How Reunion Tower came to be named……(La Reunion history continued)
The location of what would be La Reunion was scouted in 1852/3 by Victor Prosper Considerant. He returned to Brussels and ultimately procured [...]
Reunion Tower is named for a bunch of European hippies
Reunion Tower was named for an early Dallas settlement (La Reunion) west of the Trinity River. Numbers are not exact, but roughly 200 [...]
Dual Pegasuses
Why does Dallas have two of these magnificent beasts? The original glowing red Pegasus sat atop the Magnolia Building on Commerce Street. It [...]
Dallas and its twin Pegasuses
Why is a red Pegasus the symbol of Dallas? And how did Dallas come to have two Pegasuses? Short answer: Dallas loves oil [...]
Mortuary Reports, Part III – Max Eberle
Further investigation in to the Dallas Morning News database reveals that Max Eberle was a bartender at Turner Hall, in excellent physical health [...]
Mortuary Report Part II
The Dallas Morning News Mortuary Reports from March 15th, 1899 list “Max Eberle, 34 years, found hanging from a switch beam at the [...]
Mortuary Report
Dallas used to be a small enough town that the undertakers would report the names and causes of death of every single [...]