“Dallas Midway, Night Illumination” — 1936
by Paula Bosse
All calm in Fair Park along the Centennial Midway (click for larger image)
by Paula Bosse
Above, a nighttime shot of an almost empty Midway during the Texas Centennial. All this scene needs in order to boost the moody atmosphere is a little fog. Go a little further and add some zither music, Joseph Cotten, and Orson Welles running past the Texaco Building and you’d have a pretty cool setting for a Texas version of The Third Man.
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Photo titled “Dallas Midway, Night Illumination, Centennial Exposition, State Fair of Texas” (taken by an unknown photographer on Oct. 16, 1936) is from the George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection, DeGolyer Library, Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University; more info here.
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Copyright © 2016 Paula Bosse. All Rights Reserved.
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This is simply stunning! As a Dallas resident, I love the area, and I love looking back at the Dallas of the past. It is worth it to click on the image – the larger view is fantastic.
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Thank you, VIvian!
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