Resource Type

[World Trade Center Furniture Showroom]

Photograph of a dimly-lit furniture showroom in the Dallas World Trade Center. Couches of multiple colors and patterns are on display, each with a price tag, ranging from brown couches with tufted backrests, plain ones with three cushions and floral designs, and striped cushioned chairs. Between the couches are small end tables, decorated with unique lamps. Vases, mirrors, and flower bouquets are hung along the walls. At right, people in suits are visible talking to one another among the seats.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Registration Desk #1]

Photograph of the registration desk at the Dallas World Trade Center. People gather around a circular desk speaking to and interacting with clerks at desks with keyboards, machines, papers, and brochures. The clerks work the machines for the guests. The brochures placed around desk contain information about Dallas and the Market Center. The desk, illuminated from above by a circular metal frame with lamps, is in the World Trade Center's lobby, with tiered balconies and a tower at left with elevators.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Registration Desk #2]

Photograph of the registration desk at the Dallas World Trade Center. People gather around a circular desk speaking to and interacting with clerks at desks with keyboards, machines, papers, and brochures. The clerks work the machines for the guests. The brochures placed around desk contain information about Dallas and the Market Center. The desk, illuminated from above by a circular metal frame with lamps, is in the World Trade Center's lobby, with tiered balconies and a tower at left with elevators.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Lobby Seating]

Photograph of seating in the lobby of the Dallas World Trade Center. Brown couches lacking armrests are arranged around an open space with simple dark gray tables. Along one wall is a textured pattern of vertical and horizontal wooden strips. The space is decorated by potted plants in the corner. The larger lobby can be seen beyond the space, with beds for small trees and balconies lined with rose bushes and vines.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Post Office]

Photograph of a post office in the Dallas World Trade Center. A glass facade with glass double doors leads into the post office and its simple front desk. The room is mostly plain and undecorated, with a post office worker attending to a couple. Shelves and desks lay behind the front desk.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Travel Agency #1]

Photograph of a travel agency in the Dallas World Trade Center. It occupies a small unit with an undecorated glass facade, with an unoccupied front desk between two short walls. Each of the walls contains pictures and advertisements to other places such as Walt Disney World, Arizona, and San Francisco. Handbags, a small and blue Eiffel Tower, and a cardboard cutout of travel agents and pilots are placed along the walls. The front desk contains a potted plant and some papers. The room is illuminated by recessed light fixtures.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Travel Agency #2]

Photograph of a travel agency in the Dallas World Trade Center. It occupies a small unit with an undecorated glass facade, with an unoccupied front desk between two short walls. Each of the walls contains pictures and advertisements to other places such as France, Mexico, and Africa. Handbags, a small and blue Eiffel Tower, and a cardboard cutout of travel agents and pilots are placed along the walls. The room is illuminated by recessed light fixtures.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Sundries Shop]

Photograph of a sundries shop at the Dallas World Trade Center. From left to right are greeting cards, shelves of personal hygiene products like toothpaste and shampoo, newspapers, and cigars and cigarettes. The tobacco products are behind the cashier's desk, which has a cash register, a receipt printer, and a yellow cushioned chair. In front of the cashier's desk are shampoos, soaps, candies, mints, chocolates, other snacks, pens, and a rotating display calendars.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Boy at Apparel Mart]

Photograph of a boy posing for a photograph in the Apparel Mart at the Dallas Market Center. He stands in front of a large potted plant, several tables occupied by other guests conversing, and a large complex decorative display of plywood and mirrors arranged diagonally in layers and shaped like rectangles, lines, and trapezoids. Tiered open-air balconies decorated with plants and couches are visible at left with metal handrails and doors from higher floors.
Date: 1974-08~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Corridor]

Photograph of a corridor in the Dallas World Trade Center. The corridor is plain and unadorned except for the circular pattern of floor tiles and the small potted plants placed along the walls and hanging from the ceiling. Above the corridor is a balcony from an upper floor, lined along the second floor with a rail barrier. At the end of the corridor is a larger part of the WTC. Three people walk from there, while another stands at left facing them with his back to the camera.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Cafeteria, Food Stations]

Photograph of food stations in the cafeteria of the Dallas World Trade Center. The stations are marked with signs and have glass displays showing foods. Numerous people are gathered around the entree station, with salads and deserts to the left and breads and drinks to the right. One walks away from the entree station with a tray in his hands.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Guitar Display]

Photograph of a display of guitars in the Dallas World Trade Center. The guitars are acoustic and different in color, including normal beige, white, and black. Several small containers containing unknown colored objects are put in a white display stand at the bottom with a logo reading "PRO ARTS". Four spray cans are adjacent to the display stand. At the very right are small pamphlets titled "Self-Instruction Guitar Book for Beginners"; one of these pamphlets has been placed above the bridge of one of the guitars.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Rug Showroom]

Photograph of rugs on display in a showroom at the Dallas World Trade Center. Two people are inside: a man with a circular sticker on his shirt, and a woman gesturing with her right hand. They stand among displays of rugs, arranged in vertical stacks, each with a different design and color palette. A small display of color tones is visible at right, next to tables and a chair.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Knoll International Showroom, Dallas WTC]

Photograph of the entrance to the Knoll International showroom in the Dallas World Trade Center. The signage for "Knoll International" is clearly visible across the image, likely printed on the glass surface. Behind the glass are chairs and tables with potted plants. Much of the showroom is obscured by the perspective of the photograph and a white wall that covers the left half of the image.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Dining Area Interior #1]

