Neiman-Marcus opening day
Our Neiman-Marcus origin story continues! With nearly 1 million dollars in capital (in today's money - at the time it was a combined [...]
Neiman-Marcus and the near miss with Coca-Cola
When last we left our caped entrepreneurs (the Neiman-Marcus tribe), they were in Atlanta, running a new marketing company that was quite successful. [...]
Neiman-Marcus, the ‘working for other people’ years
Neiman-Marcus - who they were working for in the beginning. To escape poverty, Herbert Marcus moved to Hillsboro, TX (from Louisville, KY) and [...]
Neiman-Marcus, the early years
The beginnings of Neiman-Marcus, Part II Going a bit backwards to explain how Herbert and Carrie Marcus came to be in Dallas, this [...]
Neiman-Marcus origins
The beginnings of Neiman-Marcus Herbert Marcus arrived in Dallas in 1899 and his sister Carrie arrived a short time later. They became [...]
Mystery Location – Solved
Mystery solved! The question was posed: What do Grace Jones, Annie Lennox, Stevie Nicks, Thomas Haden Church, free ecstasy and an abandoned building in [...]
Mystery Location
What do Grace Jones, Annie Lennox, Stevie Nicks, Thomas Haden Church, free ecstasy and an abandoned building in the armpit of highways 30 [...]
Dallas’ Fire of 1860, Part III
Short recap - there was a fire in July of 1860 that wiped out very nearly all of Dallas' buildings. It seemed suspicious [...]
Dallas’ Fire of 1860, part II
Remember our a&& kicker, Sarah Horton Cockrell? And her St. Nicholas hotel that only stood for a year before it burnt to the [...]
Dallas’ Fire of 1860
The last few posts have been about Alex and Sarah Horton Cockrell. After Alex's death, Sarah built the St. Nicholas hotel - she [...]