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- [The Crazy Water Well--1974]
- What is said to be the original Crazy Woman's Well is preserved under the sidewalk at the northwest corner of the Crazy Hotel. This is supposed to be the well the mentally-challenged (or the once-designated "Crazy woman") drank from that "Cured" her dementia. Stories are in conflict about how many women there were--and whether the water actually cured any of them of epilepsy. Subsequent analysis of the water refuted a rumor that there was any Lithium was in it. Cutter's "Guide to Mineral Wells" (first published in 1893, re-printed in 2007) suggests that the first well was "[N]ear the center of one of the business blocks of the city, back of the hardware store of L. B . Kidwell. It is now out of use and, we learned, to be filled up." Although not used for years, this well probably only requires a pump to resume production. Printed on the back of this picture is "The Crazy Well as today", and stamped "Mar. 21, 1974."
- [The Crazy Well]
- The first Crazy drinking pavilion was a small wooden building (in the center foreground of the picture) built over the well that supplied the water. The large two-story wooden structure in the picture was opened on April 14, 1900. This picture, however, was taken in 1908. The wooden pavilion was torn down around 1909, and replaced by a brick structure, commonly called "Crazy Flats", with rooms to rent. The building on the right of the picture (which would be across the street to the west of the Crazy Well) was the Carlsbad drinking pavilion. The tracks in the foreground of the picture were for the Mineral Wells Electric Railway trolley (1907-1913) that ran north-south on Oak Avenue. A second rail system, the Lakewood Park Scenic Railway ("Dinky Cars"), ran parallel to the trolley in this neighborhood but one block west, between the Crazy and Carlsbad pavilions. This picture is from A. F. Weaver, "TIME WAS in Mineral Wells", First Edition, page 10.
- [The Crazy Well]
- This picture was taken in 1974, looking south on NW 1st Avenue from NW 4th Street, showing the metal cover, in the sidewalk corner, of the Crazy Well. It is full of Crazy water, ready to be pumped out and used. The building on the left is the west side of the present [2008] Crazy Water Retirement Hotel. This information was taken from Art Weaver's book "TIME WAS in Mineral Wells...", page 29. This well was the third one dug in Mineral Wells.
- Crazy Well at Mineral Wells, Texas
- Shown here is the Crazy Well drinking pavilion, as it appeared around 1908, looking at the North and East (back) sides, after remodeling and the removal of a residence. The house was removed still stands at 715 NW 1st Avenue. The photograph was taken across Oak Avenue. Note the top of the first Texas Carlsbad Well in the background.
- [The Crazy Well Bath House]
- This photograph was used in A. F. Weaver's 1st edition of "Time Was..." on page 16. His description: "This street scene taken in 1918 showing a drug store on the corner, the bath house next door and then the Crazy Flats north of the bath house. The Crazy Hotel sits just to the West of the drug store. The fire of 1925 March 15th started in the drug store and burned the whole block." (The first Crazy Hotel is not visible in this picture.) Please note the Hexagon Hotel in the distance on the left side of the street. The building across the street with the tower at the right edge of the picture is the Vichy Well and Natatorium (an impressive word for "Swimming Pool"), later The Beach, and then The Standard Well.
- [The Crazy Well Drinking Pavilion]
- This is a picture of the second Crazy Water Well Drinking Pavilion. The original Crazy Well and first Drinking Pavilion are housed in the small building in the middle of the picture immediately in front of the larger second Pavilion. This picture of the wooden structure was taken shortly after its construction in 1900. Notice the dirt roads, and the burros tied at the hitching rail. Burro rides on trails around town, especially up East Mountain, were a very popular form of recreation in Mineral Wells' early years. Customers are seen entering the upper floor by an exterior flight of stairs.
- Crazy Well, Mineral Wells, Texas
- This is a picture of the first Crazy Well drinking pavilion, the first such facility in the city. When a Mr. Wiggins dug the third well in town, it was frequented by a "crazy woman" who was eventually cured of her dementia. Because of the word-of-mouth publicity, people came from miles around to drink the health-giving water. A house was built around the well for the convenience of the customers. The highly successful business attracted competition, and one of the most popular health spas in the nation grew from these beginnings.
- Crazy Well Park
- "CRAZY WELL PARK, located just south of the Crazy Hotel at the corner of NW 3rd Street and 1st Avenue" as the picture that appears on page 115 of "Time Was...", Second edition, declares. The building one block west (left) of the first Crazy Hotel (at the northwest corner of NW 2nd Avenue and NW 3rd. Street) is the W.E. Mayes Building in which the Wells Hotel was located. (The far right end of the building also carries a sign reading "Caldwell Hotel." (Early in its life, the site of this building was the Texas Carlsbad well and drinking pavilion.) Also visible is Clark's Pharmacy. The prominent park is now part of the Crazy Hotel parking lot.
- The Crazy Well Water Company
- This picture shows a photograph of two pages from a water-bottle-shaped brochure about Mineral Wells. The "Appendix" referred to on the verso folio refers to a series of burlesques printed on previous--unseen--pages. Recto describes the four types of the water and the various ailments that they are expected to cure. The brochure notes that number four water is purgative, and should be used in moderation, but at frequent intervals.
