I died there 81

Button something racist

I was deputy University

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13:30 Yeah, get rid of the streetcars and replace them with wider one way streets. That will solve the traffic problems. 🤦‍♂

, man that film is scratch the f******

It's still bad like that. Nothing has improved.

I can't imagine being a traffic cop standing in the middle of the road directiong cars. I wonder how many were hit? Great video and look back in history.

Lyndon Johnson?

Respected them using hoses on folks? Uhmhmm…

And no mention of the litter.

You know it’s an oldie when you hear terms like “responsibility”, “accountability”, “enforcement”, and “punishment”.

Interesting how traffic was never a “problem” that had to be “solved” prior to the automobile. Couching everything in these terms certainly is an effective manipulation tactic when there are large sums of money involved.

Some scary projector malfunctions towards the end!

What's with the 2 narrators taking turns? Sounded kinda gay, I imagined them sitting there with their arms around each others' shoulders.

That was a delightful listen! Thank you for sharing this. It’s really cool hearing them mention local places here in DFW. Back then, Dallas and Fort Worth were a lot further away.

Great Seeing The Old 50s Vehicles 😊

Great 👍 Video 😊

Whats this

That was a shot of Dealy Plaza there in the beginning. Who could have known its significance just eight years hence!

Dallas ❤❤❤❤❤

OK, but you’re not gonna make the streets in downtown wider

Looking at these police officers,,, can you just see one of them with a car pulled over like today saying, SHOW ME YOUR F*CKING HANDS. ???!!! 70 plus years and look at USA.

750,000 people? Now, it only has 1,302,000. I'd have thought there were more.

Not today!

I love the nostalgic stuff. 👍

Tejus... what a shit hole state.

This voice sounds like Ronald Reagan

I guess I stop complaining about traffic since I now know it’s been this way since 1955…that’s what I’m going to say when someone says anything about traffic…it’s been that way since 1955…there’s proof…show this video 😂😂😂❤❤❤

Yet 70 years later the same traffic problems

I wonder if J.D. Tippit is one of those police officers shown. Or even if Jack Ruby is seen in any of these pictures. He was always where the police were.

@ 15:30 Is that perchance a view from the School Book Depository? Like say, Oswald's future sniper's nest? That's definitely Dealey Plaza down there.

What the hell kind of traffic pattern do they have going on at 1:00 and 1:30 in this video? That's insane.

Does anyone here who lived in Dallas in the 60's remember the Elm st. cave in?

Wow, a lot of people didn't like to stay in their own lanes back then... I'd love to go back in time and drive all around the Dallas area. It would be fascinating to see how much smaller all the cities in the Metroplex were back then.

Traffic lights weren't so popular, the majority was caucasian.

Must be those three thousand new residents a month that don’t know how to drive…I’ve been driving here since 1976 and compared to most every big city I’ve visited the Dallas/Fort Worth drivers have been some of the best ever..if we could only teach those new idiots how to drive 🤬🤬🤬

2024 Dallas population 1,302,753

I believe we should have a special forces auxiliary police dept. to enforce only traffic laws. The police in general are tasked with too many functions and expected to respond to too many different situations.

They need AI to make the lights Stay Green magically no matter the traffic, just like they do today.

A hint of the culture at the time points to the difference in morals compared to today,men are wearing shirts and ties,women are wearing dresses that are below the knee.

A rare RU-vid find how delightful

Triple railway overpass and / or Dealey Plaza, where President Kennedy would be shot on November 22, 1963: 0:59, 2:16, 15:29, and 15:44. View from triple railway overpass: 1:32 and 15:35.

Remarkable how many vehicles are crossing over the lane markings consistently, particularly on curves.

Wow. This is incredible. My hometown. The place sure was great! It really was a fantastic city.

Texas is very good on historical footage and documentaries, LIBRARIES. Much, much more than a conservative super state in of only the "Red" persuasion, which is indeed slowly declining and those new arrivals...........people coming in, going to be interesting........no matter how it turns out or opinions any direction, way, etc.......

Everybody was skinny back then.

The drive on Elm Street heading toward the Stemmons Freeway was especially troublesome...

This was back before the days when Dallas Police officers played Russian Roulette in their squad cars with minors.

And the way they tried to fix it ended up causing more issues than it solved. "Just add one more lane. Just one more lane. Just one more lane. Just one more lane."