H.H. Holmes in Dallas, Part VI

By |2019-07-10T17:38:11+00:00July 10th, 2019|architecture, castle, Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Design, Men, Murders, oak cliff, rail lines, Texans, train history, trains, Women|

Famous Serial Killer with Ties to Dallas Who is this Herman Mudgett/H.H. Holmes character?  How is he luring young women all the way [...]

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H. H. Holmes and Dallas, Part V

By |2019-07-09T23:49:29+00:00July 9th, 2019|architecture, art, castle, Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Design, Men, South Dallas, Texans, trains, Women|

Famous Serial Killer with Ties to Dallas   Minnie Williams, Dallas-area heiress, travels to Chicago during the early months of 1893. She is [...]

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H.H. Holmes in Dallas, Part IV

By |2019-07-01T16:24:42+00:00July 1st, 2019|architecture, art, castle, Chicago world's fair, colorado, Columbian Exposition, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Men, Murders, oak cliff, South Dallas, trains, Women|

Famous Serial Killer with Ties to Dallas Minnie Williams, a local Dallas victim of the serial killer Herman Mudgett/H.H.Holmes, completed her Boston musical [...]

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H.H. Holmes and Dallas, part III

By |2019-06-29T15:41:14+00:00June 29th, 2019|architecture, castle, Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Men, Murders, oak cliff, Women|

Famous Serial Killer with Ties to Dallas Minnie and Nannie Williams, sisters raised mostly in the Dallas area, will become two of Herman [...]

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H.H. Holmes and Dallas, part II

By |2019-06-27T18:33:51+00:00June 27th, 2019|architecture, Carnival, castle, Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Men, Murders, oak cliff, Texans, West End, Women|

Devil in the White City has been a pet project of Leonardo DiCaprio for a while now.  I will let you judge if [...]

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H.H. Holmes and Dallas, part I

By |2019-06-26T21:06:32+00:00June 26th, 2019|architecture, Carnival, Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, graves, Men, Murders, oak cliff, South Dallas, Women|

Famous Serial Killer with Links to Dallas Did you know that Devil in the White City is supposed to be made in to [...]

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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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Ferris Wheel: the Tragic End to the Story

By |2017-10-23T02:01:10+00:00October 23rd, 2017|Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Deaths, Design, innovations, Men, South Dallas|

The Ferris Wheel opened in mid-June, 1893 at the Chicago World's Fair.  It was seven weeks behind schedule.  Costing just shy of $300,000, [...]

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How the Ferris Wheel Was Born, Part III

By |2017-10-15T19:49:00+00:00October 15th, 2017|Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, innovations, Men|

(Our fair hero *pun!* has his 'Ferris Wheel' design accepted and gets to work on actually creating his dream machine.) George Washington Ferris' [...]

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