Today, North Texas football legend “Mean” Joe Greene turns 80! Greene was a defensive tackle for North Texas from 1966-1968 under coach Odus Mitchell. The strong defensive front helped lead the Eagles to back-to-back conference titles. Greene made history as the first North Texas All-American. Joe Greene was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the… Read more »
After the Texas Longhorns’ unbelievable comeback against #1 Ohio State, I wanted to showcase a father-son legacy that demonstrated their athleticism at the University of Texas and went on to the big leagues. This is the Ernie Koy story. Ernie Koy Sr. Ernie Koy was born in Sealy, TX in 1909. He attended the University… Read more »
Fashion designer and icon Bob Mackie has passed away. Known for his inventive and sparkly eye-catching designs, Mackie was affectionately known as the “Sultan of Sequins” and the “Guru of Glitter,” designing outfits for Carol Burnett, Elton John, Dolly Parton, Cher, and many other larger-than-life personalities. One of Mackie’s earliest assignments was drawing the original… Read more »
Today marks 56 years since the notorious Kent State shootings that left four unarmed college students dead at the hands of the Ohio National Guard while protesting operations in Cambodia during the Vietnam War. It was a boiling point for intranational tensions in a turbulent time of civil rights struggles, antiwar sentiment, and a skyrocketing… Read more »
Pat Kirkwood. Gambler. Stock car racer. Businessman. Beatnik Beelzebub. The great and powerful Ozymandian charlatan of chivalry and charm. Lord of the underworld weirdos from hipsters to gangsters with connections to anyone from Gene Autry to Amon G. Carter, George Carlin to Jack Ruby. A man of controversy and public service, admired and reviled by… Read more »
After the blood-soaked horrors of World War I, men, to say the least, were not alright on a spiritual or existential level. This could explain why a bunch of Dallas men got tired of swapping traumatic war stories and decided they needed to inject a little frivolity into their male-bonding. With fabulous hats. Thus, April… Read more »
They say everything is bigger in Texas. This includes the big foot of a tall tale. Many cultures have their own regional folktales about elusive cryptids rarely seen by civilized society. The Yeti of the Himalayas, the Loch Ness Monster of Scotland, chupacabras, Mothman, the Jersey Devil, the Fouke Monster, and of course, Sasquatch of… Read more »
Fort Worth radio station WBAP 820 was established in 1922 as an AM news and talk show. The station expanded to include the television program WBAP-TV in 1948, and an FM radio station the following year. WBAP shared frequencies on AM radio with the station WFAA until 1970, when they paid WFAA for sole occupancy… Read more »
In 1930 Paul and Thomas Braniff founded Braniff Airways, Inc. The two petitioned the US Postal Service for a Chicago-Dallas airmail route in 1935, making Braniff Airways the first company to hold that route, and allowing them to eventually grow into a major airline company. Braniff assisted in World War II, grew their passenger business,… Read more »
NBC 5 / KXAS has done many stories on North Texas artists throughout the years, showing their craft and skills. We have brought together some of this footage of artists at work from the 1960s and 1970s, to share some of the wonderful footage and their stories. In the following footage, a metalsmith, known only… Read more »
