Long before there was a ski slope in Dubai, there was an ice palace in Dallas. The first professional ice-hockey games in Texas were played at Gardner Ice Palace in Oak Cliff in the 1920s. (More)
THE BACK STORY
Hockey royalty: Watch this hockey player from Dallas who was the only girl and the best player on her team in 1981. That girl is Ellen Weinberg-Hughes, now a legend in women’s hockey. Two of her sons were top NHL draft picks, and a third is highly scouted. (More)
Oak Cliff held all the modern wonders of recreation, including Lake Cliff Park, which was founded as an amusement park 106 years ago. (More)
DEEP ELLUM BLUES
Blue-eyed blues guitar: Mike Rhyner’s podcast, “Square One,” from The Athletic, contains an interview with an experienced helicopter pilot who investigated the crash that killed Dallas native Stevie Ray Vaughan. What Colin P. Cahoon found differs from the original report. (Square One)
Rhyner, who knew Vaughan when they were students at Kimball High School, describes the blues guitarist as “the biggest thing to ever come out of Dallas.” Vaughan died Aug. 27, 1990. (More)
