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Casa Mañana
Photo courtesy Cindi Gilmore, 2008 |
Fort Worth
– Casa Mañana
Not to be undone
by Dallas, Amon G. Carter,
wealthy Fort Worth newspaper publisher
and civic leader, began making his own plans for a celebration in
Fort Worth, known as the Fort Worth
Frontier Centennial Exhibition. A nearby cow pasture was turned into
a midway of exhibits, sideshows, a Wild West show and a musical circus,
with a large amphitheatre called Casa Mañana, or The House Of Tomorrow,
in the center.
Casa Mañana was so successful that plans were made to bring it back
each summer for four consecutive years, but the entire complex was
eventually dismantled, so the steel and other useable materials could
be used in the war effort. A new Casa Mañana was built in 1958, and
is located in the heart of the Cultural District at 3101 West Lancaster
Avenue, Fort Worth.
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Billy Rose's
Casa Mañana sheet music cover
Courtesy Sarah
Reveley |
Casa
Mañana
From "Monuments Commemorating the Centenary of Texas Independence",
State of Texas, 1938
Courtesy Sarah
Reveley |
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