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3101
West Lancaster Avenue, Fort Worth.
by Sarah Reveley |
Fort
Worth – Casa Mañana Not
to be undone by Dallas, Amon G. Carter, wealthy Fort
Worth newspaper publisher and civic leader, began making his own plans for
a celebration in Fort Worth, known as the Fort Worth
Frontier Centennial Exhibition. A nearby cow pasture was turned into a midway
of exhibits, sideshows, a Wild West show and a musical circus, with a large amphitheatre
called Casa Mañana, or The House Of Tomorrow, in the center.
Casa Mañana
was so successful that plans were made to bring it back each summer for four consecutive
years, but the entire complex was eventually dismantled, so the steel and other
useable materials could be used in the war effort. A new Casa Mañana was built
in 1958, and is located in the heart of the Cultural District at 3101 West Lancaster
Avenue, Fort Worth.
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Casa
Mañana
Photo courtesy Cindi Gilmore, 2008 |
Billy
Rose's Casa Mañana sheet music cover
Courtesy Sarah
Reveley |
Casa Mañana
From "Monuments Commemorating the Centenary of Texas Independence",
State of Texas, 1938
Courtesy Sarah
Reveley | |
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