Deep Ellum

by Alan Govenar and Jay F Brakefield

Deep Ellum, on the eastern edge of downtown Dallas, retains its character as an alternative to the city's staid image with loft apartments, art galleries, nightclubs, and tattoo shops. It first sprang up as a ramshackle business district with saloons and variety theatres and evolved, during the early decades of the twentieth century, into a place where the black and white worlds of Dallas converged.

This book strips away layers of myth to illuminate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1603449582
• ISBN13: 9781603449588
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"