Digitized WFAA news archive on YouTube

If you haven’t checked it out yet, visit SMU’s collection of digitized news archives from WFAA, mostly from the early ‘60s to the mid ‘70s, when they switched to Betamax.

One of today’s entries is about the housing development going in on the former Bob O’ Links golf course in Lakewood, where I once played miniature golf:

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Search “SMU Jones Film” on YouTube. They post several new videos every day; some are news stories, and some are just raw reels, both silent and with sound.

here is the main link

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I have been watching them off an on for the past several months. Quite a bit of good footage if you know what you are looking at.

And if you can, log on to YouTube, and when you see a reporter, or any other face you recognize, post in the comments. I've posted on a few of them, when I recognize something or someone.