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That's right Dave, There is one small hanger still there. I was curious how long the Crystal Chandelier nightclub had been at Bear Creek and I35. It only closed down maybe 5-10 years ago.
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I noticed yesterday the old dirt landing strip on Bear Creek between Cockrell Hill and Hampton is for sale. Its probably in todays Glenn Heights maybe Desoto not far from the old Water Tower.
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Newspapers were much more important back then versus nowadays. Check out,"35,000 Days in Texas.A History of the Dallas News and its Forebears" by Sam Acheson. I wonder how much longer newspapers will be around?
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508 Park. I remember that building when I helped renovate the Downtown Stew Pot about 10-20 years ago.You could easily see it from the roof and look in the windows There was an article about it in the newspaper back then. I do not know what has become of it.
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Maybe Jefferson and Polk or Tyler? I bought a guitar there early 70s seems like. Ricks Furniture,Page's Drugstore and Walden's Hats nearby...
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Great tornado map.. We lived about Frio and Kiest at that time.
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The Bamboo Room off of Oak Lawn. Adobe Flats on Lemmon. The Flair at the Armory near Redbird airport. Saw Lightning Hopkins at Mother Blues one New Years night. The Tower Theater.57 Doors on Maple. Poor Davids on Greenville(Boogie Boulevard)
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WOW..I had not thought about Adairs and the "Spitwads" for years! Very good burgers. You also all may recollect Whataburger originated from down at Corpus. I recollect on our vacations down to the coast we always went and had those great Whataburgers.
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There are reports that Santa Anna was an opium eater. When the dictator was captured in 1836,Santa Anna was in bad shape for a fix. General Houston very wisely gave him some of his. Santa Anna now belonged to the Texas Government and would sign anything. The resulting Treat of Velasco, May 14,1836 and the Independence of the Republic of Texas.
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I am not sure how to spell this,but a liquid product called,"Paregoric" was used often in the 50s to keep the children quiet. It may have had opium in it. I wonder if large numbers of Baby Boomer Babies were introduced to,"Chasing The Dragon" at this time... Opium was also a treatment for dysentery in the old days.
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Fascinating weather stories..I have read tales from the old days where some were caught out on the prairie in a bad hail storm and actually killed.
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We all remember that stinging staining-"Monkey Blood."
Heres a few my grandfather told me about. About 1910 he had the measles and then caught a terrible fever. His mother fed him burnt whiskey. Poured it in a plate, set afire awhile then cooled and spoon fed. He said it saved his life.
If you cut off a finger,bury it under a fence post and it will not hurt as bad.
And of cours
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I really enjoy talking with my 88 yo neighbors and hearing all the fascinating stories. During the 50s they used the jug well water for drinking and only bathed etc. with the tap water. I advise everyone to strike up a conversation with the older folks. They have so many great stories!
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Well # 38. Drilled in 1931 at 875 N Hampton(in Stevens Park) to a depth of 2,634 feet.1,200 gpm.Abandoned 1957 and plugged 1963.
The Red River Pump Station was ready for service in Feb.1954. The water was pumped from the Red North of Gainsville over a range of hills 350 high and into Pecan Creek which flowed into the Elm Fork and down to Lake Dallas. Lake Dallas was used to dillute the salty R
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Is interesting many of the Dallas wells were named and numbered. Some drilled as deep as 4,000 feet. Before 1900,the Woodbine sands were actually artesian(flowed by their own pressure). By 1909 the Woodbines were being pumped,but the Paluxy and Trinity sands were still artesian even tho the Paluxy had to be pumped to get any appreciable amount of yield. Old Well # 39 in Oak Cliff at Vermont and F
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What is that old saying about it raining when the sun is shining?
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A few down here near Ovilla every so often. I did see a big land turtle at the mailbox the other morning. The wheat is ready to cut. Dallas County was at one time the leading wheat producer in the state.No mass..
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I found a map of the Old Preston Road in the Atlas that accompanies the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion 1861-65. From Dallas west of White Rock Creek up thru the Rock Hill PO.,Roseland PO.,then west of Sherman to Preston. Is very obvious as MC posted this early road stayed on the high ground and avoided creeks whenever possible.
The other road north from Dallas. Locust Grove,Plano
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Thanks BillB..Harold Taft it was. And then David Finfrock and Becky.."Gig-em Aggies"
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Dale Milford had the magnet thunderstorm symbols that would flash when he put on the map for the TV weather report. Very high tech back then. Who was the weatherman for channel 5 at that time? I forget his name....
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Ive lived in what they called,"Shotgun Shacks" years ago. Fire a shotgun at it and it goes all the way thru....Pow!
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One of the best I recollect was Derek and the Dominoes at SMU's little McFarland Auditorium about 1970 or 71. Eric Clapton and Dwayne Almond. Dallas native Sam the Sham(Wooley Booley Man) came out and introduced the band. This was the 2nd place they played after Austin when the album Layla came out.
Shortly thereafter Linda Ronstadt played at McFarland. Linda was on fire. Its a wonder the buil
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Hey TB, That map shows the original patented tracts. All present day description of a land transaction goes back to the original patentee/grantee.
You got me interested and I started looking. You really need the Collin Co Texas Land Survey Map book which shows the original abstracts overlaid on the present day roads etc. It makes it so much easier and is indexed etc..
I see Henry Cook's (2)
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I was there...I think. Some of you Lou Ann folks may be surprised to know that Jimi Hendrix rocked the place before he became real famous. It was at that show that Jimi Vaughn was given his waa waa pedal.
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As regards the early Preston Road in Collin Co. It was often very muddy and full of deep ruts. Travelers would use the gound on either side of the road bed when the ruts got to bad. Thus the road at one time went 1/4 mile east to Lebanon and 1/4 mile west to Celina. It was used so heavily in the Civil War to send troops and armaments north that it was called the Military Road or Military Trace.
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Thank you Ben. What a delightfull tour. The place is hallowed ground. It must be protected!
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"Except for an accident in geography,some inside information,and the bite of a dread mosquito,Dallas might well have been called "Warwick," and its founders would have been New York born Warren A.Ferris and Mississippi land speculator William P King - instead of John Neeley Bryan and the Beemans"
.......So begins the article by Susanne Starling. "A Surveyors Saga. Warr
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Dave...The Dogwood tree I planted was ate that 1st spring. The flowering Dogwood trees here were native on an east facing hillside and bloomed magnificently every early spring just like those in the picture. At least I assume they were native. The closest ruins of a house was a mile away and abandoned before 1920. An interesting family lived in that house. The father a veteran of the Mexican War
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