Urban Landscape with Biplane
by Paula Bosse
Scraping the sky… (click for larger image)
by Paula Bosse
When the Magnolia Petroleum Building was built in 1924, it was Dallas’ tallest building. It was so tall, in fact, that it appears to be encroaching into biplane-airspace in this romanticized postcard. If you squint, it looks as if the Dallas citizenry is fleeing from an air-attack as a plane buzzes the Magnolia Building. …Perhaps a Texan King Kong is swatting at it from the other side.
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Sources & Notes
Postcard from eBay. The view is to the northeast, from Commerce and Akard, with the Adolphus Hotel partially visible on the far left and the old Oriental Hotel partially visible on the far right.
See a fantastic photo of these buildings from around the same time in the Flashback Dallas post “The Adolphus, The Oriental, The Magnolia.”
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It really does have a sort of weird Bruce McCall quality to it, and all those tiny people wandering up and down Commerce and Akard don’t help a bit.
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