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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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?
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.
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.