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Scanned from glass-plate negative. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. In the house on the right is the shadow of a woman looking out onto the street. Watching the man, who's watching the boy, who's watching the man While seeking directions to the Susquehanna Hat Company, Frank3 wondered if Waco, Texas, in "had their own repair crew in case one of those things came crashing down, or would they have had to get service from a neighboring town.
According to the Handbook of Texas Online , in Waco was the sixth largest city in Texas and probably fifth a year later due to the devastation of the state's then-largest city, Galveston, in a hurricane.
Further, "By Waco had grown to about 35, residents and was becoming an important center of the state's insurance industry. Sounds like Waco was plenty large enough to have repairmen living there. And a century ago the neighboring towns were small farming villages, unless you went 90 miles north to Dallas and Fort Worth, or 90 miles south to Austin.
According to the above cited Handbook, "Encouraged by the United States Army's attempts to eliminate temptations for the soldiers, the city's ministers and others waged an anti-prostitution campaign in , and the "Reservation" was shut down. Isaac Boyett would have been 16 by that time, and perhaps out of a job. Perhaps he joined the war effort against the Bosch? Look at all those wires strung up! I wonder if Waco at the time had their own repair crew in case one of those things came crashing down, or would they have had to get service from a neighboring town.
