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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Raising money like an OG

By |2018-11-12T01:07:14+00:00November 12th, 2018|Carnival, Children's Toys, Dallas History, Dallas People, East Texas, Great Depression, Men, Promotions, South Dallas, Texans, Uncategorized, Women|

Raising money, old school style. Right about now, you are probably getting hit up to buy wrapping paper, frozen cookie dough, wreaths, caramel [...]

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Train Wrecks, Part 7

By |2021-10-23T16:13:08+00:00September 15th, 2018|Carnival, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, graves, innovations, Men, rail lines, Ringling Brothers, South Dallas, Texans, train history, trains, West End|

When last we left our staged train wreck, the engines plus six cars were hurtling towards each other in Crush, TX, a small [...]

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Train Wrecks! Part Sechs

By |2021-10-23T16:12:28+00:00September 14th, 2018|Carnival, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Fires, innovations, Men, rail lines, Ringling Brothers, South Dallas, Texans, train history, trains, West End|

Roughly 40,000 people showed up to see the MKT railroad's scheduled train wreck in the impromptu 'town' of Crush, Texas. The two engines [...]

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Neiman-Marcus’ first year

By |2018-04-04T03:37:38+00:00April 4th, 2018|architecture, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, department stores, Immigrants, Men, South Dallas, Texans, West End, Women|

Neiman-Marcus circa 1907-1908 Dallasites with new oil money were very eager to flaunt their success and Carrie’s purchases in New York were a [...]

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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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Hop on the Ferris Wheel!

By |2017-10-05T01:23:38+00:00October 5th, 2017|Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas Architecture, Design, innovations, Men, South Dallas|

For the World’s Fair of 1893, Chicago planners desperately wanted something to compete with the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower had been standing [...]

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State Fair opens Friday!

By |2017-09-28T03:59:57+00:00September 28th, 2017|Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, historic food, innovations, Men, South Dallas|

In celebration, we have a guest writer, LiveFreeOrPie, celebrating the art deco buildings at the State Fair of Texas.  Whoop, whoop, y'all! Fair [...]

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State Fair Month in full effect!

By |2018-01-21T18:47:39+00:00September 25th, 2017|Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas History, Dallas People, historic food, Immigrants, Men, South Dallas|

1893 World's Fair gave us a lot of things that are now common fare. Possibly included in those: Diet carbonated soda. Quite a [...]

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