The beautiful buildings in downtown Dallas are part of the reason I love Dallas and Texas. When I lived here for 3+ years in the mid-1980s, I spent a lot of time downtown, mostly on weekends. My office on N. Akard Street is long gone, replaced by a more modern, taller building. Enjoy the beautiful scenery of “my city”!
Lunch at Mia’s Tex-Mex Restaurant
Just a hole in the wall, but this place serves perhaps the best Tex-Mex in the Metroplex!Combo Fajitas – excellent!The fixins
Downtown Dallas
Dallas skyline from Trinity Overlook Trail.Reunion TowerReunion Tower and the Hyatt Regency Hotel.I took this same picture of my beautiful bride in 1987. We will compare the two pictures when we get home!Dallas from Reunion Tower.Elizabeth Hunt BridgeTom Landry Freeway ViaductAn example of the superb freeway infrastructure that moves traffic in Dallas so well.The Cotton Bowl and State Fair Park. The Texas Star Ferris Wheel is to the right of the Cotton Bowl.Pegasus at the Omni Hotel.For those who remember the Dallas TV show from the 1980s, this was the Ewing Oil building. In reality, this is the Renaissance Tower, at 56 stories tall.Comerica Bank Tower – 60 stories tallThis is Bank of America Plaza, the second tallest building in Texas at 72 stories tall. I watched this building being built in 1984-1985. That is Fountain Place behind it, to the right.This is Fountain Place, 62 stories tall. I watched this building being built in 1985-1986. The really cool thing about this building is it looks quite different depending on which direction it is viewed from. The top seems to point in different directions.Fountain PlaceI stayed here when I flew to Dallas for the first time in 1984 for a job interview. It was the Hilton Hotel then. It is the Statler Condos today.American Airlines Center, home of the Dallas Mavericks.The Giant Eyeball of Dallas. This 30-foot tall sculpture was created by artist Tony Tasset. It is part of the collection of original artworks belonging to the Joule Hotel.Dealey Plaza, Dallas birthplace
Pioneer Plaza/Longhorn Cattle Drive Sculpture
The Pioneer Plaza sculptures depict a Longhorn Cattle drive. The sculptures are intricately detailed. Amazing to look at. I’m glad this is just a statue.
The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963. President Kennedy was riding in an open limousine through the streets of downtown Dallas in front of a large, cheering crowd. Lee Harvey Oswald fired three shots from the sixth floor of the Texas Book Depository on Elm Street. The president was pronounced dead at Parkland Hospital.
The assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, shot President Kennedy from the sixth floor of the red brick building in this picture. The bus on the street in the picture is about where President Kennedy’s limo was when Oswald’s first shot was fired, hitting the president in the head.This is the Texas Book Depository. Oswald shot the president from the window on the far right side of the sixth floor on the front of this building.This is the famed “Triple Overpass”. Left to right, Commerce, Main and Elm Streets meet under the overpass. President Kennedy was travelling on Elm Street.This “X” in the street marks President Kennedy’s car’s location when the first shot was fired.I took this picture while standing on the “X” in the street. Today, a tree partially blocks the view of the window where the shot came from.These two “XX” in the street mark President Kennedy’s car’s location when the second and third shots were fired. I took this picture while standing on the “XX” in the street. There is a clear view of the sixth floor window (far right) where the shots came from. This bare square is a memorial/tribute to President John F. Kennedy.
The Mustangs at Las Colinas, Irving
The water has been drained, and the fountains are dry, but the Mustangs at Las Colinas are still beautiful and menacing. Las Colinas and these Mustangs were built/erected when I lived here in the mid-1980s. These sculptures are incredibly detailed, fully anatomically correct, and quite beautiful.One angry Mustang!
