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Dave, do you know if the house on Waverly is still there? Do you know the house number? The DCAD siate is fairly reliable with regards to year built information for houses (much better than Collin County). Also, since houses on a street or in a neighborhood tend to be built around the same time, you should be able to determine the correct year (or get close).
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The Phorum is still here. Not a lot of activity, as more people post in the various Facebook groups.
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Could it have been "The Cabbage Patch"? I see that in the 1957 city directory, at 1706 Greenville, then located between a Safeway store at 1704, and a Firestone store at 1710. Looking at Google Maps Street View, there was a locksmith shop at that address, torn down recently. The April 2019 view shows a pile of rubble from a demolition, and prior to that, there's a small blue building
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I also remember Expressway Lanes, on the northbound Central Expressway service road, north of Mockingbird.
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Frank Wrote:
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> This is a correction to my earlier post. The
> Cotton Bowling Palace was @ Inwood & LEMMON, not
> Mockingbird.
Yes, Lemmon and Inwood. It was a pretty good-sized alley (maybe 42 or 44 lanes?), and had pinball machines and other amusements. They hosted colored pin bowling on Saturday nights.
After Cotto
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Mr. Freeze Wrote:
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> Joey Chitwod had a travelling auto thrill show
> that preformed every year at the race track, went
> to see it every year during the fair as a child in
> the 50s until they tore the track down.
The Joie Chitwood thrill shows were associated with and sponsored by Chevrolet, and used Chevrolets in thei
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In the '60s and early '70s we lived on the Abrams end of Vickery, just two blocks up from Tietze Park. I remember riding my bike through the park, and there was a low area in the southeast corner, with bois d'arc trees growing there.
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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.
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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:
Search “SMU Jones Film” on YouTube. They post several new videos
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M C, the airport at the southwest corner of US Highway 77 and Danieldale Road was originally Lou Foote Airport (named for the operator), and later Highway 77 Airport. It was open as late as 1970, and is not shown on the 1971 Dallas sectional chart. The airport is visible in the 1952, 1956, and 1968 aerial photography on Historic Aerials.
Here's the southern Dallas page on Paul Freeman's Airf
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I'm sure sure I've seen these elsewhere, but the canceled freeways are interesting, too:
And yes, it's good to see Fred back on here.
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Recently, I was looking at Historic Aerials, concentrating on Lower Greenville and the location of Johnny Clemens' Hobby Counter (in the thread "One of the Most Sad Incidents":
and today, I still had the tab open in my browser. I was just minding my own business, scrolling in the map there, when I came upon my elementary school alma mater, Robert E. Lee Elementary. But on Histor
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jgoodman Wrote:
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> My grandparent's home was at 208 N.8th a half a
> mile north of Lilly Blvd. Jim
Jim, was that 208 N. 8th Avenue? I was looking on Google Maps, and it looks like maybe a mobile home is on that lot now, overgrown with bushes and trees, the Street View. In the aerial view, the lot is empty.
There's also a 208
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I also found this record of the crash on the Aviation Safety Network site (ASN), my go-to site for aviation accidents. It's on their Wikibase, a database that can be edited by readers:
If you feel like taking the time, you can add to the record with information from the DMN article (and a link). You just add a username and email address when editing the record. I don't know whether it m
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The Airfields-Freeman Web site (run by Paul Freeman) is a great resource for abandoned airfields. They have a a history of Hampton/Clearview Airport on the Dallas - Western area page:
The airport was torn down in 1948-49 for new housing construction. Part of the street Montreal Avenue follows the alignment of the single runway.
If you have anything to contribute to the article, you ca
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Paul, I didn't know what else to do, so I clicked the Report link on your post, and asked who the moderators are nowadays. Hopefully that sends an email to the moderators, and gets you some action. Good luck!
