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Thought I would post this info for some of you to find out more about the place you have moved to or are considering to move to. Overall, Dallas is a very progressive city.
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1841 - John Neely Bryan establishes a settlement on the eastern bank of the Trinity River, the site that would evolve to become Dallas.
1846 - Dallas County is organized and the town of Dallas is named to serve as the temporary county seat.
1850 - Voters select Dallas as the permanent county seat, turning down the rival communities of Hord's Ridge and Cedar Springs.
1855 - European immigrants establish the utopian community of La Reunion west of Dallas.
1856 - The city of Dallas is incorporated by the state.
1857 - La Reunion begins to disband, with many of its members relocating to Dallas.
Dallas’ first subscription library is established.
1860 - The population of Dallas reaches 678. July 8: Most of Dallas’ business district is destroyed by fire. After the fire, three slaves are hanged, and two Iowa preachers are whipped.
1861 - Dallas residents vote in favor of secession from the Union.
1867 - Freedmen's Bureau is established in Dallas.
1869 - The popularity of horse racing in Dallas prompts the founding of the Dallas Jockey Club.
1872 - The Houston & Texas Central Railroad becomes the first rail service to reach Dallas.
1873 - Feb. 22: Texas & Pacific Railroad arrives in Dallas.
Dallas’ first Jewish congregation, Temple Emanu-El, is established.
1874 - Ursuline nuns open an academy for girls of all faiths.
1876 - James J. Eakins donated the land for the city’s first public park, now known as Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park.
1881 - Telephone service is first introduced in the city.
1882 - Electric lights first become available in Dallas.
1885 - The Dallas Morning News publishes its first issue on Oct. 1.
1892 - The "Old Red" courthouse opens for business in downtown Dallas.
1886 - Oct. 25: The first Texas State Fair opens. Two rival associations sponsored state fairs, and the Dallas State Fair opens the next day.
Jay Gould, railroad tycoon, declares Dallas to be the leading city in Texas.
1887 - The two competing state fairs merge and become the Texas State Fair and Dallas Exposition.
1889 - Electric street cars make their first appearance in Dallas.
1890 - The population reaches 38,067, and Dallas is the largest city in Texas.
Jan. 1: Dallas annexes the town of East Dallas.
1894 - Parkland Hospital for charity patients is built.
1897 - February: Dallas sees its first motion picture.
Dallas’ first modern hospital, St. Paul’s Sanitarium, is erected.
1898 - Linz Bros. erects the first fireproof building at Main and Martin streets.
1899 - Unionized labor comes to Dallas when the American Federation of Labor grants a charter to the Trades Assembly of Dallas.
1900 - Dallas High School fields the state's first high school football team.
1901 - Oct. 29: The Dallas Public Library opens.
1902 - Oct. 26: Sacred Heart Cathedral is dedicated at 2215 Ross Ave.
1904 - Dallas annexes the neighboring community of Oak Cliff.
1905 - April 5: President Theodore Roosevelt is the first president to visit Dallas while in office.
1907 - April: The Dallas Cotton Exchange is granted charter.
Sept. 10: Neiman Marcus opens.
Oct. 24: Cornerstone laid for Dallas’ first steel skyscraper, the 15-story Praetorian building.
Nov. 28: Dallas holds its first multifaith Thanksgiving celebration.
1908 - Dallas' worst flood leaves 11 people dead and at least 4,000 others homeless.
1910 - The population of Dallas reaches 92,104.
Dallas engages George E. Kessler to devise a plan for the city.
March 3: The first heavier-than-air flight in Dallas is made by Otto Brodie.
Work starts on the White Rock Lake Reservoir.
March 3: A mob watches as Allen Brooks is lynched downtown.
1911 - Railroads announce plans for a $6 million Union Station in Dallas.
1912 - Construction on the Hotel Adolphus and the Houston Street Viaduct is completed. The Dallas Zoo moves to Marsalis Park.
1914 - Dallas is selected as the location for a new Federal Reserve Bank.
1915 - Southern Methodist University opens.
1916 - Union Station railroad terminal becomes operational.
1917 - Sept. 10: Dallas votes for prohibition, and saloons close
Oct. 20. December: Love Field aviation camp begins training pilots to serve in World War I.
1918 - Hospital resources are strained by the great influenza epidemic
1921 - The Majestic Theatre and the Magnolia Building are completed.
May 24: In response to a large Ku Klux Klan parade on May 21, The Dallas Morning News prints an editorial denouncing the Klan, beginning its anti-Klan campaign that lasted for several years.
