I've posted the following photo of the 1935 flood a few months ago. It shows the torrent of water flowing through Dam #2, also known as Coburn's dam.
I'm reposting it now because I found a negative, which gives a much clearer image. If you zoom in, you can see the faces of the men and boys on the bridge
I posted a different photo of this work crew last week. I found a similar picture in the Imperial Crown dated March 1956. I've included it here since it has a caption listing the men appearing in the photo.
I found an article in the October 1970 Crown about Cosme Gonzales, Imperial's oldest retiree at that time. Further searching turned up a good picture of him and his wife, which I've included with the article. Obviously, it was taken for the article but not used. Notice he was a bugler in the revolutionary army that overthrew Diaz in Mexico.
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| Imperial employee, Joe Lee Mills. |
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| Sugar Land Lions Club Meeting in the early 1960s. |
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| Sugar Land Lions Club Meeting in the early 1960s. |
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| 1948 Sugar Land High Prom. (Thanks go to Tom Woolley whose mother Ellen is in the front row 2nd from the right.) |
