State Fair Of Texas

State Fair Strategy Keeps You From Breaking the Bank

By Mimi Perez / October 22, 2022 /
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Have a strategy in place before visiting all the vendors at the State Fair of Texas. It just may keep you from breaking the bank.

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Reconstructing Fair Park: What We’ve Lost And Why The Ford Building Matters

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / March 31, 2022 /

By Jay FirschingSenior Associate and Historic Preservation Specialist, Architexas Fair Park was designed primarily for a one-time event, the 1936 Texas Centennial and World’s Fair. Preserving the Art Deco exhibition buildings initially intended to be temporary has been challenging. We have also lost so many structures, such as the Ford Building. Can some of these…

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Discover The Art Deco Wonderland of Dallas’ Fair Park on July 30

By Karen Eubank / July 29, 2020 /

Preservation Dallas is presenting their first-ever virtual program tomorrow entitled “Art Deco Architecture in Fair Park,” and it’s a can’t-miss event for anyone who loves history, Dallas, and art. This program is important on multiple levels, not the least of which is the program’s virtual aspect. Our recent unexpected and collective fast-forward into video technology…

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Jeremy Larsen Prepares for Cookie Battle

By Joshua Baethge / September 20, 2018 /

The State Fair of Texas is just around the corner, which means Jeremy Larsen is about to spend a lot of time in the kitchen. Last year, the home designer and Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Realtor entered three items into the Fair’s cookie contest. He was recognized for them all. “I didn’t think that was a…

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Is the Walt Humann Fair Park Deal Being Rethought? (Or Dumped?)

By Candy Evans / September 29, 2016 /
Most Endangered Historic Places in Dallas

My tip came in last week, this is what I was told by an anonymous source: “The city attorney’s office is now telling Mayor Rawlings that the Humann plan won’t fly, that they were wrong, and they do need to open the bid up to RFPs.” As a blogger, I guess I could have published…

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