Description
A majestic stone courthouse with a clock tower dominates this vintage postcard, encircled by a vibrant rodeo parade of horseback riders. The scene is a colorful display of earth tones accented by patriotic red, white, and blue. This striking view of Decatur, Texas’s courthouse and public square, photographed and published by Stryker’s, dates from approximately the 1940s-1960s.
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COURT HOUSE AND PUBLIC SQUARE
Annual Sheriff's Posse Rodeo Parade
DECATUR, TEXAS, "County Seat of Wise"
"Some are freighters, some are eighters,
Some are sevens, some are 'levans,
But I'm an eighter from Decatur—
I'm from Texas, close to Heaven"
Photographed and Published by Stryker's Western Fotocolor,
Artist Photographers, 4604 E. Lancaster, Fort Worth, Texas
