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Have you seen her all in gold?
Like a queen in days of old
She shoots colours all around
Like a sunset going down
Have you seen a lady fairer?...
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Representing Dallas' oldest sections of town, the Westend Historic District has played a vital role in the city's development and remains as one of the richest historical areas in Dallas. Much of John Neely Bryan's original townsite is included within the district, which encompasses an area over thirty blocks west of the city's central business district. The high concentration of early twentieth century commercial warehouses within the district provides a vivid reminder of the economic boom experienced by Dallas during the first two decades of this century. These structures stand as testimony to Dallas' establishment as one of the most important wholesale distributing centers in the Southwest and illustrate the close economic and architectural relationship between Dallas and Chicago. Several outstanding examples of Chicago School and Commercial styles of architecture are included within the district along with a small complex of county government buildings, Dealey Plaza, the John F. Kennedy or JFK Memorial, and Founder's Plaza, which constitute the remainder of the contributing sites within the Westend District.
The Dallas-Textiles (Dal-Tex) Building is a seven-story office building located at 501 Elm Street in the West End Historic District of Downtown Dallas, Texas. Designed by architects James P. Hubbell and Herbert Miller Greene as a warehouse for the Kingman Texas Implement Company, the building has been described as one of the "earliest Sullivanesque designs in Texas". It has also been reported to show the Prairie School's influence on Greene. The building, sometimes called the Dallas-Textiles Building, the Dal-Tex Market Building, or the Dal-Tex Mart Building, was a center of the textile business in Dallas.
In addition to its history in the textile business in Dallas, the Dal-Tex Building also has a history tied to the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Many have alleged, due to its location across the street from the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza, that some of the shots fired at the President's motorcade originated from the Dal-Tex Building which is within a zone that also includes the Dallas County Records Building and parts of the Dallas Criminal Courts Building. And, one final piece of history indicates that Abraham Zapruder, the man who shot the famous Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination, had his offices on the fourth floor of the Dal-Tex Building.
The Westend Historic District (including the Dallas-Textiles Building as a contributing structure) was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on November 14, 1978. Most of the information above was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration that can be viewed here:
catalog.archives.gov/id/40971667
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Reunion Tower, known as "The Ball", was completed on February 2, 1978, along with the Hyatt Regency Dallas at Reunion, as part of an urban redevelopment project that also renovated the historic Union Station, now servicing Amtrak, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, and the Trinity Railway Express to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and Fort Worth. It is a 561 ft tall observation tower with 259 exterior LED lights on each 'point' of the surrounding geodesic dome structure, and is one of the city's most recognizable landmarks.
Henry C. Beck Company was the tower's prime construction contractor after the designed was completed by the architectural firm Welton Becket & Associates. The tower contains three floors with circular floor plans on top of four shafts of poured-in-place concrete. A central cylindrical shaft houses both stairs and mechanical equipment. Three rectangular shafts, featuring elevators, rise parallel to the central shaft. Each shaft's outfacing wall is made up of glass panels, providing tourists views of the city during the 68-second elevator ride to the top. The top three floors are encased in an open-air sphere, which is a geodesic dome formed with aluminum struts.
When it first opened, the tower included radio station KOAX-FM, now KRLD-FM 105.3 FM, once owned by Westinghouse Broadcasting ("Live twenty-four hours a day from five-hundred feet above the city"). Because it is not used as a broadcast tower, it is not listed in the FCC Database.
*The Reunion Tower in Pop Culture*
‧ Reunion Tower is shown in the open credits of Dallas. It is also the setting for a scene in the second season of the show. At the time, the structure had only been standing for a few months.
‧ The landmark appears as a symbol of futurist society in the 1980 film The Lathe of Heaven.
‧ Reunion Tower is the setting for the finale of the 1986 action film Getting Even.
‧ Reunion Tower can also be seen in the 1987 film RoboCop, although the film is set in Detroit.
‧ In the 1997 made-for-TV movie Asteroid, Reunion Tower is destroyed by a meteorite shower in the 2nd half of the movie.
‧ Reunion Tower can be seen in some episodes of the Walker, Texas Ranger TV series.
‧ Reunion Tower is in the season finale of The Amazing Race 26.
‧ The tower can be seen in the 2011 film The Tree of Life.
‧ Reunion Tower can be seen in the season one episode of Halt and Catch Fire "High Plains Hardware".
‧ Reunion Tower can be seen in the 2023 film The Iron Claw.
‧ Reunion Tower can be seen in season 3, episode 13 "Murder Most Foul" of Sliders (TV series).
