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So i wonder what they say about the water in this day and age?

I drive up 281 from San Antonio to OKC a couple time a year and always stop in Mineral Wells. I've been really interested in the Crazy Water Hotel and really enjoyed this fine presentation and tour! See you some day!

Love visiting mineral wells. My granny lives there but we’re gonna have to check this out

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She ate the holtel and threatened to eat the guitar holder and fast talker who was worried about getten eaten. Sswanky

Mineral Wells has a certain charm. Great place to visit.

Thanks Chet. I grew up there

Mueseum to the memory of the BABY KILLERS!

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I paid homage last year july at the municipal cemitery from Miami to dead soldiers in Vietnam War. Sorry.

Yes Sir. My Respect. Thank You for Your Service.

Wasn't there my brothers but I have been to the Memorial Wall in VA. Thank you for your service

3rd Batt. 7th Marines ChuLai,RVN 10/65-11/66

Intelligent draft dodgers escaped to freedom….🇨🇦

This is absolutely amazing,i would love to live/ work there!!

Hope to someday visit. Jan 69 to march 1970.38th b.p o R.i.p. robert e. Hewitt Dec 14,1969

We stumbled onto this magical property in the early 90s when it was first for sale. It has such a wonderful feel.

Sweet as Whiskey cake!

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The FDA put a stop to natural healing and holistic practices. They didn't want any Indians passing knowledge to whites about medicine. Kinda twisted

My father was an AF guy stationed in Mineral Wells around 1954 and I vividly remember looking in the windows of the Baker hotel as it had hats (beautiful and elegant) on display in one of the stores with widows adjacent to the sidewalk in front of the hotel. I knew nothing of the history (I was 7) I was impressed by the old Baker Hotel!

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Let me clear this up about Mineral Wells Texas, I was born 1957 at Beach Army hospital, at no time growing up did we ever talk about any haunted places except Union Hill. Keep your money in your pockets, no ghosts here.

Bought my first cowboy hat at Poston's, that rail system you may never see anywhere else in America, it zipped a wooden cup across the store over your head, delivering change and receipts. On this sidewalk I saw parades with maybe WW1 soldiers, rodeo parades, back in 1962 I sat on Smiley "Frog" Burnett's lap after a rodeo on a flatbed trailer in front of the Baker. Smiley was engineer on the Petticoat Junction train & Gene Autry's sidekick. I still have our picture together.

The Wilfred Brimley's movie "Shadows on the Wall" (1986) featured the Baker Hotel & the real elevator operator from the hotel. I remember riding that old elevator, it did not use buttons but a wheel to guide it up and down.

She calls the Hill behind, we called it Welcome Mountain, a lot of history lost from this video. I knew the Light family & Doyle when I was a kid, never seen them where Cowboy hats. You mention Charles Goodnight but fail to mention his Ranch nine miles north of town. No mention of Yeager's pharmacy or the vacant lot where Policeman Larry Joel Kite was murdered Friday, December 24, 1971, still a Mineral Wells ignored Cold Case File. So sad to see the circus came to Mineral Wells & stayed, at least that's most of whay I see in this video, you need old people to tell the Mineral Wells story, the Art Weavers still left around. You do know who Art Weaver or Thelma Doss is?

So you walked by Poston's for places selling post cards? I bet your painting over old advertisement signs like Coca-Cola for some fruity artwork, those signs are history. Bennett was in Boy Scouts with me in the late 60's, that location was the Crazy Theater House showing Silent Films, does anyone know that? In 1962 my Dad, Dale Wadsworth started his Hot Wax floor service, he bought his first service van from Vaughn Dunaway.

Mineral Wells is going fluffy & flashy, where's the beef? I told Jim Riskey in the 80's the Fort Worth Stock Yards needed less beer joints & restaurants & more attractions to make Fort Worth a stayover not just a two hour stop. Looks like Mineral Wells needs less fluff & more places of interest. Reopen the Donkey Trail, things like that.

One of the 400 wells is in the garage below the old Piggly Wiggly. Another well was located where the Baker Hotel is today. Garriott's Pawn shop was J.C. Penny's & before that it was Safeway. It sounds like Mineral Wells is destroying it's history covering it up with new paint instead of restoring. 60 years ago, I got my first barber shop hair cut at Coys.

In 1969 I was the downtown newspaper boy for the Mineral Wells Index. Mr. Jackson, a old crippled man delivered the Star Telegram, we both delivered on foot. My favorite stops were the KORC booth where I sold a paper,. Ten cents to the D.J., Lodal's stationary was across the street. I loved the chain wired delivery system at Poston's dry goods where I bought Boy Scout gear. My old Scout Master Mack Howel worked at Good Year. Across from the Baker Hotel I got great Irish stew at Murry's #2, the cook Mr. Pool made, number one made great hamburgers next to a favorite stop, the News Stand where I got my Mad Magazines. I walked to just about the Grand Theater & back from the Crazy Hotel. I did have one subscriber halfway up the Baker Hotel. Then back towards the old Index building which is across from the 1919 Infamous Black Sox team had their Summer Training field, a Gazebo is there today.

