Lost Fort Worth
By: Mike Nichols
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9781626192355
Subjects: History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (145-147) and index.
Table of contents: title: The fort: where the West began; title: Camp Bowie: call it "camp quick"; title: Camp Taliaferro: the wild blue yonder; title: Helium plant: now this was a filling station; title: On a roll.; title: Railroads: along came a spider; title: Streetcars and the interurban: "all aboard"; title: Trolley parks: day trippers' delight; title: M&O Subway: cowtown underground; title: Just call cowtown "Ford Worth"; title: Where affluence hung its silk hat.; title: Samuels Avenue: first and, for a while, foremost; title: Quality Hill: cattle barons and bankers; title: Teaching and preaching.; title: Fort Worth University: why "College Avenue"?; title: Fort Worth High: first home of the purple and white; title: First Baptist Church: limelight and brimstone; title: Edifice wrecks.; title: St. Joseph Hospital: tycoons, engineers and sisters of charity; title: Ethel Ransom Memorial Hospital: "first class service"; title: Texas Brewing Company: very near beer; title: The hotel block: "deathly perfume" and a golden goddess; title: St. Elmo Hotel: at the corner of "what" and "if"; title: Diversions.; title: White Elephant Saloon: belly up to the forty-foot bar; title: Hell's half acre: Sodom on the Trinity; title: Jacksboro Highway: highway to hell; title: Spring Palace Exhibition: a blaze of glory; title: Casa manana: out-dallasing dallas; title: The Opera House: culture arrives by stage; title: The Nat: home of the electric bath; title: Crystal Springs: where the music flowed; title: History on the hoof; title: Stockyards and packing plants: "Chicago of the Southwest"; title: The Eitelmans: men of steel; title: Entrepreneurs.; title: Oaks: when history grew on trees; title: Sanger brothers: "forward with Texas since 1857"; title: Randol Mill: wheels of progress; title: Max Mehl: the Midas of pocket change; title: KFJZ: there's no place like ohm; title: Poly pop: a toast to the ghost of Paul Hollis; title: Italian Inn: when heresy became heritage.