August: WRR, the first broadcast station in Texas and one of the nation’s five inaugural stations, is licensed.
1926 - Haggar Clothing Co. is founded by J.M. Haggar Sr., a 34-year-old Lebanese immigrant. Dallas Negro Chamber of Commerce is organized. It becomes the Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce.
1927 - July 7: Love Field airport is purchased by the city. Methodist Hospital begins operation. Blind Lemon’s Chicago pressings (“Matchbox Blues”) became some of the biggest-selling “race records” of the era. Dallas- Fort Worth turned into a center for blues and jazz recordings by such labels as Okeh and Columbia.
1928 - June 1: Dallas’ first passenger service between Dallas, San Antonio and Houston is instituted by Texas Air Transport.
1930 -The population of Dallas reaches 260,475. What is now the Cotton Bowl is built. Voters approve a council-manager form of city government. Eugene McDermott and John Clarence “Doc” Karcher start Geophysical Service Inc., which later becomes Texas Instruments Inc.
1931 - Levees are constructed to protect downtown Dallas from flooding of the Trinity River.
1932 - April 18: Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow begin their crime spree.
1934 - The red Pegasus revolving sign is installed atop the Magnolia Building.
1935 - Nov. 30: Undefeated SMU beats previously undefeated TCU in a game that puts the Mustangs in the Rose Bowl and allows them to pay off the mortgage at Ownby Stadium.
1936 - June 6: The Texas Centennial and Exposition opens. Radio station KRLD is established.
1937 - Blues singer-guitarist Robert Johnsoncut 13 numbers in Dallas, including the classic “Hellhound on My Trail,” at 508 Park Ave. Around the same year, T-Bone Walker and future jazz great Charlie Christian, born in Bonham, Texas, began experimenting with the electric guitar — it would be instrumental in the development of Texas swing.
The Citizens Council, an elite group of business leaders, is formed.
Jan. 1: The first Cotton Bowl game features Marquette and TCU.
Texas Rangers are sent to Dallas to restore order during labor strikes.
1939 - Dr. Edward H. Cary, E.R. Brown, Karl Hoblitzelle and Dr. Hall Shannon found the Southwestern Medical Foundation.
1940 - The population of Dallas reaches 294,734. The Mexican Chamber of Commerce (now the Dallas Hispanic Chamber of Commerce) is formed.
1941 - The Farmers Market (established 1939) becomes a city entity.
1943 - Nov. 15: The 31-story Mercantile Bank building is the city’s tallest building.
1945 - Aug. 4: Dallas’ Byron Nelson wins his 11th consecutive professional golf tournament.
Aug. 14: Dallas celebrates the announcement of the surrender of Japan ending World War II. Thousands jammed downtown Dallas, and The Dallas Morning News described it as the “Blaringist, Howlingist, Happiest Celebration.”
1947 - Construction of Central Expressway begins.
1948 - KRLD-TV gets Dallas’ first television permit in early September, and WBAP broadcasts the first live broadcast in October.
1949 - Southwestern Medical College becomes part of the University of Texas system. It was renamed the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in 1954.
1950 - The population of Dallas is 434,462.
1952 - Big Tex makes his first appearance at the State Fair.
1955 - Sept. 12: The NAACP files a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination in separate schools for black and white students in the Dallas Independent School District. The Dallas Theater Center is founded.
1956 - Secretary Betty Nesmith Graham invents Liquid Paper.
1957 - April 2: Tornado strikes Dallas, killing 10 and leaving 500 homeless.
July 6: The Dallas Home Furnishing Mart has its formal dedication at 2000 Stemmons Expressway.
Nov. 21: Maria Callas, one of the world’s most famous sopranos, gives a Fair Park Music Hall recital inaugurating the Dallas Civic Opera — and establishes Dallas as a major national operatic destination.
1958 - Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments creates an integrated circuit on a silicon chip and usher in the electronic and semiconductor age.
1960 - The Dallas Cowboys professional football team is formed.
1961 - Racial integration of Dallas public facilities begins.
1962 - Ross Perot starts Electronic Data Systems Corp. with $1,000 borrowed from his wife.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through downtown Dallas.
1965 - July 3: The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals orders immediate desegregation of DISD.
Aug. 19: NorthPark Center holds its official opening.
1966 - Sept. 19: Classes start at El Centro College, the first school in the Dallas County Community College District.
Sept. 24: SMU’s Jerry LeViasis the first black scholarship player to appear in a Southwest Conference football game.
1968 - June 16: Dallas’ Lee Trevino wins his first major, the U.S. Open at Oak Hill in New York and is the first golfer to break 70 in all four rounds of the Open.
