Socially Distanced Holiday Fun
Holiday fun can be had at the Dallas Heritage Village! They are open each day, 9 am to 2 pm. But, consider going [...]
State Fair of Texas – Pumpkins!
Went to the State Fair last night. It was extremely quiet - hardly anyone there. We got to poke in to corners of [...]
H.H. Holmes in Dallas, Part X
Image: 705 N Marsalis Street, the (Charles) Betterton house, has been standing since 1888. It is in this area of the DFW metroplex [...]
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H.H. Holmes in Dallas, Part VII
Famous Serial Killer with Links to Dallas Herman Mudgett, aka H.H. Holmes, had been killing women in his ‘murder’ hotel in the shadows [...]
H. H. Holmes and Dallas, Part V
Famous Serial Killer with Ties to Dallas Minnie Williams, Dallas-area heiress, travels to Chicago during the early months of 1893. She is [...]
H.H. Holmes in Dallas, Part IV
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 [...]
H.H. Holmes and Dallas, part I
Famous Serial Killer with Links to Dallas Did you know that Devil in the White City is supposed to be made in to [...]
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 [...]