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The Texas Centennial Exposition was held at Fair Park in Dallas, June 6 – November 29, 1936. The event attracted 6,353,827 visitors, and cost around $25 million. [4] The exposition was credited for buffering Dallas from the Great Depression, creating over 10,000 jobs and giving a $50 million boost to the local economy.
The Greater Texas & Pan-American Exposition was a World's Fair held at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas . The exhibition promoted the city of Dallas as the cultural and economic capital of an emerging Pan-American civilization stretching from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska .
1542 – Spanish explorers make camp in an Indian Village named Guasco at current-day Dottie Lynn Pkwy. [1]1838 – Robert Sloan and Nathaniel T. Journey lead an expedition into present-day Euless and Arlington that was recorded as one of the first Anglo-American efforts to open the area to settlement.
Jockey Jareth Loveberry jumped at the chance to race at Arlington International Racecourse. He moved his family from Michigan to Glen Ellyn to be nearby, and became the winningest jockey on the ...
The Hall of State (originally the State of Texas Building) is a building in Dallas's Fair Park that commemorates the history of the U.S. state of Texas and is considered one of the best examples of Art Deco architecture in the state. It was designed and built for the Texas Centennial Exposition.
The 2024 edition of the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo takes center stage Jan. 13 with the All-Western Parade — kicking off three weeks of events paying tribute to the cowboy way of life ...
Texas Centennial Exposition. After a long campaign in the years leading up to 1936, the state of Texas chose Dallas as the site of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition. More than fifty buildings were built for the Exposition in Fair Park, and 10 million visitors came to see the US$25 million spectacle. [1]
Arlington has hosted parades before, but somehow what happened here on Nov. 3, 2023, felt just a bit bigger than the ones held every year for the Fourth of July. By noon, vendors all over the ...