The Skyline Beyond — 1950
by Paula Bosse
by Paula Bosse
The view over there; the view over here.
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“Skyline of Dallas from backyards of tenement houses, 12/04/1950” — photograph by Squire Haskins, from the Squire Haskins Photography, Inc. Collection, UTA Libraries. Info is here. Super-gigantic image is here.
The view is looking south toward downtown.
A map below, showing:
- the Medical Arts Building at the center right (Pacific & Ervay, red star)
- the Magnolia Oil Building (with Pegasus, at Commerce and Akard, orange star)
- the Tower Petroleum Building (Elm and St. Paul, green star)
- the Mercantile Bank Building (Main and Ervay, blue star)
Google Maps
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Copyright © 2016 Paula Bosse. All Rights Reserved.
On the left middle side of the photo I am pretty sure that you can see a little bit of the Hilton Hotel at Main and Harwood and Dallas High School on Bryan.
The photo may have been taken from near San Jacinto and Hawkins: http://i.imgur.com/AXJ45xu.png It looks like that area was residential in 1950: http://i.imgur.com/uUpuvxZ.png
I think you meant to say that the Tower Petroleum Building was shown by a green star.
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Thanks!
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Not Bob: It even looks to me as tho that neighborhood might have had some shotgun houses in it, not that my photo-interpretation skills are anything to make book on. Good work.
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