Did you know that Dallas has more shopping centers per capita than any other major U.S. city? That the frozen margarita machine was invented in Dallas? Learn these and more fun facts about Dallas.
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- Dallas has the largest bronze monument in the world with more than 40 bigger-than-life longhorn steers, horses and cowboys.
- $13 billion is currently being spent in urban developments.
- More than 300 public art works are scattered throughout the city.
- The nation’s largest collection of 1930s Art Deco exposition style architecture is in Fair Park.
- Legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Dallas Theater Center, the only freestanding theater built to his design that is still operating today.
- More than 30 museums ranging from art, baseball and sewing machines to railroading and more, can be found in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area.
- The $81.5 million Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, designed by the famous architect I.M. Pei, houses the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the last handmade Fisk organ actually to be worked on by Mr. Fisk before he died (Opus 100).
- The African American Museum in Dallas has one of the largest collections of African-American folk art in the nation.
- The Dallas Children’s Theater was named one of the top five theaters in the U.S. Performances are held for young audiences and families.
- The Dallas Museum of Art has the second-largest program for schoolchildren among art museums nationwide and is home to one of the largest collections of post-1945 art in the country.
- The Dallas Public Library in downtown Dallas permanently displays one of the original copies of the Declaration of Independence, printed on July 4, 1776, and the First Folio of William Shakespeare’s “Comedies, Histories & Tragedies.”
- AFI DALLAS International Film Festival entertains more than 40,000 attendees with 264 features and shorts representing over 35 countries as well as lectures and galas.
- The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University has the most significant collection of Spanish art outside of Spain, featuring art from the 10th through 20th centuries.
- The Crow Collection of Asian Art is the only Asian art museum in the Southwest.
- The Dallas Arts District will have more buildings designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architects in one contiguous location than anywhere else in the world.
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- “There aren’t enough superlatives” to describe The French Room at the Adolphus Hotel, Zagat Survey said of the restaurant that it ranked as the No. 1 restaurant in the U.S. in 2006.
- Fearings restaurant was named Best New Restaurant and Restaurent of the Year by Esquire in 2007.
- According to the Texas Restaurant Association, the Dallas area has more than 6,000 restaurants to enjoy.
- Dallas’ Farmers Market is the largest working farmer’s market in the United States, with more than 1 million visitors annually.
- One of the largest wine festivals in the Southwest is Grapefest, held in Grapevine, Texas, which is a suburb of Dallas.
- Dallas has four four-star restaurants.
- The frozen margarita machine was invented in Dallas.
- Several nationally ranked steak and chop houses can be found in the Dallas area including Bob's Steak & Chop House which is currently ranked #3 according to the USDA Prime Steakhouses chart, behind Mo's. A Place for Steak (Milwaukee/Indianapolis) and Donovan's Steak and Chop House (San Diego/La Jolla/Phoenix).
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- CBS’ “Walker: Texas Ranger” and Fox’s “Prison Break” were filmed in Dallas.
- Movies “Leap of Faith,” “Pure Country,” “Ruby,” “JFK,” “Creepshow,” “Born on the Fourth of July,” “Robocop,” “The Karate Kid” and the Oscar-winning “Silkwood” were all filmed in Dallas County.
- The television series “Dallas” featured the Dallas area for 13 years and was shown in 95 foreign countries. Southfork Ranch still operates a short distance outside of the city.
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- Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport offers non stop service to 36 international and 134 domestic destinations.
- Less than a four-hour flight from most cities in the three nations of Canada, Mexico and the United States.
- Dallas’ Love Field Airport is home base for Southwest Airlines, which has the lowest passenger complaint raio of all U.S. Major air carriers.
- Dallas is home to 1 four star hotel.
- Over 25 major cities in Texas, Missouri, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Alabama, New Mexico, Kansas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi are 12 hour drive or less from Dallas.
- Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek is the only hotel in Texas with a Mobil Five-Star and AAA Five-Diamond rating for both the hotel facility and restaurant.
- Dallas-area hotels provide visitors with a wide diversity of lodging options and more than 70,000 hotel rooms.
- One in 11 Dallas-area workers is employed by the hospitality industry.
- Texas ranks second behind California as a pleasure travel destination for U.S. residents.
- The Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau operates at no cost to Dallas taxpayers.
- D/FW International Airport, larger than the island of Manhattan, is one of the busiest airports in the world with some 1,900 flights per day.
- The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the No. 1 visitor and leisure destination in Texas.
- There are 200,000 jobs in the Dallas metro area related to the hospitality industry, representing more local jobs than American Airlines’ AMR Corp, Texas Instruments, Dallas Public Schools, City of Dallas, U.S. Postal Service, Baylor Health Care System, EDS and the JCPenney Company, combined.
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- The 1-million square foot Dallas Convention Center has been rated “Top Management/Staff,” “Top Exhibit Space” and “Best Managed” by peer groups and users.
- Due to its 2002 expansion, The Dallas Convention Center has the world’s largest singular, column-free exhibit hall in the world, at 203,000 square feet.
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- Dallas has the ninth largest population in the nation.
- The average year round temperature ranges from 44 degrees F to 95 degress F. The average temperature is 66 degrees F.
- Highland Park Village, built in 1931, was the first planned shopping center, which features a unified architectural style and stores facing in toward an interior parking area.
- Galleria Dallas offers more than 200 premier retail stores and is home to the country’s tallest Christmas tree.
- One of the 10 largest municipalities in the nation.
- The Dallas area is the largest metropolitan area in the nation not on a navigable body of water.
- The DART rail system is one of the nation’s fastest growing light rail lines.
- The water supply plan developed by Dallas water utilities ensures that citizens will have sufficient water supply through 2050.
- Wilburn D. Cook, designer of Beverly Hills, California, developed the suburb of Highland Park.
- DFW Metroplex is home to 24 Fortune 500 companies. (source Fortune Magazine, 2008)
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- InfoMart is housed in a unique building designed to resemble London’s Crystal Palace, built in 1851 for the first World’s Fair and International Technology Exhibition.
- City Hall was designed by Pritzker-Prize winning architect I.M. Pei and features an outdoor sculpture by Henry Moore.
- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas - a medical school and research university for graduate level science adjacent to Parkland Hospital - is home to four Nobel Laureates: three in physiology/medicine and one in chemistry.
- The integrated circuit computer chip was invented in 1958 in Dallas.
- Love Field’s Antique Mall is the largest antique and classic car mall in the United States.
- Texas is larger than France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland and Luxembourg combined.
- The “Texas Star” Ferris wheel at the State Fair of Texas is the tallest in North America.
- The 52-foot “Big Tex” statue that greets visitors at the annual State Fair of Texas is the tallest cowboy in Texas.
- The Dallas Arboretum holds the Southwest’s largest annual outdoor floral festival.
- Parkland Hospital System is the second-largest birthing center in the nation, with more than 16,500 arrivals annually.
- The McKinney Avenue Trolley, which operates daily, is the largest volunteer-run trolley system in the world.
- The Six Flags Over Texas is the largest theme park in the Southwest
- The State Fair of Texas has been held annually at the same location in Fair Park since 1886.
- Neiman Marcus began in Dallas, and its flagship store continues to thrive downtown.
- At 5.5 million square feet, the Dallas Market Center is the world’s largest market for wholesale merchandise.
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