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Re: Lost Country Clubs - 6 years ago
DallasCop2566 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > They designated a staging area which was the > parking lot of the abandoned Singing Hills Country > Club in the 1800 block Couch Road. The building > and swimming pool was about all we could see as it > was dark and there was no lighting. The building > was severely damaged by appareby Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: PIRATE'S CAVE NIGHT CLUB - 6 years ago
The 1959 Polk Dallas Directory lists a Sam A. Poullas. It lists his occupation as "Tranna; Town House Delicatessen @ 1602a Main." I don't know what "Tranna." is an abbreviation for. Buzby Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: Hwy. 67 South of Wheatland Question - 6 years ago
UPDATE 5-14-16- I asked this question on another messageboard and someone replied that the building was the Colonial Acres Nursing Home, which sounds right to me.by Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Hwy. 67 South of Wheatland Question - 6 years ago
I was looking at an aerial view of the intersection of Hwy. 67 and Wheatland Road on historicaerials.com and saw something I did not recognize. I grew up in Duncanville in the 60s and 70s but can't figure out what this is. It's a building on the SW corner of 67 and Wheatland. Looks like a nursing home. It's not there in 1958 but is there in 1968. The footprint of the building lingered intoby Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: What we did for fun in the early 1970's.. Did you ever? - 8 years ago
A guy at work said he and his friends would go to the Emergency entrance to Parkland Hospital on Friday and Saturday nights and watch them bring in drunks who had been in traffic accidents. Sorcey Road between Duncanville and Cedar Hill was also a nice place to go on moonlit nights. Most of this road has since been covered over with houses.by Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: DO YOU RECOGNIZE THESE MEN? - 8 years ago
TheaGoodman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Wonder why Jack Ruby was doing in a C& W Venue. I > had him pegged as a sin and grin and skin kind of > operator. In his early days in Dallas Ruby and his sister operated the Singapore Supper Club and then the Silver Spur Club at 1717 South Ervay.by Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: Goss On Ross - 8 years ago
I bought my first car on Ross Ave. in the 70s from Karlen Motors. It overheated on the way home and I had to stop at my cousin's house in Oak Cliff. It didn't have a fan belt.by Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: Dallas Jail - 8 years ago
A little. The building at 705 Ross was a Dallas Jail. A few years ago it was the home of a law firm. None of the windows facing the street had bars.by Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: Smoking Grapevine - 8 years ago
In the mid 60s, my older brother and cousin cut a bunch of grapevine at our grandfathers dairy farm in Sulphur Springs and brought it back to Dallas to smoke. I don't know how to smoke anything so I can't comment on the effects. And I don't know how my brother and cousin even knew that it was something that could be smoked or why. But I did witness them smoking it. Buzzby Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: Corner of Ervay and Grand - 8 years ago
It would help to know which corner of that intersection you are referring to. In 1959 there were no schools there. Just small retail establishments. The SW corner used to have some playground equipment on it. I think it was part of a daycare center.by Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: living space - 8 years ago
Rant. Seems like as our society progressed, we have become more insulated from each other. We used to ride buses and trolleys to get downtown. We used to rent out a spare room in our house. We used to know most of the people who lived on our street. When I see the traffic cameras on the morning news with the millions of cars going somewhere, I wonder if this makes any sense.by Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Rockyfeller Hamburger Stands - 8 years ago
Does anyone recall Rockyfeller Hamburger stands in Dallas? There were two on Jefferson; 518 and 1902 W. Jefferson. 801 Hall St. 2916 S. Ervay. Business office at 821 W. Davis. Does anyone know if they had any kind of logo which illustrated the name Rockyfeller? thanks.by Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: Photo of Oak Cliff Streetcar Stop, Addison & Jefferson, 1946 - 8 years ago
Speaking of trestle fear, I am still amazed at the old concrete streetcar trestle just North of Jefferson, and West of Cockrell Hill Road. I can't imagine riding a streetcar on this trestle as it soars above a railroad spur line. I wonder how many years this was in operation.by Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: old cars - 8 years ago
old man from dallas Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was just on the road yesterday. Lots of > bridges, lots of yellow and black striped markers. > All were oriented identically. On the left side > of the road, the stripes ran diagonally from the > upper left to the lower right of the marker. On > the right side of the road they ranby Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: Cadillac Heights polluters - 8 years ago
While looking up the Cadillac Heights location on an old map I saw that at one time there was a Skyline Airport located due south of Cadillac Heights. Currently the DISD has two warehouse buildings along there and they both have curved roofs like airplane hangars. Just wondering if that is/was the case.by Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: old cars - 8 years ago
What about the signs next to bridges which are yellow with black lines pointing up or down. I once heard that the direction of the black lines meant something. Remember smudge pots? The little things that looked like cannonballs with a flame burning that they put up around road construction sites before battery operated flashing lights.by Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: Cadillac Heights polluters - 8 years ago
