A Time Traveler's Guide To Dallas: How We Became Urban Legends In Our Own Time

"500 plus pages of light-hearted history of Dallas, Texas from 1900 to 1970. Hundreds of photographs, clippings and images, most of them rarely seen, enliven the pages. The book is a fast-paced and funny trip from the earliest days of Dallas all the way through the swinging '60s. A few of the subjects covered include The Great State Fair ("The Best State Fair in all of Texas"), mobsters, music, local TV, movie theaters, strippers, ghost stories, The Centennial Celebration, singers, entertainers, sports heroes, shopping, celebrities, rock 'n' roll, Dallas during the depression and the World Wars, nightclubs, teen hangouts, The State Fair Musicals, restaurants and dives, The Cowboys, Bonnie and Clyde, movies and records made in Dallas, plus hundreds of fun facts about Dallas and the movers and the shakers who helped turn the city into the "urban legend" it became. From the book's introduction: "without all the fancy words and stupid statistics that put normal people into a coma when reading history books." Anyone with the slightest interest in the city of Dallas will find this one hard to put down."