by Paula Bosse
Look at this charming little Oak Cliff building. Isn’t it cute? Wanna see what it looks like today? Click on over to my original post from 2014, here, and see it.
(This is about as close to “clickbait” as I’m likely to get….)
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by Paula Bosse
Today is International Women’s Day. What better time to look back at a Dallas woman who, as a member of the Army Nurse Corps, served in field hospitals during World War II and became the first woman to receive the Silver Star for valor in combat. Read about her story of keeping her cool as she and her team worked in hospital tents on the Anzio beachhead as they were attacked by German long-range artillery in the Flashback Dallas post from last year, “Lt. Mary L. Roberts, The ‘Angel of Anzio’ — The First Woman Awarded the Silver Star,” here.
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by Paula Bosse
For those interested in police motorcycles, here are a few Flashback Dallas posts from yesteryear:
(One suggestion: motorcycle-riding and bowler-hat-wearing may not be the best crime-fighting combination.)
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The entrance to the entrance….
by Paula Bosse
See two postcards from just after the turn on the last century which show not-terribly-exciting (though still interesting) views of the otherwise-impressive State Fair of Texas, in the 2015 post “The Periphery of the Texas State Fair Never Looked Better.”
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Sally Rand autographing the shorts of a “rickshaw boy”… (click for larger image)
by Paula Bosse
Periodically I add photos or pertinent clippings to old posts. Here’s the latest bunch. (Most are larger when clicked.)
Above, a great photo from the Texas Centennial showing famed fan-dancer Sally Rand (who was one of the top attractions in Amon Carter’s competing Fort Worth Frontier Centennial Exposition) autographing the short-shorts of her dishy rickshaw driver, Guy Johnsen. (This must have been one of the highlights of Johnsen’s life — it was mentioned in his 2005 obituary!) I’ve added this photo to the post “Forget the Ferris Wheel, Take a Ride in a Centennial Rickshaw — 1936.” (Source: George W. Cook Collection, DeGolyer Library, SMU, here.)
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Speaking of the Centennial, I’m adding this photo of one of the most popular attractions of the Exposition — Lady Godiva, who rode a horse through the Streets of Paris show, clad only in a wig — to the post “Lady Godiva and the ‘Flesh Shows’ of the Texas Centennial — 1936.” (Source: George W. Cook Collection, DeGolyer Library, SMU, here.)
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What grizzled Dallasite hasn’t informed visitors about the connection between the famed “Filling Station” on Greenville Avenue and Bonnie & Clyde? After writing the post, I exchanged a series of entertaining and informative emails with the grandson of the man who built the old gas station and garage in the early 1930s and which still stands. Mr. Loveless graciously sent me several photos, including this one, showing the early days of the station. (Also, I’ve recently learned that Jack Ruby owned or ran a short-lived tavern called Hernando’s Hideaway, which would have been right next door to the filling station. So not only did Bonnie and Clyde fuel up there, chancer are good that Ruby did, too.) My original post: “The Filling Station on Greenville Avenue: From Bonnie & Clyde to Legendary Burger Place.” (Source: Jeb Loveless family photo)
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I’ve come across some cool photos of the Junius Heights pillars I wrote about a few months ago — one I found in a 1909 ad, and one that I came across on a Dallas history group. They’re both really great. I’ve added these two photos and a few more things to the post “The Gateway to Junius Heights.” (Source: top photo, Dallas Morning News, Nov. 25, 1909; second photo, personal collection of Jerry Guyer.)
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This photo of the Columbian School/Royal Street School (which was built in 1893 and bulldozed in 1955 to make way for Memorial Auditorium) has been added to “The Dallas Skyline: Spot the Landmarks.” (Source: George W. Cook Collection, DeGolyer Library, SMU, here)
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I’ve added this Clifton Church photo of the Empire mill, which was once located about where Dealey Plaza is these days, to the post “Empire Mills — Grinding Wheat Into Wedding Presents Since the Cleveland Administration.”
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This photo of the outside Exposition Park’s Mitchell Building has been added to “The Mitchell Building: Home to Cotton Gins, Rockets, Frozen Beverages, A/C Units, Slackers, Squatters, Hipsters, and Urban Loft Dwellers.” (Source: Flickr)
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And I’ve cleared up a few questions I had about this photo of a little-bitty, turn-of-the-century post office at Fair Park by adding some information to the post “A Post Office on the Fairgrounds?”
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DeGolyer Library/SMU
by Paula Bosse
Some of my favorite posts are those containing photographs that I zoom in on to see details in the crowd that one might otherwise miss. This is a perfect photo for discovering little “vignettes.” See the original post from 2014 — “Parade Day — 1909” — here.
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Dallas, from “A Cavalcade of Texas”
by Paula Bosse
A friend of mine mentioned this little film to me a couple of days ago, and I thought I’d post the link to it again. I first heard about “A Cavalcade of Texas” in the Dallas History Facebook group from member Steve Schaffer (thanks, Steve!), so I wrote about it the next day, and it quickly became one of the most popular things I’d ever posted. See the two short clips featuring Dallas, with footage filmed around town in 1938, in my post from 2014, “‘A Cavalcade of Texas’ — Dallas, Filmed in Technicolor, 1938.”
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The Chalk Hill Drive-In opened on July 4, 1941
by Paula Bosse
Read about a crazy new thing called “drive-ins” which were popping up in far North Dallas and Oak Cliff in the summer of ’41 in the post “Dallas’ First Two Drive-In Theaters — 1941,” here.
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The Eisenlohr store and residence, Main and Field streets, 1885
by Paula Bosse
I loved stumbling across this eBay photo of the Eisenlohr store at the southwest corner of Main and Field and then discovering that Mr. Eisenlohr (father of the artist E. G. Eisenlohr) was responsible for introducing the Christmas tree to Dallas. Read about it in the post from last year, here.
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by Paula Bosse
George Cacas was a Greek immigrant who peddled snacks to the prep school boys of The Terrill School in Old East Dallas 100 years ago (ice cream in the summer and popcorn in the winter). Read about him in my post from last year, “George Cacas, The Terrill School’s Greek Ice Cream Man — 1916.”
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