Consolidated Candy Co., 826-830 Exposition — ca. 1936
by Paula Bosse
Candy manufacturing in Expo Park (click for larger image)
by Paula Bosse
A photo of Exposition Park about the time of the huge Texas Centennial celebration held in 1936 at Fair Park, one block away. The Consolidated Candy Co. at 826-830 Exposition Avenue was liquidated in 1939, and the Rogers Cafe next door at 832 Exposition was around only a couple of years, about 1935 to 1937, so 1936 seems a good guess.
Here’s a list of businesses that were operating along hopping Exposition Avenue in 1936, between Ash and Parry (click for larger image):
1936 Dallas directory
Most of the buildings from that period along Parry and Exposition are still standing, including the buildings seen in the photo above. Here is a current view.
Google Street View, Jan. 2016
I’m happy to see these two buildings still holding down that spot after all this time, but they both appear to have lost some character in the intervening 80 years. It’s like someone’s sanded all the interesting bits off and made it as bland-looking as possible. You know what I think needs to make a comeback? Awnings.
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Top photo from Jim Wheat’s Dallas County Texas Archives site.
A Google Street View showing this block looking toward Fair Park, with these buildings on the left, is here.
Google Maps
Images larger when clicked.
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Copyright © 2016 Paula Bosse. All Rights Reserved.
Flashback : Dallas 
Paula when I see Dryvit applied to the outside of a stately old brick I want to cringe. The comparison between the photos shows the character assassination that took place when this building was covered. Check out that convertible out front!
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Do you think that is the original telephone pole still standing in the current day photo?
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Tom I’d guess same spot different pole. Between the transformers and the red creosote I’d say no.
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The car with the top down is a 1934 Ford Cabriolet. The convertible, in the sense that term was understood from the late 1930s to the mid 1970s, didn’t exist yet in 1934. A traditional American convertible of those years was a two door car, with front and back seats under a folding cloth top, and wind-up windows.
This cabriolet would meet all those requirements except for the rear seat, which was a rumble seat behind the rear edge of the cloth top and most often hidden by what looked like a trunk lid hinged at the wrong end. In other words the rumble seat back was created by opening this trunk-hinged-at-the-wrong-end, sort of like a Murphy bed.
Ford, and other makers in the 1920s and down to about 1935, also made roadsters. These were very much like this cabriolet but had side curtains in lieu of crank-up windows.
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Looks like the cafe building was expanded, it appears to be wider now.
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I think that’s just Google’s tendency for street view images to be elongated. Here it is head-on: http://bit.ly/20rs64v
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It is an elongated view. I drive by that building almost daily during the week, and the cafe doesn’t look anywhere near that long in real life. Not even after six beers! 😛
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I am looking for picture of a fatal car crash.It happened at the intersection of singleton Rd & industrial Blvd.onsaturday February 14,1959. The deceased was 22 yr old Daniel Francisco Espinoza. I don’t know if it was in the Dallas Morning News or the Dallas Times Herald.The deceased was my father.
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Downtown Dallas Library, they will assist in your search. Good Luck.
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Hi, Katherine. I can send you the articles that appeared in the Dallas Morning News, but I found no photo. If there was a photo, and it appeared in The Dallas Times Herald, you’ll need to contact the downtown Dallas Public Library. If you send me your email, I will send you the short articles. My contact info is at the top of the page.
–Paula
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