If you needed a stuffed tiger toy, a game of Risk, paint brushes, or stationery… this shop was made for you. This shows a couple of ground-level retail shops, with more wonderful floor-to-ceiling glass “walls” (the glass-cleaning must have been an ongoing nightmare!). (Is that the “rocket” of the Republic Bank Building seen outside the window at the right? It was practically right next door, as seen in this photo.)
FLASH NIGHTCLUB ROOF DECK COLLAPSE MOVIE
Here’s a jewelry kiosk, which is sort of Deco-futuristic - like something you’d see in a 1930s movie set on a spaceship. (I spotted a brief glimpse of a bit of this Sheraton mural in color in a WFAA clip from June, 1974 in a story about, of all things, an ESP convention.) Jude Chapel downtown (the recent restoration of which I wrote about here), and he was also a contributor another wonderful mid-century architectural landmark in Dallas, Temple Emanu-El. Kepes designed the vibrant tile mosaic on the St.
Speaking of art, another commissioned work can be seen in this detail of a photo: at the back, barely seen, is “Texas Sunburst,” a glass-tile mosaic mural by Gyorgy Kepes with additional work by Robert Preusser, located on the second-floor lounge concourse.
FLASH NIGHTCLUB ROOF DECK COLLAPSE REGISTRATION
In the background at the top center of the photo, above the registration desk, is a Venetian-glass-and-broken-marble mural by Lumen Martin Winter. At the left, extending from the ceiling of the second-floor lobby of the Sheraton to the ground floor is a “stamobile” kinetic sculpture titled “Totem” by Richard Filipowski. This is a fantastic shot - you can see a couple of the commissioned artworks. (All photos are by John Rogers - see the link below each photo to go to its Portal to Texas History page where you can zoom in and see details more clearly.) I love all the glass and the sharp, crisp lines of the furniture. Here are a few photos from the new Southland Center which I could look at all day. It was an interior decorator’s dream job in which absolutely everything was NEW and modern. An admirable amount of attention was paid to artistic elements such as site-specific commissioned artwork, and input from artists and designers was welcomed. It was obviously a huge, multi-million-dollar construction project, but it was also a very costly decor project in which no expense was spared on the interior design of the buildings. When it opened in 1959, the Southland Center (the Southland Life Building and the Sheraton Dallas hotel) boasted the tallest building west of the Mississippi. Welcome.… (photo by John Rogers, via the Portal to Texas History)
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