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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New Tours

By |2018-12-03T18:40:55+00:00December 3rd, 2018|architecture, art, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Design, Dogs, East Texas, Fires, Immigrants, knights of pythias, Men, Mollie A Bailey Circus, rail lines, Slavery, Texans, Texas State Fair, train history, trains, Women|

We have new tours that we are offering.  The tours are one hour around the square in Garland.  Garland has quite a number [...]

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New Topic for Tours!

By |2018-11-05T17:21:35+00:00November 5th, 2018|architecture, art, Black History, Civil War, cyclones, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, department stores, Design, drug use, Dry goods store, East Texas, Fires, Freemasons, graves, Great Depression, knights of pythias, Men, Mollie A Bailey Circus, Murders, night clubs, Oddfellows, Politics, rail lines, Style, Texans, Texas State Fair, Thanksgiving, train history, trains, White Rock Lake, Women|

I had SO much fun on the tours Saturday.  A great big thank you to everyone who showed up and listened to the [...]

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Garland Hotel History

By |2022-07-17T21:24:52+00:00October 31st, 2018|architecture, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, East Texas, Fires, Great Depression, Texans, train history, trains|

Feast your eyes upon the Garland Hotel which stood at the north east corner of the square (a few doors to the right [...]

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Katy Line Train Wreck

By |2018-10-29T17:53:01+00:00October 29th, 2018|Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, East Texas, graves, Men, rail lines, Texans, Texas State Fair, train history, trains|

Sunday, October 27, 1907 Train Wreck Katy freight and passenger trains collide between Dallas and Garland, killing 1, injuring 50. The passenger train [...]

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Train Wrecks! Part Ocho

By |2021-10-23T16:13:35+00:00September 19th, 2018|Carnival, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, graves, Men, rail lines, Ringling Brothers, Texans, train history, trains|

Our last 'chapter' saw the two trains slamming in to each other, telescoping and killing at least three people.  (Some reports declare 4 [...]

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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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Train Wrecks! Part Cinco

By |2018-09-11T16:34:41+00:00September 11th, 2018|Carnival, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, innovations, Men, rail lines, Ringling Brothers, Texans, train history, trains, West End|

With our date and location chosen, our rail lines built and our small town erected, just how many people showed up to see [...]

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Train Wrecks! Part IV

By |2018-09-11T16:35:29+00:00September 6th, 2018|Carnival, Dallas History, innovations, rail lines, Ringling Brothers, Texans, train history, trains|

When last we left our intrepid marketing mastermind, W.G. Crush, he had settled on a location 3 miles south of West, Texas and [...]

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