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| Entry tags: | dallas, fort worth, texas, travel |
Dallas - Fort Worth
Let the images do the talking, I am lazy as usual.
Downtown Dallas is typical of American cities with tall fenestrated high-rises and a few signature buildings which will set it apart from other big cities across the country. For example the green glass skyscraper on the left sculpted like a prism is Fountain Place designed by I.M.Pei.
Pioneer Plaza, which has recreated a cattle drive in bronze with three dozen longhorns and a few cowboys.
This bronze sculpture supposedly is the largest of its kind in the world is the creation of the artist Robert Summers and is located near the original Shawnee Trail.
A Texan bronze cowboy watches keeps an ever constant vigil over the second largest city(DFW) in his Western lone star state.
Pioneer Park Cemetery is right next to the bronze sculpture and the Convention center. Here rests the heroes of the revolutionary war and many of city's mayors and businessmen of the pre-1900 era. The tombstones are behind the flower trees(you can make those out if you look hard enough.)
In 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK from the corner window of the old Texas Schoolbook Depository(picture below.) It is now called the Sixth Floor Museum and houses the legacy of John.F.Kennedy. The 'alleged corner window' is the second from the top, far right column.
Forth Worth, the twin city of Dallas was the original cow town. The Fort Worth Stock Yards were once the largest in the world is now a place where the quaint Old West atmosphere and memorabilia is preserved for the tourists.
There are trolley tours and Indians for hire along the brick roads of the Stockyard.
A Fort Worth Street-side Moment
