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317 Railroad Avenue,
Port Isabel |
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property on which the Charles Champion store stands dates to the War
with Mexico. The building is in use today as the Port Isabel Historical
Museum. |
The
Charles Champion General Store. Sign Reads:
The (Key) of the Gulf - Charles Champion Proprietor
The Robert
Runyon Photograph Collection, Image RUN08733, Courtesy of The Center
for American History, The University of Texas at Austin |
The Champion
store with lighthouse
visible behind.
Postcard courtesy Cruse Aviation |
Another view
of the building. The light colored patches on the facade are paintings
of various gulf fish species - a mural painted in 1906.
Postcard courtesy Cruse Aviation |
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