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Dave, for awhile there was also a Crown Toy & Hobbies close by, on the corner of Greenville and Bell (IIRC), in the block with the Arcadia. This would have been in the late '60s/early '70s. By then, the Hobby Counter was at 1905 Greenville, close to Alta, near the Greenville Avenue State Bank. Ward's Drug was at 1915.
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Dave, the hobby shop would the legendary Hobby Counter, owned by the equally legendary Johnny Clemens (rest in peace), who's been mentioned here before. As for Ward's Drug, I'm familiar with it as I threw the Dallas Times Herald on a couple of different routes in the early '70s, including all the streets west of Greenville and east of Macmillan, from Belmont to Lewis. My little brother parked h
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DallasCop2566 Wrote:
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> He filled the bag with gasoline and hooked the
> hose into the inlet of the carburetor and that is
> how he was driving without a functioning fuel
> pump. He told me he worked at Sears when it was
> at Ross and Greenville Avenue, so he only had
> about 9 blocks to travel to Court House Auto
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Thinks for jogging my memory of the Freeway Patrol - I can still remember the cars with the Freeway Patrol markings.
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Thanks for your post. April of 1973 was just a month before my family moved from Lakewood to Hollywood Heights (my mom had already closed on our house, so we would make trips over there in the evenings to clean, prune shrubs, etc.), so I'm very familiar with that area of Gaston. Yes, a very sad story. I'm sorry to hear about your wife's passing, and I will keep you in my prayers. Keep up your
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Jim, you got me. It looks like it's generally around what used to called Rylie. The McCommas Bluff Landfill is due south of the new Trinity Forest Golf Club - hopefully that doesn't cause any issues for golfers when the wind is blowing out of the south. There are several recently added amenities in the area, like the Trinity Forest Adventure Park (obstacle courses, zip lines, etc.), which is o
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I always wondered who the gentleman in the bowtie was - he stands out in the picture. Seated to his right is Jack Valenti, also from Houston.
Valenti was a decorated WWII B-25 pilot, serving in the European Theater. After the Kennedy assassination he served as White House special assistant under Johnson. After serving in the White House, he became chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Asso
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Dave, thanks for this post. I've thought in the past about reading the book, but it sounds like it's mostly conjecture. Like you, I find it hard to believe that Bill Decker was corrupt, or paid off by someone like Benny Binion.
I looked at Herbert and Mildred Noble's listing on Find-A-Grave. The house where Mildred was blown up (311 Conrad, in Oak Cliff) no longer exists, as the house was i
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old man from dallas Wrote:
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> 'All we got for our time and performances was free
> Dr. Pepper. "What, and quit show biz?" '
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> LOL! Wow, extras usually get enough pocket money
> to make it worth the day. And, your husband not
> only performed, but wrote the song he sang. Is he
> listed in the credit
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The credit in the IMDb listing for "Reporter" is Larry Ratliff, a familiar name. I'm pretty sure it's this guy, who lists being a TV reporter as one of the jobs in his past:
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altozwei Wrote:
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> Anyone here remember the giant ficus tree in the
> old Rogers Electric building on Central
> Expressway? The building became Steinway Hall but
> the plant remained for a while. I'm just curious
> as to what finally happened to it.
I would say it's recently deceased, or they removed it. I just looked
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old man from dallas Wrote:
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> > I don't know about the movie, but I remember
> that
> > Ed Busch had someone on his late night radio
> talk
> > show, talking about pyramid power. One thing I
> > remember was the cla
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DallasCop2566 Wrote:
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> If I could bring one thing back it would be a city
> where you did not have to fear being robbed, car
> jacked, shot, stabbed or involved in a road rage
> incident.
I can connect posts about Ashburn's *and* robbery. My sister worked at Ashburn's on Skillman while in high school (mid '70s), and they
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old man from dallas Wrote:
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> > If someone else hasn't mentioned it, the Zuider
> > Zee restaurants, and Jay's Marine Grill.
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> I would take the original Zuider Zee in Fort
> Worth, or the first Dallas (Mockingbird? Denton
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