Train Wrecks! Part Three

By |2018-09-06T02:08:26+00:00September 6th, 2018|Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, innovations, rail lines, Texans, train history, trains|

Stirrin' up ticket sales the old fashioned way - with a staged train crash. W.G. Crush worked for the MKT rail road and [...]

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Train Wrecks!

By |2018-09-04T01:28:41+00:00September 4th, 2018|Civil War, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, East Texas, historic food, innovations, rail lines, Texans, train history, trains|

Train wrecks is both literal and metaphorical.  Metaphorical train wreck: I slid off the rails with buying and rehabbing a new house, letting [...]

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Neiman-Marcus, a few setbacks

By |2018-04-28T16:21:41+00:00April 28th, 2018|architecture, art, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, department stores, Design, Fires, Immigrants, innovations, Men, Style, Texans, West End, Women|

In past posts, we have discussed the charmed business acumen of Carrie Marcus-Neiman, Herbert Marcus and Al Neiman. But, the Neiman-Marcus family was [...]

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Mystery Location – Solved

By |2018-03-04T03:04:21+00:00March 4th, 2018|architecture, art, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, drug use, innovations, Men, night clubs, West End, Women|

Mystery solved! The question was posed: What do Grace Jones, Annie Lennox, Stevie Nicks, Thomas Haden Church, free ecstasy and an abandoned building in [...]

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Giving of the Thanks – Part II, Amuse-Bouche

By |2018-01-21T18:45:59+00:00November 14th, 2017|Dallas History, historic food, innovations, Politics, Pumpkins, Thanksgiving, Women|

Amuse-bouche - a tiny bite of what is to come before a formal dinner.  I have a feeling our featured historical figure was [...]

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Giving of the Thanks – Part I, the Aperitif

By |2018-01-21T18:48:12+00:00November 12th, 2017|Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, historic food, Immigrants, innovations, Men, Politics, Pumpkins, Restoration, Slavery, South Dallas, Texans, Thanksgiving, West End, Women|

Thanksgiving is right around the corner. As such, I have chosen a clever title for my next round of posts.  An aperitif is [...]

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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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