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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The historic Dallas County Courthouse remains as one of the largest Romanesque Revival buildings to be erected in the state of Texas, and also one of the most handsome. Good proportions and interesting massing with cylindrical forms juxtaposed against rectangular forms all contribute to the strength of the architectural statement. The use of arched openings of various proportions is successfully unified on the two narrow facades by two-story arcades comprising dominant central features on each elevation. Noteworthy details further contributing to the visual impact of the design include archivolts (an ornamental moulding or band following the curve on the underside of an arch) in strong relief, slender engaged columns flanking the openings of the upper stories, and decorative tympanums (semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over an entrance, door or window, which is bounded by a lintel and an arch) in the two-story range of arches. While the use of stone from state quarries provides local association, the stylistic details are consistent with Romanesque buildings found in other sections of the United States.
The street block on which the 1891-92 courthouse is located has been the site of the nucleus of county government in Dallas County since the founding of Dallas. The first settler of Dallas County was John Neely Bryant, who established himself near the present courthouse square in 1841. The area was incorporated as Dallas County by an act of the Texas Legislature on March 30, 1846. For a time Bryant's log cabin housed the county court under the jurisdiction of Judge John H. Reapan. The first permanent courthouse, and second overall, was a log cabin described as being sixteen feet by sixteen feet with a puncheon floor (a type of flooring made from heavy, roughly dressed timber slabs, often used in rustic or traditional settings) and split log seats. It was located on the northeast corner of the current square.
The third courthouse was a two-story building of brick, fifty feet by fifty feet. Its construction was authorized in October of 1855 and plans were prepared by John J. Good, J.M. Patterson, and W.W. Peak. It occupied a central position in the courthouse square and was received by the press as "most handsome". This structure was almost destroyed in 1860 by a fire which ravaged nearly the entire city. The structure was rebuilt and served the county until 1871, at which time it was sold at "public auction".
The cornerstone for a fourth courthouse was laid in October, 1871. The building, to be constructed of "hard granite" from a quarry six miles east of the city, was two stories in height, and 66 feet by 110 feet with a cost $75,000. In 1880, a fire partially destroyed the building. The walls were, however, left intact and remodeling was accomplished with the addition of a Mansard roof and central tower at a cost of $80,000. The building burned once again on February 15, 1890.
Architect M.A. Orlopp of Little Rock, Arkansas was employed to prepare drawings for the construction of a fifth new courthouse. The project was let to contractor R.L. James on July 23, 1890, for an estimated cost of $276,967.50. The cornerstone block of blue-grey granite, was laid on November 16, 1890. Construction was subsequently halted by a labor dispute in which unskilled laborers struck for a wage of $1.25 an hour for a ten-hour work day. On July 20, 1891, James was relieved of his duties by the commissioners' court which ordered his name chiseled off of the cornerstone. The Fort Worth Daily Gazette, for that date, reported that "the labor element is delighted, as James paid no attention to their demands, and hired union and non-union labor as best suited him." A further source of controversy was a high board fence surrounding the construction site. Having been denounced repeatedly by the Federation of Labor and Farmer's Alliance, it was removed after James' dismissal. Architect Orlopp was retained as architect and job superintendent at a salary of $2,000 after a $10,000 performance bond was posted. The building was occupied in the winter of 1892. Its finished cost was $59,140.00 more than the original estimate. Although a new structure has been built, the Romanesque Revival temple continues to serve the functions of county government to this day. Also known as the Old Red Courthouse, it became the Old Red Museum, a local history museum, in 2007. But in 2021, it was announced that the Old Red Museum would be moving out and the building was being returned into a hall of justice as the Texas Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals took over use of the grand structure and continues this use to present day.
On December 12, 1976, the Old Red Courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) for its architecture and the continued use of the same site for county government since 1846. All of the information above was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
catalog.archives.gov/id/40971649
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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The State Fair of Texas is an annual state fair held in Dallas at historic Fair Park. The fair has taken place every year since 1886 except for varying periods during World War I and World War II. It usually begins the last Friday in September and ends 24 days later. The fair claims an annual attendance of over two million visitors through ticket scanning. The State Fair of Texas is considered one of the best in America as well as Dallas' signature event despite its troubled history.
