More table stuff! Flow Blue China

By |2020-08-10T23:21:17+00:00August 10th, 2020|Accessories, cooking, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, historic food, john neely bryan|

Our last two posts included gaming tables and what games would be played in the early 1800s. Well, let's look at what your [...]

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Rowlett Creek Cemetery, Part IV

By |2020-05-06T20:44:31+00:00May 6th, 2020|Accessories, architecture, art, cemeteries, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Design, graves, rowlett creek|

Closing out our cool Woodmen of the World headstones (but not our Rowlett Creek cemetery series!), I present for your visual enjoyment the [...]

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Old Red and the wyvern

By |2020-02-17T17:52:53+00:00February 17th, 2020|Accessories, architecture, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Design, max a orlopp, Old Red Museum, wyvern|

HissssRawwwrrr!  I have no idea what sound a wyvern actually makes. Wyverns are eloquently described as ‘bi-pedal winged dragons with an arrow shaped [...]

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Historic Halloween – 50 years ago (1969)

By |2019-10-30T17:41:19+00:00October 30th, 2019|Accessories, art, brothel, Dallas People, Design, Pumpkins, Texans, Women|

PASTIES REAL HALLOWEEN TREAT Dallas Morning News, October 1969   “When Halloween rolls around, youngsters (both young and old) will be out trick [...]

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Historic Halloween – 1944 (75 years ago)

By |2019-10-23T17:40:37+00:00October 23rd, 2019|Accessories, children's clothing, Children's Toys, Dallas History, Dallas People, Pumpkins, Texans, Women|

Halloween articles in the Dallas Morning News are a bit of a buzz kill.  The articles are lamenting the fact that candles, paper [...]

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Christmas toys for the kids!

By |2018-12-19T18:42:32+00:00December 19th, 2018|Accessories, children's clothing, Children's Toys, Dallas History, department stores, Dry goods store, Great Depression, Promotions, Texans, train history, trains, Women|

Picture it. Garland, Texas, 1937. (Ode to Sophia.)   Holiday toys for girls and boys are being advertised in the newspaper in huge [...]

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Gift Certificates!

By |2018-12-17T19:32:12+00:00December 17th, 2018|Accessories, architecture, art, Black History, cemeteries, Chicago world's fair, Children's Toys, Civil War, Columbian Exposition, cyclones, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, department stores, Design, Dogs, Dry goods store, East Texas, Fires, Freemasons, graves, Great Depression, historic food, Immigrants, innovations, knights of pythias, La Reunion, lynching, Magnolia Building, Men, Mollie A Bailey Circus, Murders, Oddfellows, Old Red Museum, Omni Hotel, Pegasus, Pioneer Park Cemetery, Politics, rail lines, Restoration, Reunion Tower, Slavery, South Dallas, Style, Texans, Texas State Fair, Thanksgiving, train history, trains, West End, White Rock Lake, Women|

GIFT CERTIFICATE AVAILABILITY Are you stuck on what to buy for your in-laws? Saddled with a co-worker you don't know in the Secret [...]

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Neiman-Marcus, the early years

By |2018-03-22T02:38:05+00:00March 22nd, 2018|Accessories, architecture, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, department stores, Design, Immigrants, Men, Style, Texans, West End, Women|

The beginnings of Neiman-Marcus, Part II Going a bit backwards to explain how Herbert and Carrie Marcus came to be in Dallas, this [...]

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