Anchor from Reine des Mers at Chamber of Commerce Park

 Clifton R. Adams anchor at Chamber of Commerce Park off E Levee St

 Frame from film The Lure of the Rio Grande Valley (1927) see bottom of post for link to film

Looks like both have same big rock and that would be river in background.

24:01 to 24:15 into 30:53 minute film

[Anyone want to decipher the rest?  I'll give you credit]

This anchor was taken from wreck of “Reimie-Miers” [sp?] a four mast French [?] Steamer sunk in the war 186_ [?] of Brazos de Santiago Pass opposite Point Isabel.

The Vessel was loaded with wines [?] and E_p___rs [?] for Brownsville [?] and northern Mexia [?]

In 1927 [?] the governmental Survey Engineers removed [?]the wreck in connection with the work of drudging the __rs for deep water port of

POINT ISABEL 

Anchor from Reine des Mers Ship     (updated 3/21/2019)

This may have been anchor next to 1872 Baldwin locomotive and Missouri Pacific Railroad Depot  before the Chamber of Commerce was built?

[may add more photos later to this useless piece of photo detective work -- you got info?  share it.  I could be totally off on this one and that anchor in the film was at Point Isabel at the time.]

"This 1927 film gem is a promotional piece targeted at Chicagoans looking for a winter home or perhaps to relocate to a warmer climate. The answer: The Rio Grande Valley! While it’s freezing in Chicago, it’s summer in the Valley."

The Lure of the Rio Grande Valley (1927) <--- click dat

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Digitized from video from Brownsville Historical Association

UPDATE 4/19/2015:

 c1953 Rio Grande Hotel (pictured as Gateway Hotel above) 1251 1/2 E Levee St ~ A Braunstein, proprietor.

A Braunstein ?