After standing in line at his North Dallas bank, Don Wetzel invents a cash-dispensing machine now known as the ATM.
1969 - Anita N. Martinez is the first Hispanic elected to the Dallas City Council. George L. Allen is the first black to be elected to the Dallas City Council. He was appointed in 1968.
Sept. 11: The founders of Texas Instruments, Eugene McDermott, J. Erik Jonsson and Cecil Green, give the land and buildings that become the University of Texas at Dallas.
1970 - The population of Dallas reaches 844,401.
1971 - A lawsuit forces city election by districts rather than at large.
June 18: Southwest Airlines makes its first commercial flight.
1972 - Jan. 16: The Cowboys beat Miami in Super Bowl VIfor their first championship. The Cowboys would go on to win Super Bowls in 1978, 1993, 1994 and 1996.
The Texas Rangers major league baseball team comes to North Texas.
1973 - Dallas Convention Center is completed.
Jan. 22: The Supreme Court rules on Roe vs. Wade, deciding for the plaintiff.
July 24: The shooting death of a 12-year-old Hispanic boy, Santos Rodriguez, sparks demonstrations. The police officer is later convicted of murder.
1974 - Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport opens as the world's largest airport.
1978 - The weekly television series Dallas premiers, and Reunion Tower opens to the public.
1979 - Jan. 1: Joe Montana rallies Notre Dame from a 22-point, fourth-quarter deficit to stun Houston in the Cotton Bowl.
1980 - The Dallas Mavericks basketball team is formed.
The population of Dallas reaches 904,078.
March 21: Dallas character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unknown assailant, triggering eight months of “Who Shot J.R.” mania.
June 23-Sept. 6: Dallas experiences a record heat wave.
Nov. 21: Dallas draws the largest audience in television history up to that date and reveals that spurned lover Kristin Shepard shot J.R. The A. C. Nielsen Co. estimated that 41.4 million homes tuned into the episode.
1981 - March 23: U.S. District Judge Barefoot Sanders is assigned to the Tasby school desegregation case.
1982 - A new Dallas Public Library opens opposite City Hall.
1983 - Dallas Area Rapid Transit is created following approval by voters in 14 cities and Dallas County.
1984 - Aug. 20: Dallas welcomes the Republican National Convention.
The Dallas Museum of Art moves to a new location downtown.
1985 - The 72-story Bank of America Plaza, known for its green glowing outline, opens in downtown Dallas.
Aug. 2: Delta 191 crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
1987 - Feb. 25: Southern Methodist University’s football program receives the “death penalty” from the NCAA. April 18: Annette Strauss is the first women elected mayor of Dallas. (Adlene Harrison was appointed to complete the last three months of Wes Wise’s term in 1976.)
1988 - Aug. 31: Delta 1141 crashes at D/FW Airport.
1989 - Feb. 20: The Sixth Floor Museum opens.
Feb. 25: Arkansas oilman Jerry Jones buys the Cowboys from Bum Bright.
Sept. 6: The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center opens.
1990 - The population of Dallas reaches 1,006,877.
1991 - May 1: Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan throws his seventh and final no-hitter at Arlington Stadium against Toronto.
June 26: Larry Johnson is the first Dallas player to be selected No. 1 in the NBA Draft.
Nov. 5: Voters elect the first City Council under the 14-1 plan.
1993 - The Dallas Stars professional hockey team begins play.
2001 - The $420 million American Airlines Center opens.
1994 - June 25: The Dallas Cotton Exchange is imploded, over the objections of preservationists.
1995 - May 6: Ron Kirk is elected Dallas’ first black mayor.
1996 - Aug. 1: Dallas’ Michael Johnson wins the 200-meter dash in 19.32 seconds (world record) at the Olympics in Atlanta, becoming the first man to win the 400 and 200 at the same Olympics.
1997 - July 24: Jurors awarded $119.6 million to 11 plaintiffs in a sexual-abuse civil case after unanimously finding that the Dallas Catholic Diocese committed “gross negligence” and concealed information in its handling of former priest Rudolph "Rudy" Kos.
1999 - June 20: Early Sunday morning in Buffalo, Brett Hull’s goal in the third overtime of Game 6 wins the Stanley Cup for Dallas.
2000 - The population of Dallas reaches 1,188,580.
2001 - July 27: American Airlines Center opens, the first puzzle piece in what will become Victory, a large mixed-use development northwest of downtown.
2003 - June 5: The official end of racial segregation arrives for Dallas public schools when U.S. District Judge Barefoot Sanders ends 32 years of federal court oversight.
