Special Events
IMAX film festival - Wednesday July
13th
Large Format 3D Film Festival
On Wednesday, July 13, registered convention participants can attend a free
screening of several Large Format 3D films to kick off The World’s First Large
Format 3D Film Festival. Free transportation will be provided, but please
indicate if you need a ride on the registration form so we can reserve enough
buses. The IMAX is about 12 miles from the Hotel.
The planned films are:
Ocean Wonderland 3D
NASCAR
Aliens of the Deep
A Better Mousetrap
The convention presentation will be held on Wednesday, July 13, from 10am to 1pm
at the
IMAX Cinemark 17, 11819 Webb Chapel Rd. Dallas, TX
Transportation will be provided if you have indicated that you will need it on
your registration form.
DeGolyer Library Reception at Southern Methodist University
The DeGolyer Library
will be hosting a special event for Stereo Card collectors on Thursday, July 14,
at 6pm.
The library has an excellent collection of stereocards and will be presenting
the exhibit: 'Two x Two: the Stereograph Collections of Banks McLaurin, Jr. and
Robin Stanford’.
Mrs. Stanford will be there to say a few words about her collection and to
discuss the exhibit.
Light hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Dallas and Fort Worth area tour
(Monday, July 18, 9am to 5:30pm)
November 22, l963.... a date that lives in the memory of millions around the
world.
Dealey Plaza, the triple underpass, The Texas Schoolbook
Depository-----these places are part of the history of John F. Kennedy. For
well over a quarter of a century hundreds of thousands of people from all over
the world have come and milled around the grassy knoll and stood on the corner
of Elm and Houston street to look up at the sixth floor corner window where Lee
Harvey Oswald allegedly fired the shot that killed the thirty-fifth President of
the United States. Our guide will shed light on the events of that day and
discuss the different theories about what happened, the location of the
witnesses and what they said.
We will see part of the motorcade route, see the Rooming house where Oswald
lived, the Texas Theater where Oswald was arrested, and the site where officer
Tippet was shot.
We will visit The Sixth Floor
Museum which features nearly 400 historic photographs, six
documentary films, and audio cassette tour and a range of artifacts and
interpretive displays to document the life and, times, death and legacy of
President John F. Kennedy and analyzes Kennedy’s lasting impact on American
culture.
FORT WORTH CITY TOUR & SHOPPING
On our way to Fort Worth our guide will prepare you for what you will be seeing
while guests are having their box lunches. She will tell tales of yesteryear
when over a century ago millions of Texas longhorns were driven to the Kansas
rail heads along the Chisholm trail, stories of roundups and Indian lore.
We will drive through Sundance Square, the restored old city with its brick
streets and architecture of the old west, shops and galleries of western art and
gifts. Sundance Square was named after the infamous outlaw, the Sundance Kid.
Step out into the
Water Gardens. Designed by nationally known architect, Philip
Johnson the water gardens
are designed to combine water, greenery and concrete. A spot used many times in
the movies (such as Logan’s Run), it surprises even the most sophisticated
visitor.
We’ll go to
the stockyards area which shows the authentic heritage of the Old West. This
is the home of the Cattleman’s Exchange, where cattle auctions are still held.
We will stop in the Stockyards Hotel. . . . a moment in history that time
forgot. Its walls are filled with stories of a rough and tumble age of real
life pioneers and cowboys. Next door is Booger Reds Saloon, named after the
famous broncobuster, it carries on the time honored tradition of a western
watering hole.
For those who like to shop, right up the street is the Stockyard Station
Market. Without destroying the architectural integrity of the original
structure the Market offers visitors an opportunity to experience the Old
West—in an authentic but modern setting. The Market houses more than 20 new
shops from the King Ranch Saddle shop to the Olde West Country Store.
Longhorn cattle drive at Fort Worth Stockyards
The "Fort Worth Herd" numbers 15 longhorn cattle – steers actually, not cows. A
handful of them will be chosen each day to participate in the drive, which will
leave just before lunch from the herd's pen in the Stockyards. The cattle travel
from the Stockyards along the Trinity River to the pasture, where they graze for
a few hours before returning to the Stockyards, between 4 and 4:30 p.m.
The city's cowboys, dressed in turn-of-the-century garb with period saddles and
equipment, will explain Fort Worth's history and answer questions from the
public.
The whole tour should last about 9 hours.
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