Dallas is the 9th largest city in the US and the third largest in Texas with a population of 1,, There are more than 30, hotel rooms in the city of Dallas; with over 78, available throughout the area. Dallas is centrally located and within a four-hour flight from most North American destinations. Worth International and Dallas Love Field that combined provide more than 2, flights daily. The area is also home to more than golf courses. Asian Culture in Dallas. Dallas Sports Scene.
Cotton prices dropped to less than five cents a pound. Only sixty-two new manufacturing firms were established in Dallas during the s. The panic also affected unionized labor, which had just begun to organize: the American Federation of Labor granted a charter to the Trades Assembly of Dallas in Among its early causes was championship of the eight-hour workday and legislation outlawing the firing of union members.
By the turn of the century the economy had recovered, and Dallas was the leading book, drug, jewelry, and wholesale liquor market in the Southwest. It was the world's leading inland cotton market, and it still led the world in manufacture of saddlery and cotton-gin machinery. Its population stood at 42, In businessmen formed the , Club, aimed at increasing the city's population to , by Although the numerical goal was not met until , the population did increase to 92, by , and the city doubled in area to Dallas built its first steel skyscraper, the fifteen-story Praetorian Building, in In the second decade of the twentieth century Dallas began to implement the city plan commissioned from George E.
Kessler after a disastrous flood in Oak Cliff and Dallas were connected by the Houston Street Viaduct, at the time the longest concrete structure in the world; the Union Terminal Company consolidated six downtown railroad depots; and the railroad tracks were removed from Pacific Avenue.
Dallas was selected as the site for a Federal Reserve Bank in , and Ford opened an auto assembly plant in the city. A wave of immigrants from Mexico helped swell the population to , by , when Dallas ranked as the forty-second-largest city in the nation.
With 13, members, the Dallas chapter was the largest in Texas, and the national "imperial wizard" was a Dallas cut-rate dentist named Hiram Wesley Evans. Ferguson defeat Dallas judge Felix Robertson, the Klan candidate, in a Democratic runoff for governor in Dallas women had been in the forefront of movements in Texas for reform in child-welfare practices, pure food and drink legislation, sanitation, and other causes. By they were also entering the workforce in increasing numbers.
In the local chapter of the National Association of Business and Professional Women estimated that there were 15, women working in occupations, trades, and professions in Dallas. Minority businessmen also began to organize. The Great Depression put 15, Dallasites on the relief roles by , and retail sales and bank deposits plummeted.
The population, which had soared to , by , climbed only to , in The pain of the depression was eased somewhat for Dallas by the discovery of oil in East Texas in Dallas bankers such as Nathan Adams of the First National Bank in Dallas were the first in the nation to conceive of the idea of lending money to oil companies using oil reserves in the ground for collateral.
Dallas soon became a center for petroleum financing. In a massive engineering effort begun in , the channel of the Trinity River was moved, straightened, and confined between levees to prevent future flooding.
Dallas businessmen also succeeded in making Fair Park the site of the Texas Centennial celebration, thus providing work for local builders, contractors, advertisers, concessionaires, and construction workers. The city played host to ten million visitors, including President Franklin D. One of the premier suburbs in Texas, Highland Park , developed on the northern edge of Dallas during the early part of the twentieth century.
In it was built one of the first large-scale shopping centers in the nation, Highland Park Village , in Highland Park incorporated in and the adjacent community of University Park in Their battles with Dallas over annexation lasted into the s. Its three leading industries were food processing , apparel manufacturing, and printing and publishing.
Then war-related industries, such as North American Aviation, pushed industrial employment in Dallas to more than 75, in Dallas businesses experienced a boom after World War II comparable to that following the coming of the railroads. In , five new businesses opened each day and thirteen new manufacturing plants opened every month. In the population stood at , In two developers, Trammell Crow and John M. The opening of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in attracted numerous corporate headquarters to Dallas and consolidating the city's reputation as a national financial and business center.
The population grew from , in to , in , and from , in to 1,, in The census reported the ethnic groups in the city as White, By the population had grown to 1,, Racial integration of public facilities began on August 15, , when a carefully orchestrated plan sent African Americans to lunch counters and businesses throughout the city for equal service. This plan, which proceeded without incident, was the work of a biracial committee appointed by the Dallas and Negro chambers of commerce, which devised a publicity campaign and notified business owners in advance.
Integration of the public schools proceeded more slowly, and the school district remained under court supervision for decades. Dallas suffered its most traumatic experience on November 22, , when President John F. Two days later, his alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald , was killed before television cameras by a Dallas nightclub owner, Jack Ruby. In , after twenty-five years of debate about how the city should commemorate the event, The Sixth Floor Museum opened in the former Texas School Book Depository.
The religious composition of the city has changed considerably over the years. Early Protestant settlers looked to traveling missionaries for religious services. The first Episcopal parish was organized in Catholics celebrated the first Mass in Dallas in Paul Methodist The first Jewish synagogue, Temple Emanu-El , was built in , and the first Catholic parish was established in , when Dallas was still in the Diocese of Galveston.
Congregationalists organized in , Seventh-day Adventists in , Lutherans in , Unitarians in , Christian Scientists in , and Mormons in The variety of communions helped to make Dallas a religious stronghold by the turn of the century, and the continued growth of churches marked Dallas as a city of churchgoers.
Subsequently, as the population has diversified, so have the religious faiths. By , Catholics had the largest representation in Dallas, followed by Southern Baptists and Evangelical Protestants. The Art Saloon of Adolph Gouhenant , located on the south side of the courthouse square in the s, served as a photograph gallery and was an early expression of artistic interest in Dallas.
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