Dallas' Reunion Arena to become gambling casino?

[kaorder1999]

I just read an article about the fate of Reunion Arena and one of the ideas being tossed around in addition to it becoming a theater or a parking garage is transforming it into a gambling casino....how could that happen?

[coach]

Originally posted by kaorder1999
I just read an article about the fate of Reunion Arena and one of the ideas being tossed around in addition to it becoming a theater or a parking garage is transforming it into a gambling casino....how could that happen?

i dont care how it will happen but i cant wait

[NastySlot]

DISD should have bought it before they built that complex....could have used it for graduations......rented it out to conventions...and basketball games.....but the best thing would they could have run a great indoor track meet in.

[pirate4state]

Originally posted by NastySlot
DISD should have bought it before they built that complex....could have used it for graduations......rented it out to conventions...and basketball games.....but the best thing would they could have run a great indoor track meet in.

I think they have bigger problems. lol

[kaorder1999]

Originally posted by NastySlot
DISD should have bought it before they built that complex....could have used it for graduations......rented it out to conventions...and basketball games.....but the best thing would they could have run a great indoor track meet in.

the new Jesse Owens complex is amazing...can have good track meets, playoff football games and graduations. Not sure that the District could afford the upkeep of a 30 year old Reunion Arena

[NastySlot]

hey KA are you old enough to remember a DISD football stadium PC Cobb.

[kaorder1999]

Originally posted by NastySlot
hey KA are you old enough to remember a DISD football stadium PC Cobb.

that at Fair Park? No, never saw a Varsity game there but we still play 9th and JV games there!

[NastySlot]

there was a stadium...huge concrete stadium...probably seated about 20,000 called PC Cobb...they tore it down...it was in the area where market hall and those buildings are...it's been a while since i been to dallas...i grew up in the area....but i remember watching a game there when i was in like the sixth grade.

[kaorder1999]

Originally posted by NastySlot
there was a stadium...huge concrete stadium...probably seated about 20,000 called PC Cobb...they tore it down...it was in the area where market hall and those buildings are...it's been a while since i been to dallas...i grew up in the area....but i remember watching a game there when i was in like the sixth grade.

wow...i didnt know that. There is a small stadium called Cobb Stadium at Fair Park now.

[3afan]

click here (http://lh3.google.com/_cH9x2hrEOm8/R2H1MdFVAbI/AAAAAAAABAU/DDHDD0vchp0/s800/img101.jpg)

[kaorder1999]

yeah...i dont remember that stadium!!!

[Sweetwater Red]

Originally posted by 3afan
click here (http://lh3.google.com/_cH9x2hrEOm8/R2H1MdFVAbI/AAAAAAAABAU/DDHDD0vchp0/s800/img101.jpg)

Is that a picture of a football stadium or San Quentin?

[SintonFan_inAustin]

Originally posted by coach
i dont care how it will happen but i cant wait :thumbsup:


its 6 hours to Dallas and 5 hours to Lake Charles but i would drive the extra hour to stay in texas.

[Sweetwater Red]

Originally posted by SintonFan_inAustin
:thumbsup:


its 6 hours to Dallas and 5 hours to Lake Charles but i would drive the extra hour to stay in texas.


Not to mention less chance of getting robbed. I've been to Lake
Charles about twenty or thirty times.

[NastySlot]

I'm going to guess it was probably built in the 30's probably a wpa work project.....I just read the book Twelve Mighty Orphans and it mentions Masonic Home playing in huge stadium that DISD AD PC Cobb had built i bet it was this stadium......................that's a great book for those of you that do reading in the summer.

[LHSEagleFan]

I think there would have to be a State Constitutional Amendment before you could have legal gambling in Texas. The State of Texas is run by a group of idiots, if you go to Louisiana about 90% of the vehicles there have Texas license plates. I can't even imagine the amount of money that leaves here and goes there every week. Maybe one of these days they will wake up and see what a windfall of taxes they could collect here with legal gambling.

[Sweetwater Red]

Originally posted by LHSEagleFan
I think there would have to be a State Constitutional Amendment before you could have legal gambling in Texas. The State of Texas is run by a group of idiots, if you go to Louisiana about 90% of the vehicles there have Texas license plates. I can't even imagine the amount of money that leaves here and goes there every week. Maybe one of these days they will wake up and see what a windfall of taxes they could collect here with legal gambling.


Along with the corruption. Let's face it. Louisiana is the poster
child for political corruption at the state level.

[Astrosdawg07]

At one time wasn't there talks of turing the dome into a casino...???:confused:

[BreckTxLonghorn]

Originally posted by Astrosdawg07
At one time wasn't there talks of turing the dome into a casino...???:confused:

Heard about that. Also heard of it turning into a huge hotel as well.