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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

Elvis played the flying-saucer arena, Bob Hope worked the ten-day opening festivities, and the whole complex stands on the razed remains of Hell's Half Acre - Fort Worth's notorious red-light district. The Fort Worth Convention Center at 1201 Houston Street opened on 30 September 1968 as the Tarrant County Convention Center, after fourteen blocks of the old vice district were cleared from the southern end of downtown. The 18-million-dollar complex was the county's answer to Dallas's convention ...