Pegasus Found!

By |2020-01-06T01:23:21+00:00January 4th, 2020|architecture, art, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, Magnolia Building, Old Red Museum, Texans, Texas State Fair, West End|

Our previous posts dealt with the (relatively) new Pegasus atop the Magnolia Hotel that was lit to celebrate New Year's Eve going in [...]

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Pegasus Lost

By |2020-01-04T17:17:29+00:00January 4th, 2020|architecture, art, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, detective, Magnolia Building, Pegasus, White Rock Lake|

Yesterday we highlighted the Pegasus atop the Magnolia Building on Commerce Street.  That Pegasus is a mere 20 years old.  The 86 year [...]

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Nevermore – the Southland Life Insurance Building

By |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 [...]

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Nevermore – Dallas Automobile Country Club

By |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 [...]

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Nevermore – City Hall

By |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 [...]

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Nevermore – Ursuline Convent

By |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 [...]

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Nevermore – St. Paul’s Sanitarium

By |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 [...]

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Nevermore, the Times Herald Building

By |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 [...]

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Historic Halloween – 50 years ago (1969)

By |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 [...]

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