Nevermore – the Southland Life Insurance Building
Next up in our Nevermore series - one of the earliest 'skyscrapers' in Dallas history. This may look like a fairly typical tall [...]
By Greta|2019-11-21T19:48:20+00:00November 21st, 2019|architecture, art, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, department stores, Design, Freemasons|
Next up in our Nevermore series - one of the earliest 'skyscrapers' in Dallas history. This may look like a fairly typical tall [...]
By Greta|2019-11-14T17:27:55+00:00November 14th, 2019|architecture, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, Men, Texans, Women|
Next up in our nevermore series: automobile destination clubs. During the 19teens and 1920s, automobiles were becoming all the rage. Entire industries sprung [...]
By Greta|2019-11-14T02:34:19+00:00November 14th, 2019|adolphus, architecture, art, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, Texans, West End, Women|
Our latest dive in to Nevermore architecture is this version of Dallas City Hall. It stood for a little more than 20 years [...]
By Greta|2019-11-11T17:40:50+00:00November 11th, 2019|architecture, art, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, Texans, Women|
Here is our next nevermore structure - the original building of the Ursuline Convent completed in the 1880s in Dallas. There would be [...]
By Greta|2019-11-11T00:22:05+00:00November 11th, 2019|architecture, art, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, Texans, West End|
Adding to our pile of nevermore buildings, here is a beauty! This is St. Paul's Sanitarium - this building is so delightful it [...]
By Greta|2019-11-06T15:51:05+00:00November 6th, 2019|architecture, art, Black History, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Texans|
The Ross Avenue motel catered to traveling African Americans up until the 1960s. Before that time, it was almost impossible for black travelers [...]
By Greta|2019-11-06T04:09:01+00:00November 6th, 2019|architecture, art, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Design, police, Private Investigators, Texans|
This rainy weather has me in a funk and so I am starting a series on Dallas buildings that are nevermore. Feast thine [...]
By Greta|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 [...]
By Greta|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 [...]
By Greta|2019-10-17T18:11:19+00:00October 17th, 2019|Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, detective, graves, Men, Murders, rail lines, Texans, train history, trains, Women|
Dallas Morning News, October 17, 1944 Fatal Shooting Brings Dismissal of Divorce Suit Judge John A. Rawlins Monday dismissed a divorce suit styled: [...]