Grande Courts Tourist Apartments Metadata

Metadata describes a digital item, providing (if known) such information as creator, publisher, contents, size, relationship to other resources, and more. Metadata may also contain "preservation" components that help us to maintain the integrity of digital files over time.

Title

  • Main Title Grande Courts Tourist Apartments

Date

  • Creation: 1930?
  • Digitized: 2006-11-27

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: A tourist court, built about 1930 by Charlie E. Turner, Harold Dennis, and Clarence Hunt is depicted here. It was located in the 1000 block of West Hubbard Street. Grande [pronounced "Grand-dee"--at least in Mineral Wells] Courts was a national chain of franchise motels. This picture appears in A.F. Weaver's book, "TIME WAS in Mineral Wells", second edition, page 99. The sign reads "Grande Courts Tourist Apts."

Subject

  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Business, Economics and Finance - Tourism
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Business, Economics and Finance - Hotels
  • University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Business, Economics and Finance - Transportation - Automobiles

Primary Source

  • Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States - Texas - Palo Pinto County - Mineral Wells
  • Time Period: mod-tim
  • Coverage Date: 1930?

Collection

  • Name: A. F. Weaver Collection
    Code: AFWC

Institution

  • Name: Boyce Ditto Public Library
    Code: BDPL

Rights

  • Rights Access: public

Resource Type

  • Photograph

Format

  • Image

Identifier

  • Accession or Local Control No: AWO_0188P
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth20429
Back to Top of Screen