Seen above is the Midway Entrance which puts you right into the Midway, the Kidway, and the Funway. Also found in this area is the Children's Museum, Neon Tex (photograph featured earlier in my photostream), and the Texas State Ferris Wheel (seen in the photograph above and also featured earlier in my photostream). Additionally, immediately adjacent to the Midway entrance is the famous Cotton Bowl Stadium (also previously featured in my photostream)...home of the Red River Rivalry, which is the centerpiece of the fair and the annual college football game between the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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The Texas Star is a Ferris Wheel at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas, where it operates during the annual State Fair of Texas as its most popular ride. With an overall height of 216 feet, it is the tallest ferris wheel in the state and was the tallest ferris wheel in North America from 1985 until the opening of the 250-foot Star of Puebla in Mexico, on 22 July 2013. It can carry up to 264 passengers in its 44 gondolas. It was built by the SDC Corporation in Reggio Emilia, Italy, at a cost of $2.2 million and was shipped to Dallas for its debut at the 1985 State Fair of Texas. From 1985 to 2007, it was illuminated at night by 16,000 incandescent red, white, and blue turbolites. In 2008, this system was replaced with a longer-lasting, more energy-efficient LED system.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D5000 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Minutes after passing the place of its birth, Vulcan Foundry built English Electric D213 Andania makes a glorious noise crossing Stephenson's 1830 Liverpool & Manchester Railway Viaduct with the Branch Line Societies 'The Bucket & Spade' Tour from Crewe to Scarborough.
Little brother to the world famous Big Tex at the State Fair of Texas is this 38-feet tall version known as Neon Tex. From its humble beginnings as a sign at the Big D Value Mart back in 1961 to the spotlight of the Midway at the Texas State Fair, Neon Tex holds his own against his much larger brother. State Fair officials bought Neon Tex for an undisclosed amount of money in 2015 and he joined the fair festivities in 2016.
Additionally, this is not the neon attraction’s first time in the limelight. It had a cameo in the AMC original series “Halt and Catch Fire”. Keep your eyes open if your at the Texas State Fair for Neon Tex and get a photo of this piece of Texas history.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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starting at bottom (me at left) there is so much competition in modelling TY credits BigD for the picture and helping with pose
The Texas Centennial Exposition was not only a celebration of Texas independence, but also of Texas and Western culture. The 1936-37 Exposition was also a festival of architecture, which embraced the then-new International style of architecture. Traditionally, worlds fairs are the testing grounds for new ideas in building design; Dallas and its Exposition architects chose to reflect the style of the Exposition Des Arts Decoratifs in Paris in 1925. They were also influenced by the recently completed "Century of Progress" in Chicago (1933-34), where the International style of architecture was prominently displayed.
The significance of Fair Park also extends beyond the architectural theme of the remaining buildings. Fair Park is one of the largest intact grouping of Exposition buildings remaining in the United States. Most World's Fairs or Exposition grounds in the United States have been demolished, except for one or two exceptional buildings. However, many of the original 1936 buildings and open spaces remain today from the Texas Centennial Exposition, even though several were constructed as "temporary" structures.
Fair Park is also significant in terms of urban design, open space design, and artwork and sculpture. The Exposition architecture expressed monumentality in design, but this was reinforced by the open spaces and landscaping that the buildings were sited around. The grounds were planned on two landscape design themes: a Beaux Arts theme that involved grand plazas and vistas that intersected or were terminated by major buildings, and a pastoral theme that used winding paths, random landscaping, and building siting to create a very informal atmosphere. The majority of these open spaces, both formal and informal, exist today in one of America's most well-planned parks. Four major open space areas (and their buildings) still remain: Esplanade of State (Grand Plaza—Esplanade of State—Texas Court of Honor); Agrarian Parkway and The Chute; Federal Concourse (Federal Concourse—Constitution Place—Stadium Plaza); and the Lagoon and Centennial Drive. These spaces combine to create a series of monumental spaces, formal vistas, landscaping, and pastoral images unparalleled in a planned park in Texas and the Southwest.
The sculptures, murals, and other artwork remaining from the Exposition are also significant. Often intended to be "temporary" artwork, they reinforced the monumentality of the buildings and the open space design in Fair Park. Many of the artists studied in Paris; their work remains in exterior spaces as sculpture and murals, and inside many of the buildings in the Park.
