Dallas

Eighteen Sundays in Deep Ellum

Rod H

Jan 31, 2023 • 4 min read

(1/29/2023, #18)

This Sunday was a cloudy cold day in Dallas - so it's a very good thing that the intrepid companion and I checked the forecast and went to Deep Ellum earlier in the week when it was sunny and beautiful. Our Month of Sundays project brooks no delay!

When we left you in the last post, we were just outside the doorway at Dot's Hop House and Cocktail Courtyard, intent on heading east down Commerce Street.

Just east of Dot's is this "I Love DE" doorway, and then this pretty iron work at Hibiki Sushi Japanese restaurant.

Continuing to the east is the Ruins bar, their courtyard and covered patio decorated with these lovelies.

The eyes are by Rebecca Baradell (link, @rebecca_baradell). The stars on the patio are pretty impressive, too.

We're now at the intersection of Commerce and Pryor Street. Just around the corner of Ruins is "La Leyenda de Mayahuel" by Dan Colcer that we saw in an earlier post. East across Pryor is a parking area lined with marvelous murals including an Alamo landscape by Lesli Marshall (@lm_artndesign), "Love is the only thing worth fighting for" by Michel Cruz (@michelcruzart) with @vicholiday637, and a little pastel surrealism by @bwaresparks. The east end of the parking lot is anchored by "The Last Butterfly Ballet", a work by Mantra (@mantrarea) that covers three sides of the building at Uncle Uber's Sammich Shop.

We're now at Commerce and Crowdus, where you can't miss this giant mural of a cowgirl by Tristan Eaton (@tristaneaton) on the side of the Stack across the street and to the west. You can see the patio at St Pete's Dancing Marlin in the foreground, this side of Angry Dog.

The second photo above is taken behind St. Pete's and gives you more detail.

We proceeded across Commerce toward St. Pete's and noticed this reflective waterscape by @legendaryarts on the wall, along with other nautical decorations around the patio.

Around the corner to the east on Crowdus are many works in progress, along with a ton of construction traffic for the Stack. There's an American Flag Wall by Preston Pannek on the east side of St. Pete's, with work in progress about Luka Doncic. There was a kerfuffle recently about this one, and it's being reworked.

New Mural coming soon! Also "Believe in Yourself" to support #stepforward, and Dak Prescott with "Mask Up Dallas" by Kyle Holbrook.

We'll end this post on the back wall of St Pete's, at Crowdus and Clover, where this mural by Steve Hunter (@hunter_creates_murals) was finished just the day before.

There are many murals all around this intersection, which is on Blues Alley. Next time, we'll go back to Main and continue east. We'll catch Blues Alley in a future post, hopefully after the construction work dies down a bit.