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 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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John Neely Bryan – Part I

By |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 [...]

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Kitty Leroy – Untimely death

By |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 [...]

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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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