When last I left you, my party and I had just entered the Green Expo at Trader’s Village in Grand Prairie, and were making our way deeper into this year’s “Tet-in-DFW” festival, which is the annual celebration of Lunar New Year by the local Vietnamese-American community. We had already encountered that classic Vietnamese cultural icon, Ronald MacDonald, and the food pavilions serving all kinds of scrumptious Asian goodies.
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On February 2, I hied myself over to Trader’s Village, a huge, permanent flea market/craft fair/festival site located between Interstates 20 and 30 in Grand Prairie. The occasion was the Chinese Lunar New Year, which is celebrated by the Vietnamese as Tet. Now, Tet actually fell on February 7 (a Thursday), but for reasons of accessibility and practicality, the Tet-in-DFW Festival was celebrated on February 2-3, the weekend before. Vietnamese-Americans are nothing if not practical.
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On the northwest side of the DFW metroplex, just a few miles from downtown Fort Worth, you’ll find what’s left of Niles City. Back in the second decade of the Twentieth Century, Niles City was, briefly, one of the richest towns in the world, which was rather remarkable given its size: it covered no more than 1.5 square miles at its largest. Among other things, it included a petroleum refinery and pipeline, a cottonseed oil company, several grain elevators, two meat packing plants — and the Fort Worth Stockyards.
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I’m not exactly DFW’s go-to guy for shopping, but I’ve lived here for almost fifteen years — so I’d have to be completely clueless* not to be aware of where, exactly, the local epicenters of shopping are located. In Dallas, it’s the Galleria out on the Dallas Parkway, the toll-road that cuts north-south through the center of the city.
Our Galleria consists of three main floors and a basement with a central skating rink, several nice restaurants, and a sizable food court (there’s another food court on the third floor). Here’s what it looks like from the top of its three glittering floors, looking east along the long axis:
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Welcome to the first entry of a new category: Shopping. A friend recently pointed out to me that most people like to shop when they’re on vacation, seeing as how spending money can be soooo relaxing. I quickly realize that she was right — I shop when I’m out of town, too, just in case I see something I can’t find at home. When I was pondering what I’d introduce the category with, it occurred to me that I spend a lot of money on books. That being the case, the first entry for the Shopping category popped into mind with no trouble at all — so here you go.
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