The City of Abilene, Texas, has some photos of historic buildings & historic sites on their website, including two Texas Pacific Railroad buildings and the Elks Club, which is presumably the one to which our great-grandfather David Graham Hill belonged:
http://www.abilenetx.com/About/tpdepot.htm
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Dad's response to the photos:
ReplyDeleteThe Abilene pictures brought back a lot from the past! I could recognize all but one or two of the buildings. Up until I was about 10, Dad's office was on the top floor of the Alexander Bldg. About that time, he moved over to the top floor of the Mims Bldg. He then moved, maybe when I was 14, across the street to the West Texas Utilities Bldg. I am a little hazy about the next move. I think that it was when I was in the service, or after, when he (and also the Percy Jones enterprises) moved to a very nice new building a block north. I don't think that I even saw those offices, that is, in the last building. The McLemore-Bass bldg. is where our drugstore was until the pharmacist moved over onto Cypress St (more upscale street than Main St., I guess). I think that all of our home furniture came from Waldrop's Furniture. I have vivid visual memories of the insides of most of the bldgs.
Our clothes came from Minter's and Gresham's. Cedar St. paralleled Main St, one block east (while Cypress was one block west). Anyway, east of Cedar became poorer stores and industry, and the main compress building was only about three or four blocks east of Cedar. It occupied a block square, burned when I was in high school, and was re-built orange brick. Our warehouses occupied several blocks east of the compress.
Ione worked as a secretary in the office, whereas I worked weighing cotton bales, and, more so, driving a forklift, loading compressed cotton bales into the boxcars, several cars always being adjacent to the bldg.