Photograph of a man looking at architectural plans at a construction site in Denton, Texas. Another person's hands hold the plans on the right. Dirt mounds rise behind them.

Photograph of city employees at the annual employee appreciation day cookout held at Civic Center Park (now Quakertown Park) in Denton, Texas. Employees gather around grills and tables full of food. A park building and car are visible in the background. Trees drape over and surround the main cookout area.

Photograph of Fire Chief Jack Gentry receiving a service award at the City of Denton Service Awards Banquet in Denton, Texas. He served as fire chief from 1958-2002. He shakes hands with another man as others look on. Paintings line the walls behind them. The men are from left-to-right: Jim Riddlesperger, former professor of political science at UNT and member of the Denton city council; Jack Gentry; the Reverend Mark Chew, an insurance agent for Farmer's Insurance Company and pastor of the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Denton; and Charlie Hopkins, a former city council member and building contractor in Denton.

Photograph of a lineman standing beside a truck on Bell Avenue in Denton, Texas, across from the Denton Civic Center (now Quakertown Park). Another truck cuts into view in front. Trees line the background.

Photograph of three linemen working on electrical poles. One of the workers stands in a cherry picker. Electrical lines criss-cross the frame.

Photograph of a fallen telephone pole that has fallen on a truck in Denton, Texas. The roof is caved in and windshield cracked. There is also damage to the front right side of the vehicle (left when looking on). Utility workers stand beside their truck on the right in the background.

Photograph of equipment at the old power plant station in Denton, Texas.

Photograph of a group of runners standing at the City Fun Run in Denton, Texas. A person in a character costume stands in the back middle. The Southern Hotel undergoes renovations in the background on the left.

Photograph of employees at the City of Denton Service Awards Banquet at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas. Employees pictured received their awards for 5 years of service. Front row: Manny Coronado, Carolyn Farmer, Carol Weller, Marilyn Williams, Jewel Austin. Second Row: unidentified man, Vince Gallegos, David Roby, Roger White, Eddie Driskell. Back Row: Fred Warswick, Billy Sangster.

Photograph of City of Denton employees and their families at an the annual employee appreciation event at Civic Center Park (now Quakertown Park) in Denton, Texas. People sit at picnic tables enjoying drinks. A full trash can sits front and center. Sunlight filters through the many trees surrounding the picnic area.

Photograph of City of Denton Electric Distribution employees standing in Quakertown Park for their apprenticeship graduation photo in Denton, Texas. Behind them is the Emily Fowler Library.

Photograph of two unidentified men working in a utilities or electrical shop in Denton, Texas. Boxes and equipment fill the shelves along the wall in the background left. Parts lay on the table in front of the worker to the left. The worker on the right stands behind two machines, another table of parts to the right of them.

Photograph of five employees at the City of Denton Service Awards for 20 years of service in Denton, Texas. They stand in front of a couch. The man in the middle is Ernie Tullos, now deceased, who was director of electric utilities for Denton (the title at that time). He began working for the City in 1971 or 1972.

Photograph looking east on 3rd street toward Locust Street in Denton, Texas. Cars line both sides of the street. A white truck is pulling out of a driveway on the left. Stonewall Jackson Elementary School is on the right and a building with a clock tower on the Texas Woman's University campus stands in the background.

Photograph of the yard behind the old City of Denton municipal power plant from across the railroad tracks in Denton, Texas, looking west. Sycamore Street is behind the building Trucks sit in front of the old power plant building to the right. The First State Bank Building can be seen in the background.

Photograph of members of the City of Denton Reclassification Task Force in Denton, Texas. They sit around a table full of papers. Two large sheets of paper hang on a bulletin board in the back. Members include from left to right: Jimmy George (Water & Sewer), Rick Gaylor (Electric Substations & Metering), Nancy Boen (Parks and Recreation), Cengiz Capan (Data Processing), and Mack Parker (Engineering).

Photograph of a group of City of Denton employees playing volleyball at the annual employee appreciation cookout at Civic Center Park (now Quakertown Park) in Denton, Texas. The Emily Fowler Library is the building in the background. Trees provide a shady area in the front.

Photograph of a crane placing old equipment on a flatbed truck after its removal from the old City municipal power plant in Denton, Texas. Workers help its placement on the truck and beside the crane truck on the right. A truck drives down the road on the left beside traffic cones.

Photograph of employees around a table at the City of Denton Service Awards Banquet at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas. Seated from left to right: Joann Schmidt, Administration; Jewel Austin; Jan Trester, LIbrary, Technical Services Department; and Eva Poole, Library, Director of Libraries from 1995-2012, employed from 1990-2012. Other employees are seated in tables behind them or stand talking among themselves.

Photograph of City of Denton employees working on Bell Avenue, across from the Civic Center swimming pool in Denton, Texas. Two men stand at the bed of a truck full of coiled power lines. Two other men walk away from them down the lot. Cars drive down the street in the background. The back end of a white car is in partial view in the front right. The entrance to the Municipal Swimming Pool can be seen in the background. It was designed by O'Neil Ford, Roland Laney and Carolyn Peterson in 1965. It was demolished in 1992 and replaced by another structure.

Photograph of City of Denton employees and their families at the annual employee appreciation cookout in Civic Center Park (now Quakertown Park) in Denton, Texas. People sit at the picnic tables eating and talking. Trees line the back; a large one stands to the left. A man in a cowboy hat walks in the center between garbage cans.

Photograph of passenger train running along Mingo Road by the City Service Center in Denton, Texas. Dark, billowing smoke fills the top of the frame. Trucks and equipment sit in the City Service Center lot in front.

Photograph of workers attaching two cranes to equipment for removal at the old power plant in Denton, Texas. A worker on the left directs the cranes, while two men in center handle with a bundle of yellow material.

Photograph of City of Denton employees and their families crossing a bridge at the annual employee appreciation cookout in Civic Center Park (now Quakertown Park) in Denton, Texas. Pecan Creek flows under the bridge. A group gathers in the background in front of some trees. A bulldozer sits beside them.