dallashistory

This interesting pictorial article was published in the August 12 edition of Fort Worth Weekly. I thought it was neat to see a photo of the old First Methodist Church -- once lost and now preserved as a shell and place of urban peace -- when it had life and guts.

http://tinyurl.com/lyzz3x

Cedar wrote:This interesting pictorial article was published in the August 12 edition of Fort Worth Weekly. I thought it was neat to see a photo of the old First Methodist Church -- once lost and now preserved as a shell and place of urban peace -- when it had life and guts.

http://tinyurl.com/lyzz3x

And the TXU electric plant still intact as well. Like the Methodist Church, I think it started to die a slow death once the stacks were imploded, despite talks of adaptively reusing it. Once the stacks came down; it ceased to be a power plant.

Storm and Power

Wandering through downtown one summer afternoon in 1979, Byrd IV saw storm clouds rolling in behind the old TXU electric plant just west of the Paddock Street Viaduct. The smokestacks have been torn down, and the rest of the building probably will come down when that part of the river gets turned into an urban lake as part of the Trinity River Vision project.