Sept. 16: The Latino Cultural Center opens with more than 3,000 people attending the first-day festivities celebrating the $10 million center.
2005 - Nov. 8: Voters defeat the second ballot measure in six months to increase mayoral power.
There hasn’t been an office tower built downtown since the 1980s, but this year sees two groundbreakings in the Arts District: 7-Eleven Inc.’s 24-story headquarters and Hunt Consolidated’s 15-story building. And in November, the ceremonial groundbreaking is held for the $275 million Dallas Center for the Performing Arts.
Dec. 9: A groundbreaking ceremony is held for the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, a 40-story suspension bridge over the Trinity River.
December: Work begins on a $270 million project to convert the vacant 36-story Mercantile Bank complex into commercial and residential space.
You left out all sorts of things. Progressive is a negative. Progressive indicates illegal things will be overlooked to create a certain atmosphere. As a Dallas resident for over 50 years I find what you wrote funny, innaccurate and misleading. Thank you for your comic relief .
You left out all sorts of things. Progressive is a negative. Progressive indicates illegal things will be overlooked to create a certain atmosphere. As a Dallas resident for over 50 years I find what you wrote funny, innaccurate and misleading. Thank you for your comic relief .
What was "misleading" and "inaccurate"? I'd LOVE to know? As most of it can be documented. BTW, I did not personally make up the list I ran across it and thought I'd pass it on for those that are interested in moving to the area to learn a little about their new home. The "progressive" part was just to let some know that their false stereotypes of Dallas are wrong, we don't ride horses everywhere we go still, Dallas was home to some of the worlds most used inventions, etc. Glad it gave you a laugh...........
Riding horses is not a bad thing. We dont want to be known as "every other city". Moderator cut: political rant By the way Horses are far more enviromental friendly than cars, so maybe we need more horses.
Ahhhh, ok, I'm clued in again. I fugured it was filmed in CA on a set setup to look like downtown Dallas. I'm still bummed that most of the old westerns were filmed in CA.
Ahhhh, ok, I'm clued in again. I fugured it was filmed in CA on a set setup to look like downtown Dallas. I'm still bummed that most of the old westerns were filmed in CA.
socketz, here is a list of movies and tv shows that were filmed in Dallas. Of course if anyone has seen Robocop and the Dallas City Hall............ it is a dead giveaway. LOL!!!
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[edit] Movies and television filmed in Dallas
A large number of movies have been filmed in Dallas, though not all of these are necessarily set in Dallas (e.g., RoboCop was filmed in Dallas but set in Detroit). All of the movies and television shows below were filmed in Dallas unless noted otherwise.
1945, State Fair
1950, Dallas (movie)
1959, The Killer Shrews
1959, The Giant Gila Monster
1960, My Dog Buddy
1967, Bonnie and Clyde
1973, Executive Action
1974, Benji
1974, Phantom of the Paradise
1978, Debbie Does Dallas
1983, Silkwood
1983, Tender Mercies
1984, Places in the Heart
1985, The Trip to Bountiful
1987, Paramedics
1987, RoboCop
1988, Dead Solid Perfect (HBO movie)
1988, It Takes Two
1988, Il Nido del Ragno ("The Spider's Nest")
1988, Talk Radio
1988-1991, Gerbert (TV series)
1989, Born on the Fourth of July
1990, Problem Child
1991, JFK
1991, My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
1991, Necessary Roughness
1991, Steele's Law
1992-2002, Barney & Friends (TV series)
1992, Leap of Faith
1992, Love Crimes
1992, Love Field
1992, Ruby
1993, Hexed
1993-2001, Walker, Texas Ranger (TV series)
1994, Curse of the Starving Class
1995-1998, Wishbone (TV series)
1996, Bottle Rocket
1997, The Apostle
1997, Asteroid (TV movie)
1997, Batman & Robin
1997, Point Blank
1998, The X Files: Fight the Future
1999, Any Given Sunday
1999, Boys Don't Cry
1999, Office Space
1999, Olive, the Other Reindeer (TV special) (animated in Dallas)
1999, Universal Soldier, The Return
2000, Dr. T & the Women
2001, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (animated in Dallas)
2001, Pendulum
2002-present, The Adventures Of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (TV series) (animated in Dallas)
2002, The Anarchist Cookbook
2002, The Rookie
2002, Serving Sara
2002, Slap Her... She's French
2003, Saving Jessica Lynch (TV movie)
2004, The Ant Bully (animated in Dallas)
2004, The Benefactor (TV series)
2004, Primer
2005, Bewitched
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