Photos submitted by Richard M. Barrett

Santo Department of Commerce, Texas, 1933

A communications station that collected and reported weather and messages

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Newell Barrett, about 1933, was the second man on a two man team for the Department of Commerce. He became a CAA employee and later an FAA manager. Newell served from the bottom to the top of the Civil Service grades. He retired in 1953 as manager of the overseas communications station, WEK, in New Orleans, La., which employed 103 people.

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About 1933-37 – Newell is holding his son, Richard Barrett, the person who submitted these photos.

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Date unknown. The Santo intermediate airfield was located here. It was a grass field then and still is. In the foreground is Turkey Peak where an airway beacon was located on its top. Newell Barrett (in above photos) serviced the beacon and changed the lamps as part of his job.