This blog is about bicycles and other ways to get around from point to point.
Thursday, October 8
Panther City
Fort Worth is sometimes known as "the Panther City." How did it come by that moniker? Dallas came up with it! The story is here, here, here, here, and a bunch of other places
It was "lower" Elm Street, the Swiss/German business district (Rudolh's Meat market being the last surviving Kraut business there today). The Heinies were very tolerant of Blacks, and catered to their business. African-Americans soon established their own businesses along lower Elm Street... hence "Deep" Elm (or "Ellum") Street.
hmmm...i thought is was from the way African-Americans were known to pronounce Elm St in the twenties and thirties...Ellum. the mispronunciation stuck. Paging John Singleton, there's a movie for you.
How did Deep Ellum come by Deep Ellum?
ReplyDeletetwister said...
ReplyDelete"How did Deep Ellum come by Deep Ellum?"
It was "lower" Elm Street, the Swiss/German business district (Rudolh's Meat market being the last surviving Kraut business there today). The Heinies were very tolerant of Blacks, and catered to their business. African-Americans soon established their own businesses along lower Elm Street... hence "Deep" Elm (or "Ellum") Street.
hmmm...i thought is was from the way African-Americans were known to pronounce Elm St in the twenties and thirties...Ellum. the mispronunciation stuck. Paging John Singleton, there's a movie for you.
ReplyDelete