Love frozen margaritas? You have Mariano Martinez from Dallas to thank. The invention of the frozen margarita machine in increased the demand for tequila in the US and popularized Tex-Mex cuisine. Well, with five exceptions: in , the fair was cancelled because of WWI, and it was canceled again between due to World War II. Ever heard of the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders?
Of course you have. In , the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders became the first ever professional cheerleading squad. Now, hundreds of women from all over the US try out to be a part of the team.
Barney, the big purple dinosaur, was created in Dallas! Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato also got their big breaks on this hit television show. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested in town for the murder and was killed two days later by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner. On the lighter side of Dallas Dallas became the nation's third-largest technology center during the s and s, with the growth of such companies as Ling-Tempco-Vought LTV Corporation and Texas Instruments.
With the opening of the Home Furnishings Mart in , the home furnishing business grew into the Dallas Market Center, which eventually became the largest wholesale trade complex in the world.
In the s and s, the Dallas skyline changed with the introduction of some prominent skyscrapers. When the oil industry relocated its headquarters to Houston by the s, Dallas was beginning to see the benefits from a burgeoning technology boom, by the expanding computer and telecommunications industries, while continuing to be a center of banking and business. The sporting life In Dallas, professional sports teams are plentiful and famous.
Education and the arts Bringing institutions of higher learning was important to Dallas early in its history, so that in , efforts began to convince Southwestern University in Georgetown just north of the state capital, Austin , to relocate there. They refused, but this action brought Dallas to the attention of the Methodist Church. Subsequently, in , Southern Methodist University opened its doors to the general population, in addition to students of the faith.
There are many unique museums in Dallas, including the Dallas Museum of Natural History, founded in A hub of transportation for the western U. Dallas soon became a center for petroleum financing. In a massive engineering effort begun in , the channel of the Trinity River was moved, straightened, and confined between levees to prevent future flooding.
Dallas businessmen also succeeded in making Fair Park the site of the Texas Centennial celebration, thus providing work for local builders, contractors, advertisers, concessionaires, and construction workers.
The city played host to ten million visitors, including President Franklin D. One of the premier suburbs in Texas, Highland Park , developed on the northern edge of Dallas during the early part of the twentieth century.
In it was built one of the first large-scale shopping centers in the nation, Highland Park Village , in Highland Park incorporated in and the adjacent community of University Park in Their battles with Dallas over annexation lasted into the s.
Its three leading industries were food processing , apparel manufacturing, and printing and publishing. Then war-related industries, such as North American Aviation, pushed industrial employment in Dallas to more than 75, in Dallas businesses experienced a boom after World War II comparable to that following the coming of the railroads.
In , five new businesses opened each day and thirteen new manufacturing plants opened every month. In the population stood at , In two developers, Trammell Crow and John M. The opening of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in attracted numerous corporate headquarters to Dallas and consolidating the city's reputation as a national financial and business center.
The population grew from , in to , in , and from , in to 1,, in The census reported the ethnic groups in the city as White, By the population had grown to 1,, Racial integration of public facilities began on August 15, , when a carefully orchestrated plan sent African Americans to lunch counters and businesses throughout the city for equal service.
This plan, which proceeded without incident, was the work of a biracial committee appointed by the Dallas and Negro chambers of commerce, which devised a publicity campaign and notified business owners in advance. Integration of the public schools proceeded more slowly, and the school district remained under court supervision for decades.
Dallas suffered its most traumatic experience on November 22, , when President John F. Two days later, his alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald , was killed before television cameras by a Dallas nightclub owner, Jack Ruby. In , after twenty-five years of debate about how the city should commemorate the event, The Sixth Floor Museum opened in the former Texas School Book Depository. The religious composition of the city has changed considerably over the years.
Early Protestant settlers looked to traveling missionaries for religious services. The first Episcopal parish was organized in Catholics celebrated the first Mass in Dallas in Paul Methodist The first Jewish synagogue, Temple Emanu-El , was built in , and the first Catholic parish was established in , when Dallas was still in the Diocese of Galveston. Congregationalists organized in , Seventh-day Adventists in , Lutherans in , Unitarians in , Christian Scientists in , and Mormons in The variety of communions helped to make Dallas a religious stronghold by the turn of the century, and the continued growth of churches marked Dallas as a city of churchgoers.
Subsequently, as the population has diversified, so have the religious faiths. By , Catholics had the largest representation in Dallas, followed by Southern Baptists and Evangelical Protestants. The Art Saloon of Adolph Gouhenant , located on the south side of the courthouse square in the s, served as a photograph gallery and was an early expression of artistic interest in Dallas.
An diary reference to a visit "to the courthouse to look at the paintings of the Hudson schollars" may mark the earliest art exhibit in Dallas. Art shows at the annual state fairs after exposed the public to art, while plans for the Carnegie Library, which opened in , included an upstairs art gallery. The success of early shows there, which featured such regional artists as Frank Charles F. Reaugh and Edward G. Eisenlohr , led to the organization of the Dallas Art Association, which began assembling a permanent collection.
After several moves and name changes, the Dallas Museum of Art now occupies a building designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes.
It opened in as the first new facility constructed in the Dallas Arts District, which comprises 68 acres on the northeast corner of downtown. By Dallas had a theater, Field's Opera House, where the first performance of an opera in the city took place in February The Dallas Symphony Orchestra traces its roots to performances in , and the Dallas Opera was launched in Both organizations now occupy buildings in the Arts District. Pei designed the Morton H. Annual Events. Getting Around.
Population Dallas is the 9th largest city in the US and the third largest in Texas with a population of 1,, Accessibility Dallas is centrally located and within a four-hour flight from most North American destinations. Dallas Fun Facts The frozen margarita machine was invented in Dallas The integrated circuit computer chip which became the microchip was invented in Dallas in The 52 foot 'Big Tex' statue that greets visitors at the annual State Fair of Texas is the tallest cowboy in Texas.
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