Photograph of the dining area of the Dallas World Trade Center cafeteria. Square and rectangular dining chairs with adjoining brown chairs are placed across the dining area, which has wooden walls with a brown, detailed floral carpet. Along a wall at left are two cushioned seats, with a wheeled cart to the left of them. A latticed wooden decoration is hung above it. The dining area is accessible by stairs, visible at right and flanked by houseplants. Directly in front of the stairs is a brick corridor. Within the dining area, in the background, are people seated together, some eating.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Dining Area, Occupied Tables]

Photograph of the dining area in the Dallas World Trade Center cafeteria during a dinner service. Numerous square dining tables, each with four cushioned dining chairs, are arranged throughout the room, and are decorated with yellow and gray tablecloths. Numerous people are seated at the tables and are attended to by waitresses, who stand and move among them. Along the back wall is a passageway at center and a latticed screen opening at left.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Cafeteria Interior #2]

Photograph of the dining area of the Dallas World Trade Center cafeteria. Square and rectangular dining chairs with adjoining brown chairs are placed across the dining area, which has wooden walls with a brown, detailed floral carpet. Along a wall at left are two cushioned seats, with a wheeled cart to the left of them. A latticed wooden decoration is hung above it. The dining area is accessible by stairs, visible at right and flanked by houseplants. Directly in front of the stairs is a brick corridor. Within the dining area, in the background, are people seated together, some eating.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Dining Area, Facing Lobby]

Photograph of the dining area of the Dallas World Trade Center cafeteria. Square and rectangular dining tables, each adjoined with brown dining chairs, are arranged throughout the space in rows, furnished with saltshakers and ashtrays. Windows along the brick wall reveal the lobby, where people are seated in canvas chairs along tables. Within the dining area, two pairs of people are eating meals and discussing together along separate tables.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[New Trends Showroom, WTC]

Photograph of the New Trends Co. import/export showroom in the Dallas World Trade Center. Viewed from the outside, the store's entrance is built with a wooden frame with windows all along the front. Inside the store is a wide selection of items, including hanging wicker pots with flowers and plants, wooden decorations and boxes, ceramic statues and plates, large vases, and a blue circular seat around a pillar. A set of blue stairs is at center right. A sign on a shelf within the showroom reads "WHOLESALE SHOWROOM / OPEN TO THE TRADE ONLY".
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Lobby #1]

Photograph of the main lobby of the Dallas World Trade Center, consisting of a large atrium spanning seven stories. Along each wall is stacked balconies from every floor, opened out to the atrium, lined with metal rails and concrete barriers. The balconies enclose the atrium, and at center is an extended pillar-shaped portion of the wall, which contains elevators along the left side of the pillar as well as additional balconies on every floor. On the first floor is a large circular display set on a fountain, as well as tables, round planters, lamps, and trees. From the ceiling, which is made of an arrangement of square pyramid skylights, hangs two cylindrical arrangements of ensigns and lexicological elements spanning several floors in height, as well as potted plants and lamps. Flags of multiple European countries hang vertically from the concrete barriers of the third-floor balcony. A handful of people walk across the balcony on the first floor. The World Trade Center is depicted here before its 1979 expansion from seven stories to fifteen stories,
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Lobby #2]

Photograph of the main lobby of the Dallas World Trade Center, consisting of a large atrium spanning seven stories. Along each wall is stacked balconies from every floor, opened out to the atrium, lined with metal rails and concrete barriers. The balconies enclose the atrium, and at center is an extended pillar-shaped portion of the wall, which contains elevators along the left side of the pillar as well as additional balconies on every floor. On the first floor is a large circular display set on a fountain, as well as tables, round planters, lamps, and trees. From the ceiling, which is made of an arrangement of square pyramid skylights, hangs two cylindrical arrangements of ensigns and lexicological elements spanning several floors in height, as well as potted plants and lamps. Flags of multiple European countries hang vertically from the concrete barriers of the third-floor balcony. A handful of people walk across the balcony on the first floor. The World Trade Center is depicted here before its 1979 expansion from seven stories to fifteen stories,
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Lobby, Hanging Potted Plant #1]

Photograph of a potted plant being pulled to a balcony's edge in the Dallas World Trade Center lobby atrium. The potted plant hangs from the ceiling on a thin metal chain. Two men pull it closer to the balcony's railing, one with a stick hung over the edge.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Lounge]

Photograph of the club lounge in the Dallas World Trade Center. A round fireplace is embedded in the corner at center, with round couches with small square pillows arranged around the front of the hearth. Small decorations are placed on the fireplace's mantle. Dining tables, adjoined with cushioned dining chairs and furnished with ashtrays, are placed throughout the room. A couple are seated at left, talking over food. Decorations are hung on the right wall, such as a fur-like curtain at left and a baton hung on a wooden circle at right. Wooden crossbeams span the width of the ceiling.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[World Trade Center Lounge Bar]

Photograph of the bar at the Dallas World Trade Center's club lounge. This portion of the area has a bar at right, with bar chairs and a long counter. Behind the counter is a glass display of drinks, a latticed wooden screen, and several empty cups. At left is is a circle of couches arranged around a fireplace in the far left corner; men are seated on the couches, talking with one another. To the right of the couches are two entryways into other parts of the building. In the foreground of the picture are circular dining chairs furnished with ashtrays and adjoined with four cushioned chairs each. Quilts and paintings hang on the wall.
Date: 1974~/1979~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History