Downtown
Dallas is a hymn to commerce. Many of its skyscrapers are landmarks
in themselves; at night the red neon Mobil Pegasus on the 1921 Magnolia
Building on Akard and Commerce streets appears to gallop over the
city, while over two miles of green argon tubing delineate the 72-story
Bank of America building. The original Neiman Marcus department store,
set up in 1907 by sister and brother Carrie Neiman and Herbert Marcus
and famed for its glamorous Christmas catalog, is still there on
Main Street (Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, Thurs until 8pm). One refuge is the
Center for World Thanksgiving at Thanksgiving Square at the intersection
of Akard, Ervay and Bryan streets and Pacific Avenue (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm,
Sat & Sun 1-5pm), with its meditation garden, fountains and modern
spiraling chapel - though even here pealing bells boom out at regular
intervals. South of the square on Ervay Street looms the precarious
upside-down pyramid of City Hall , possibly familiar as the police
station in Robocop. Hostels in Dallas
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