Real Beer, Honorary Dallasite
Honorary Dallasite for a few days, Adolphus Busch – the 21st of 22 children. But don’t worry, his dad was a businessman with his fingers [...]
Beer!
Let’s talk beer! Yay, you say! Would you love to hear about Lone Star or some other distinctly Texas beer?! Sorry, we are [...]
Jodie Thompson and 7-Eleven Origins, Part III
We left Jodie Thompson loading ice wagons for Consumers Ice in Oak Cliff..... He must have done alright for himself during those busy [...]
“Jodie” Thompson and 7-Eleven origins
Joe C Thompson, Jr., who was better known as “Jodie Thompson", would be the founder of what we know as 7-Eleven. How did [...]
The History of 7-Eleven
7-Eleven started in Oak Cliff as an icehouse. People needed blocks of ice for their 'iceboxes' and the Southland Ice Company was there [...]
John Neely Bryan – Wrapping it up
John Neely Bryan, as you remember from our last installment, took off after shooting a man. The man survived, but Bryan Stayed gone [...]
John Neely Bryan, Part II
John Neely Bryan, our intrepid Dallas settler, left his wife and children in 1849 to strike it rich in the California Gold Rush. [...]
John Neely Bryan – Part I
John Neely Bryan, the credited 'founder' of Dallas, had a wild ride of a life, capped off by being buried in an unmarked [...]
The opposite of Twelvetide
Twelvetide is also the name of the 12 days of Christmas, which we are in now. As today is December 30th, this would [...]
Kitty Leroy – Untimely death
Kitty Leroy lived fast and hard as we have seen in the last two posts. She was dancing by age 10, on her [...]