The Seventeenth Sunday
(1/22/2023)
Today, my intrepid companion and I set out to continue our Month of Sundays journey. It was crisply beautiful after a couple of days of clouds, perfect for starting down Commerce Street.
As promised in our last post, we went to the western end of Deep Ellum, where the Deep Ellum Art Park marks the beginning of Commerce Street at Good-Latimer, underneath the overpass between I-30 and Central.
Just a few of the Art Park works that take advantage of the many sides of the environment, by@joshuaboulet, Sauce, @mlagocki, Dr Gorilla, @eddiewalkerart, @melodyhayart14, @clint.scism, Isaac Davies, and others. More on Fritz the Owl here.
As you pass through the intersection, you'll see Punch Bowl Social and Cane Rosso anchoring this end of Commerce. Cane Rosso has a Godfather mural by Frank Campagna decorating the patio.
Next to Cane Rosso you can't miss the mural at the car park (also by Frank Campagna) of Godzilla incinerating Big Tex while Traveling Man tries to douse the flames, but you MIGHT miss the mural celebrating Jack Ruby and the Carousel Club strippers by Isaac Brown which is just around the corner on the back wall of the 2616 Commerce venue.
My intrepid companion burst out in giggles when she realized what was going on with Godzilla. Poor Big Tex. And you don't see many celebrations of Jack Ruby in Dallas ;)
Strolling back to Commerce, we looked across to the open area between Punch Bowl Social and Twisted Root and saw a canopy marking the entrance to the RBC Deep Ellum venue. Aliens and dinosaurs 'Beyond Grasp' line the walkway leading to a work by Dan Colcer at the entrance to the RBC.
The walkway to RBC.
I like Dan Colcer's work, and it was a treat to find this hidden away.
If you look above the walkway canopy, you'll see a work by Joe Skilz on the upper deck of Twisted Root - and on the lower patio, what they are all about. Go inside, and you'll see more work just beneath the order counter.
Yes, they are.
Back to Commerce again, heading east. Just the other side of Twisted Root is a parking area that has several works. This one is on the west wall of Vidorra.
These are on the west wall of Dot's Hop House and Cocktail Courtyard.
We continued on to Dot's, where the courtyard art celebrates Dallas and Deep Ellum stories including a sport-themed stained-glass work with a nice nod to local Woodrow Wilson High School's two Heisman Trophy winners (only public high school in the US to have that distinction!). Oh, and others like the Super Bowl Cowboys, Mavericks, Stars, Nolan Ryan, and the Rangers. The mosaics here are by artist Steve Hunter.
We were close to overload at this point so we crossed the street to the Free Man Cajun Cafe to check on options for celebrating Mardi Gras. As we left, we saw some blue goodness that we had to check out down on Henry Street.
This marks the beginning of Blues Alley on Clover Street which we'll get to later after we finish up on Commerce. Henry Street runs on the west side of the Stack, a new high-rise with lots of construction going on, and Blues Alley runs on the south side.
That's all for this post. Next time, we'll return to Commerce and pick up just past Dot's and Henry Street on our way east to Crowdus. There's a lot of mural goodness to share.
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