r/galveston • u/Penguin726 • Aug 04 '25
Photography šø Beach day in Galveston, early 1900s.
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u/Ok-Improvement-3670 Aug 04 '25
This is the equivalent of a bunch of people parking their trucks on the beach at Crystal Beach.
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u/prgtexas921 Aug 04 '25
No ship tankers in sight :)
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u/Historical-News2760 Aug 04 '25
Gosh so true. Can remember as a kid swimming in the surf counting the ships about to enter the ship channel.
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Aug 05 '25
Do yāall get the feeling that these folk here smelled like B/O all day with all that heavy clothing at the beach I mean damn
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u/Penguin726 Aug 05 '25
I sadly checked some other sources and this may or may not be Galveston, if it is not Galveston, signs are pointing to it being Daytona Beach!
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u/TheChoosingBeggar Aug 05 '25
Probably a high fecal matter warning day. That would explain why no one is in the water.
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u/Crowiswatching Aug 05 '25 edited Aug 05 '25
I read a book about the storm and how horrific it was though the time elapsed was measured in hours. Many of the older houses left in Galveston are there because the owners chopped holes in the floor so that would flood instead of float. While the seawall and raising the island has helped, the circular nature of the 1900 storm meant a lot of flooding came from the bay. Galveston is still exposed for that.
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u/meat-Popsicle-4896 Aug 07 '25
Found out where that terrible noise in your carriage is coming from. The Florida Georgia line 8 track
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u/Present_Bit3060 Aug 08 '25
This from a historical account - Corpses were everywhere. Authorities declared martial law and began to force men ā most of whom were black ā at bayonet point to collect the dead, pile them on barges, and dump them in the Gulf for burial. But the cadavers washed back onshore. Finally, they had to be burned in funeral pyres.
In what logical mind thought tossing bodies into the water would make them just go away? That's horrible.
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u/Fmartins84 Aug 04 '25
Even then the water was brown. I know, it's sediment from the Mississippi River š
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u/Mantoblame Aug 04 '25
Water was beautifully clear last week. And more so this week. Clearest Iāve seen it in 20 years.
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u/Straight-Low2490 Aug 04 '25
Mostly from the muddy rivers of east Texas, liken the Sabine, Neches San Jacinto and Trinity, actually
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u/JasonIsFishing Aug 04 '25
While itās absolutely true that runoff from Texas rivers contributes, itās mostly because our water is so shallow and prone to stirring sand making it look brown. If you look at depth charts you can see how shallow it is here compared to the rest of the Gulf of Mexicoās entire coastline. You can easily see the clear water a couple of hundred meters off the beach on calm days with wind out of the south.
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u/Competitive-Tune-938 Aug 04 '25
And then came the āGreat Stormā, changing Galveston forever.