1980 Press Photo Surfside, Texas resident Carl Clark by his condemned home

Surfside Beach, Texas. Carl A. Clark, of Galveston, owns property in Surfside which the Texas General Land Office says it intends to take under an obscure law which allows it to claim land that has receded below the average high tide line. Clark's land and hose is one of three beachfront properties the state is claiming. The state attorney general's office has filed suit against Carl A. Clark of Galveston in an effort to get him to remove a house that the state says violates the Texas Open Beaches Act now that erosion has placed it seaward of the mean high tide line. In this 1980 photograph, Clark surveys his property. Surfside resident whose house has been condemned because the high tide reaches it. The beach was once at a point where the concrete foundation marks the level on the support posts, and the ocean was about 100 yards or so away. Erosion has washed the sand away.

Photo is dated 1980.

Photo measures 10 x 8 inches.