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By Paula Bosse

Every couple of months I offer up a list of posts from the Flashback Dallas Patreon page — with the reminder that if you’d like to receive daily Dallas-history tidbits, please consider becoming a member, for as little as five dollars a month.

One of the posts from May concerned the unusual subject of a picture postcard: the massive Armstrong meat-packing plant in South Dallas (see it on a 1921 Sanborn map here). I’m not sure how many people would choose — or seek out — a postcard showing a slaughterhouse to send to their friends and family back home (“Having a lovely time! Wish you were here!”), but this was, verily, available for those who wanted it. (This postcard was mailed in 1921.)

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Here are the topics I’ve covered recently on Patreon. You can see titles of all the posts I’ve done over the past year or so here.

MAY 2024

  • Butterfly Greetings from Dallas, Texas – ca. 1909
  • The North Texas Building, Main Street
  • The Oriental Hotel Welcomes the Elks – 1908
  • The Official Neiman-Marcus Flag – 1966
  • Alamo Beer, “For Mothers Who Require a Natural Tonic” – 1910
  • Mister Ice (The Freezit Corp. of America) – ca. 1954
  • Alpha Epsilon Party
  • Audie Murphy Book Signing at McMurray’s – 1949
  • Gaston Avenue Baptist Church (Domeless) – ca. 1961
  • Arbuckle Bros. Grain Elevators – 1899
  • The A. Harris Employees’ Symphony Orchestra – 1923
  • Elm Street, East from Lamar — ca. 1906
  • New Yorker Become Texas Citizen, Obtains Texas Passport – 1949
  • The Dallas Skyline and “Dresser Couplings” – 1947
  • Kids on KRLD-Channel 4
  • An Evening at The Chalet, Lakewood
  • Roger Corman, RIP
  • Business Section – 1928
  • Commerce Street Bridge During the Great Flood – 1908
  • Houston Street Viaduct at Night
  • Spider-Man and the Hulk Save the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders – 1982
  • Bush & Gerts/Bush Temple of Music
  • North from Cobb Stadium – 1957
  • Topper: “Tops in Eats” – ca. 1940
  • Fire Drill Training Tower, Fair Park – 1936
  • Armstrong Meat Packing Plant
  • David Hardie Seed Co. – 1922

APRIL 2024

  • Big Tex’s Big Teeth – 1962
  • Knox Theater/Linda Darnell – 1945
  • Mystery Boarding House
  • The Dallas-Fort Worth Pike at Chalk Hill – ca. 1920
  • Ernie Banks, Baseball Legend from Dallas
  • Nighttime Melba – 1955
  • Warren Beatty (et al.) in Denton – 1967
  • The Cloverleaf
  • Juliette Fowler, From the Air – 1956
  • A Fistful of Corny Dogs – 1979
  • Hello, Weekend! Hello, Schlitz!
  • Big D Jamboree – 1955
  • Northwest Highway, If You Must – 1945
  • Love Field Hospital – 1918
  • Minit-Man Automatic Car Washing Station
  • SMU Graduation Procession – 1919
  • Drink Dr Pepper for Vim, Vigor, and Vitality – 1900
  • Oak Cliff: Free from Mosquitoes and Malaria – 1907
  • Springsteen Canceled at the Sportatorium – 1974
  • Fooshee & Cheek Building on Gaston Avenue – 1926
  • Love Field Interior, Empty – 1958
  • Mr. Tweedy: Lovable, Hapless Sap
  • DP&L Substation, South Dallas — 1925
  • “The Coziest Gift Shop In the South” – 1912
  • Texas Has So. Many. Things. – 1936
  • Preston Road Shopping Center
  • Happy Anniversary: Thank You!
  • The Ford Building at Fair Park – 1936

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Sources & Notes

Armstrong postcard found on eBay.

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