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CRAZY HOTEL OPENS
PROGRAM PRESENTED BY A. F. WEAVER TO THE MINERAL WELLS
HERITAGE ASSOCIATION MARCH 10, 1994
THE BEAUTY AND CHIVALRY CAME FROM ALL SECTIONS WITHIN AND
WITHOUT THE STATE FRIDAY MORNING. FROM THE OPENING OF THE
DOORS, FOR THE REGISTERING OF THE GUESTS, TO THE PLAYING OF
"HOME, SWEET HOME" BY THE ELEVEN PIECE ORCHESTRA, THROUGH
THE BANQUET, THE VAUDEVILLE ACTS, THE VOCAL AND
INSTRUMENTAL SOLOS, THE SPEECHES AND CONVERSATIONS, AND
DANCING THROUGH THE EARLY SATURDAY MORNING HOURS, THERE
RAN A MAJOR TONE OF EXULATATION OVER THE OCCASSION. THIS
WAS THE OPENING OF THE NEW CRAZY HOTEL IN MINERAL WELLS ON
FRIDAY MARCH 11, 1927.
MEN AND WOMEN OF MINERAL WELLS , AND MANY LIFE-LONG
FRIENDS OF MINERAL WELLS FROM OTHER PLACES WERE THERE AND
SHOWED BY VOICE AND LOOK, THAT A LONG, LONG DREAM OF
THEIRS HAD BECOME A REALITY; SHOWED THAT LONG NURISHED
VISIONS HAD GROWN TO A BEAUTIFUL FRUITION IN THE
MAGNIFICENT HOTEL WHICH THEY WERE PRIVILEGED TO GATHER
AND CELEBRATE.
MEMORIES OF THE ASHES, THE SMOKING RUINS, THE TANGLED
TWISTED MASS OF THE UNSIGHTLY DEBRIS OF THE OLD CRAZY
HOTEL BURNED JUST TWO YEARS AGO ON MARCH 2, 1925, WERE
COMPLETELY OBLITERATED BY THE EVENTS OF FRIDAY NIGHT. THE
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Weaver, A. F. "Crazy Hotel Opens", text, March 10, 1994; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth38087/m1/1/: accessed June 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.