Dallas City Directory, 1941 Page: DALLAS
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DALLAS
(Prepared by Publicity Dept., Dallas Chamber of Commerce)
The Dallas skyline, looking toward the east Frank Rogers Photo.
Dallas is one of the brightest spots on the nation's map.
Its friendly people, sparking skyline, etched against a brilliant Texas sky, and its
beautiful homes are internationally famous.
Its industrial, economic, social and cultural advantages are on a plane with much
older and much. larger cities.
On entering Dallas, a visitor senses the industrial might and the energy of its
residents. Thousands of employes are busily at work in plants which represent nearly
every type of industry. Their presence, however, isn't advertised by the haze of smoke
which usually accompanies the roar of big machines. Natural gas and electricity take
care of the power needs and leave no grime to mar the beauties of the town.
Airplanes, military, commercial and privately owned, soar overhead; fast trains,
both passenger and freight, slide into the Union Terminal on a maze of glittering
rails; buses and trucks speed in via modernized highways.
Dallas covers an area of 48 square miles. It boasts 683 miles of streets and has
60 parks within its corporate limits. Population of Greater Dallas is 360,212; popu-
lation of the County is 398,564. Its school facilities match any in the nation. In the
Greater Dallas Area there is a total of 73 public schools, eight of which are for negroes.
Total value of school buildings within the corporate limits of the city is $11,800,684.
Dallas also stands out in the higher educational bracket. Besides the nationally
famous Southern Methodist University, it points with pride to the Baylor College of
Medicine; Miss Hockaday's School for Girls; Terrill School for Boys; Country Day
School for Boys; a score of recognized business colleges and 18 Parochial schools. The
city also has one of the largest night schools in the state, at Technical High School where
business courses, art, short story writing, mechanical drawing, mechanics and a score
of other subjects are taught.
Dallas is not dependent on one phase of business alone, and that is the major
reason it has grown in a sane, sound manner.
The industrialists, wholesalers, manufacturers, retailers, bankers, oil men, aviation
men and the little business men have pooled their efforts here to bring about a financial
condition, as far as residents are concerned, that few cities can equal. Dallas' buying
income exceeds $241,603,000 and places it 27th in the nation in private purchasing power.
The city ranks fourth in the nation as an insurance center, has 1,381 units of the
oil industry, 1,000 manufacturing plants and 1,004 wholesale establishments. The
manufacturers do an annual business of around $650,000,000.
Another phase of Dallas' business life which sets it up prominently on the map
of, the nation is the modern retail establishments which do an annual business of
$175,000,000. Many of the retail stores here offer the newest fashions simultaneously
with the stores in New York and Hollywood. For this reason their customers are
not confined to the local population. It. is not uncommon for women to drive as far as500 miles in order to do their spring, summer or fall shopping at one of the Dallas
retail centers._
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John F. Worley Directory Co. Dallas City Directory, 1941, book, 1941; 202 Thomas Bldg., 1313 Wood St., Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth806925/m1/17/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.