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"The ship, this ship, our ship, the ship we serve, is the moral symbol of our life."— Joseph Conrad

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Know when the coast is clear. This weather display is for the one half of all Americans who live near the coast and for everyone else who is curious about the coast.

The Galveston Arrow also features weather, news, and tourist attractions for its namesake, Galveston, Texas. Galveston was the site of the 1900 Storm, the worst single disaster to ever strike the United States. Galveston is currently recovering from significant damage caused by the 2008 storm, Hurricane Ike.

Unless otherwise stated, all web page design, text, and photography are by Grady McAllister.

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Below: Crystal Beach, Labor Day weekend, 1997.

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Above:The sun sets on The Flagship, January 2, 2011. A Galveston landmark since 1965, demolition began shortly after this image was recorded. The center column on this page includes our last pictures of The Flagship before Hurricane Ike.

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Below: The Galveston seawall, 1982, a summer Sunday at dawn after a brief rain shower.

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Above: Moonrise at Galveston, Texas, May 12, 2006. Photo by Grady McAllister.

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Galveston before Hurricane Ike

The images below capture Seawall Boulevard as it looked on April 12, 2008, five months before Hurricane Ike.

The storm annihilated the Hooters and Murdochs, the first two businesses shown. Murdochs, a familiar site on on the seawall for a century, was quickly rebuilt. The Hooters, a business with a much shorter history, is now just a memory.

The next six photos show the Flagship Hotel in the twilight of its long history. It never reopened after Hurricane Ike and was demolished in 2011.

You see these Flagship Hotel images in the same sequence they were shot April 12, 2008.  The first three were taken close to the hotel in the late afternoon sunlight.

The fourth image (with a seagull soaring high above the water) shows the hotel as it looked from the Hooters pier. The fifth photo records the Flagship up close again in the afternoon twilight. The last image shows the Flagship at dusk, viewed from the Poop Deck bar on the opposite side of Seawall Boulevard.












End of photos from April 12, 2008.  All of the above images can be clicked for a larger view. 

All pictures were taken with Kodachrome 64 slide film.