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Actual footage (with Narration) - 1935: "Worst & Wildest flood Houston had ever had"

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Via: krishna • 7 years ago • 2 comments

Actual footage (with Narration) - 1935: "Worst & Wildest flood Houston had ever had"

Looking east over downtown, December 1935. White building at foreground is the criminal courthouse, where the back of Bayou Place is today. Structure at right-center is the farmer's market, where Wortham Center is today. Photo: J.R. Gonzales

Photo: J.R. Gonzales

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Looking east over downtown, December 1935. White building at foreground is

the criminal courthouse, where the back of Bayou Place is today.

Structure at right-center is the farmer's market, where Wortham Center ...

January 18, 1936: On this day, footage of the devastating of the 1935 flood was released.

The flood caused nearly three million dollars in damage, which would be about fifty-two million today, and unfortunately, seven people lost their lives, five of which were children ages ten and under.

However, the heroic efforts of volunteer rescue quads saved many others.

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