Downtown Mesquite — 1925
by Paula Bosse
Meet you under the water tower… (photo: Dallas Public Library)
by Paula Bosse
How about a little love for Mesquite, our neighbor friend to the east. I came across this great photo of Mesquite’s old downtown area in the library archives the other day. The full photo from 1925 — by Dallas photographer Frank Rogers — is below. A detail of the photo (which looks a perfect little photo all on its own) is above.
The building on the right side of the photo is the Snyder Bank Building (1915). It still stands at 201 West Main — see it today on Google Street View here.
Too bad that water tower is gone. But thanks for keeping the Snyder building, Mesquite!
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Sources & Notes
This photo, “[Downtown Mesquite, Texas],” was taken by Frank Rogers in 1925. It is from the Frank Rogers Collection, Dallas History and Archives, Dallas Public Library; its call number is PA78-2/334.
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Flashback : Dallas 
too bad the water tower’s gone.
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Mesquite also gets credit for keeping the building next to the Snyder Building. Drive Google Street View another thirty yards up Main to the taller Woodman of the World Building, built prior to 1923 (and protected today by the city’s Historic Preservation Division). It’s hard to be sure, but the shorter retail strip that continues up to Broad Street today may also be the ones appearing in the 1925 photo.
As usual, there are so many details reflecting life in the early twentieth century appearing in the photo, Paula. It’s another case of the history that still surrounds us.
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