Downtown Snowfall — January 10, 1962
by Paula Bosse
Photo by Ferd Kaufman/AP (click for larger image)
by Paula Bosse
It snowed today in Dallas! It’s pretty, but not as pretty as this 1962 night-time view of Commerce and Akard (looking west). Even the approaching slush looks sophisticated in glamorous black-and-white.
(See a fantastic color photo from 1957 showing the northwest corner of the Adolphus block with that incredible Walgreen neon sign in full view, taken from the front of the Baker Hotel, here.)
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actually the image was taken in 1962 according to this website
http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/Watchf-AP-A-TX-USA-APHS441369-Downtown-Dallas-Texas/0cee8de3ab0a44e68bd554a54b763b04/332/0
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Thanks for the correction!
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