The Dallas skyline from inside Cloud 9 Cafe Reunion Tower Level Three: Five Sixty By Wolfgang Puck The renovation brought the latest technology to the finger tips of visitors with an interactive digital display named the “Halo”. After a six year long renovation it reopened on October 5th, 2013, as the GeO-Deck (named after Buckminster Fuller, the architect who created the geodesic sphere). In the fall of 2007 the observation deck was closed to the public for renovations. The tower has undergone many renovations and changes since then but many say it is better than ever. In the first season of the infamous TV series Dallas, producers (not knowing how famous the tv show or the tower would be) attempted to pass off the Reunion Tower and the connected Hyatt Regency Hotel as a Las Vegas resort. Visitors to Reunion Tower could watch the KOAX DJs in action behind glass on the tower’s observation level. When it first opened the tower housed KOAX-FM (now KRLD-FM 105.3) with it’s famous “Live twenty-four hours a day from five-hundred feet above the city.” call. A police car with a PA was eventually dispatched to Stemmons Freeway to encourage drivers to keep moving. Emergency switchboards were overloaded for fifteen minutes. Within 90 minutes of the opening, traffic on highways leading in and out of downtown Dallas came to a stop. The grand opening of the Reunion Tower on April 15th, 1978, caused quite a commotion with motorists. The base of Reunion Tower being constructed in 1976
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