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Paso, TexasEl
Paso, Texas
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Maps are from Sanborn Fire Map Collection UMI
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1908-1920
click here for a pdf of this map -- pdf will allow you to zoom in and take a closer look El Paso City Directory 1909 "Editorial -- To meet the ever increasing demands, especially of the vast mining interests around her, another great machine shop and foundry will be built in 1909. During the early months of 1909, too, will be completed a $1,000,000 cement plant." The Federal Building Contains the following offices: US Referee in Bankruptcy On El Paso Street, between San Francisco and San Antonio includes the following (types of) businesses: Note: there are many vacant spaces represented at this time. Bijou theater El Paso Street between San Antonio to Overland: People were exercising the following professions and trades: Bars El Paso City Directory 1914 This directory features advertisements for hay for feeding horses and automobile. The introductory material mentions that the First National Bank built a skyscraper; that El Paso is "The best paved city in Texas;" That the El Paso Postmaster's salary, based on ammount of business transacted, is third in the state at $3500 (The Dallas Postmaster made the most - at $6000 and the San Antonio Postmaster made second with a salary of #3800.) El Paso tied with Galveston and Austin for third place. On El Paso Street, between San Francisco and San Antonio includes the following (types of) businesses: Note: there are many vacant spaces represented at this time. Audit Company
Billiards El Paso City Directory 1920 In this directory there are a great deal of car advertisements; a listing of the El Paso Stock Exchange; a plethora of banks. In general, there are many more advertisements in this City directory than for those of 1909 and 1914. The Editorial states that "'The Pass' topographically expresses its location at the point where the Great Divide has been eroded through by centuries of efforts on the part of the chocolate colored waters of the meandering Rio Grande. The altitude of 3767 feet gives the necessary mountain air crispness, supercharged with ozone, replete with atmospheric electricity to make it invigorating. During the year, a mean average 8-inch rainfall, a 84% of 100% sunshiny days, an average 37% humidity and a 10-year summary of 38 cloudy days throughout the year, offers a combination exceedingly attractive to the climatic student, studying fromteh medical angle of what is worth while in chronic pulmonary cases, particularly the tubercular." The Federal Building contains the same offices as in 1914, with the addirion of the following: Consulate at Juarez, Mexico On El Paso Street, between San Francisco and San Antonio includes the following (types of) businesses: Auto Café
Bijou Theater
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