Dallas, Texas: History, Pop Culture, and Vintage Advertising
Dallas, TX
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Library Volunteers Needed! Dallas Public Library’s catalog system was down for six weeks, and things got a little backed up. We need a phalanx of volunteers STAT to help us reshelve books and fill customer requests.
Visit the link below to sign up:
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If you're not following @FlashbackDallas , you should be. They are continually tweeting great photos of Dallas/metroplex history. Check out this circa 1900 photo of a horse-drawn hearse in Oak Cliff. This is how I want to go to the cemetery. No long, black limousines for me!
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The Majestic Theatre opened on this day in 1921 in Dallas & hosted a variety of stars over the years: Ginger Rogers, Mae West, Harry Houdini, Duke Ellington, & many more.
Find other theatrical jewels across the state with our map: texastimetravel.com/node/286…
📷: @librarycongress
ALT White stone theater building, five stories high, with a marquee reading “The Majestic.” A shiny modern tower rises next door.
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Dallas, Texas historical photos of Temple Emanu-EL.
1) Aerial view (looking north) of the new, not-yet-landscaped Temple Emanu-El in 1957.
2) Dallas’ first Temple Emanu-El location in 1876.
Read more about Jewish History in Dallas, Texas at: @FlashbackDallas
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Fantastic artwork showing my hometown in all its Wizard of Oz-like Texan grandeur: “Dallas/The Big D” by Crandall, Texas native William E. Bond (1923-2016). (Part of a 1962 advertising campaign promoting business in America.)
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View of downtown Dallas, Texas in 1957. Photo was taken along a segment of Stemmons Freeway (Interstate 35E) looking south. The two smokestacks (formerly DP&L) were demolished (~1999) to begin construction of American Airlines Center which opened July 17, 2001. @FlashbackDallas
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Amazing cache of Dallas punk-rock & new-wave history being sold by a UK resident who "lived and worked as an illegal in Dallas 79-83." I have a few of these, ripped from phone poles when I was in junior high. But never that @officialgogos Hot Klub poster.
ebay.com/itm/Dallas-Texas-19…
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Enjoy what we’re doing? Well you can help! Please support our ongoing preservation and digitization efforts as we bring Dallas’ history back to life. Every gift, even just a few bucks, will help us continue our work! Spread the word! link.smu.edu/giving/smugivin…
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I swear that Flashback: Dallas is the best thing on Twitter. Always so interesting and so well done!
On Oscar night I give you... the Esquire Theater in 1969! What is the Dallas connection to Best Picture-winner Midnight Cowboy? See it at the link. flashbackdallas.com/2019/02/…
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We’ve done it! We’ve digitized 900 hours of WFAA news footage! We’re celebrating as we always knew we would: by posting a clip of a sweaty, mustachioed Adam West just killing it at racquet ball. February 1975. youtu.be/Q6TJmDSHtRs
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Welcome one and all to the first day of classes.....the hilltop has grown a bit since we first opened. #HappyFirstDayofSchool
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From our WFAA Newsfilm Collection: a look into the new housing developments where Bob-O-Links Golf Course once stood and the hopes to conserve its natural landscape. September 1974. youtu.be/RMjdDdPVVno
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Paula Bosse of @FlashbackDallas wrote a fantastic piece on the Bob-O-Links Golf Course that you can read here: flashbackdallas.com/2016/04/…
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In 1985 WFAA donated ALL of its footage from the '60s and '70s to SMU. Thanks to @SMUJonesFilm, we started seeing it in October. And now I cannot stop watching it -- like, several times a day.
This is the Dallas of my childhood. Maybe yours, too. Dig in.
dallasnews.com/opinion/comme…
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Salvador Dalí on a 1952 visit to Dallas: “Texans dream in Technicolor, whereas New Yorkers dream only in black and white.” dmagazine.com/frontburner/20…
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For a few minutes at 10 pm Monday, downtown Dallas looked like the inside of a snowglobe.
📸 @TomFoxPhoto
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#SNTX is taking our film preservation program on the road to the Big D in May 2018. Thanks to an @NEHgov #NEHCommonHeritage
grant and our partners @texasarchive and @toptenrecords, we'll be preserving your Dallas motion picture history. Stay tuned for more details!
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ICYMI, a phenomenal write-up on a recent Jones Collection discovery. nitter.gq/flashbackdallas/status…
Watch the newly discovered footage of Jack Ruby in downtown Dallas in 1960 in a specially slo-mo'd clip, hot off the presses! All courtesy of the fine folks at @SMUJonesFilm! flashbackdallas.com/2017/12/…
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The @dallasnews has officially moved into its new digs in the old library attached to @TheStatler. I'm probably the happiest guy in the building. interactives.dallasnews.com/…
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This is fantastic: downtown Dallas in 1962, including the Statler Hilton and a look-see at the city from the observation deck atop the 42-story Southland Life Tower, then the tallest building in Dallas. Many thanks, @Archtype. nitter.gq/Archtype/status/933128…
