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#1 John T Roberts

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Posted 28 September 2017 - 12:43 PM

Hometown by Handlebar has a very nice blog on the history of the buildings that comprise Reata, or the Caravan of Dreams.  He has put together some interesting reading, documents, Sanborn Maps, and historic photographs.  I think all of you will enjoy this.

 

http://hometownbyhan...ar.com/?p=24205

 



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Posted 28 September 2017 - 06:21 PM

From Howard  W. Peak's 'A Ranger of Commerce', circa 1929... 

"...Fort Worth is named the Panther City, from the tradition that a panther laid down in one opf its streets.  The origin of this rather confusing term seems to bother some minds, so I will describe how the term happened to be applied, I having been a witness to its parentage.   At the time, Fort Worth had but a few designated streets, and the one wherein the panther "laid down", was then known as the Weatherford Road, now, Weatherford street. As a boy, my father's horse and cow lot were about fifty feet south of this road, the residence facing the "Dallas Road", now known as Houston street.

One spring morning while I was in the lot feeding the horses and milking the cows, I was called for by an old Baptist preacher, named Fitzgerald, who occupied the second story of a building located on the corner adjoining our residence.

"Howard, come here quick, I want to show you something."  I alertly responded, and was shown by this man of highly imaginative mind the outlines of a 'panther' described in the dusty roadway."

Was that this group of wooden structures he mentions?



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Posted 28 September 2017 - 07:20 PM

Probably not because there were many wooden buildings present in the city about that time and he also stated they were about fifty feet south of Weatherford, these buildings are more than fifty feet south.  Each block is 200 feet square and streets are either 60 or 80 feet wide.  The Reata buildings are between 2nd and 3rd Streets.  That would put them around 500 feet from Weatherford Street.



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Posted 31 December 2020 - 09:32 PM

I was doing a little research on Caravan of Dreams and found this neat website that had all of their sets listed.  There's a couple of these shows I would have really like to have attended:

 

https://www.setlist....a-4bd62b82.html

 

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(This was early Rippingtons, possibly their debut album "Moonlighting" tour.  I saw them in 1996 and 1997 in Minneapolis on their "Brave New World" tour and I think "Black Diamond" tour.)

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(This would have been an amazing concert to have attended.  I'm guessing it was his "Tones" album tour but was pre-release of his "Ah Via Musicom" album in 1990)

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(I saw the Flecktones at Bass Hall and in Minneapolis)

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(Eric Johnson opened for Bela Fleck at Bass Hall early 2000's.  Not a far drive for him from Austin.  

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I also found some cool photos on the old archived Caravan website:

 

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Posted 02 January 2021 - 01:30 PM

That's a real fascinating find.  I've been in the Four Day Weekend theater, but I'm a little too young to have visited the club.  I'm assuming the club featured in the photos and the seating chart is the current Reata dining room.



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Posted 02 January 2021 - 01:53 PM

JBB, you are correct in your assumption.



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Posted 02 January 2021 - 06:03 PM

Great post Nitixope.
I had forgotten how post-modern the interior design was.

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Posted 29 March 2022 - 08:06 PM

From Bud Kennedy

 

 

Inbox: Fort Worth’s Reata has called a press conference Wed AM for a major announcement during the city’s Fort Worth Food + Wine Festival.



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Posted 30 March 2022 - 07:07 AM

Bud followed with a full report this morning, Reata restaurant faces move in Fort Worth, leaving Sundance Square and maybe downtown

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Posted 30 March 2022 - 08:13 AM

 

Perhaps Heart of the Ranch will be built out by the time their lease is up in 2024.  Press Cafe always seems to be busy and plenty of free parking.



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Posted 30 March 2022 - 09:19 AM

We've heard a lot of rumors and rumblings about new "management" with Sundance upsetting folks etc, but it REALLY REALLY feels like there's sooooooo much more disfunction that we know



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Posted 30 March 2022 - 10:15 AM

Here's the video version of Mike Micallef's announcement:

 

https://www.instagra...g_web_copy_link

 

 

More info:

https://www.reata.net/future-location/

 

Project Specs:

12,000 – 20,000 square foot building with space for up to 200 parking spaces
or
2 acres of undeveloped land


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Posted 01 April 2022 - 08:14 AM

Um, Panther Island?



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Posted 19 April 2022 - 03:32 PM

Maybe Reata could move into the former Buttons / Big Bowl location at Chapel Hill Shopping Center? Plenty of parking. 6,500 SQFT, great frontage too.

https://kiterealty.c...shopping-center

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