Tweet In the winter of 1910, Dallas was suffering a crime wave of purse snatchings and assaults. The police didn’t know how to stop it, and people were hungry for blame. One night amid this crisis, a 68-year-old servant named Allen Brooks was discovered in a barn outside of town in the company of 3-year-old Ethel Huvens. The […]
Jason Cochran
Stuff you never knew you never knew
Posts Tagged ‘american history’
Aug
23
2016
Jul
8
2016
The Crowd in the Streets of Dallas
Mar
28
2015
The Stain Runs Deep: Remembering Indiana and the Klan
Feb
25
2015
A soldier who loved his sweetie to the bone
Tweet Here’s a delightful anecdote: A Civil War soldier had his leg amputated, and while he recovered in the hospital, he carved this pin for his sweetheart out of his own leg bone. Who’s this lucky gal Lizzie, you ask? Well, we will never know, because he died of infection before he could tell the […]
Nov
13
2013
The stupid symbolism of the new World Trade Center
Apr
30
2013
Lovely luncheon by General Worth’s tomb
Mar
14
2013
The Modern Minstrels
May
28
2012
Disney Legend Bob Gurr on creating his Disneyland rides
"Since Walt wanted the Matterhorn Bobsleds to open in just over a year later, along with a Submarine Voyage, a larger Autopia, and a Monorail, he asked if it could be built faster. He asked me to design a bobsled and two track layouts. He asked Arrow Development, Walt’s favorite outside manufacturer, to find a way. Arrow said bent up pipe would be the quickest way, thus it turned out to be the world’s first steel pipe coaster. See, Walt
Nov
6
2010