dallashistory

I grew up knowing and realizing a sign on a hill across from stemmons freeway, can you tell me what the sign is today,and i will tell all of the rest another day/A/T.

My most beloved sign -- and that of many others, I'm sure -- was the one with the waterfall flowing down upon Goat Hill. But if I'm wrong, or too generally observant, please give another clue.

So many of my Dallas memories flowed into the wind through my grandparents' Chevrolet window in the days before auto air-conditioning ...

If it is the Goat Hill sign, I believe its being rebuilt - so theirs nothing on it now

That is also the "waterfall" we were thinking of. A beer ad???

If I remember right, it was originally for Pearl Beer? Maybe for another brand, later on.

You got it, the old pearl beer sign as of recent had its exterior torn off, Ben Meade was a freind of my folks, when we ran Troup Gallery on Fairmont, next door to Tracy Locke when they did advertisitng, and this was one of their jobs on contrat for Pearl, that later created the famous sign folks would pour dye and soap in, and watch the bubbles flow strippers for early night clubs would also pose near the sign as would santa clauses and other folks for photo,work Ben Meade who deisgned the sign was a great artist and historian on Texas history,

And so he introduced us to the man who made Big Texas and i later met Johnny Summers who carved the large gun for the Texas Ranger Musuem and then Bob Wade of the tango frogs, so my backgound had been in sculpture and instillation and knowing these people growing up made good sense and i would respect the artist and sculptors that were Texas made....today the Crow Family own Goat Hill and have demolished the integrity of this once famous kenetic landmark........Ben Meade went on to do other great feats in advertising history...

Are ya'll saying the whole thing is gonna be gone?????????? I went past the sign a few days ago and the waterfall was turned off and there was no sign but the "rocks" were still there. I was hoping they were somehow doing repair work or making it better.

What was the history of Goat Hill prior to the sign, Baby Doe's and the railroad (or maybe ... alongside the steel wheels)?

Thanks for any information.

Baby Doe's came after the sign, didn't it? From what I've read online, the old Pearl Beer sign is being rebuilt, due to it's age and how many different billboards have been put up there. I skipped a curb from the old Katy Trail and walked up to the site....It's kinda scary, but kinda cool.

Seems like I remember a thread about this on the old DHS Message Board . . . too bad that's all gone
I believe Scott Dorn had pictures and some background narrative
I can remember the falls (advertising beer . . . Hamm's ) on our way to P.C. Cobb fieldhouse to watch high school basketball games

Goat Hill billboard is back . . .

http://tinyurl.com/daro5b

Well a good story came out today on the sign on the hill in todays paper and again no one seems to know who made the sign, well it was Ben Meade artist and sculptor of the Tracy Locke company in the late 1950s, and that is a hard story to find and tell becuase we are in that moden mode of well, throw it away and we will find it some other day...until then,it is hard to rememember...A/T, and then again...who cares...