This structure, now known as the Hall of State, at the head of the Esplanade and seen in the photograph above, was constructed in 1936 and is regarded as an excellent example of Art Deco architecture and was the showpiece of the Centennial Exposition. It features a large curved central mass with lower rectangular wings. The Centennial Corporation Architects (George Dahl and staff, including Donald Nelson) prepared the design and construction documents for this building, only to have the board of Control (a State agency established to oversee the entire Centennial effort) select another group of architects to begin again. This group of architects was called the Centennial Architects Associated, and included H.B. Thomason, Dewitt and Washburn, Fooshee and Cheek, Walter P. Sharp, Ralph Bryan, Anton Korn, Mark Lemmon, Flint and Brass, T.J. Galbraith, Arthur Thomas, Donald Barthelme of Houston, and Adams and Adams of San Antonio. Donald Barthelme was the principal designer for the project, and Adams and Adams were the interior designers. Unfortunately, the building was only partially completed in time for the Centennial Exposition opening. It houses many pieces of art, including statues, friezes, murals, medallions, and stenciled ceilings. The building is dedicated to the State of Texas and her heroes. Above the entrance is a carved sculpture by Harry Lee Bigson. In relief, a female figure, which represents Texas, kneels behind the Texas flag. Below, the owl of wisdom holds the key to progress and prosperity. In the background are branches from the State tree, the pecan. Focusing attention on the entrance is an heroic bronze and gold-leaf statue of an Indian, which stands on a dais 20' high. This "Tejas Warrior" by Dallas sculptor Allie V. Tennant is 11' tall. The figure acts as a terminus for the bronze floors at the entrance. The inner wall of the niche is faced with ceramic tiles of deep blue and orange. Inside the size and drama of the art is overwhelming. In the Hall of Heroes, on marble pedestals, are six heroic-sized bronze statues of great figures of the Texas Revolution. These statues by Pompeo Coppini are considered to be the finest examples of his work. Above and along the walls is a frieze that records the battles of the Texas Revolution. The Hall of Heroes opens onto the Great Hall, which is 94' long, 68' wide, and 46' high. Murals span the north and south walls. They depict Texas history beginning in 1519 and ending with figures representing the arts and the development of the cotton, grain, oil, lumber, and agricultural industries. The murals, by Eugene Savage of New York, with the assistance by Reveau Bassett and James Buchanan Winn, Jr., both of Texas, were the largest murals in the world at the time they were painted. And, finally, a magnificent medallion representing the six nations that have ruled Texas is mounted on the far wall of the hall. Designed by Joseph E. Renier, the medallion, 25' in diameter, is a bas-relief in three tones of gold.
The Texas Centennial Exposition Buildings (or more commonly referred to as Fair Park or Site of Texas State Fairs) was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on September 24, 1986 for its long standing history described above and includes The Women's Museum above. Most all of the information above was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail/c6f55c0d-ef32-44ca-950...
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Dealey Plaza, a generally rectangular and approximately 3-acre park, was formed in 1934-40 from several blocks of Dallas founder John Neely Bryan's original land grant. The Plaza replaced residential and commercial buildings on the tract. The land was acquired by the City of Dallas during the 1930's to create a major gateway to the city from the west, and to relieve traffic congestion at the Union terminal railroad tracks which passed north-south at the western edge of the city. Originally called the "Elm-Main-Commerce Subway", the gateway was conceived as a "triple underpass" of streets, which afforded access to the western edge of Downtown Dallas beneath the Union Terminal company tracks. To build the underpass, engineers regraded the area to slope gently down toward the west. All plans for the Plaza showed a rectangular park traversed by three streets rearranged in a bisected triangle - Commerce to the south, Main in the middle, and Elm to the north converging to the west in the Triple Underpass.
The plaza and roadway were designed by city engineers, with assistance in the final plan from E.F. Mitchell, chief engineer for the Texas & Pacific Railroad and Union Terminal Company. The joint federal-city-railroad project was supervised by the Texas Highway Department. The park was named Dealey Plaza in 1935, in honor of George Bannerman Dealey (1859-1946), an outstanding civic leader who had advocated city planning for Dallas for decades already, publisher of The Dallas Morning News, crusader for improvements to the Trinity River corridor, and president of West of Commerce Realty Company, which had donated most of the right of way west of the underpass. The Plaza was dedicated in 1936, the same year the park was placed under the administration of the City of Dallas Park Board, which still maintains jurisdiction over it.
In addition to Dealey Plaza (its features and the streets that run through and adjoin it), the buildings, structures, and lands adjacent to Dealey Plaza, except for the Sixth Floor Visitor Center and the Kennedy Memorial and its Plaza, were all part of the scene in 1963. Two of the buildings (the former Texas School Book Depository and the Dallas Textile Building), like others in the West End, began as early 20th-century Dallas warehouses for Chicago farm implement companies. Like their main commercial tenants, their architecture reflects the influence of Chicago in this case, that city's early skyscraper construction. The other buildings (like the one above) have had governmental functions and reflect more traditional architectural styles.
