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The illustration is from a postcard showing the Nueces Hotel. The postcard probably does date from the 1940s but the actual picture would represent the hotel from around 1930 or before. The seawall was built in the 1930s/1940s and the water would not have been that close afterwards. The situation depicted shows why the downtown area was filled with water during storms.
Calypsoparakeet20:30, 25 February 2007 (UTC)reply
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A link to the Corpus Christi Library digital archive showing various pictures of the Nueces Hotel and pages from Theodore Fuller's memoir, When the Century and I Were Young, that mention the Nueces Hotel: