Blowout: A Community’s Engagement with Fracking

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• First tomatoes
  First tomatoes of the season.
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• Rhonda Love
  Photograph of Rhonda Love
• Peggy Heinkle-Wolfe
  Photograph of Peggy Heinkle-Wolfe
• Map of Texas Counties with Producing Wells in the Barnett Shale
  A map of producing wells on the Barnett Shale that is featured in "An Energy Revolution: 35 Years of Fracking in the Barnett Shale" by North Texans for Natural Gas.
• Nan Alexander -33- Clothing for different cities
  Styles specific to cities, Fort Worth as dressier, Dallas as more formal, more casual now
• Nan Alexander -32- Pucci and Texas Fashion Collection
  Modeling Emilio Pucci pieces, connection with Texas Fashion Collection
• Nan Alexander -31- Fashion Group
  Chapter of Fashion Group in major cities including Dallas, helped start the Texas Fashion Collection maybe lead by Alice Warren, wanted to move the Neiman-Marcus collection from the Apparel Mart to the University of North Texas with Ed Mattil, in personal life remarried and moved
• Nan Alexander -30- Kim Dawson Modeling Agency
  Fashion shows during market at Dallas Apparel Mart, allowed only to model for Kim or for Fashion Group or for Neiman-Marcus while employed at Neiman's, highlighted merchandise for sale that season from varied merchants to help sell for smaller companies
• Nan Alexander -29- Howard Wolf modeling
  Worked as model in manufacturing space, showing for buyers, also at Apparel Mart
• Nan Alexander -28- Job responsibilities
  Varied experiences of models from hands-on to Vogue modeling
• Nan Alexander -27- Howard Wolf description
  Manufacturing company in Fair Park, sold to stores around country but mainly regionally, sold in Dallas Apparel Mart, created young junior sizes that were five to thirteen with short waist rather than couture sizing, did everything from design to pattern making to manufacturing, worked as model and receptionist
• Nan Alexander -26- Trendy garments
  "Flops" went to Filene's in Boston, "silver key" didn't work with as many established designers, as buyer liked buying styles rather than designer names, before boutique retail where stores were for individual designers
• Nan Alexander -25- Buying NYC vs. Dallas
  Neiman's worked with buying office in NYC and worked with "more established merchants," carried Howard Wolf and some California designers who were at the Dallas Apparel Mart; Neiman-Marcus as trend setter, helped NYC merchants see what trends might be coming, couture department different and had runway shows
• Nan Alexander -24- Work as buyer
  Travel to NYC every six weeks, traveled locally to different branches and to Houston, worked in stores to make sure staff were familiar with different products, morning meeting where buyers shared new merchandise with size and color ranges, long hours and seven days a week, housekeeper helped with family
• Nan Alexander -23- Quality merchandise
  Teal-Traina, Valentino, Noguchi important, but quality overall at Neiman's was superb, companies "bent over backwards" once their materials were at Neiman-Marcus
• Nan Alexander -22- Sportswear modeling
  Change outfits, informal modeling throughout store and on floor, assisting with sales, interacted with Stanley Marcus
• Nan Alexander -21- Layout of downtown Neiman-Marcus
  First floor cosmetics and accessories and men's and snack shop; mezzanine was juniors; second floor couture, coats, millinery with silver key section, public restrooms; third floor sports shop, boutique for unusual international goods, Gidding's photography; fourth floor was "galleria" dresses, coats, and suits for young/career price point and gift gallery with silver, china, and crystal; fifth floor bridal, lingerie, and children's; sixth floor Zodiac Room restaurant, receiving area, restrooms, beauty salon, alterations, "Little Dipper" employees' cafeteria, and offices
• Nan Alexander -20- Neiman-Marcus accessibility
  For "galleria" clothing at downtown Neiman-Marcus buying had to hit many price points, people came from Mexico and Oklahoma and all over, could get everything for going to college or for wedding (wedding dress, bridesmaid dresses, china, etc., sales staff assisted customers across departments and helped put together outfits
• Nan Alexander -19- Pants and dress codes
  Pants acceptable starting in late 1970s, rules on "proper things to wear"
• Nan Alexander -18- Neiman-Marcus culture
  "Customer meant everything to the company," good grammar necessary, no smoking and perfume near merchandise, modeled Estee Lauder (perhaps) makeup
• Nan Alexander -17- Neiman-Marcus history and catalogues
  Archives with Neiman's materials and catalogues with her children's photographs, billboard bridal model once
• Nan Alexander -16- Fortnight products
  Place setting of blue Japanese china from Fortnight, gourmet department brought in rare food
• Nan Alexander -15 - Fortnights at Neiman-Marcus
  Store as "ambassador" for each country with food and music, space transformed, "big social event," materials designed and made for Neiman-Marcus from each country, store "transformed" by display department
• Nan Alexander - 14 - Stanley Marcus and dress code
  Stanley Marcus knew everyone at downtown Neiman-Marcus, dress code of black dress with heels and name tag, Stanley Marcus having her hair cut by Vidal Sassoon for "Twiggy" look, informal and runway modeling