Business at the Bank -- Bud Breen

This Bud Breen original is listed in our Etsy store.

In Business at the Bank, on the right side, you can see a second building. The second building is Jewel's (Breen Gallery owner) current office and housed The Brackett News for 17 years with her as publisher. In the above photograph I tried to capture the scene that Bud painted as it stands today. Do you see that cannon on the left in the photograph? That marks where Brackettville's bank actually stood in the 1800's. The structure behind the cannon is The Bank & Trust and was built after the original bank was torn down. Our building was once a two story structure as you can see below. It was Brackettville's post office.

Above: a view from just past the bank. The first building on the left is our office, the original post office in Brackettville. Aplogies for the quality of the above two images, I had to shoot them through glass as I couldn't remove them from their frame.

Above: A photograph taken today from the same angle as the 1800's photograph above. You can see that our building is no longer two stories. The building past it still stands and the top floor serves as the local Masonic Lodge. Some of the structures on the right side of the street are still standing as well... more or less.