--- title: "Dallas city stories | City Whisper" description: "Preview 4 sourced Dallas stories; 75 are available in the app." canonical: "https://citywhisper.net/en/cities/dallas/" language: "en" content_signal: "search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=no" --- # Dallas grows trees above a freeway Trees in Klyde Warren Park follow the gaps between beams spanning the traffic. Lights mark the joints of Reunion Tower’s spherical frame. Big Tex began as a giant Santa, though the figure at today’s fair is a replacement. RoboCop gave City Hall extra height with a painted image combined with filmed footage. 75 stories are available in the app. ## Public story previews ### Big Tex: Santa became a cowboy Dallas bought a giant Santa and gave him cowboy clothes. Big Tex began as a giant Santa Claus made for Kerens in 1949. Dallas bought the figure and had artist Jack Bridges remake him as a cowboy for the 1952 State Fair. A moving mouth was added later to deliver greetings. The old Big Tex burned in 2012; a newly made figure replaced him the following year. [Source: en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tex) [Permanent section link](https://citywhisper.net/en/cities/dallas/#dal_big_tex_santa) ### Klyde Warren Park: Growing trees above a freeway Tree beds fit between the beams over moving traffic. Klyde Warren Park sits above the Woodall Rodgers Freeway. More than three hundred concrete beams were laid across the traffic, with spaces between them used as tree beds. Lightweight foam and specially mixed soil reduced the load. The lawn looks like one broad, level surface, but the position of every tree depends on the beams beneath it. [Source: en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klyde_Warren_Park) [Permanent section link](https://citywhisper.net/en/cities/dallas/#dal_klyde_tree_boxes) ### Reunion Tower: A sphere drawn in points of light The glowing ball is an open frame, not a wall. An open aluminum sphere wraps around the three upper levels of Reunion Tower. A light sits at each of its 259 joints. Programmable LEDs installed in 2011 let those points change color like screen pixels, making holiday patterns and animations. From below by day, you can see through the framework. At night, the lights turn it into a glowing ball. [Source: en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reunion_Tower) [Permanent section link](https://citywhisper.net/en/cities/dallas/#dal_reunion_light_pixels) ### Dallas City Hall: The movie made City Hall taller A painted extension turned City Hall into a corporate tower. The 1987 film RoboCop used Dallas City Hall as the headquarters of the fictional OCP corporation. The real building is much shorter. The filmmakers photographed a painted upper section and combined it with the location footage, extending the building upward by several floors. The lower part of that futuristic corporate headquarters is Dallas City Hall. [Source: gov.texas.gov](https://gov.texas.gov/film/trail/dallas-city-hall) [Permanent section link](https://citywhisper.net/en/cities/dallas/#dal_city_hall_robocop) ## About City Whisper City Whisper collects short, sourced stories tied to real places. Read and save them at home, or turn on a reminder as you pass. Precise location stays on the device. The app is free, ad-free, and requires no account. [Download City Whisper free on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6780022165?pt=129035443&ct=official_website&mt=8) ## Citation and use Search and answer agents may cite the public homepage and city pages. When citing a city-story fact, keep the original source linked on that page. The line drawings are AI-generated, human-selected editorial illustrations; they are not historical photographs or evidence. Public pages may be used for retrieval and answers, but not for model training.