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Culture: Unlikely host Dallas grabbed the spotlight for the Texas centennial

01:18 PM CDT on Friday, June 25, 2010

By MICHAEL V. HAZEL/Special Contributor

By the late 1930s, Dallas — not Detroit or

Denver — was becoming known as "Big D," a modern city with a can-do spirit.

Dallas Historical Society

Crowds fill the plaza in front of the Federal Building during the Texas Centennial Exposition. An estimated six million people visited Dallas during the six-month spectacle.