NEW HOTEL

NEW HOTEL—In 1930, the brand new Perryton Hotel dominated the corner of Third and Main. The three story hotel with coffee shop was built for $90,000. Panhandle Lumber Co. agreed to build the modern brick hotel if the citizens and businessmen of Perryton could raid $7,500.

Paving project was big step for Perryton

The young city of Perryton made several big steps forward in the 1930s and one of them was to get paved streets and put the residents “out of the mud.’’

Fireman Top Reagan loses life in fire

J.C. (Top) Reagan, member of the Perryton volunteer fire department, lost his life in September, 1930, while fighting a fire at the Shearer Produce Co. Death came as he touched an electric wire while standing in a pool of water, resulting in his electrocution.

Script money appeared here during depression

(Reprinted from the Ochiltree County Herald, Jan. 26, 1933). Perryton script money made its first appearance on Main Street Thursday afternoon when five dollars in notes were issued by the Perryton Chamber of Commerce out of an appropriation of $350 authorized by the committee in charge.

CYCLONE DAMAGE

CYCLONE DAMAGE — The Maxedon Lumber Co. was one of the business buildings damaged in Perryton by the cyclone which hit the town on July 14, 1933. These pictures show some of the damage done by that storm.

Tornado hits city in big storm of 1933

(Reprinted from the Herald, July 20, 1933).

Bank holiday in 1933 caused apprehension

President Franklin D. Roosevelt took an unprecedented action in March of 1933 when he declared a national bank holiday, meaning that every bank in the nation was closed down until further notice.

Worst duster came on April Sunday

The worst dust storm of all those in the “Dirty Thirties” came on a Sunday afternoon, April 1, 1935, rolling into the country about 5 p.m. from the north, turning day into night.

Perryton pool was built as WPA project

Ever since Perryton started in 1919, civic minded citizens dreamed of a modern swimming pool and in 1936, thanks to the “New Deal” one was forthcoming. Construction started in the early spring that year on a new swimming pool located at the city park, at what is now Whigham Park, 9th and Main.

CITY SWIMMING POOL

CITY SWIMMING POOL — Perryton’s first swimming pool was opened in 1937 as a WPA project in the city park. This pool provided summer fun for thousands of young and old swimmers until it was replaced in the 1960s by the present swimming pool.