Dallas Imagined As an Inland Port
by Paula Bosse
by Paula Bosse
Okay, this will be my last Trinity River post for a while. This is what some clever person imagined Dallas would look like today as an inland port had anyone ever managed to make the Trinity a navigable commercial waterway between DFW and the Gulf. So there you go!
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This image was linked to a Reddit post linking to a Flashback Dallas Trinity River post. I have no idea who created this, but the image link is here. If anyone knows the source, I’d love to credit the person responsible.
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Copyright © 2015 Paula Bosse. All Rights Reserved.
Flashback : Dallas 
There goes the tollroad right of way!
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This is the actual post: http://redd.it/378ib7 You can send the poster a message and ask who made the image. Also the basis for the port part of the photo is the Port of Rotterdam: http://goo.gl/apnHgR
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Thanks. I’m not actually a Reddit member (if that’s the right terminology), so I can’t send the commenter a message. When I did a Google image search I came up with Rotterdam, too. I really like the Dallas version. Thank you, “Not Bob” for sharing my posts on Reddit – I really appreciate it!
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The poster is the creator of the image so consider this link to his post proper attribution: http://www.reddit.com/comments/378ib7//crkuavb
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Thanks! Whoever you are, “totallynotfromennis,” that’s a cool creation!
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It’s pretty painless to become a Redditor but just in case you don’t want to I sent the image poster a message. No need to thank me. I just hope my posts get more Dallasites to your great blog.
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I have too be the underdog too many of these dreams, and why people have come here, they dream up this wonder and when it does, it is gone over night….
.while in the 1960s we had a wealth of things too do and see and they are gone, replaced by the developer who has made a mess of everything, …..
when John Nealy Bryan came too the banks of the Trinity river he and Alexander Cockrell realized by 1852 Dallas was land, to rent own and sell, and you can do anything if you own that, but you have too have a dream……
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I just found this website and will be spending a few hours down this wonderful rabbit hole. On this topic, however, have you heard the 99% Invisible podcast episode on the port of Dallas, it goes along quite well with this picture. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/port-of-dallas/
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Thanks, Oak. I hope you enjoy wandering around. I haven’t listened to the podcast, but I’ve had several people mention it to me. It’s on my to-do list.
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We have to accept that the river was never going to exist, besides it flows down from Ft worth and ends up in Houston…now a story you should look into and that is swamps, Dallas is really in the old Days swamp land….Pre 1930’s….so look up the Elm Thicket……
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