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This illustrated essay traces the city's rapid transformation from a modest river town into a sprawling modern metropolis, attributing growth to the ship channel, the oil industry, and the arrival of a major space program; it combines historical sketches, contemporary photographs, and woodcuts to evoke a festivallike civic spirit, a distinctive skyline, and thriving institutions including port, medical, cultural, and sporting life. The text balances outsider impressions and local attitudes, surveys commercial and industrial expansion, and offers visual and historical vignettes that show how ambition, wealth, and technological projects reshaped urban identity and prospects.
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