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Mineral Wells Historic Tour: Founding History

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History is full of towns that were built around water, but Mineral Wells actually became famous for their water. People traveled from all over the nation to seeking healing from the water and socialize around it.
In this video, we’ll chat with local historian Phil Garrett, and owner of the Crazy Water Bottling Company about Mineral Wells’ crazy history as the place “Where America Drinks It’s Way to Health.”
To learn more about Mineral Wells and plan your next trip: VisitMineralWells.org
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5 сен 2024

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@tia2all501 Год назад

Fasaniting Thanks

@JohnDoe-jq5wy 2 года назад

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!!!

@visitmineralwells 2 года назад

Thanks so much!!! I'll pass this on to them. :)

@kentcourtney5535 Год назад

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!

@visitmineralwells Год назад

We have one of those little cars in here in the office!! :)

@victorwadsworth821 3 года назад

Just after the voting age was dropped to 18, my first vote was casted at the Crazy Hotel. This was back in the day you could walk across the street to see a movie at the Grand Theater. Hospitals in Mineral Wells were 1st the Norwood, then the Nazerith, the Crazy Hotel & then Palo Pinto General. Doctors Singlton & Dr. Gafford were my doctors.

@starr234 2 года назад

Do you know what years the Crazy Hotel was used as a hospital?

@visitmineralwells 2 года назад

That's a cool memory. Thanks for sharing it.

@madeleine7411 Год назад

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!

@victorwadsworth821 3 года назад

400 area wells, one is in the basement of Piggly Wiggly & at the Baker Hotel.

@JohnDoe-jq5wy 2 года назад

Crazy Water works!!!!

@victorwadsworth821 3 года назад

Oliver Loving's remains of his ranch is nine miles North of town, wish I knew that when I lived on NE 23rd street & played Cowboy's & Indians at age five. Loving was buried in Weatherford with Bose Ikard.

@victorwadsworth821 3 года назад

Dusty Pool was the bartender at the Baker Ballroom. I remember the elevator & the red suited elevator operator. I think he was used in Shadows on the Wall (1986) - IMDb

@starr234 2 года назад

A lot of my family worked at the Baker hotel back in the day. My Great Grandmother was the Executive Housekeeper. My Great Grandfather helped build the Baker in the 20's and was a steward there. My Great Uncle was an elevator operator there when he was a young man. My Granny and my Great Aunt also worked there.

@victorwadsworth821 2 года назад

@@starr234 I delivered the Index there in 1969. Mom worked the coffee shop when she was a girl. My grandfather Charlie Davis painted a build board in front of it when I was a boy. My sister & I after a rodeo parade sat on Smiley "Frog" Burnett's lap on a flatbed trailer at the foot of the Baker for a picture. I remember the elevator operator, I think he was in the film "Shadows on the Wall". My aunt gave me flor tiles to the Baker & Hexagon House. The site of the Baker covers one of the 400+ wells in Mineral Wells as does the old Piggly Wiggly.

@victorwadsworth821 3 года назад

Before the Crazy closed, it was a retirement home where my Aunt, Christene Pemberton & her nieghbor my old principal at Lee Jr. High Robert Siftlet lived.

@plumbawl5977 2 года назад

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

@visitmineralwells 2 года назад

Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it.

@victorwadsworth821 3 года назад

My Boy Scout buddy's James & Joseph Smith use to own Crazy Water. Under the Piggly Wiggly building is one of the wells. Bennett's printing is the site of an old Silent Movie house. Oliver Loving's Ranch is nine miles north of town or use to be. There are no ghosts in Mineral Wells.

@victorwadsworth821 3 года назад

Across from the Crazy where Bennett's is now, was the Crazy Silent Movie House. The Grand theatre came later at the end of the block.

@visitmineralwells 2 года назад

The Grand Theater is about to get some love too!

@blaisehunter6837 2 года назад

👍

@victorwadsworth821 3 года назад

The historic Black Sox baseball team trained in the down town area before they became the shame of baseball.

@tomcaldwell5750 2 года назад

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?

@visitmineralwells 2 года назад

Fun memories! Thanks for sharing.