By Greta|2019-02-18T16:34:40+00:00February 18th, 2019|adolphus, architecture, beer, Children's Toys, Civil War, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Design, graves, Immigrants, innovations, Men, Restoration, train history, trains, Women|
Adolphus Busch, honorary Dallasite and his powerhouse wife, continued. I didn’t want to be a bummer on Valentine’s day, so I only mentioned [...]
By Greta|2019-01-11T21:06:41+00:00January 11th, 2019|architecture, art, Civil War, colorado, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, graves, Pioneer Park Cemetery, Politics, Restoration, Slavery|
John Neely Bryan, as you remember from our last installment, took off after shooting a man. The man survived, but Bryan Stayed gone [...]
By Greta|2019-01-09T21:00:01+00:00January 9th, 2019|Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Men, Murders, Women|
John Neely Bryan, our intrepid Dallas settler, left his wife and children in 1849 to strike it rich in the California Gold Rush. [...]
By Greta|2019-01-07T18:59:07+00:00January 7th, 2019|architecture, cemeteries, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, graves, Men, Murders, Texans, Women|
John Neely Bryan, the credited 'founder' of Dallas, had a wild ride of a life, capped off by being buried in an unmarked [...]
By Greta|2018-12-30T22:48:49+00:00December 30th, 2018|adolphus, architecture, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Design, graves, suicide, Texans, West End|
Twelvetide is also the name of the 12 days of Christmas, which we are in now. As today is December 30th, this would [...]
By Greta|2018-12-29T18:45:55+00:00December 29th, 2018|architecture, brothel, Dallas History, Dallas People, deadwood, Deaths, faro, Men, Murders, suicide, Texans, Women|
Kitty Leroy lived fast and hard as we have seen in the last two posts. She was dancing by age 10, on her [...]
By Greta|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 [...]
By Greta|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 [...]
By Greta|2018-11-01T17:28:17+00:00November 1st, 2018|architecture, cemeteries, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, department stores, Design, East Texas, Men, Style, Texans, Women|
This is now an empty, glass-fronted furniture (?) store on the north side of Garland's square. However, it used to be one of [...]
By Greta|2018-10-29T17:53:01+00:00October 29th, 2018|Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, East Texas, graves, Men, rail lines, Texans, Texas State Fair, train history, trains|
Sunday, October 27, 1907 Train Wreck Katy freight and passenger trains collide between Dallas and Garland, killing 1, injuring 50. The passenger train [...]
