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Dalworth Park

According to a marketing brochure produced by the Dalworth Company in 1912, Dalworth Park was “the geographical center of the best part of Texas – the garden spot of the Great Southwest” with the richest farming land in the world and where the average July temperature for the preceding 13 years was 83 degrees. The planned development of a “model city” was located “half way between Dallas and Fort Worth at the highest point between these two cities and commanding a magnificent view in every direction” and, at an altitude of 600 feet above sea level, “swept by the cool, refreshing breezes of the Gulf”.

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Uptown Theater - A Grand Prairie Landmark

In 1948, two brothers, Jerry and Sherman Silver, and their sister, Helen Meagher Fisher, a young widow with three children, bought the Wings Theater on Main Street in Grand Prairie and moved to Texas from Minnesota. The brothers, who were already in the Theater business, were excited about the possibilities in this small but growing Texas town of 13,241.

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