The Dallas County Criminal Courts Building (aka "Old Criminal Courts Building") was designed in an eclectic Renaissance Revival style by Dallas architect A.H. Overbeck. It was constructed in 1913-15 on the northeast corner of Main and Houston streets. The 124-foot-tall building faces Main Street, with a secondary facade occupying 90 feet along Houston Street on Dealey Plaza. The steel and brick structure, eight stories over a basement, is trimmed with granite and terra cotta in elaborate Classical motifs. The building was constructed to house two Dallas County criminal courts, the offices of the Sheriffs Department, and the County jail. The building retains its exterior details today, which were restored by Komatsu Associates of Fort Worth in the mid-1980's. The building was still in its original use and occupancy in 1963 but was later only occupied by the County Sheriffs Department who continues to use the space today with prisoners being housed in the included jail spaces.
On April 19, 1993, the Dealey Plaza Historic District (including Dealey Plaza and as many as eight 'other' builidngs and numerous other sites/structures/objects) was named as a National Historic Landmark (NHL) and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). All of the information above was found on the original documents submitted for consideration of listing as a NHL and on the NRHP. There is much more included on these documents that can be viewed here:
npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/88315def-c6a9-408b-ac2a-b...
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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The John F. Kennedy Memorial was the first memorial by famed American architect and Kennedy family friend Philip Johnson, and was approved by Jacqueline Kennedy. Johnson called it "a place of quiet refuge, an enclosed place of thought and contemplation separated from the city around, but near the sky and earth." Dallas raised $200,000 for the memorial by August 1964, entirely from 50,000 individual donations contributed by private citizens.
Philip Johnson's design is a cenotaph, or empty tomb, that symbolizes the freedom of Kennedy's spirit. The memorial is a square, roofless room, 30 feet tall and 50 x 50 feet square with two narrow openings facing north and south. The walls consist of 72 white precast concrete columns, most of which end 29 inches above the earth. Eight columns (two in each corner) extend to the ground, acting as legs that support the monument. Each column ends in a light fixture. At night, the lights create the illusion that the structure is supported by the light itself. The corners and "doors" of this roofless room are decorated with rows of concrete circles, or medallions, each identical and perfectly aligned. These decorations introduce the circular shape into the square architecture of the Kennedy Memorial. The cenotaph lies atop a low concrete hill (approximately 200 yards east of Dealey Plaza, where Kennedy was assassinated) embossed with squares and slightly elevated compared to street level. Inside is a low block of dark granite, 8 feet square, set into a larger shallow depression. The granite square is decorated on its north and south faces with the name "John Fitzgerald Kennedy" carved in gold letters. It is too empty to be a base, too short to be a table, but too square to be a tomb. The letters have been painted gold to capture the light from the white floating column walls and the pale concrete floor. These words – three words of a famous name – are the only verbal messages in the empty room.
Two dark granite squares (as seen in the lower portion of the photograph above) are set in the plaza surrounding the memorial, each approximately 50 feet from the narrow entrances to the cenotaph. They are each inscribed with an epitaph that reads:
The joy and excitement of
John Fitzgerald Kennedy's life belonged to all men.
So did the pain and sorrow of his death.
When he died on November 22, 1963, shock and agony touched human conscience throughout the world.
In Dallas, Texas, there was a special sorrow.
The young President died in Dallas. The death bullets were fired 200 yards west of this site.
This memorial, designed by Philip Johnson, was erected by the people of Dallas. Thousands of citizens contributed support, money and effort.
It is not a memorial to the pain and sorrow of death, but stands as a permanent tribute to the joy and excitement of one man's life.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy's life.
— Jim Lehrer, journalist
The John F. Kennedy Memorial is included in the Dealey Plaza Historic District which is listed as a National Historic Landmark (NHL) as well as included on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The district was added to both on April 19, 1993.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Dealey Plaza, a generally rectangular and approximately 3-acre park, was formed in 1934-40 from several blocks of Dallas founder John Neely Bryan's original land grant. The Plaza replaced residential and commercial buildings on the tract. The land was acquired by the City of Dallas during the 1930's to create a major gateway to the city from the west, and to relieve traffic congestion at the Union terminal railroad tracks which passed north-south at the western edge of the city. Originally called the "Elm-Main-Commerce Subway", the gateway was conceived as a "triple underpass" of streets, which afforded access to the western edge of Downtown Dallas beneath the Union Terminal company tracks. To build the underpass, engineers regraded the area to slope gently down toward the west. All plans for the Plaza showed a rectangular park traversed by three streets rearranged in a bisected triangle - Commerce to the south, Main in the middle, and Elm to the north converging to the west in the Triple Underpass.
