Residences

 

Fort Worth History Books

By Fort Worth Authors

Recommended Books By "The Way We Were" Authors   "How Fort Worth Became The Texasmost City"   "Historic Photos of
Fort Worth"
  "Renegades Showmen & Angels"
"The New Frontier"   "Fort Worth
Then & Now"
  "North Of The River
A Brief History Of North Fort Worth"
  "Dancing Naked"
Memorable Encounters With Unforgettable Texans
"The Fort That Became A City
An Illustrated Reconstruction of Fort Worth, Texas, 1849-1853"
"Lone Stars Of David - The Jews Of Texas" "From Ox Teams To Eagles - Texas & Pacific" "Grace & GUMPTION"
"FORT WORTH" "B-36: Saving The Last Peacemaker" Jewish "Junior League" "Fort Worth Characters"


Construction Zone

Visitors to this website are invited to browse this section to inspect subjects
currently being researched by the "Way We Were" historians.  If you have any
information relative to these works-in-progress, please contact Jack White at
(817) 429-8432 or click here to E-MAIL.

Aerial View of
Convention Center
  1920 Classified Ads   Joseph Brown, Grocer   Construction of
Early City Hall
Construction of Court
House and Horse Fountain
  Aerial View of
Cultural District
  Darnell Lumber Company   Fort Worth's
Municipal Airport
Mule-Drawn Street Cars Electric Streetcars TCU Trolley Cars Schofield Garage
Public Art Hotel Touraine Union Station Oliver Trunk Mfg.
National Business College Spurs' Stadium Horse Fountain at
Courthouse
Houses of
Quality Hill
Lake Worth and Camp Bowie #1 - 1917 Lake Worth and Camp Bowie #2 - 1917 Lake Worth and Camp Bowie #3 - 1917 Union Pacific RR Scrapbook #1 - 1920s
Union Pacific RR Scrapbook #2 - 1920s Union Pacific RR Scrapbook #3 - 1920s Old Buildings on South Main #1 Old Buildings on South Main #2