Friday Flashback

I saw on television recently they have created a new “Dallas” series which will be premiering this fall I believe.  In case you are not familiar with it, the show was about a wealthy Texas oil family….kind of like an evening soap opera.  I wasn’t a huge fan of the original series, but I knew a lot of people who were.   The original series ran from 1978 until 1991.   I was living in Dallas from 1985 to 1990.

In March of 1985, I moved to the Dallas metro area from Denver…at the time, a little area called Lewisville.  The above photograph is the Dallas skyline from inside the restaurant at the top of Reunion Tower.  The tall building in the center of the image is the Bank of America building.  At night, the edges of the 72 story building were accented by a green neon type lighting…I think they still are.  The building was completed not long after we moved there…I can still remember when they turned on the lights….you could see the building from my apartment which was about 25 miles away….pretty amazing.

When my former sister-in-law once visited, we took a ride out to the legendary Southfork Ranch….the on location site of the television series mentioned above.  As I said, I wasn’t a huge fan of the series, but I had seen it on occasion.  I was a little disappointed when we arrived at the house…it looked smaller than on television.

I wonder if they will use the same location for the new series?