In search of one water meter lid

O.K. So this is taking the long way around to find a needle in a haystack, but….. I am looking for a water meter lid, cover, from early Eunice, to photograph. It would (or should) read ‘Gulf Public Service” on the lid.
GPS was the local utility company and generated electricity back in the old days. I spoke to someone recently who remembers watching the giant turbines, housed in the brick building along the tracks at Laurel Avenue, turning and humming as it did it’s thing.
They also had an ice house along the railroad tracks on the north side of town. Easy to load boxcars full of perishable produce on its way to market.
That facility was still in operation in the early 1950’s. The ice wasn’t chopped or cubed. It came out of a big chute as a large chunk of ice that wasn’t easy to handle, unless you had an ice pick and a big, metal washtub handy.
In addition to ice and the other, GPS was also in the pop bottling business. Their bottles were embossed ‘Soda Water’, with Gulf Public Service on the bottom. Many of us old bottle collectors remember finding those in the collecting heyday.
I have photographed water meter lids in Galveston, Texas and on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge. The latter has the face of a tiger embossed on it. We did charcoal rubbings of that one.
There is no other reason to find one from GPS other than being curious to see what they may have looked like and add another piece to the Eunice history puzzle. We have the bottles. Now we’d like to display the meter lid at the Eunice Depot Museum. For that matter, we’d like anything related to the history of Eunice, stories included.
During this season of Spring cleaning and tidying up our yards, be on the lookout for the Gulf Public Service water meters lids. If you find one, call the Museum. We’d like to take a picture of one.

March 30, 2014.
Georgie Manuel.