RobertB
09-14-2007, 10:41 AM
This week's Straight Dope e-newsletter includes an interesting Dallas reference in an unexpected topic: "Where are all the dead pigeons?" After the column was initially printed in May 1988, a reader wrote in with the following info:
I thought you might want to know that there is indeed a pigeon graveyard in Dallas. I have had the opportunity, if not the pleasure, of touring the old American Beauty flour mill on South Ervay Street. After having been abandoned for 15 years, the building now houses the remains of several hundred pigeons, in every stage of decay from recently deceased to crumbling skeletons.
As an interesting aside, the vast majority died flat on their backs with their wings spread and their little feet in the air. --Janice-Mary Cunningham, Dallas
If the mill had been abandoned for 15 years in '88, it would be 35 years empty now... so I doubt it's still in existence. Anyone know where it would have been, and what's there now? And if it's been torn down, where is the new pigeon mausoleum?
I thought you might want to know that there is indeed a pigeon graveyard in Dallas. I have had the opportunity, if not the pleasure, of touring the old American Beauty flour mill on South Ervay Street. After having been abandoned for 15 years, the building now houses the remains of several hundred pigeons, in every stage of decay from recently deceased to crumbling skeletons.
As an interesting aside, the vast majority died flat on their backs with their wings spread and their little feet in the air. --Janice-Mary Cunningham, Dallas
If the mill had been abandoned for 15 years in '88, it would be 35 years empty now... so I doubt it's still in existence. Anyone know where it would have been, and what's there now? And if it's been torn down, where is the new pigeon mausoleum?