Highland Park Village is a shopping plaza in Dallas opened in 1931. This area has become one of the most iconic locations in the area that I grew up. My weekends as a young adult were frequently spent in this area, whether it was looking at the one of a kind cars that the local socialites of Dallas would sport around the square, watching a movie with friends at the historic theatre, or eating lunch after church with my family at one of the restaurants, this plaza hosted a sizable amount of my time in Dallas. I even saw my orthodontist and had my braces put on in an office in Highland Park Village. The Spanish influenced architecture manages to distinguish itself from anything else in the area, but the buildings manage to refrain from feeling too out of place or tacky. Highland Park Village is known most famously for its Christmas light display around the holiday season. This plaza spares no expense in wrapping literally every tree limb in the entire square to bring light/sight seers from around the city to bask in the streets kept bright by thousands of lights.