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I've used "yuppified" for a long time... ever since I lived in Chicago in the 1990s. I don't have much use for the word here in Iowa.

 

Tribecca has been gentrified. Borum Hill has been yuppified.

 

I didn't know Yuppies were still a thing ??

 

They are not. But the word lingers on among some who remember.

I just found that "yuppified" has appeared in printed dictionaries, like American Heritage.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/yuppified

 

Ah, to be current, maybe I should have made up a new word. Our cities are now heavily two-percentified! Or at least twenty-percentified, at any rate!)

 

Fred Harvey published a variety of these guidebooks ("First Families of the Southwest," "The Great Southwest," "Scenic Treasures of California.....", "California," "Galveston, The Treasure Island of America...", "Wichita (Kansas)," etc. I am sure there are others. The Wichita and Galveston being the most uncommon (only seen one Wichita for sale on ebay which I now own). I used to collect FH (mainly paper) stuff. Post cards, menus, guidebooks, pamphlets, matchbook covers, napkins, etc.

Wichita -
http://www.unz.org/Pub/HarveyFred-1914

 

Oh, I'd love to find the Galveston one!

 

My copy of Galveston is not a great example. Missing the string binding the 11 pages together. Some water marks and fading.

Below is one example of the 11 pictures to show how they are displayed in the book - no text except for the photo caption in bottom right hand corner. Photo size about 8'" by 6" on 9 1/2" by 12" pages.

I Googled the title - none on Abes or Amazon.

Galveston Sea Wall 1914? by LeftonGuy posted Jun 22, 2015 at 2:54 PM

 

Lefton, does it show street scenes in Galveston?

 

Yes

 

Several street scenes of houses. Also a large photo - almost birds eye view of downtown.

 

Tremont and Market looking south. Sea wall bathhouse and Boulevard. Hotel Galvez, View on Tremont and Broadway. 27th and Broadway looking east. Tremont and Ball Avenue looking East. View on Broadway and 18th street. Panorama of Galveston (what I called birds eye like).

 

If you have time to show other pages, I'd love to see them.

 

OK. It will take some time. But I will post them here in this thread.

 

Thanks!

 

FH Galveston by LeftonGuy posted Jun 22, 2015 at 3:46 PM

FH Galveston by LeftonGuy posted Jun 22, 2015 at 3:46 PM

FH Galveston by LeftonGuy posted Jun 22, 2015 at 3:46 PM

FH Galveston by LeftonGuy posted Jun 22, 2015 at 3:46 PM

 

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FH Galveston by LeftonGuy posted Jun 22, 2015 at 3:46 PM

FH Galveston by LeftonGuy posted Jun 22, 2015 at 3:46 PM

FH Galveston by LeftonGuy posted Jun 22, 2015 at 3:46 PM

FH Galveston by LeftonGuy posted Jun 22, 2015 at 3:46 PM

FH Galveston by LeftonGuy posted Jun 22, 2015 at 3:46 PM

 

Last one - kind of birds eye

FH Galveston 11 by LeftonGuy posted Jun 22, 2015 at 3:49 PM

 

Missed one -

FH Galveston Sea wall bathhouse boulevard by LeftonGuy posted Jun 22, 2015 at 4:00 PM

 

Oh, thanks so much, Lefton! Seeing the pics has me missing Galveston even more... I lived there in the late 1990s.

If your book is for sale, please send me a message to let me know?