The Spindletop Gladys City Boomtown Museum hosted Gladys City Live April 10. The event gave visitors the chance to experience Spindletop Gladys City Boom Town as it was in its glory days.
“This is one of the museum staff’s favorite events,” director Troy Gray said. “It is one of the few times that visitors can see people dressed up and use each building as it was used in 1901.”
For a donation, visitors received 1901 money to spend throughout the city to purchase bandanas in the dry goods store, coffee samples from TexJoy and candy in the general store, ice cream from HEB in the drug store,and more.
As visitors strolled the wooden walkways and perused the museum shops, they witnessed scenes indicative of Gladys City in the middle of the boomtown era.
Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown is a replica of the boomtown that grew up around the Spindletop oil fields in the early 1900s.
Located on US 69 at Jimmy Simmons Blvd on the Lamar University campus in Beaumont, the museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m.
