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Top O' Hill Terrace /
- Title
- Top O' Hill Terrace / Vickie Bryant and Camile Hess.
- Author
- Bryant, Vickie.
- Publication
- Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia Pub., ©2012.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Hess, Camile.
- Description
- 127 pages : chiefly illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- If the saga of Top O' Hill Casino becoming Arlington Baptist College were written as fiction, readers would dismiss it as improbable and.
- Impossible. The story of a tearoom evolving into the gambling hot.
- Preacher, who foretold its transformation into a Baptist seminary and ultimately an accredited Bible college, is stranger than fiction yet absolutely true. The rich and famous enjoyed rubbing shoulders with.
- Spot of North Central Texas that was then acquired by a fiery gospel.
- The mysterious and notoriously infamous, and if large amounts of money were involved, so much the better. Stir in fabulous racehorses, flashy stage and screen stars, singers, dancers, well-known bandleaders and bands, and the tale becomes enthralling.
- Were written as fiction, readers would dismiss it as improbable and.
- Series Statement
- Images of America
- Uniform Title
- Images of America.
- Subject
- Arlington (Tex.) > History > Pictorial works
- Arlington (Tex.) > Pictorial works
- Arlington (Tex.) > Social life and customs > Pictorial works
- Arlington Baptist College > History > Pictorial works
- Arlington Baptist College
- Brothels > Arlington > History > Pictorial works
- Brothels
- Casinos > Arlington > History > Pictorial works
- Casinos
- Manners and customs
- Tearooms > Arlington > History > Pictorial works
- Tearooms
- Texas > Arlington
- Top O' Hill Terrace (Arlington, Tex.) > History > Pictorial works
- Top O' Hill Terrace (Arlington, Tex.) > Pictorial works
- Top O' Hill Terrace (Arlington, Tex.) > Social life and customs > Pictorial works
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- History.
- Pictorial works.
- Contents
- A tearoom: "how quaint!" -- Gambling room: "place your bets" -- Workers: "many serve the few" -- Frequent visitors: "the rich, the famous, and the notorious" -- Horses: "playing the ponies" -- Boxers: "put up your dukes" -- Raids: "the wolf at the door!" -- Prediction: "a prophecy comes true" -- Casino to college: "transformation" -- Marker dedication: "a place in history."
- ISBN
- 9780738585277
- 0738585270
- LCCN
- 2011937148
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library