The plaza and roadway were designed by city engineers, with assistance in the final plan from E.F. Mitchell, chief engineer for the Texas & Pacific Railroad and Union Terminal Company. The joint federal-city-railroad project was supervised by the Texas Highway Department. The park was named Dealey Plaza in 1935, in honor of George Bannerman Dealey (1859-1946), an outstanding civic leader who had advocated city planning for Dallas for decades already, publisher of The Dallas Morning News, crusader for improvements to the Trinity River corridor, and president of West of Commerce Realty Company, which had donated most of the right of way west of the underpass. The Plaza was dedicated in 1936, the same year the park was placed under the administration of the City of Dallas Park Board, which still maintains jurisdiction over it.
Located within Dealey Plaza itself is the above photographed monument commemorating the events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. On the right is a plaque showing the Plaza and the surrounding blocks making up the parade route along with the significant landmarks around that route. And, on the left, is a plaque that reads:
On November 22, 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Thirty-fifth President of the United States, visited Dallas. A Presidential parade traveled north on Houston Street to Elm Street and west on Elm Street. As the parade continued on Elm Street at 12:30pm, rifle shots wounded the President and Texas Governor John Connally.
Findings or the Warren Commission indicated that the rifle shots were fired from a sixth floor window near the southeast corner of the Texas School Depository Building, Elm and Houston, a block north of this marker.
President Kennedy expired at Parkland Memorial Hospital at 1:00pm. The John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial Plaza is nearby, bounded by Main, Record, Market and Commerce Street.
On April 19, 1993, the Dealey Plaza Historic District was itself named a National Historic Landmark (NHL) and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). This district is significant for National Historic Landmarks criteria #1 - an event---the assassination of the 35th President of the United States---that is identified with the broad national patterns of U.S. history; #2 - important associations with persons nationally significant in U.S. history---i.e. President John F. Kennedy and his successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson; and #5 - composed of integral parts of the environment that collectively compose an entity of exceptional national historical importance. These associations are so consequential in American history that they are of extraordinary national importance. President John F. Kennedy's association with Dealey Plaza was momentary but eternal. The street approaching the Triple Underpass in what was then the main municipal plaza in Downtown Dallas--a place of civic pride, where he was fatally shot on November 22,1963 in front of his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson who was riding in the second car back, several hundred eyewitnesses, and the world--instantly became one of the most notorious sites in U.S. history. Hailed in 1936 as the "Gateway to Dallas" and a place "that must surely play a great part in the future of this city," it has, since that fatal day, to the world outside Dallas, summoned all the emotions that only such a loathsome event can. In the United States there is only one other such site that is intact...Ford's Theatre.
All of the information above was found on the original documents submitted for consideration of listing as a NHL and on the NRHP. There is much more included on these documents that can be viewed here:
npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/88315def-c6a9-408b-ac2a-b...
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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You are the one
Who's led me to the sun
How could I know
That I was lost without you...
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Desoto and Plymouth paradise...
Across the street from the corral of Pan Am Arena, a replica of a statue called The Woofus stands near the entrance of the Swine Building. The original was sculpted by Lawrence Tenney Stevens in 1936 for the Texas Centennial Exposition. It was a strange animal that possessed the characteristics of six different species : the head of a sheep, the horns of a longhorn, the neck and mane of a horse, the torso of a pig, the wings of a duck, and the tail of a turkey. Upon seeing this invention, many thought that the artist had been under the influence of alcohol. Nevertheless, the Woofus was an instant hit with the public because it was so unique. The statue's nose was damaged by a steel beam in 1941 during some construction work. It was taken down, never to be seen again. To this day, its whereabouts remain a mystery.
