The Battleship Texas, a century-old World War Dreadnought turned museum ship, is truly part of world history. She will be calling Galveston home for the foreseeable future! We trace Battleship Texas from dreadnought legend to a revived future at Pier 15. Kandace Trujillo Gilman shares the hard engineering, funding strategy, and education plans that turn preservation into a sustainable mission for the last surviving dreadnought. • defining a dreadnought and Texas’s big-gun design • World War ...
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The Battleship Texas, a century-old World War Dreadnought turned museum ship, is truly part of world history. She will be calling Galveston home for the foreseeable future! We trace Battleship Texas from dreadnought legend to a revived future at Pier 15. Kandace Trujillo Gilman shares the hard engineering, funding strategy, and education plans that turn preservation into a sustainable mission for the last surviving dreadnought. • defining a dreadnought and Texas’s big-gun design • World War ...
The Free State of Galveston: While America fell into depression, Galveston poured another round.
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The Free State of Galveston: While America fell into depression, Galveston poured another round.
Two Sicilian barbers built an empire of vice, transforming Galveston into the "Free State" where prohibition laws and moral restrictions held no power for decades. • Texas and national prohibition in the 1920s created a black market for liquor, gambling and prostitution • Galveston's position on the Gulf of Mexico made it ideal for smuggling and vice operations • Sicilian immigrants Rose and Sam Maceo rose from barbers to powerful underworld figures • The Hollywood Dinner Club (1926) and Bal...
Galveston Unscripted | VisitGalveston.com
The Battleship Texas, a century-old World War Dreadnought turned museum ship, is truly part of world history. She will be calling Galveston home for the foreseeable future! We trace Battleship Texas from dreadnought legend to a revived future at Pier 15. Kandace Trujillo Gilman shares the hard engineering, funding strategy, and education plans that turn preservation into a sustainable mission for the last surviving dreadnought. • defining a dreadnought and Texas’s big-gun design • World War ...
