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A look at Houston’s Meyerland, Dallas’ Munger Place, El Paso’s Sunset Heights, and Austin’s Hyde Park shows that few fights get the blood boiling like a good fight with a neighbor. ....
More than 100 people participated Saturday morning in the Temple Historic District Fourth of July Parade, said Alyce Bartley, president of the Historic Preservation League of Temple. Led by the Temple Fire and Rescue antique Diamond T engine, and escorted by Temple Police, the parade started at 9 a.m. at North Ninth Street and West French Avenue. It passed down Ninth Street as far as West Nugent Avenue. âWe had a Scout troop ⦠and lots of kids on decorated bikes,â she said. The parade was several blocks long, she said. It included Jayson Parks, dressed as Uncle Sam. âHeâs done it for several years,â she said. âWe had Grannyâs Shaved Ice at the end of the parade. We paid for the first 50 snow cones.â ....
The many curtain calls of Dallas’ Magnolia Lounge From talking motion pictures to live theater, this versatile performance space from the ’30s in Fair Park has seen it all. Margo Jones (right) of Theater 54 points out the play scheduled at the theater for March 23, 1954, to Mrs. Al Silver (left) and Mr. and Mrs. Arch B. Swank Jr. (Patsy Swank). Photograph published in The Dallas Morning News on Jan. 17, 1954.(DMN File Photo) The Magnolia Lounge in Fair Park has lived several lives. During the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936, it served as a rest stop for fairgoers, and shortly after, it was reconfigured into a performance space for traveling vaudeville performers. Ten years after the lounge’s opening, theater powerhouse Margo Jones fashioned it into one of America’s first professional theater-in-the-round stages: a layout where audience members surrounded the stage. ....