Waco History Podcast

By: Rogue Media Network
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  • Dr. Stephen Sloan of Baylor’s Institute for Oral History teaches us about Waco’s known and unknown past.
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Episodes
  • "Banking in Waco: A History with David Lacy"

    "Banking in Waco: A History with David Lacy"
    Sep 25 2024
    Guest host Rick Tullis sits down with Dr, Stephen Sloan as they explore the long history of banks in town with fourth-generation Waco banker David Lacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • What's New with Waco History with Katie Chakmakjian

    What's New with Waco History with Katie Chakmakjian
    Aug 22 2024
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    45 mins
  • Living Stories: Rich Field

    Living Stories: Rich Field
    Aug 8 2024
    During WWI in Waco, the puttering, sputtering sounds of biplanes filled the skies. The area around today's Extraco Events Center had been converted into an airfield to serve as a military training facility, and by the time the war ended, Rich Field had graduated some 400 flyers, many of whom served in France. Lee Lockwood, the son of a Waco banker, remembers how the financial community, knowing the training center would be good for Waco, offered its support: "The field could not be obtained without having railroad facilities. It was a long distance from the main line—railroad line. But arrangements were shortly made to buy the necessary property. And a spur track was run from the Cotton Belt railroad through what is now known as New Road and went on forward through to Camp MacArthur. After the war the railroad was abolished and New Road was opened which we used quite often in the city." Lockwood explains that the field provided ample free entertainment: "Aviation at that particular period of time was rather new. And we did go out quite often to watch the maneuvers and the training going on at that time." The amusements of Rich Field extended to other counties as well, as Bobby Joe Fulwiler of Waco describes: "There was one, had engine problems and landed at Calvert. And, of course, everybody in Calvert ran down to see the airplane. It was just marvelous to see an airplane on the ground." After WWI, Rich Field was turned over to the city and became a municipal airport. In a 1988 interview, Jack Flanders of Waco recalls how the airport allowed him to fulfill a dream during his student days at Baylor: "Christmastime, late '40, I told my dad they had a Civilian Pilot Training Program that I'd just give anything if I could take. I just wanted to fly. I always loved the air. Well, he came up with the money, fifty bucks, which included about fifty hours of flying, plus ground school. Ran across larger part of the semester, and we'd go out to what is now called Richfield High School. Well, it was Rich (pauses) Field. And the old office area is in what's the Lion's Den now. I learned to fly out there, [took] ground school on campus, and got my wings in the spring of '41." Two years later, Flanders entered the army air corps and flew 51 missions over Germany. The municipal airport at Rich Field closed a few years after WWII, as it was no longer able to accommodate the newest commercial planes. The Heart of Texas Coliseum, now Extraco Events Center, was built in the early fifties, and Richfield High School, now Waco High, opened in 1961. A Curtiss JN-4 stationed at Rich Field in 1918. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    7 mins

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