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UER Forum > Archived US: South > Deep Ellum tunnel tribute (before & after) (Viewed 381 times)
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Deep Ellum tunnel tribute (before & after)
< on 5/15/2007 1:04 PM >
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Soon it will all be filled in and covered up, a new DART station to be built on top. So next time youre waiting for a train at the Good Latimer station, you'll be standing on top of this.


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Re: Deep Ellum tunnel tribute (before & after)
<Reply # 1 on 5/15/2007 1:37 PM >
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There are several threads with pictures and discussion on the forums at dallasmetropolis.com. Try not to come down to heavily on DART for the tunnel demolition; the reason it was covered in art in the first place is because it was ugly, dark, and unsafe.

The DART station will revitalize the area -- if the area can survive until 2009. The cool old buildings are constantly under threat of demolition themselves, as live music venues close. In the worst-case scenario, Deep Ellum could be a mile-long swath of Starbucks. For the moment, though, there's still a funky vibe if you can avoid the bored suburban teenagers milling around the under-21 clubs, trying to act tough.

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Re: Deep Ellum tunnel tribute (before & after)
<Reply # 2 on 5/15/2007 7:47 PM >
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Yes but some of us prefer ugly dark and unsafe to the "metropolis ideal of urban revitalized, well lit so the yuppies are safe at night" locations!

I hope they hang some fern baskets and use contemporary design paving stones in complementary earth tones etc

barrrrf...


Anyway Im not coming down on DART they have actually agreed to make some other "urban space" available for art work nearby.

And funny thing, Ive walked through this tunnel dozens of times including late at night and never felt unsafe. It did smell like a porta-a-potty though.



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Re: Deep Ellum tunnel tribute (before & after)
<Reply # 3 on 5/16/2007 12:19 AM >
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R.I.P. It was fun in it's day and there's another one just like it (B.A. Before Artists) at Corinth. It's still dark and seedy. Just the way I like 'em
The Coldwell Bank Building next door to it, though......THAT deserves investigation!
It's the grey one in the back. I took this a while ago.
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MMmmmmmm.......Bank Building.........

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Re: Deep Ellum tunnel tribute (before & after)
<Reply # 4 on 5/16/2007 1:24 AM >
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Posted by Barry Kooda
R.I.P. It was fun in it's day and there's another one just like it (B.A. Before Artists) at Corinth. It's still dark and seedy. Just the way I like 'em
The Coldwell Bank Building next door to it, though......THAT deserves investigation!
It's the grey one in the back. I took this a while ago.
82875.jpg (98 kb, 800x600)
click to view


MMmmmmmm.......Bank Building.........


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Re: Deep Ellum tunnel tribute (before & after)
<Reply # 5 on 5/16/2007 1:48 PM >
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Posted by Barry Kooda
R.I.P. It was fun in it's day and there's another one just like it (B.A. Before Artists) at Corinth. It's still dark and seedy. Just the way I like 'em
The Coldwell Bank Building next door to it, though......THAT deserves investigation!
It's the grey one in the back. I took this a while ago.
82875.jpg (98 kb, 800x600)
click to view


MMmmmmmm.......Bank Building.........

Union Bankers Building. They were/are an insurance company, so there probably isn't even a cool vault to imagine being locked into.

It's better known to the preservation community as the Knights of Pythias building. From the dallasmetropolis.com forum:
Completed in 1916, the temple stands today as a highly significant component of the social, cultural and architectural history of the African-American community in Dallas. The temple served from 1916 to 1939 as the social, professional and cultural center of the center of the city's African-American community. The temple hosted lectures, meetings, conventions and dances, as well as housed the office of African-American professionals in the area. Built in the eclectic Beaux-arts style, it was designed by Dallas' first African-American architect, William Sidney Pittman, and stands as one of the few remaining non-religious structures in Dallas that was designed by an African-American architect.

