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[Fire on the South Side of the Square]

Description: At 3:45 a.m., Wednesday, May 10, 1972, a fire broke out at the Three Sisters Restaurant on the South side of the Square. The fire worsened and a total of 41 firemen were called in to help. This is the view of the backside of the buildings along Walnut Street. The restaurant was destroyed and one of the walls collapsed into Ever's Hardware on the east side. It also spread into Bomar's Men's Clothing on the west side. All three businesses were destroyed.
Date: May 10, 1972
Creator: City of Denton staff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Menu: Dallas Symphony League Cooking School: Continental Dinner, 1972]

Description: Menu made by the Helen Corbitt Cooking School for the Dallas Symphony League. This menu includes recipes such as flageolet beans, cold shrimp crème, filet of beef with foie gras, artichokes, bearnaise sauce, chinese style asparagus and mushrooms, marinated leek and spinach salad, and glacèed fruit.
Date: 1972
Creator: Dallas Symphony League
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: University of Dallas

Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Smithville District Seniority List: Firemen, January 1972

Description: List of firemen employed in the 11th District of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad South Texas Division as of January 1972. It includes the name of each person and employment date, with the most senior person listed first, as well as pound signs indicating firemen barred from preferred service and asterisks indicating those retired on physical disability prior to the age of 65.
Date: January 1, 1972
Creator: Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad. South Texas Division.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Smithville Heritage Society

[Letter from Jim Schroeder to Peter Stewart, March 8, 1972]

Description: Letter from Jim Schroeder to Peter Stewart discussing a newspaper cartoon in The Dallas Times Herald about the Thanks-Giving Square. Schroeder attaches the newspaper cartoon and says he thinks Stewart might like to see it. The cartoon depicts a sign that says, "Future Site Thanks-Giving Square Downtown Park". A group of people are looking up at the sign and the bottom of the cartoon says, "And over there, a few trees would be nice for the living room and maybe some shrubs for the bedroom...".
Date: March 8, 1972
Creator: Schroeder, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: The Thanks-Giving Foundation

[Letter from Peter Stewart to John Hutton, October 18, 1972]

Description: Letter from Peter Stewart to John Hutton discussing Hutton's sketches of a dove. Stewart says the sketches have been getting reactions and tells him which one seems to be favored. Stewart also mentions that Philip Johnson thinks the sketches fit in well with the chapel. He says the ideas that have been suggested in the letter may be helpful if he decides to do another sketch.
Date: October 18, 1972
Creator: Stewart, Peter
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: The Thanks-Giving Foundation

[Memo: Visit with John Hutton, September 29, 1972]

Description: Memorandum discussing a visit with John Hutton in which he presented several sketches of doves, one of which will be engraved on a glass panel and displayed in the Chapel of Thanks-Giving. The memo explains how the dove relates to various religious themes. It also discusses characteristics of glass and provides recommendations for choosing the glass that best suits the project.
Date: September 29, 1972
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: The Thanks-Giving Foundation

[Letter from Peter Stewart to John Hutton, October 2, 1972]

Description: Letter from Peter Stewart to John Hutton discussing their recent visit and various other topics. Stewart says he has attached pictures of the entryway of the Chapel of Thanksgiving and the Thanks-Giving Square bridge and says he will get feedback on some sketches Hutton sent him. He also asks Hutton for his contact information and availability.
Date: October 2, 1972
Creator: Stewart, Peter
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: The Thanks-Giving Foundation

Tower Tumbles

Description: Pamphlet describing the demolition of the "landmark" Pulley Bone restaurant building in downtown Dallas; the building is pictured on the front with three images showing the removal of the tower. There are six images of speakers and spectators at the ceremony, with captions, and two additional images on the back showing the end of the ceremony.
Date: 1972~
Creator: Thanks-Giving Square Foundation
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Location: 32.782157 -96.799998
Partner: The Thanks-Giving Foundation

[Letter from Peter Stewart to Philip Johnson, March 17,1972]

Description: Letter from Peter Stewart to Philip Johnson discussing the crown of the Thanks-Giving Chapel and bells in the Thanks-Giving Square. Stewart says the crown should express Thanksgiving, confidence, strength, and not despair or disappointment. He also describes the shape and says it should be flat, aim upward, and not sink. He says they should not worry about constraints such as number of turns, static rate of rise, and mold of the spiral. He says they are "changing the world vision into a cosmic … more
Date: March 17, 1972
Creator: Stewart, Peter
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: The Thanks-Giving Foundation
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