A book of this type presses into its pages the life of a city, as seen in its distinctive places that most people rarely stop to savor in the hustle and flow of making a living or raising a family. Waco's first great photographer, Fred Gildersleeve, captured thousands of such scenes – buildings, streets, social clubs, horse traders leaning against a bar – that must have seemed unremarkable at the time but now are priceless to those interested in Waco's vanished past. Tribune-Herald photographers Rod Aydelotte and Jerry Larson carry on Gildersleeve's work in chronicling the community into the 21st century. As in Gildersleeve's era, Waco is again in a time of growth and flux .... So in Waco Landmarks, with photos mostly taken mid-2019, we give to you a snapshot of the community as it exists right now, and we notch a height mark on the doorway for our growing city."—Foreword.
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