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Galveston Texas USA 1935 stock footage and images

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Men of 111th and 154th Observation Squadron prepare ammunition for target practice in Galveston, Texas

Men of 111th and 154th Observation Squadron stand in line for shooting practice in Galveston, Texas. Soldiers load guns with shells and prepare ammunition for target practice. (World War II period).

Date: 1941
Duration: 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022503
NS Savannah completes reconditioning and departs Galveston, Texas, with new crew, on tour to new ports of call

The NS Savannah is seen at Nuclear Service facility, Galveston, Texas, for reconditioning before making new port visits. Here she is delayed several months by labor dispute involving her nuclear engineering crew. Maritime Administrator, Nicholas Johnson, poses with ship's officers from the American Export Isbrandtsen lines, who are the new operators of the Savannah. The Savannah departs on a mission involving new ports of call. U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson comments from his office regarding the mission of the NS Savannah. View of cargo being loaded aboard the Savannah. Views of a world globe. Views of the NS Savannah underway.

Date: 1964
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070693
The Badgett Quadruplets celebrate their 5th birthday party with soldiers in Texas (WW2)

The Badgett quadruplets celebrate their 5th birthday. View of the Badgett family house in Galveston, Texas. The Badgett quadruplets prepare a birthday cake. Girls mixing cake batter. A girl places the bowl of batter in the oven. The Badgett quadruplets clean up the kitchen. Their mother takes out the cake from oven and candles are lit. The girls dress up for their birthday party. A girl combing in front of a mirror. One of the Badgett quadruplets apply powder on her sister. They cut the birthday cake in the party and receive birthday gifts. At a USO Army/Navy recreation center they meet and dance with enlisted men. Girls holding up war bonds. The girls are Joan (incorrectly called "Jean" by the narrator), Joyce, Jeanette, and Geraldine Badgett. Navy men and soldiers dance with the little quadruplets. The Badgett quadruplets receive World War II war bonds for their birthday.

Date: 1944, February 1
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040782
United States Army Cavalry prepare for armed incursion against Pancho Villa in Mexico

U.S. Cavalry troopers pack their horses and are inspected. Cavalry forces receive rifles and inspect them. Led by General Frederick Funston, they depart Galveston, Texas, for Mexico, to quell raids by Mexican leader, Pancho Villa, during the Punitive Expedition

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063756
People drink Schepps beer at the Texan Hotel in Dallas, Texas. It is priced at 60 cents for 60 minutes of beer drinking.

A beer drinking offer for Schepps Beer at the Texan Hotel in Dallas, Texas, 1935. Sign out front of the building says "Look! All the Schepps beer you can drink. 60 cents per hour." . A man drinks beer at the bar where for 60 cents he may have as much beer as he can consume in 60 minutes. Several men use straws to drink beer from a pitcher at the same time. Men and women drink beer from huge mugs and salt their beer before drinking it. A group of men and women raise their mugs in toast as they congregate around a woman playing a piano. From a 25 year retrospective in a newsreel dated July 14, 1960. (Note: Schepps Brewing Co. was founded in Dallas in 1934, and sold in 1935. In 1939, it became Time Brewing, Inc. and subsequently Dallas-Fort Worth Brewing Co. 1940-51.)

Date: 1935, July
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042250
A man narrates personal recollection of the Dust Bowl in Dalhart, Texas.

Lewis Thaddeus Nordyke, newspaperman and author, explains the situation of drought and dust storms in Dalhart, Texas during 1930s. He talks about a "black blizzard" during a funeral in April, 1935.

Date: 1960, February 7
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032605