Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Devastation Gives Rise to Determination -- A Preposterous Proposition -- How to Build a Wall of Wonder -- Reaching New Heights: The Galveston Grade Raising -- The Boulevard Begins: 1904-1910 -- Crashing Waves and Roaring Twenties: 1920-1929 -- The Original Sin City: 1930s -- War and Piers: 1940s -- Innocence and Iniquity: 1950s -- Her Name Was Carla: 1960s -- A Foundation for the Future: 1970s, '80s and '90s -- The Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Author.