El Paso, TX - Texas Street Looking West
postmarked 1937
from Dick Lightle's postcard site
After reaching 102,421 in 1930, according to the 1940 census the population declined to 96,810.
Fort Bliss and… the military establishment was responsible for much of
El Paso's growth
during the 1940s and 1950s, when El Paso absorbed the town of Isleta and greatly
increased
its municipal area. From The
Handbook of Texas Online
El Paso, TX - Texas Street Looking West
postmarked 1937
from Dick Lightle's
postcard site
1943
1948
