Exploring Dallas

This past weekend we rode the DART train into downtown Dallas. Larry wanted me to experience his daily commute to work, plus start our exploration of his area of town. (Larry's workplace is the brownish colored building near the center of this picture.)

First we headed off to visit the site of JFK's assassination.
I remember it like it happened only yesterday! My first shocking awareness of that tragedy happened while I was at school...

I was in Junior High School, passing between classes on an outside covered, curving walkway that connected paralell wings of the building. A girl ran past me in hysterics, crying and screaming out "Kennedy's just been assassinated!" I was stunned, but thinking, "It can't be true!" When I reached my classroom I realized I wasn't the only one in shock, and hoping the breaking news to be false. Then the announcement came over the PA system and the reality of it sunk in--hard and deep, as an eerie silence settled over the classroom. Everyone, including the teacher, was crying, and class was set aside, as grief invaded the classroom.

Here, on this pleasant parkway, is where it happened.

There's a large, white painted "X" in the street to mark the exact location of the convertible limousine, at the very moment when John F. Kennedy was struck by an assassin's bullet as the presidential motorcade passed through downtown Dallas. If you enlarge the picture you might be able to make out the mark, although it's very slight. Maybe this next picture will help.

Now, on to less noteworthy, but certainly pauseworthy places.

And who could resist stopping here? Well...we didn't order the "live boiled crawfish",
but we did enjoy eating here and watching all the horse drawn carriages pass by.
Next, it was on to the trolley stop for a ride back to the DART station.

This ol' gal "Rosie" is 102 years old, and has been restored back to her original condition, complete with rich bungundy velvet, ornate seats. Sweet!

All in all, it was a nice trip back in time!