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Central Expressway near NorthPark Center. The Central project was first proposed by Dallas City Planner George E. Kessler in 1911, who suggested that the city buy the right of way of the Houston and Texas Central Railway (H&TC) to remove the railway tracks and construct a Central Boulevard (later renamed the Central Expressway project) in their place.
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The High Five Interchange is one of the first five-level stack interchanges built in Dallas, Texas.Located at the junction of the Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway (Interstate 635, or I-635) and the Central Expressway (U.S. Highway 75, or US 75), it replaces an antiquated combination interchange constructed in the 1960s.
The Adrian Flatt hand collection is a collection of plaster and bronze casts of human hands on display at the Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.The casts were created by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Adrian Flatt (1921—2017), and the collection features the hands of various former United States presidents, actors, athletes, scientists, musicians, artists, astronauts, and other ...
The first freeway in Texas was a several-mile stretch of US 75 (now I-45)—The Gulf Freeway—opened to Houston traffic on October 1, 1948. The stretch of US 75 between I-30 and the Oklahoma state line has exits numbered consecutively from 1 to 75 (with occasional A and B designations), excluding 9-19.
Parkland's high volume of patients led to the decision by the Dallas County Commissioners Court to propose replacing the overcrowded, 50+-year-old building with a new 1,700,000-square-foot (160,000 m 2), 17-story, 862-bed facility, along with a new 380,000-square-foot (35,000 m 2) outpatient center, a 275,000-square-foot (25,500 m 2) office ...
Dr. Jackson opened her own private practice in Dallas after she completed her residency in 1932. [2] In 1933, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons was founded and would only allow Dr. Jackson, a female, into the academy if she passed the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery examination. She became board-certified by the American ...
From January 28, 1987, to June 25, 1991, when the portion between I-45 and I-345 / US 75 was given to the city of Dallas, that segment was Spur 559. [2]The expressway was named for former Mayor and Judge John Jay Good and James W. "Weck" Latimer, [3] editor of the Dallas Herald, both citizens from Dallas' pioneer past.