Garland Square Tour – Food and Shopping

By |2020-09-09T23:51:01+00:00September 9th, 2020|architecture, beer, garland, Texas State Fair, Thanksgiving, trains|

4 pm, Garland Square, come join me for a tour!  $10 cash, 45 minutes around the Square, cool history stories, great architecture.  Should [...]

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Pegasus Found!

By |2020-01-06T01:23:21+00:00January 4th, 2020|architecture, art, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, Magnolia Building, Old Red Museum, Texans, Texas State Fair, West End|

Our previous posts dealt with the (relatively) new Pegasus atop the Magnolia Hotel that was lit to celebrate New Year's Eve going in [...]

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State Fair of Texas – Pumpkins!

By |2019-10-02T21:09:18+00:00October 2nd, 2019|art, Carnival, Dallas People, Design, Pumpkins, South Dallas, Texans, Texas State Fair|

Went to the State Fair last night.  It was extremely quiet - hardly anyone there.  We got to poke in to corners of [...]

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Beer!

By |2019-02-06T22:49:07+00:00February 6th, 2019|adolphus, architecture, Chicago world's fair, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, historic food, Men, Style, Texas State Fair, train history, trains|

Let’s talk beer!  Yay, you say!  Would you love to hear about Lone Star or some other distinctly Texas beer?! Sorry, we are [...]

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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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New Tours

By |2018-12-03T18:40:55+00:00December 3rd, 2018|architecture, art, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Design, Dogs, East Texas, Fires, Immigrants, knights of pythias, Men, Mollie A Bailey Circus, rail lines, Slavery, Texans, Texas State Fair, train history, trains, Women|

We have new tours that we are offering.  The tours are one hour around the square in Garland.  Garland has quite a number [...]

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