- [A Crowd at a Race]
- A note on the back of the picture identifies this scene as being at Elmhurst Park. The rails on either side indicate that this is a photograph of a race track. There is a chalk circle in the middle of the track, and a companion picture shows this circle being used for shot-put/discus competition. The spectator in the left foreground is leaning into the track to get a better look at a runner approaching the finish line at the far end of the track.
- [A Crowd at a Speech]
- A crowd (the picture dates to approximately 1910) appears to be attending the awarding of prizes for an athletic event--probably a track meet, judging by companion photographs. The location of the photograph is at Elmhurst Park, an amusement park in the early 1900's on Pollard Creek about two miles southwest of Mineral Wells.
- [Crystal Plant]
- A picture of the Crystal Production Line is shown here. On the back of the photograph is typed: CRYSTALS WERE THEN PACKED INTO GREEN AND WHITE BOXES AND RUN DOWN THE CONVEYOR WHERE GIRLS PLACED THE LIDS. AT THE END OF THE BELT A MACHINE WRAPPED THE BOX IN CELLOPHANE. PHOTO 1930
- The Cullen Grimes School
- Principal Donald Bond, the teachers and the students of the afternoon group at Cullen Grimes School in Mineral Wells, Texas congregate in front of the building in March of 1954.
- [The Cumberland Presbyterian Church]
- Shown here is a picture of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. On the back of picture is written "901 N.Oak [.] Sold to Church of Christ [.] Demolished and rebuilt." The streetcar tracks, which ran from 1907 to 1913 are visible on N. Oak in front of the church. The denomination takes its name from Cumberland Street, Philadelphia. A sub-sect of Presbyterianism--based on an Arminian interpretation of Calvinism--was begun at the church there. A Cumberland Presbyterian church is advertised as being in Newberry at the present [2014] time. The picture was taken before North Oak Avenue was paved in 1914. The Church of Christ still [2008] occupies this location on N. Oak Avenue.
- The Curtis House
- The Curtis House was once to be found at 315 E. Hubbard Street in Mineral Wells. This photograph of it is to be found on page 101 of "Time Was..." by A.F. Weaver. Note the steeple of Methodist Episcopal Church at 301 NE 1st Street, at the far right edge of the picture. Built in 1898, the church was expanded in 1903 as the First Methodist church, whose congregation still [2008] occupies this location in a newer church building.
- The Curtis House
- The Curtis House was an early hotel at 315 E. Hubbard Street, where the Baker Hotel swimming pool is now [2008] located. This picture was handed down through the Curtis family to Robert Curtis, who donated it to A.F. Weaver June 25, 1996. A later view of the hotel is found on page 101 of A.F. Weaver's book "TIME WAS In Mineral Wells."
- [The D. M. Howard Store]
- A photograph taken during the construction of the D. M. Howard Store, located at 101 SE 1st Avenue. D. M. Howard was the first of five brothers to arrive in Mineral Wells. He built the first large department store(s) here. This was the first in a complex of Howard Brothers stores, and later housed the J. M. Belcher Furniture Store and its successor, R. & W. Furniture. Howard himself departed this life in 1910. The building was torn down in 1975.
- The Daily Index
- Shown here is the front page of the Mineral Wells "Index", featuring a picture of Judge Alvin Lynch, astride a mule and holding a large bottle of the Mineral Wells water. The picture is not sufficiently in focus to read a reliable date to the newspaper, except perhaps to discern that the issue comes from "Volume VIII". We are accustomed to having a newspaper printed with the help of electricity. However, the "Index" of 1940 states that such was not always the case. "Employees of the Index", is said, "Can remember back in the old days when the electric service was rather questionable, especially at night--and it was the custom to put the press boy up on the feeder of the newspaper press, tie an electric cord around his neck,and let him go to sleep. When the power came on the bulb would get hot and wake him up--then he would round up the printers and they would get back to work." All this was in keeping with electricity that consisted of "[A] single drop cord in each room and on the end of it a 32 candle power light globe."
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 5, 1900
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. [1], Ed. 1 Monday, May 5, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 2, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 6, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. [3], Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 7, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. [4], Ed. 1 Thursday, May 8, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. [5], Ed. 1 Friday, May 9, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. [6], Ed. 1 Saturday, May 10, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 7, Ed. 1 Monday, May 12, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 8, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 13, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 14, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 15, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, May 16, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 12, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 17, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 13, Ed. 1 Monday, May 19, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 14, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 20, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 21, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 22, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 18, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 24, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 19, Ed. 1 Monday, May 26, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 20, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 27, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 21, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 28, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 29, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, May 30, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 31, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 25, Ed. 1 Monday, June 2, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 26, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 3, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 27, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 4, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 5, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, June 6, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 30, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 7, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 31, Ed. 1 Monday, June 9, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
- The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 32, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 10, 1902
- Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.