If by Cadillac Heights you are referring to the streets named after car manufacturers, between Cedar Crest Blvd. and Sargent Rd., all the homes in that neighborhood were demolished a couple of years ago. The plan was to build a shooting range for the Dallas Police Dept. on this land but I don't know if that is going to happen. Seems like there was another 'Heights" named neighborhood inby Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: Merrifield Cabin on north side of Waddy - 8 years ago
Jim Barnes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As the owner (and his son, Kevin Reeves) of > the house on the north side of Waddy and Tennant > told me, the early 1920's Sanborne Insurance map > shows that there was an old frame house (actually > pretty large) which was moved down to the lower > part of their lot (along Hampton) when the laby Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: Garden suburb: Highland Park - 8 years ago
I have an old postcard, probably from the early 50s. It shows a two story house with blooming Redbud trees in the front yard. This is what is printed on the back; Redbud trees on University Boulevard, Dallas, Texas, (The Redbud City). Was Dallas "The Redbud City" or University Park?by Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: Dallasites & The Search for Palatable Drinking Water, 1956 - 8 years ago
Yep, that's the ad I was remembering. We lived next to Fruitdale. But where was the Home Gardens area mentioned in the story?by Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: personality - 8 years ago
In 1959 there was a J. Fred Schoelkopf Jr. who was an investor and worked in the Wilson Building. He lived on Armstrong Pkwy. in Highland Park. There was a J. Fred Schoelkopf III who was a registered rep for Harris and Upham and Co. He lived in University Park. There was a Hugo Schoelkopf who was president of the Schoelkopf Co. Hardware 806 Jackson St.by Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: Dallasites & The Search for Palatable Drinking Water, 1956 - 8 years ago
I was born in 1956 in Dallas and don't have any memories of the drought. But I do recall finding an issue of Reader's Digest which had some kind of ad about the Dallas drought and the city's effort to build several new reservoirs. I don't think this was an article, but it's possible. I know when I was in the first grade, there were cracks in the black clay soil behind my elementary school thby Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: Southern Supply Co. Location - 8 years ago
In 1959 Southern Supply was a wholesale hardware co. located at 209-11 N. Record Street which was at the intersection of Record and Pacific St.by Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: Texas Sports Legends exhibit in the Hall of State - 8 years ago
Yes, the dioramas. They were there in the mid 60s. They were a permanent display behind windows in the wall. I think they were in the great hall, but I'm not sure. When you walked into the room, the first one on your right I think showed East Texas Indians. My favorite one was the Alamo which I think was on the back wall on the right. There was one titled the Texas Navy which showed a dockby Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: Texas Sports Legends exhibit in the Hall of State - 8 years ago
I saw this exhibit in the great hall. They had Tom Landry's fedora and Bob Lilly's shoulder pads along with Walt Garrison's helmet. I hadn't been in the Hall of State in decades. As a kid I remember the miniature displays of great moments in Texas History. Does anyone know if these displays were in the great hall and if so, are they still there? The sports displays were out away from the walby Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: Cole Brick Factory - 8 years ago
In the mid 60s my family decided to build a brick patio at our new home. For some reason we went to Orr Reed Wrecking yard and found a stack of bricks which looked like they had been from an old street. When they were delivered to our new suburban home we found that only a few of them were from a street. Most of the bricks were more square and were stamped Buffalo Block. We built our patioby Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: Train, Trolley, Interurban Questions - 8 years ago
Thanks. And another thing I have wondered about; were the trolleys and Interurbans powered by electricity? If so, was the electricity supplied by overhead wires? Much of the Interurban concrete trestles still exist along old Hwy. 77 between Waxahachie and Italy over Chambers Creek. Did this have overhead electrical cables, or a third rail? And I remember seeing Dallas buses with overheby Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Train, Trolley, Interurban Questions - 8 years ago
I have a few questions about rail transportation in the Dallas area. The rail line that runs thru Cedar Hill and Duncanville was once known as the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe R.R. Did this line every have passenger service? Especially back in 1914? If so, would a passenger train have made a stop at Duncanville in that same time period, 1914? In Dallas, did the trolley that connected Dallby Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Red Bird Area of Dallas - 8 years ago
Does anyone know how the area in the SW portion of Dallas became known as Red Bird? Did it start with Red Bird Lane or was there some housing development called Red Bird? I believe at one time there was a street named Blue Bird just East of Cockrell Hill Rd. and South of Red Bird Lane. I think this street has been abandoned. Just wondering if there was a specific reason this area became knoby Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives
Re: Shovel Supply Co. address? - 8 years ago
4900 Harry Hines in 1959.by Buzz Murdock - DHS Archives