Posted on 04/28/2024 9:42:19 AM PDT by Redcitizen
Hello,
I'm planning a trip to Dallas in the next couple of weeks. I know nothing about Dallas so I am relying on your collective experience to help me out.
I plan on making a trip to Dealy Plaza and visit the 6th Floor Museum. Not much of an itinerary but that is what I got.
I plan on being there on a weekday afternoon, spend one full day and fly out the next day.
Looks like Dallas Fort Worth Airport will be my starting point.
Any suggestions on motel/hotel places to stay-no AirBNB, good tourist places to visit during the day?
Any good places to eat, places to avoid? I don't plan on going anywhere after dark.
Does Dealy plaza have a post office so i can mail post cards to family and friends if I can find post cards?
Your thoughts and suggestions are appreciated.
Yeah...and Costco in frisco? Fahget about it....curry city. :)
When I used to take DART to work, it often reeked of pot, even when nobody was on the train.
You can fly now as well, but they charge $6 a drink, so $60 gone...šµāš«
Iāve cruised over Dallas in a 727. My father was a Braniff pilot and he had to ferry a plane from DFW to Love to the maintenance facility. We rode in the cockpit at night. Pretty cool. The plane was obviously empty and not much fuel so my father let out a few expletives because of the hard landing.
I was there for a wedding last week. During the delugeā¦
You have provided me a wealth of information. Plenty to do on my one full day there. One of my main interests is paperback books, but Iām sure Iāll be seeing a lot of sights there to keep me busy.
Thank you for your help.
Because he wants to meet the mysterious man on the knoll.
Dallas is also where my best employer lives
50 miles outside of Dallas assign a right and left rear traffic spotter to call out bogeys quickly approaching from the rear. As you approach your target make sure your navigator has you in the proper lane. Stay calm and stay focused and you have a good chance of survival.
6th Floor Museum. There is a “gift shop” in the same block, near where you buy the tickets. There may be a black guy in Dealy plaza giving a talk - if he’s there, listen to him. BTW, the 6th Floor promotes the “official” assassination story.
Nearby you can take a tour of Reunion Tower if you like and see the Dallas skyline from above. If you have done high skyline tours before or you are afraid of high places, skip it.
In the same general downtown area, try Pecan Lodge for some of the best BBQ (hill country style) in Texas. If you don’t order brisket, and the huge rib, don’t bother going. It’s not cheap, but it’s a splurge.
If good weather, the arboretum for sure. My family are members. One of the best, if not the best in the country.
Make it by one of the following TexMex restaurant (1) Mia Cocina (modern texmex) The the brisket tacos (2) Chuy’s (Austin style texmex). Ask for the Elvis platter with Priscilla on the side. Come hungry.
If i were there for 1 - 2 days, that would be my itinerary.
As a native Houstonian, isn’t Dallas just Southern Oklahoma?
Paperback books? There’s the main Half Price Books store at Nortwest Highway and Greenville (which cross but don’t intersect). I didn’t mention the Bush library but someone else did; I didn’t think it was worth the cost of admission. Red, Blue, or Orange line from downtown to the Mockingbird station; SMU shuttle from the rail station across the expressway to the campus. Not sure how close the drop off is to the Museum. There’s also supposed to be a nice art museum on campus. (Dallas Art Museum is on Ross in the northeast corner of downtown, and the Nasher sculpture garden is nearby if you are into modern art sculpture (I’m not)). Stockyards in Fort Worth has also been mentioned. Billy Bob’s honkytonk is near the Stockyards.
Reunion Tower (across the track from Union Station) next to the Hyatt has an observation deck.
Circling back to Kennedy - the building where Oswald was shot is the old municipal building - a couple of blocks east of Thanksgiving square on Pacific, and three blocks south on Harwood, between Main and Commerce. I think it’s now a law school. And the hotel diagonally across the street (The Indigo?) was the original Hilton Hotel. (Hilton had owned other hotel properties, but it was the first to bear his name).
This show is all things Texas. Hereās the episode on Dallas.
https://youtu.be/pKJ74p-0Dzg?feature=shared
I couldn’t tell ya. Don’t know enough about the dynamics between Oklahoma and North Texas. Seems people from Oklahoma are good people though.
What I remember about Dealey Plaza were the vendors outside selling books and info on the hundreds of JFK assassination theories.
We went recently to visit DS1 who is working in Texas currently.
In Dallas saw the JFK museum, W Bush presidential library, and Dallas Arboretum especially the DeGolyer mansion. Ate at Torchy’s Taco’s for lunch one day. Very good.
In Fort Worht, saw the stockyards including their museum and the Longhorn herd. Saw Western Art at Sid Richardson museum uptown Fort Worth near court house. Ate at Cattleman’s restaurant near the stockyard at Ft. Worth. Ate at BBQ place a couple of blocks from courthouse, can’t think of name but full of cops and lawyers from courthouse so took that as a good sign.
Enjoy!
Great song.
If you like beer, there’s several good breweries around, especially Lakewood.
Flying Saucers are pretty good.
Meddlesome Moth is expensive, but good and close to downtown.
Cindi’s NY Deli is very close to Dealey area, very good.
Are you renting a vehicle? How far or not are you wanting to go?
Oh. Do you think he is still there?
Not everyone will get this but I did.š
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