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The 2026 FIFA World Cup, marketed as FIFA World Cup '26, will be the 23rd FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international men's soccer championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament will take place from June 11 to July 19, 2026. It will be jointly hosted by 16 cities in three North American countries: Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The tournament will be the first hosted by three nations and the first North American World Cup since 1994.
On June 16, 2022, the sixteen host cities (2 in Canada, 3 in Mexico, 11 in the United States) were announced by FIFA: Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Guadalajara, Kansas City, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Monterrey, Mexico City, Toronto, Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, and Miami. Eight of the sixteen chosen stadiums have permanent artificial turf surfaces that are planned to be replaced with grass under the direction of FIFA and a University of Tennessee–Michigan State University research team. Four venues (Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, and Vancouver) are indoor stadiums that use retractable roof systems, all equipped with climate control while a fifth, Los Angeles, is open-air but has a translucent roof and no climate control.
In addition to turf replacement with real grass and the retractable roof on AT&T Stadium (purposely installed so God can watch his favorite football team play), owners of this stadium are installing artificial sun lights/lamps to aid in the real grass field growth just for this tournament. The white rectangles seen on the floor in the photograph above are the support structures for the artificial sun fixtures. They are attached to cables and winches at the structure of the buildings roof so that the lights can be raised and lowered as needed to aid the the grass growth and maintenance. While I was disappointed to not see the normal football field turf and big blue star in the middle, it was interesting to see work going on in the Spring of 2024 in preparation for a soccer tournament scheduled for the Summer of 2026. And...the rest of the stadium tour was just amazing!
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‧ Camera - Nikon D7200 (handheld)
‧ Lens – Nikkor 10-20mm Ultra-wide Zoom
‧ ISO – 1250
‧ Aperture – f/9
‧ Exposure – 1/250 second
‧ Focal Length – 10mm
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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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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40145 (D345) top and tailed with WCRC 57010
1Z40 07:01 Burton-on-Trent to Newcastle
at Newton-le-Willows
This was the 09:34 leg of the journey from Crewe.
"The Whistling Geordie"
Tour Promoter: Pathfinder Rail Tours
Tour Operating Company: West Coast Railways
The winner of the Cotton Bowl Classic is awarded the Field Scovell Trophy (seen in the photograph above). Field Scovell was the consummate public relations man and patriarch of the Dallas sporting community. A goodwill ambassador whose famous "Howdy, Podner" greeting, his spontaneous one-liners, and the crunch of his handshake opened countless doors for the City of Dallas. For nearly four decades, Field served as the Cotton Bowl's Chairman of Team Selection. Some attributed his success to a dish of his famous homemade ice cream served up by his wife Mary. Regardless of what his secret may have been, people around the world knew him simply as Mr. Cotton Bowl. So, in his honor, the Classic's championship award is named the Field Scovell Trophy.
-- Technical Information (or Nerdy Stuff) --
‧ Camera - Nikon D7200 (handheld)
‧ Lens – Nikkor 18-300mm Zoom
‧ ISO – 1250
‧ Aperture – f/9
‧ Exposure – 1/40 second
‧ Focal Length – 120mm
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
The best way to view my photostream is through Flickriver with the following link: www.flickriver.com/photos/photojourney57/
photography 101: when you chaperone your son to a conference on a subject you have little interest or aptitude in, you have a LOT of downtime. taking photographs during that time sometimes results in something, more often it doesn't. but it does pass the time.
Designed by the noted theatre architect, John Eberson, Dallas' Majestic Theatre is exemplary of the opulent theatre popularized in America during the twentieth century. Located in Downtown Dallas, the structure is fronted on Elm Street and is surrounded by commercial buildings. The cornerstone was placed on October 18, 1920 and the theatre opened April 11, 1921. The building spans five bays and is five stories tall.
Eberson was nationally known for this "atmospheric theatres" which often features ceiling "skies" of floating clouds and twinkling stars mechanically controlled. The Majestic was one of his atmospheric theatres and the machinery that produced these effects remains intact. A proscenium theatre, the stage was set back beneath an arch flanked by massive Corinthian columns. The orchestra pit was sunken in order that the audience would not be distracted. Seating for 2,400 was laid out in the shape of a fan and was arranged on three levels - the main floor and two balconies. Originally the seats were of woven cane, each with its own hat rack for the gentlemen. The auditorium walls are decorated with large paintings set into panels which reflect the theme of the theatre, "Roman Gardens".
Built as the flagship of the Interstate Theatre chain, its twentieth century interpretation of the Renaissance Revival style was suitably ornate and expressive of the prominence the Majestic wished to suggest. The exterior of the theatre essentially remains unchanged, with the exception of the first floor elevation which has received extensive remodeling. Originally, a large canopy projected over the entire first floor elevation. While the canopy's detailing mirrored the classical references of the building, the overall form was reminiscent of art nouveau. In 1948, the canopy was enclosed by a new larger marquee (but, as evidenced in the photograph above, it has been currently restored to original). A large marquee also extends vertically from the fourth floor level over the canopy. A series of tripartite windows set into square and arched frames extends across the front elevation of the second through fourth stories. Fifth story square windows are framed by elaborate moldings. The structure is terminated by an enriched cornice of applied ornament. The floors are divided by decorative panels. Large scoured pilasters marked by sculptural ornament act as vertical terminating elements, while smaller scored pilasters divide the bays.
