The Purple Peacock

05/29/2024

05/29/2024

We celebrate a legend as Priscilla Pointer celebrates her 100th Birthday, May 18. On Dallas, Priscilla played Rebecca Wentworth, mother of Pamela, Cliff and Katherine from 1981-83. In real life Priscilla was married to actor Robert Symonds and her daughter is actress Amy Irving. Love and best wishes to our oldest living former Dallas cast member! ❤️

04/28/2024

The Memorial Tunnel runs through Paint Creek Mountain in Kanawha County, West Virginia. The two-lane tunnel opened for public use in 1954. At that time, it was considered to be “engineering of the future” as it was the first tunnel in the U.S. to be monitored by closed-circuit television.

The Memorial Tunnel cost $5 million to build, an astronomical amount at that time. The end result was a tunnel 2,802 ft in length. It was originally a part of the West Virginia Turnpike but that changed in the 1980s, when the Turnpike designed a bypass to prevent bottlenecks that kept happening. The rest of the Turnpike had already been widened to four lanes and this tunnel, along with its lower speed limit, was beginning to create havoc.

The last vehicle went through on July 7, 1987. Following its closure, it was used for different types of ventilation experiments. In 2000, the tunnel was chosen by the Center for National Response to be used for anti-terrorism training.

They did all manner of interesting experiments including simulating collapsed buildings, a faux-subway station, and a simulated 50-car pileup vehicle wreck.

The Center for National Response ceased using it in 2020 and, now, it is used as a mushroom farm…believe it or…don’t believe it (don’t want to get sued by Ripley’s)

01/27/2024

01/01/2024

Happy New Year to all you Dallas fans around the world!

12/31/2023

Did you know the purple peacock also offers restoration and reupholstering of antique pieces? just finshed up and delivered this 1875 fainting sofa to a customer for her tattoo shop . Also sorry for not having the best before photos