Shreveport's West End is now an archeological relic, and one of its most obvious tombs is Peyton's Cut Rate Drug Store.

At the corner of NE 2nd Avenue and North Washington in Ardmore (Carter County, Oklahoma, Chickasaw Nation) stands this three story brick apartment building.

A muggy Summer day's adventure into downtown Dallas revealed what Bonnie Parker, partner in crime to Clyde Barrow, called "the Great Divide."

When I came across a photo of Mrs BM Howard 503 Bryan Street, with a date range of 1900 to 1909, I was surprised -- there was a name and an address.

Texarkana started life before 1860 by way of the steam railroad and a steam packet boat.

The history of the house at 301 East Lamar in McKinney includes a murder and a live burial!

William Whitlow's 3-D tombstone at Oakwood Cemetery in Fort Worth is truly an in-your-face kind of memorial, and the story behind it really encapsulates Fort Worth's short but colorful history.

How the Interstate obliterated a vintage Shreveport scene of the De Fatta grocery store, shot gun shacks, and hot tamale vendors.

In 1995, a business consultant introduced "disruptive innovation" which has become, for people like us "destructive innovation" instead.

Whether you're driving south or north over Interstate 35E to pass by downtown Dallas, poor you, you'll eventually cross the Trinity River.

An unpublished and undated engineer's report details a plan to connect McKinney to Paris with an interurban railway.

The Arlington Hotel in downtown Shreveport opened in 1914.

Today, the Louisiana Tower stands in the Tilly aka Phoenix aka Youree aka Washington-Youree aka Captain Shreve Hotel's Shreveport site.

The Peery Cemetery in Cooke County, Texas is endangered by the development of a 7-Eleven.

A 1656 map shows villages like Naguatex, which were described in the 1557 book, Gentleman of Elvas, about the de Soto expedition.

When Route 66 served as the main highway through Amarillo, the Triangle Motel on the east side was the first place west-bound travelers saw.

Coates' Bluff was Shreveport's original settlement, the site of a trading post within a Caddoan village.

A map about an unrealized future, drawn to indicate where the Texas & Pacific Railroad would pass once it was built west of Shreveport.

Along Cherry Street in downtown Sherman is an interesting ruin behind the 1888 Cottonbelt railroad depot.

A PERFECT example of Mid-Century Modern still exists in downtown Sherman.