The list of theatrical, musical, vaudeville and motion picture stars that have performed on the Majestic stage is impressive. The opening night performance was given by the "incomparable" ballerina, Olga Petrova. At that time, telegrams of congratulations were sent by Gloria Swanson, William S. Hart, and Dorothy Gish. Mae West performed there, as did the comedians Jack Benny, Bums & Allen, Milton Berle, and Bob Hope. The magicians Houdini, Blackwell and Thurston astounded audiences with their sleight of hand and mystifying routines. Ginger Rogers started her career at the Majestic. Duke Ellington's and Cab Calloway's bands, as well as John Wayne, James Stewart, and Joan Crawford all made appearances at the theatre.
The history of the Majestic Theatre is colorful and the structure essentially represents the entertainment industry at its height of glamour and romance in the 1930's and 1940's. It stands as a memorial to Karl Hoblitizelle (the main force behind the Majestic, as well as the entire Interstate group, and a pioneer in the theatre industry), a prominent figure who established a respectable social and cultural center for Dallas' citizens and to its architect, John Eberson, who was to become the principal architect for the Interstate chain.
The Majestic Theatre was nominated for and added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on November 14, 1977 for it contributions to Dallas, Texas in the areas of architecture and theater. All of the information above (and much more) was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
catalog.archives.gov/id/40971699
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 Cotton Bowl is an outdoor football stadium in Dallas, Texas. Opened in 1930 as Fair Park Stadium, it is on the site of the State Fair of Texas, known as Fair Park. It became known as "The House That Doak Built", due to the immense crowds that SMU running back Doak Walker drew to the stadium during his college career in the late 1940's.
The stadium has been home to many football teams over the years, including: SMU Mustangs (NCAA), Dallas Cowboys (NFL; 1960–1971), Dallas Texans (NFL) (1952), Dallas Texans (AFL; 1960–1962), and soccer teams, the Dallas Tornado (NASL; 1967–1968), and FC Dallas (MLS; as the Dallas Burn 1996–2004, as FC Dallas 2005). It was also one of the nine venues used for the 1994 FIFA World Cup. As of 2022, it is the largest stadium by capacity in the United States without a professional or college team as a regular tenant.
This historic landmark also serves as the site of the annual Red River Rivalry football game between the University of Texas Longhorns & the University of Oklahoma Sooners and was the original home of the annual Cotton Bowl Classic from 1937 until 2009, when the game was moved to AT&T Stadium in Arlington in January 2010. From hosting the NFL Championship on January 1, 1967, to watching 23 Heisman Trophy winners take the field, Cotton Bowl Stadium has seen its share of highlights in its 90-plus years. Today, the stadium has a capacity of more than 91,000 seats, making it one of the largest stadiums in the country.
The stadium is also included in the Texas Centennial Exposition Buildings listing on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). It was added on September 24, 1986 along with many other buildings within Fair Park.
npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/86003488
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 is included in the block of Elm Street in Downtown Dallas where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. The area of the Dealey Plaza Historic District (NRHP #93001607), along with the West End Historic District (NRHP #78002918), are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and both include the building in the photograph above. Dealey Plaza is also considered a National Historic Landmark (NHL).
This 7-story 80,000-square-foot red brick structure was built in 1901 by an unknown architect as a warehouse and showroom for the Rock Island Plow Company of Illinois; it replaced an 1898 structure that burned earlier the same year. The free-standing warehouse, about 100 feet square, stands on the northwest corner of Elm and Houston Streets. Its main facade is on Elm Street extended (the pre-1936 Elm Street) with the eastern side on Houston Street. The west side faces the rail and switching yards. The north side faces spurs of the rail yards connecting with Pacific Avenue, the primary east-west rail transit way through Downtown Dallas.
The warehouse, though it possesses certain characteristics of early Chicago skyscraper construction, was built with Classical details, including arched windows on all floors except seven, with those on six being round arched on the central five of the seven bays of each facade; multi-story pilasters (running floors two to six) with limestone capitals, and other stylized features characteristic of early 20th-century warehouses. It has masonry load-bearing walls with interior heavy pine square milled beams supporting the flooring. The brick used was a formed common style. A dropped metal ceiling, offices, and show windows were built on the first floor. The seventh-floor corporate offices included a dropped metal ceiling, with interior brick walls stained maroon, and interior window trim painted dark green. The windows were wood, double hung, set in structural masonry arches with the exterior cornice of metal. A painted exterior sign, above the seventh-floor ceiling, read "Southern Rock Island Plow Co." The "O's" in the sign concealed louvers, which ventilated the attic spaces. (This sign was removed at an unknown date.) The building was set back on the northwest first-floor corner to accommodate the loading and unloading of heavy equipment from the adjacent rail track. The upper floors cantilevered out over the track on that side.