In fact, the historic building is one reason why the Deep Ellum Tunnel is now only a fond memory. DART's other choices for getting rail from downtown to Fair Park included ideas like putting the rail on a bridge over the tunnel -- and about 50 feet from the Knights of Pythias building (as well as a historic black church north of the tunnel). Kinda kills the whole "historic" thing, yaknow?

And Coldwell Banker is a real estate company, not a bank, anyway. You need to run, not walk, to the Nodding Dog and get yourself come coffee, stat!

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Re: Deep Ellum tunnel tribute (before & after)
<Reply # 6 on 5/16/2007 2:24 PM >
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Yeah.....Great!.......Old building.......get in......take pictures.
I like internet copy/ paste historical lessons as much as the next guy but unless you've been in a building or know somebody who has, you don't really know what's there.
C'mon Robert,
Them kids of yours can slip right in and open the door for Daddy and his friends.
Ask Raticus. He drops his kid down chimneys and stuff all the time.
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Re: Deep Ellum tunnel tribute (before & after)
<Reply # 7 on 5/16/2007 3:49 PM >
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Posted by Barry Kooda
Yeah.....Great!.......Old building.......get in......take pictures.
I like internet copy/ paste historical lessons as much as the next guy but unless you've been in a building or know somebody who has, you don't really know what's there.
C'mon Robert,
Them kids of yours can slip right in and open the door for Daddy and his friends.
Ask Raticus. He drops his kid down chimneys and stuff all the time.
(heh!)


And he's getting used to it. He doesn't scream and cry nearly as long now as he used to.

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Re: Deep Ellum tunnel tribute (before & after)
<Reply # 8 on 5/16/2007 4:15 PM >
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Re: Deep Ellum tunnel tribute (before & after)
<Reply # 9 on 5/16/2007 6:06 PM >
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Absolutely. My little egg has been going with me for quite a while now. Only problem now is, he's 10, so it won't be long till he be too big to get in some places.

That's when I'll have to start using the services of A-1 Rent-A-Kid.

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Re: Deep Ellum tunnel tribute (before & after)
<Reply # 10 on 5/16/2007 6:13 PM >
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I knew kids had to be good for something!

[01:47:56] <GreyDeath> Sara just stares her enemies into submission and eventually madness

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Re: Deep Ellum tunnel tribute (before & after)
<Reply # 11 on 5/16/2007 8:31 PM >
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Posted by Sara Bellum
I knew kids had to be good for something!


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Re: Deep Ellum tunnel tribute (before & after)
<Reply # 12 on 5/16/2007 9:29 PM >
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Posted by Raticus
Absolutely. My little egg has been going with me for quite a while now. Only problem now is, he's 10, so it won't be long till he be too big to get in some places.

That's when I'll have to start using the services of A-1 Rent-A-Kid.


That's OK.
In a couple of years he won't want you tagging along slowing him down anyway.
Heh!

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Re: Deep Ellum tunnel tribute (before & after)
<Reply # 13 on 5/16/2007 10:42 PM >
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That's OK.
In a couple of years he won't want you tagging along slowing him down anyway.
Heh!


ha. What are you saying, that I'm old and slow?

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Re: Deep Ellum tunnel tribute (before & after)
<Reply # 14 on 5/17/2007 5:23 AM >
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ha. What are you saying, that I'm old and slow?


That's certainly what I'm saying.

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Re: Deep Ellum tunnel tribute (before & after)
<Reply # 15 on 5/17/2007 12:04 PM >
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man that sucks, when i was living there and single, i would ride from stokers to deep ellum and loved going thru that tunnel (harleys with drag pipes rock in tunnels!)
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Re: Deep Ellum tunnel tribute (before & after)
<Reply # 16 on 5/17/2007 3:08 PM >
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That's certainly what I'm saying.


Old in Tennessee is different than OLD in Texas babe. At least I haven't fell and broke a hip yet.

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Re: Deep Ellum tunnel tribute (before & after)
<Reply # 17 on 5/17/2007 3:28 PM >
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Old in Tennessee is different than OLD in Texas babe. At least I haven't fell and broke a hip yet.


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