Panoramic Mural

The mural in the entrance to the DMA in panoramic view. More information on the mural on The Gift of Life post.

The Greyhound bus included as a bonus item.

Museum Tower and DMA

The Museum Tower sits quietly in the background, debating if there will be enough sun today for it to shoot its solar death ray down at the DMA.

Sadly, there will probably be enough sun for it.

Trolley Stop Ahead

The McKinney Avenue Trolley terminus on St. Paul.

The Klyde Warren Park extension is due to be completed the end of September, 2013. Once that is complete they'll connect the two termini up on Federal Street to form the St. Paul loop.

Big Red Wall

 

The Edwards Manufacturing Company building is one of the old buildings in the West End.

The building sits at the North East corner of Corbin and Market streets and is currently vacant.

Brick Brutalism

Among some of Dallas' "finer" bits of architecture, include this modern loft condominium built in 2000 in a red brick variant of of post-modern brutalist style.

More information can be found at www.1999mckinney.com.

Klein Bros Cement

The Klein Bros. have been in the concrete business for over 100 years here in the Dallas area. It's nice to see some of their older work still standing.

JFK on Art

Quote on the wall at the Dallas Museum of Art for the Hotel Texas exhibit.

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth... In free society art is not a weapon and it does not belong to the spheres of polemic and ideology. Artists are not engineers of the soul. It may be different elsewhere. But democratic society--in it, the highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation. And the nation which disdains the mission of art invites the fate of Robert Frost's hired man, the fate of having 'nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.'

-President John F Kennedy, Amherst College, October 26, 1963