Craig Holcomb, the executive director of an organization called Friends of Fair Park, decided to allow the Woofus to make a return after finding some pictures of it in 1997. He spent the next five years raising funds for the project through private donations, accumulating 60,000 dollars in the process. To perform the task of making a new statue, sculptor David Newton was chosen out of the reputation he had acquired from his work at the Freedman's Cemetery Memorial. Using the miniature model used to make the original, Newton made the statue out of painted bronze instead of concrete so it could last longer. Standing on a fifteen-foot pedestal, it weighs three thousand pounds. The Woofus finally made his grand re-appearance in 2002.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." --Jeremiah 29:11
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Dealey Plaza, a generally rectangular and approximately 3-acre park, was formed in 1934-40 from several blocks of Dallas founder John Neely Bryan's original land grant. The Plaza replaced residential and commercial buildings on the tract. The land was acquired by the City of Dallas during the 1930's to create a major gateway to the city from the west, and to relieve traffic congestion at the Union terminal railroad tracks which passed north-south at the western edge of the city. Originally called the "Elm-Main-Commerce Subway", the gateway was conceived as a "triple underpass" of streets, which afforded access to the western edge of Downtown Dallas beneath the Union Terminal company tracks. To build the underpass, engineers regraded the area to slope gently down toward the west. All plans for the Plaza showed a rectangular park traversed by three streets rearranged in a bisected triangle - Commerce to the south, Main in the middle, and Elm to the north converging to the west in the Triple Underpass.
The plaza and roadway were designed by city engineers, with assistance in the final plan from E.F. Mitchell, chief engineer for the Texas & Pacific Railroad and Union Terminal Company. The joint federal-city-railroad project was supervised by the Texas Highway Department. The park was named Dealey Plaza in 1935, in honor of George Bannerman Dealey (1859-1946), an outstanding civic leader who had advocated city planning for Dallas for decades already, publisher of The Dallas Morning News, crusader for improvements to the Trinity River corridor, and president of West of Commerce Realty Company, which had donated most of the right of way west of the underpass. The Plaza was dedicated in 1936, the same year the park was placed under the administration of the City of Dallas Park Board, which still maintains jurisdiction over it.
The block of Elm Street in Dallas where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, is in the westernmost portion of the "West End Historic District", an early 20th century warehouse/government historic district in the city's downtown. The vicinity includes Dealey Plaza, its landscape and structures, adjacent city streets, perimeter buildings, and a part of the rail-yards immediately north of the Plaza. In the 1960's, the commercial part of the West End district was in decline, because rail traffic, which had nourished it, had diminished. Since local historic district designation of the West End Historic District in 1975 and listing on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) 3 years later, the area as a whole has undergone marked revival, spurred by both private and governmental investment.
On April 19, 1993, the Dealey Plaza Historic District was itself named a National Historic Landmark (NHL) and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). This district is significant for National Historic Landmarks criteria #1 - an event---the assassination of the 35th President of the United States---that is identified with the broad national patterns of U.S. history; #2 - important associations with persons nationally significant in U.S. history---i.e. President John F. Kennedy and his successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson; and #5 - composed of integral parts of the environment that collectively compose an entity of exceptional national historical importance. These associations are so consequential in American history that they are of extraordinary national importance. President John F. Kennedy's association with Dealey Plaza was momentary but eternal. The street approaching the Triple Underpass in what was then the main municipal plaza in Downtown Dallas--a place of civic pride, where he was fatally shot on November 22,1963 in front of his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson who was riding in the second car back, several hundred eyewitnesses, and the world--instantly became one of the most notorious sites in U.S. history. Hailed in 1936 as the "Gateway to Dallas" and a place "that must surely play a great part in the future of this city," it has, since that fatal day, to the world outside Dallas, summoned all the emotions that only such a loathsome event can. In the United States there is only one other such site that is intact...Ford's Theatre.
All of the information above was found on the original documents submitted for consideration of listing as a NHL and on the NRHP. There is much more included on these documents that can be viewed here:
npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/88315def-c6a9-408b-ac2a-b...
The photograph above was taken from Elm Street looking up at the 'Grassy Knoll' where many eyewitnesses to the assassination thought at least one of the shots originated. It is also the location where the Zapruder film was shot by Abraham Zapruder on November 22, 1963 that would become "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" enough to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 1994. The plaque and marker located in the bottom portion of the photograph are indicators that this area of Dealey Plaza is designated as a National Historic Landmark.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Today I met Darleen (Darius' sister) for the first time. The weather was really fine today in Vienna. Much better than during the last days. We took a nice walk together with the dogs. More picture will come.
The Trinity Railway Express (TRE) is a commuter rail service in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, Texas. It was established by an inter-local agreement between Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) and Trinity Metro and began operating in December 1996. Each transit authority owns a 50% stake in the joint rail project and contractor Herzog Transit Services operates the line. The eastern terminus of the TRE route is Dallas Union Station on the west side of Downtown Dallas and the western terminus is at T&P Station in Downtown Fort Worth. According to current TRE schedules, a one-way trip in either direction takes approximately 1 hour and 2 minutes.
