(North Texas) The Dallas/Fort Worth Area Tourism Council (DFWATC), a regional co-op marketing organization, invites you to stay where the action is. When planning your vacation this year, have your own “brush with (past and present) greatness” of these famous and ‘infamous’ names.
1. Rumor has is that outlaw Wyatt Earp visited Fort Worth often – his brother James Earp worked at the White Elephant Saloon, a night spot still in business.
2. When she’s not busy being a celebrity in the jungle, Janice Dickinson flies into Dallas every six months for Botox injections.
3. A few current Grapevine Opry “alumni” include Willie Nelson, LeAnn Rimes, Miranda Lambert and Keith Anderson.
4. When Grammy- Award winner B.J. Thomas is in town, he’s “‘Hooked on a Feeling” of love for Arlington, the city in which he still lives.
5. Dallas’ Union Station is where many visitors have experienced their first impressions of Dallas over the decades. Famous visitors to Union Station have included Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Kim Novak and Jimmy Carter.
6. Beloved Darrell ‘Dimebag’ Abbott, who was the lead guitarist for the heavy metal group "Pantera,” is buried at Moore Memorial Gardens Cemetery in
Arlington.
7. In the 1980s, Dallas’ legendary Starck Club regularly welcomed visitors like Stevie Nicks, Grace Jones, Rob Lowe, Armand Assante, Princess Stephanie and Prince, while he was still known as ‘Prince.’
8. Lee Harvey Oswald lived in Irving at a boarding house at the time of the assassination of JFK.
9. A stranger stayed in Plano with W. H. L. Wells (who fought in twenty major battles serving under General Stonewall Jackson) on February 22, 1878. The next day they found out “the stranger” was Sam Bass. He and his gang robbed a train in Allen that day. It was the first recorded train robbery in Texas.
10. Sandra Brown is the author of fifty-six New York Times bestsellers, and before she made it big as a writer, she did weather-casting for WFAA-TV. Sandra and her husband Michael still call Arlington home.
To see a list of planned itineraries and vacation suggestions, see www.dfwandbeyond.com.
The Dallas/Fort Worth Area Tourism Council (DFWATC) was formed in 1978 to be a comprehensive force within the tourism industry to jointly market the entire area as a single-destination. As a not-for-profit organization, the DFWATC represents over 40 area cities and multi-county area in North Texas with more than 150 members participating from area Convention & Visitors Bureaus, Chambers of Commerce, hotels, attractions, transportation, entertainment, tour operators, airlines, shopping center, airports and restaurants.
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