Flashback Dallas on Patreon: Still a Thing?

Dallas Tennis Club members, ca. 1890 (Dallas Historical Society)

by Paula Bosse

Why, yes, it IS still a thing!

If you would like to mosey over to my Patreon page and become a member (all it takes is $5 a month!), you will get posts sent directly to your email box five days a week, power outages and weather emergencies permitting. Here’s what was going on over there in November and December:

DECEMBER 2025

  • SMU’s Downtown Music School – 1920s (Bush Temple of Music)
  • Merry Christmas! (a Centennial Rangerette helps Santa Claus with his cowboy boots)
  • Merry Christmas Eve from Dallas Railway – 1949
  • Where Do You Go If You Have Nautical Outfits and Want to Start a Fire? – 1951
  • Helium! (Fort Worth Bonus) – 1924 (world’s first helium plant!)
  • Anyone for Tennis? – ca. 1890 (photo seen at the top of this post)
  • Shovel Supply Co. – 1939
  • Ballard’s Magnolia Station, Oak Lawn
  • Cowboys Fans – 1978 (dedicated kids waiting for the Super Bowl champs)
  • 4936 Junius, Munger Place – 1912 (real estate ad)
  • Belmont Cleaning Co., 1914 Greenville Ave. – 1927 (still standing)
  • Arra Desmond (1869-1948)
  • Central Fire Station – 1931
  • Dallas Athletic Club, Early Days
  • Town & Country: “The Elegance of Downtown Dining” – 1968
  • Every Window Broken: Forest Avenue High School – 1926
  • Dallas Motorcycle Club Group Photo – ca. 1930s
  • “I’d Give a Month’s Pay for a Dr Pepper” – 1944
  • Clerical Garb, When in Texas – 1960
  • N-M Hanky-Cigs for Xmas – 1959 (weird stocking stuffers…)

NOVEMBER 2025

  • Foot Traffic Outside H. L. Green (Wilson Building)
  • Happy Inflatable Thanksgiving! (1965) (children’s balloon parade)
  • Park-O-Meters – 1936 (downtown’s first parking meters)
  • Cotton Bowl Roller Rink – 1946
  • Young Jayne Mansfield at the Front Door of Her University Park Home – 1940s
  • Waterworks at Browder Springs
  • Mallalieu Methodist Episcopal Church (Moon Mansion) – ca. 1909
  • Babe – 1932 (Babe Didrikson, outside Dallas City Hall)
  • The Auto-Plane – 1946
  • Chucky in Dallas – 1951 (Dunton’s Cafeteria, Elm Street)
  • Fair Park: “Fun and Thrills”?
  • Have Whistle and Ticket Book, Will Travel (lawman on Main Street)
  • Ursuline Boarder – 1927 (teenager’s dorm room)
  • Fun with Livestock – 1944 (WWII tourist snapshot)
  • Soldier at Dealey Plaza – 1944 (WWII tourist snapshot)
  • Our City Hall… (is in the crosshairs)
  • “Home on the Range” in the M Streets – 1972 (composer David Guion)
  • Hack Life in Highland Park – 1962 (official taxi license)

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Sources & Notes

Photo at top of this post is from a December 2025 post — “Anyone for Tennis? — ca. 1890” — the photo is from the Richard Potter Photographs collection, Dallas Historical Society (object ID: V.91.2.14).

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