This particular train configuration includes an EMD-F59PH four-axle 3,000 hp diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division from 1988 to 1994. This locomotive is pulling two Bombardier BiLevel Coaches with a seating capacity of 136 to 162 each. And, my favorite part of the setup, is all three sections fully painted with the colors and design of the state flag of Texas.
-- Technical Information (or Nerdy Stuff) --
‧ Camera - Nikon D7200 (handheld)
‧ Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom
‧ ISO – 250
‧ Aperture – f/7.1
‧ Exposure – 1/640 second
‧ Focal Length – 20mm
The original RAW file was processed with Adobe Camera Raw and final adjustments were made with Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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The Texas Centennial Exposition was not only a celebration of Texas independence, but also of Texas and Western culture. The 1936-37 Exposition was also a festival of architecture, which embraced the then-new International style of architecture. Traditionally, worlds fairs are the testing grounds for new ideas in building design; Dallas and its Exposition architects chose to reflect the style of the Exposition Des Arts Decoratifs in Paris in 1925. They were also influenced by the recently completed "Century of Progress" in Chicago (1933-34), where the International style of architecture was prominently displayed.
The significance of Fair Park also extends beyond the architectural theme of the remaining buildings. Fair Park is one of the largest intact grouping of Exposition buildings remaining in the United States. Most World's Fairs or Exposition grounds in the United States have been demolished, except for one or two exceptional buildings. However, many of the original 1936 buildings and open spaces remain today from the Texas Centennial Exposition, even though several were constructed as "temporary" structures.
Fair Park is also significant in terms of urban design, open space design, and artwork and sculpture. The Exposition architecture expressed monumentality in design, but this was reinforced by the open spaces and landscaping that the buildings were sited around. The grounds were planned on two landscape design themes: a Beaux Arts theme that involved grand plazas and vistas that intersected or were terminated by major buildings, and a pastoral theme that used winding paths, random landscaping, and building siting to create a very informal atmosphere. The majority of these open spaces, both formal and informal, exist today in one of America's most well-planned parks. Four major open space areas (and their buildings) still remain: Esplanade of State (Grand Plaza—Esplanade of State—Texas Court of Honor); Agrarian Parkway and The Chute; Federal Concourse (Federal Concourse—Constitution Place—Stadium Plaza); and the Lagoon and Centennial Drive. These spaces combine to create a series of monumental spaces, formal vistas, landscaping, and pastoral images unparalleled in a planned park in Texas and the Southwest.
The sculptures, murals, and other artwork remaining from the Exposition are also significant. Often intended to be "temporary" artwork, they reinforced the monumentality of the buildings and the open space design in Fair Park. Many of the artists studied in Paris; their work remains in exterior spaces as sculpture and murals, and inside many of the buildings in the Park.
The Continental Oil/Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) House was designed by W.R. Brown and constructed in 1936 for the Texas Centennial Exposition as the company's "Hospitality House". Visitors to the Exposition could sit & rest on the verandah of the house or visit the travel bureau inside, which was there to help folks find out about and get to other Centennial events across Texas. In 1938, after the Centennial Exposition and subsequent Pan-American Exposition, the Continental Oil Company donated the house to the Daughters of the American Revolution. This 2-story house in Southern Colonial Plantation style features a 2-story front porch supported by six columns and a balustraded deck over the porch. Inside are historical exhibits and displays of various artifacts donated by or belonging to D.A.R. members. One of the more interesting things to see is a Republic of Texas land grant signed by Sam Houston. On one wall hangs a picture frame full of old buttons and badges dating from around the turn of the century. Among these is an original "Quanah Route Day" badge bearing a likeness of Chief Parker. There are also State Fair badges dating back to 1888 and political buttons picturing Teddy Roosevelt and other politicians of his era.
The Texas Centennial Exposition Buildings (or more commonly referred to as Fair Park or Site of Texas State Fairs) was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on September 24, 1986 for its long standing history described above and includes The Women's Museum above. Most all of the information above was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail/c6f55c0d-ef32-44ca-950...
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Dallas was founded in 1841 and formally incorporated as a city in February 1856. The city's economy is primarily based on banking, commerce, telecommunications, computer technology, energy, and transportation, and the city is home to the third largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the nation. Located in North Texas and a major city in the American South, Dallas is a core of the largest inland metropolitan area in the United States that lacks any navigable link to the sea. - Wiki
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