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December 6, 2011
For Sale: A Mural Study For Frisco Done in '59 By Famed Member of Dallas Nine, Perry Nichols
eBay seller "wpa_fan"Perry Nichols' The Game, which once decorated the side of the Frisco Community Center, as you can see belowEven if the name Perry Nichols escapes you, and it likely does, the work does not. The Woodrow grad's art surrounds us even now, some two decades after his death -- at t ... More >>
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May 23, 2011
For Sale: A Rare Photo Taken on "Babe Ruth Day in Dallas" at Rebel Stadium on July 10, 1947
eBay seller "lexibell"Click to embiggen this Squire Haskins photo taken at Rebel Stadium -- better known today as Burnett Field -- in the summer of '47On July 6, 1947, it was announced that George Herman Ruth would be coming to Dallas on July 9. The occasion: an appearance during a double-header ... More >>
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February 18, 2011
As Baker Hotel Team Tackles "Last Step" in Financing the Re-Do, Documentary Previews at Texas Theatre Tomorrow
Patrick MichelsThe team looking to modernize and reopen Mineral Wells' 82-year-old Baker Hotel says they're one small step away from having the financing set and starting on the remodeling.Been a while since we've had much to say here about the big re-do out at Mineral Wells' Baker Hotel -- the 82-y ... More >>
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December 10, 2010
Whatever Happened to Dallas' Restaurant Menus?
Researching this week's feature story on the Dallas dining scene gave me the chance to visit the archives of the Dallas Public Library, where I spent hours immersed in dozens of old community cookbooks uncovered by Texas/Dallas History Department manager Carol Roark - who would qualify for a dedicat ... More >>
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September 4, 2010
A Tour Through Mineral Wells' Baker Hotel As It's Prepped for Its Makeover
Photos by Patrick MichelsThere are holes in the walls of the storied hotel, and the beds are trashed and stained from seeping water (and worse), but developers hope to reopen the Baker in 2013. As we stroll from the ruins of the Baker Hotel lobby into what's left of the dining room, Mark Rawlings po ... More >>
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August 17, 2010
Man Behind Stoneleigh Redo Pulls the Trigger on Resurrecting Mineral Wells's Baker Hotel
Flickr user: sidehikeMy former Dallas Times Herald colleague, Helen Bryant Anders, writes this morning that Jeff Trigger -- former managing director at the Adolphus and The Mansion on Turtle Creek, and the man responsible for the Stoneleigh Hotel's extreme makeover -- is about to save the mighty ... More >>
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August 17, 2010
A Doc-in-Progress About the Life and Death and Rebirth of Mineral Wells's Baker Hotel
Turns out our own Patrick Michels is a bit, well, obsessed with the Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells -- as in, "I haven't broken in there ... yet." He was just out there a couple of weeks back, matter of fact, just to see the place. Which is why, after this morning's post about plans for an extreme hote ... More >>
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November 21, 2008
A Grandfather's Stash Reveals the Dallas That Was and Might Have Been
Courtesy Justin Cozart Yesterday, I came across a Flickr page maintained by Justin Cozart, who's been uploading in recent days photos of a Dallas that no longer exists -- as you can tell by the photo of the Baker Hotel above, taken as it was being imploded in June 1980. But not all of Cozart's ph ... More >>
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May 17, 2007
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March 11, 2004
Road Chew
For the most part, this Tucker stays on track
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November 10, 1994
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In the 1950s and '60s, Tony Zoppi wrote about -- and rode with -- the stars