boats. When the seawall was finished, the water was further from the building, but still within easy walking distance. In 1940, Peoples Street reached to the T-head, a paved parking area shaped like a letter T extending out on the water for fishing and boat slips. The first manager seems to have been Joe J. Nix. Staff included uniformed bellhops, generally black men, and uniformed Hispanic girls as elevator operators. Pages, according to Theodore Fuller's memoir, were boys whose voices had changed; they wore snappy uniforms that they changed near the kitchen, from which they pilfered éclairs and other tidbits. These were not considered demeaning jobs; bellhop Lincoln Daniels started a long career there in 1914 and as bell captain was liked and trusted by staff and guests. Gilberto S. Revilla, in the 1930s worked in the laundry and met Martina Revilla, who was an elevator operator. They married in 1936 and were married 65 years. Revilla, who died in 2000, requested his 1930s employment at the Nueces Hotel be mentioned with pride in his obituary, and so did Walter Everette Hull, who as a hotel soda jerk once served Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. Activities Microfilm newspapers from the era, preserved in the Corpus Christi Central Library, list advertising that shows prices. Rooms were a dollar per day up. The Club Breakfast started at 25 cents, the Businessman's Lunch at 50 cents. Another ad notes that for Thanksgiving 1915, turkey dinner at the Nueces, including oysters and olives, was one dollar. In addition to fine food, the Nueces provided professional entertainment, with dances on summer nights and weekends year round. The restaurants featured string quartets, piano, violin, and vocal soloists. A newspaper ad from 1915 promises that Gayle Forbush and Morgan Wheeler of New York City, doubtless well known entertainers in the early 1900s, would perform exhibition dancing daily from 7 to 9 pm. St. Cecilia's Orchestra, which is described as "Mexican", meaning in the context of the times that the members were Hispanic and not necessarily Mexican nationals or persons who played Tejano music, performed the dance music every summer evening and once a week year round. Not all entertainment was sedate. Soon after the hotel opened, a tightwire, or tightrope walker crossed Peoples Street six floors up from the City National Bank to the Nueces. Another time not long after, a "human fly" scaled the hotel without ropes,