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06/28/2021

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06/01/2021

Still researching Dim Sum but it looks like excellent Cantonese BBQ is available in the area. Check out First Chinese BBQ in https://fcbbq.com/?fbclid=IwAR1BZlfhTeExjbkhb4C_kuaL8_OTTFY1JehyoLMU1RwPJ_uJ4S-t0dmcvKE https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/first-chinese-bbq-richardson

05/27/2021

Larry Hagman / left his boots here 🤠 • Wild Bill’s Western Store • Friendly and helpful staff plus great prices. An iconic landmark—must visit when in .

05/19/2021

Bucket list

We started our "trail ride" back in 1989 when we first opened the doors of the Prairie House in Crossroads, Texas. Over the next twenty or so years, we had locations in Carrollton and right here in Roanoke at this location. And where one trail ends, another begins...and so it is as we are now known in these parts as Reno Red's Frontier Cooking.

Just who is Reno Red?

Look out the windows and gaze back into the time of the great cattle drives of the Old West. The Chisholm Trail was not far from right here. Among those hard working cowboys along the trail that carried half of all the cattle in Texas, was the great chuck wagon master, Reno Red. Cowboys knew when they saw his chuck wagon it meant there was going to be some good eatin' and tales to tell. For most cowboys the chuck wagon was truly their home on the range. And if the chuck wagon was their home, the cook was their king. Because the morale of the men and the smooth functioning of the camp depended on him, the cook's authority was unquestioned.

Reno Red is our "Chuck Wagon Master" and the inspiration for our decor and our menu recipes. We have many of Reno's favorite original recipes. And just like Reno, we cook our food on an open mesquite grill for that true frontier cooking experience. Time has come for the tales of Reno Red to be told. We want our customers to know who that cowboy is in our logo. More tales to come . . .

05/17/2021

Before and After and After again!

05/10/2021

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05/08/2021

New to Dallas? New to Texas? You will want to learn some history so you can understand—not necessarily agree with—all the wonderful, terrible, incredible, beautiful (and everything in between) events and people who have graced this land—so...read (or listen to via audible.com)—LONE STAR: A HISTORY OF TEXAS AND TEXANS by T.R. Fehrenbach. The audio book is 38 hours or so but you can digest it easily in small bites. Highly recommended.

05/08/2021

Visit Dallas' HALL OF STATE for more interesting history (managed by the Dallas Historical Society) —

Sam Houston's speech against Succession (excerpt)—Interesting parallels to today's issues (of which we will not discuss lol):

"What is there that is free that we have not? Are our rights invaded and no Government ready to protect them? No! Are our institutions wrested from us and others foreign to our taste forced upon us? No! Is the right of free speech, a free press, or free suffrage taken from us? No! Has our property been taken from us and the Government failed to interpose when called upon?

No, none of these!

The rights of the States and the rights of individuals are still maintained. We have yet the Constitution, we have yet a judiciary, which has never been appealed to in vain—we have yet just laws and officers to administer them; and an army and navy, ready to maintain any and every constitutional right of the citizen. Whence then this clamor about disunion? Whence this cry of protection to property or disunion, when even the very loudest in the cry, declared under their Senatorial oaths, but a few months since, that no protection was necessary? Are we to sell reality for a phantom?

There is no longer a holy ground upon which the footsteps of the demagogue may not fall. One by one the sacred things placed by patriotic hands upon the altar of our liberties, have been torn down. The Declaration of our Independence is jeered at. The farewell counsels of Washington are derided. The charm of those historic names which make glorious our past has been broken, and now the Union is no longer held sacred, but made secondary to the success of party and the adoption of abstractions.

04/29/2021

04/28/2021

04/25/2021

Artist rare sketch of as / —time for a visit!

04/23/2021

As it pertains to Texas’ War of Independence and more specifically to William Barret Travis (pictured here), from LONE STAR — A HISTORY OF TEXAS by T. R. Fehrenbach:

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”—John Stuart Mill

04/22/2021

Learn about the wonderful history of the -American Society here in & (Japan-America Society of Dallas/Fort Worth)

https://jasdfw.org/jasdfw-major-events-and-milestones/

04/22/2021

When in Rome...er... 🤠 —drink these and you’ll be in no time!

04/09/2021

“The Anglo-American 18th century frontier like that of the Spanish was one of war. The word Texas was not yet part of the English language but on the bloody hills of Kentucky and the middle border of Tennessee—the type of man was already made.”

—T.R. Fehrenbach, Lone Star: A history of Texas

Theodor Roosevelt on those same first settlers:

“a grim, stern people, strong and powerful for good and evil, swayed by gusts of stormy passion, the love of freedom rooted in their very hearts' core..." They suffered terrible injuries at the hands of the red men, and on their foes they waged terrible warfare in return. They were relentless, also upright, resolute, fearless, and loyal to their friends, devoted to their country. In spite of their many failings, they were of all men the best fitted to conquer the wilderness and hold it against all comers."

04/08/2021

Imagine—an art and apparel collection dedicated to celebrating Americana that doesn’t look like it fell out of a Harley gift shop (not that we don’t love Harleys)—stay tuned for more details along with an interview with the Dallas-based artist—Mad Daddy D.

04/05/2021

Before...After...and After again!

04/05/2021

Back in the day, drugs were legal in

Grand Avenue and Harwood Street in the 1950s. (Photo from The Dallas Jewish Historical Society)

04/05/2021

Many new residents coming into the Dallas-Fort Worth area but not too many resources to figure out what IS and was cool about this place. So aiming to collect some info about that here, and perhaps learn something in the process 🥳 🤠😎

04/05/2021

in 1939—I see in big bright red letters. What was this? (bail bonds? James?)

04/05/2021

—the perfect opportunity to celebrate and/or visit the state while checking out the greatest city in the (both of them) https://bigtex.com/2021-schedule/ Sep 24-Oct 17

04/05/2021

Fantastic in Uptown / next to . This was right before a security guard told us that we weren't allowed to photograph from the sidewalk lol.🤓 Apparently, that was inaccurate as it violated some kind of amendment that people are always talking about. Anyway, she was likely just trying to protect the IP inside the shops. Totally understand.

04/05/2021

Stunning in —walkable, safe, beautiful—reminds me of Montreal / Toronto and some European cities. Truly unique for an American city experience.

04/05/2021

Fantastic overview of Dallas history—made for a student but strong enough for adults (although we're all students)! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wblOzE_z6M0&t=1476s

"Those who do not know history may be doomed to not repeat the good parts"—Heraclitus

Dallas history

04/05/2021

Original and colorized from Shorpy Historic American Photo Archive |

04/05/2021

Fascinating of / and surrounding areas.

The distinct neighborhoods that grew up around downtown Dallas in the decades following the turn of the century and helped to create the city's unique charac...