Back in 1969 when I was 12, I would dig the dime like plant fossils on the East side of West Mountain. String for a necklace. Couple years back at Lion's Park, I found a Thunder Egg on the dirt road near the rock bridge. Mineral Wella had some structures I'm sure built by CCC boys. That privy by the bridge I suspect is one. Something to see, nine miles North is Oliver Loving's ranch. Maybe I played in cowfields of NE 23rd street back in 1962 where Loving may have ran those little doggies.

There were two Studio photographers back in the early last century of Mineral Wells, one worked out of a log cabin that sits on the side of Welcome Moutain today. People visiting MW liked to capture the moment with pictures on WM, the Donkey Trail & many a craggy rock.

Stationed at Camp Wolters during WW2 for basic training. Vernon Baker was born in Wyoming in 1919. He enlisted in the U.S. Army before the attack on Pearl Harbor. During World War II, he was assigned to the all-Black 370th Infantry. He received the Medal of Honor in January 1997 for his brave actions on April 5, 1945, at Castle Aghinolfi in Italy. He died in 2010 and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

I was born at Beach Army hospital two weeks after it opened. Mom dated Captain Gary Leonard a Vietnam Helicopter instructor in the 70's. Dad used to work at Southern Airways about 1962 with Dusty Poole Sr. Back in the 60's, there were two bubble glass helicopters at the gate entrance to Fort Wolters, one was dressed as a Clown. My Grandfather Charlie Davis & his paint crew deployed out of Camp Wolters a year after the Pearl Harbor attacks for that base's repairs. Audie Murphy trained at Camp Wolters. Dad was stationed at Fort Wolters after his time in North Korea.

I'm glad you're back to making videos. Spring is coming. Our family lived in Mineral Wells from 1966 to 1972. (I was a paperboy at the Index, with the Baker and Crazy Water Hotels on my route.) We owned a full-service laundry and dry cleaners, Wes-Tex Laundry & Cleaners, 0.2 mile from Fort Wolters, which it catered to. I'm not in marketing, but I'm glad you're showcasing the natural beauty of the area. The drive from town to Possum Kingdom is awesome. Traveling west to Palo Pinto, then heading south to I-20 is one of the most beautiful drives in Texas. And wildflowers! Some have called the area the northern edge of the Hill Country. I don't know if I'd go that far, but I would say that there is beauty around every curve. Hiking, biking, horseback riding, nature photography, boating, swimming, diving, rock-climbing, historical sites-it's all there. Or, you may just crave solitude, someplace to write or be creative. When the Baker opens, there will be a TON of media coverage here in Dallas-Fort Worth. Invite people, welcome them, to visit. When they see what you have to offer, the word-of-mouth will take over. Make sure people, ALL people, no matter what they look like, if they have pink hair, tattoos, nose rings, or travel with a partner of the same sex, are welcomed with open arms. Like the WELCOME sign says. Make sure there's good, fast, Wi-Fi in the city. Get ready. You have but one chance to make a good impression on every single traveler to Mineral Wells and its breathtaking environs. Good luck. I can't wait.

Lol. Love that skit at the end.

Now in the new millennium, we know the trace minerals have an important effect on our health. One of my favorite model railroad cars is my Crazy Water refrigerator car. It is easily 30 years old and I bet it’s quite a collectors item, especially since it still runs in my trains and is in excellent condition. But, it belongs on my railroad!

Hey y'all. I'm an analog dinosaur whose just learning thos techno stuff. But I found this today. Thank you thank you to the Supreme 23 who restored & updated the sign. I could write a book around that sign....but, I'll add only that you left out a story I did on K.O.R.C.am back in mid 60s... When the city(¿) units wisdom announcedbthe demolition of the WELCOME on East my. A group of volunteer W.O.C. from Ft.Wolthers moved on to city property. Not " so it could be better seen". All said...kudos to those who made M it bbn matter. Now if you can get Cora to put "BACK" Where the old sign was... it would read WELCOME BACK On the front of East mt.

I lived in mineral wells on a army base with parents late fifties and early sixties played on the mountain many times and sign we moved back to NC

Very nice!

I can’t wait to visit! There is so much history in Mineral Wells.

You do not win the Medal of honor, you are awarded the medal. It is not a contest.

I'll give a personal recommendation.... I arrived in Mineral Wells with SERIOUS health imbalances....when I researched the Crazy Water I started drinking the water and took in the Massage/Bath therapy at the bed and breakfast house on the Crazy Water property. This was a very large part of the restoration of my health and opened my "knowledge" to more avenues. Thank You CRAZY WATER... YOU HELPED TO RESTORE MY BALANCE!!!

Crazy Water works!!!!

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Absolutely fascinated by this post, full of fun, history, enthusiasm, and promotion, "Visit Mineral Wells" folks!

My first recollection of the Crazy Hotel is a standing advertisement for the hotel in The Baptist Standard, the official publication of the Southern Baptist Convention. If I remember correctly the advertisement was promoting the hotel as a luxurious place to live during retirement. Also, if I remember correctly my grandfather, uncle and aunt went to Mineral Wells to bathe in the mid 1960's. Is that possible that a bath house was still open in mid 60's?

Best water. Brookshire's has it here in Louisiana..

Thank you for sharing the Magpie Inn experience in Mineral Wells.

Slow service and a grouchy thicc waitress.