Keeping cool in old Waco
By Terri Jo Ryan
Tribune-Herald staff writer
With the heat hovering around 100 degrees and the rain clouds few and far between, staying cool is on everyone’s mind right now. For decades, Waco residents and visitors have cooled their heels — and other body parts — in the springs, creeks, rivers and lakes of this Central Texas burg once known as Geyser City.
Sources: WacoHistoryProject.org, WACO: A Sesquicentennial History, Handbook of Texas Online.
The country home of Scottish-American timber baron William Cameron of Waco was transformed decades ago into Art Center Waco. The placid pool was filled with concrete. (A History of Wm. Cameron and Co.)
Daring flapper Flora Everett, 19, poses in her bathing suit in downtown Waco in this photo from circa 1925. (WACO: A Sesquicentennial History)
Pat (Kelly) Dicorte (left) and a cousin, the late Emily (Harvey) Melton of Hillsboro, frolic in the kiddie pool at Cameron Park, circa 1944. The cousins were 8 years old. (Pat Dicorte photo)
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