Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

Part of the Documerica project - a program sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document subjects of environmental concern" in the United States from about 1972 to 1977.

Two girls smoking pot in Cedar Woods near Leakey, Texas, 1973

Documerica was a program sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to “photographically document subjects of environmental concern” in the United States from about 1972 to 1977.

Project director Gifford D. Hampshire took on relatively well-known photographers to work for the EPA on the project including Erik Calonius, Gene Daniels, Ken Hayman, Anne LaBastille, Danny Lyon, Boyd Norton, Yoichi Okamoto, Charles O’Rear, Tomas Sennett, Bill Strode, Suzanne Szasz, and John H. White. The photographers were organised geographically usually where they were already active. It was Marc St. Gil who focused primarily on Leakey, Houston and San Antonio, Texas.

The population of Leakey in 2010 according to the census was 425 which was precisely the amount recorded in 1960.The town is named after John H. Leakey (1824–1900), a pioneer from Tennessee.

Pizza place in the town of Leakey

Marc St. Gil

Teenage girls wading the Frio Canyon river, 1973

Marc St. Gil

Young people gathering in the Cedar woods by the Frio Canyon river near Leakey, 1973

Marc St. Gil

A motorcyclist from Leakey

Group of teenagers in Leakey

On the bank of the Frio Canyon River

Mark St. Gil

Smoking pot in the Cedar Woods near Leaky

Woman from San Antonio spends her vacations in Leakey

Marc St. Gil

Interior of a local gas station in Leakey, Texas

Marc St. Gil

The harmonica player is 93 years old.

Marc St. Gil

Smoking pot in Cedar Woods

Marc St. Gil

Miss Junior Texas shown with friends in Leakey

Marc St. Gil

Picking leaves from his girl’s hair near the banks of the Frio Canyon river.

Marc St. Gil

Leakey Store owners

Marc St. Gil

Leakey’s Church of Christ after Sunday services

Marc St. Gil

1973

Leakey drug store

Marc St. Gil

A Skinned Possum Shown by One of the Oldest Trappers in Texas, the Town of Leakey. Near San Antonio, 12/1973 Marc St. Gil

Marc St. Gil

Leakey, 1973

Marc St. Gil

Den behind a store which caters to the teenagers in Leakey near San Antonio, 1973

Leakey

 

 

 

 

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