The Rock Island Plow Company and its successor, the Southern Rock Island Plow Company, retained ownership until 1937. In 1939, D.H. Byrd of Dallas purchased it and afterward leased it to a variety of tenants. At the time of the assassination in 1963, it was leased to the Texas School Book Depository Company, a private textbook brokerage firm not affiliated with the State of Texas, which, nevertheless, warehoused and supplied textbooks to Texas schools. The firm maintained corporate offices in the building, and used the upper floors for storing textbooks.
The storage areas in the building on floors four, five, and six, typically filled with stacks of boxes of schoolbooks, were free of interior partitions, with wooden whitewashed ceilings, and whitewashed millwork beams set at 14-foot intervals supporting the floors. The interior brick walls were also whitewashed. The hardwood floors were rough. Access to these floors was by freight elevator or by the enclosed wooden staircase in the far northwest corner. Lighting was supplied by metal domed hanging fixtures with bare electrical bulbs. An exposed metal water pipe fire sprinkler system ran along the ceilings. All the electrical wiring was exposed conduit mounted on the horizontal and vertical wooden beams. (*Note: On November 22, 1963, workmen were laying a new flooring of rectangular plywood sheets over the existing flooring on the sixth floor of the warehouse. When the assassination occurred, at 12:30 p.m. local time, the workmen were at lunch.)
In 1970 the Depository Company moved out and Byrd sold the building to Aubrey Mayhew of Nashville, Tennessee, who planned to turn it into a commercial attraction centering on the association with the Kennedy assassination. Mayhew defaulted on his payments two years later. The building reverted to Byrd in 1972 shortly after an employee of Mayhew's set fire to the interior, which suffered only small damage. Between 1970 and 1977 the warehouse deteriorated; there was some discussion during the early1970's of demolishing it, but the city refused to issue a demolition permit. In late 1977, Dallas County purchased the old warehouse from Byrd, using funds voted in a public bond election. Between 1978 and 1988, the County renovated five floors and the basement for use as administrative offices and as the seat of County government. The fate of the sixth floor, which was sealed off and not exhibited to the public, remained an unsettled issue. A 1979 study funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities recommended that the floor be used for a major exhibition on the legacy and assassination of President Kennedy. The results were accepted and acted upon by the Dallas County Commissioners Court.
In 1988-89, the County, in cooperation with the non-profit Dallas County Historical Foundation, restored the sixth floor, installed the permanent Sixth Floor exhibit, and constructed and opened a new Visitors' Center to the north of the warehouse. The character of the exhibit and its non-intrusive use of historic space have won critical acclaim as well as a 98% approval rating from its approximately 300,000 annual visitors. Six films, graphics, over 300 historic photographs, and radio & tape recordings, including oral history recordings by witnesses & newsmen, are featured. Restoration and adaptation of the sixth floor was done under the general supervision of architects Eugene George and James Hendricks. The exhibit content was largely the work of Conover Hunt, with design by the Washington, D.C. firm of Robert Staples and Barbara Charles. The films were the work of Allen and Cynthia Salzman Mondell; Martin Jurow was the executive producer. The Texas Historical Commission and the National Park Service were advisors.
The two evidential areas--the sniper's perch (seen in the 6th window from the bottom of the far right row of windows) in the far southeast corner and the area where the rifle was found, with a nearby stairwell and freight elevator--are kept from public access by clear glass walls. No evidence is on display in those areas; nearby exhibit copy discusses them. They are furnished with duplicates of cardboard boxes placed as they were arranged on November 22, 1963 (based on examination of some dozen photographs of this corner taken on the day of the assassination). A clear plexiglass pane has been installed in the space on the far southeast partially raised corner window to indicate its position at the time of the assassination. As a safety measure, metal and glass barriers were installed in the concrete flooring in front of all windows accessible for public viewing. (The bottoms of the windows are only 18" from the floor and all exposed window frames are also sealed shut with small brass screws.)
Dealey Plaza Historic District
npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/88315def-c6a9-408b-ac2a-b...
West End Historic District
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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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 the same location that 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.
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
The best way to view my photostream is through Flickriver with the following link: www.flickriver.com/photos/photojourney57/
Nkolokoti in Blantyre, Malawi. With Ndirande Hill, Makhetha, Machinjiri and Kachere in view. Photo taken from Mpingwe Hill.
With the Reunion Tower and Hyatt Regency Hotel as backdrops, Trinity Railway Express (TRE) loco #122 sets off from EBJ Union Station with two bi-level coaches in tow on a scheduled service to Ft. Worth T&P Station. With its dinstinctive tri-piece windshield, #122 is an EMD F59PH locomotive, one of seven acquired from GO Transit.
my weekend in minneapolis was a disappointment photographically as events conspired to keep me from finding any of my preferred subject matter. i am fairly certain this is the only building older than 20 years within a dozen miles of where we stayed.
this was taken with a tlr, this with my pocket digital: www.flickr.com/photos/19211803@N00/8068524014/in/photostream