Over on Patreon…

by Paula Bosse

Calgon, take me away…

by Paula Bosse

My overly optimistic proclamation that I would be posting here more frequently isn’t working out as I had hoped. Dealing with a new job and the continuing health challenges of a loved one have caused time and energy to have disappeared. I still hope that I will be able to post more often soon, but, at the moment, things are difficult.

I always wince when I post about my work on Patreon, fearing I’m spamming longtime readers — the very people I don’t want to turn off or annoy! But the fact is, I rely on the small income I receive from Patreon subscribers to pay pressing bills. I always love writing about Dallas history, but during this chaotic period of my life, I’m having to focus a bit more on getting those posts that earn me a bit of income out every day. (I’m not sure anyone actually wants daily posts, so I may cut those down a little in the future, but for the past year and a half, I’ve been writing short Patreon posts every day, accompanied by images I hope I haven’t duplicated from the past ten years’ worth of posts here on the blog.)

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Below is a list of what I tackled in August and September, (See the previous topics I’ve covered here.)

SEPTEMBER 2024

  • YMCA, Commerce Street
  • Braniff Airways: Cowboys in Helicopters – ca. 1962
  • State Fair, Bubble Bounce – 1950s (in fabulous Kodachrome)
  • Fair Park Is Dead, Long Live Fair Park – 1935 (demolition of old buildings for the Centennial)
  • Campus Map: What To Know, Where To Go – 1941 (SMU)
  • Red Sublett, Rodeo Clown – 1922
  • Commerce, Near Lamar
  • Highland Park City Hall and Community Center – 1924
  • Wilson Building – ca. 1906
  • “No Steer Is So Fat…” – 1947 (Everette DeGolyer/Carl Hertzog card)
  • “Curve-Greaser” – 1935
  • Hall of State OG XL – 1935 (early rendering)
  • Fair Park Lagoon – 1936
  • Chief Settlements of Early Dallas (Map)
  • Trinity River, Before the Move
  • Medical Arts Building, 1923-1978
  • Frank Lloyd Wright, Downtown
  • As Iconic Shopping Malls Go… (NorthPark)
  • Market & Commerce, Southwest Corner
  • Return of (High School) Football: Booker T. Washington – 1952
  • Daytrip to Thurber
  • Tamale Seller, Elm Street – ca. 1890
  • Red Bryan’s Smokehouse: Be Just Like Red
  • Where the Boys Are: Atkins Hall, SMU – 1936
  • Grandma’s House/Satori House – Oak Lawn
  • Dallasites Inspecting Trinity Dam – ca. 1890
  • Main, West Towards Ervay — 1920s

AUGUST 2024

  • Adolphus Hotel, Favorite of Cowboys
  • Flashback Newsflash! (I’ve got a new job!)
  • Trinity Heights Streetcar, Elm Street – ca. 1943
  • Centennial Sightseeing Buses – 1936
  • McKell Street (Old East Dallas)
  • City Park Play Center – ca. 1914
  • Bye-Bye, Lloyd Estate: 1912-2024
  • Parkland Hospital, 1894
  • Typing Class – 1953 (Booker T. Washington High School)
  • Alexander Mansion, Ross Avenue – ca. 1905
  • A Beautiful Drive
  • Methodist Hospital, Oak Cliff
  • #19 Bus to Abrams, Via Baylor – 1948
  • Dallas Buggy and Wagon Co. – 1905
  • Munger Place Apartment – 1920
  • Sivils Carhops on Strike! – 1940
  • The Adolphus and Commerce Street, In Color
  • Perry Nichols: DMN Mural – 1949
  • Highland Park Village Theatre
  • Big D Self-Promotion – ca. 1923
  • Love Field Rifle Range – ca. 1918
  • Texas International Airlines – ca. 1969
  • Dallas Annual Chrysanthemum Show – 1907
  • The Carpenters, For Morton’s Potato Chips – 1970
  • Red Cross Cotton Field – 1918
  • Italian Village, Oak Lawn – 1956
  • St. Paul Additions
  • Galloupe Hotel/Hotel Milam – 2013 Main

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Sources & Notes

1936 Texas Centennial postcard of the Fair Park lagoon is from eBay.

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