I grew up close to the Randolph manor apartment and went to Anson Jones elementary and Stockard junior high and Oak Cliff Christian Academy great times sneaking into the Jefferson and chalk hill drive inn's swimming at Weiss Park great times
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Y'all are probably getting sick of this video - added, deleted, added, deleted.....but I had to get it right. I feel better about it now; thanks for your patience!
Born at St. Paul hospital 1963. Lived at the corner of Bentley and Franklin till I was in my 20s. Went to Cowart, Stockard, Christian Academy of Oak Cliff ( Got beat up at Stockard by a guy bussed in from across town. Teachers ran away scared). Went to Sunset briefly then back to CAOC. Graduated, went to work for Precision Measurement Incorporated out on the part of Ledbetter that was still kind of in the country back then near Mt. Creek Lake. Started work at the Dallas Sheriff’s Dept in 1984. Got to work at the Old Jail. Learned a lot of history there. Used to go exploring the areas and floors that were no longer in use. Got married in 86 and bought a house in Midlothian out at Park Place. Soloed in a Cessna 152 at Redbird Airport in 1987. Left the Sheriff’s Dept in 91 and started shoeing horses for a living with my wife. A few years later moved out to a place in the middle of no-where just south of Hico, Texas. Been flying airplanes for a living since 2004. Going back and exploring present day Dallas and Oak Cliff fills me with mixed emotions. Some things just can’t be put back like they ought to be once you ruin them or sweep them away. Still love Dallas and Oak Cliff. But I could never go back and live there. Thank you for this video. I want to watch some of the ones on your channel. Several of them interest me greatly.
I attended oak cliff Christian academy 70 71 and 71 72 Stockard 69 70 we moved to Lufkin in the summer of 1972 been back to Dallas a few times and I miss living there
I come from sandy thacker who was my great grandfather . Sandy.. his son Dan ….his son Daniel Dixon jr …and me and my brother Colton. San Augustine tx is where sandy put his roots but I don’t know where he was born . Maybe we are related … there are a lot of Thacker here where I live
Still a VERY segregated Dallas at that time...Years ago when I lived in Dallas I bought a house in Oakcliff in the Elmwood neighborhood. The house was built in 1948 and I bought it in 1993. The deed to the home still stated that the house could not be sold to a black person
@MeanBaby-zj7lz That absolutely false statement doesnt make sense...since today those same type of people are living in high end areas of D/FW like Colleyville, Southlake etc etc. I think the real scary thing is living in an area full of ignorant people.
Thank you so much for making this. It brings back so many wonderful memories. My mother and father were both born before Methodist Hospital, so born in Dallas, but their homes were in Oak Cliff. My mom was born in 1922 and grew up on Winnetka. My daddy was born in 1921, but I'm not sure where there were living then. They both went to Sunset. My older sisters graduated from Sunset and my brother from Kimball because we had moved closer to there by then. I love that you included Chateau DeVille Apartments because my older sisters shared an apartment there before they went off to separate colleges. Thank you for the memories.
Been living in Oak Cliff since 1964. Never left. Miss all the things I grew up with and people who lived there in our neighborhood in the 60s. Graduated Adamson 1975. Was in the marching band, jazz band and concert band. 1st chair Trumpet. The times then were so good. Favorite radio station was KLIF 11 90 AM and my flying frizbees at Rugged Drive Park. Oak Cliff is in my blood.
I am class of 72 as well but from Duncanville. I have so many fond memories of Oak Cliff. We didn't have shopping places in Duncanville back then so we had to go into Oak Cliff every Saturday. When I was in high school we cruised Jefferson as well in my '62 Ford Fairlane.
I was born in 1967 at Methodist Hospital and grew up near Kiest Park. I attended Jefferson Davis Elementary, TW Browne Middle School and Kimball High School. Growing up in Oak Cliff, especially the summers, was incredible. It is hard to believe that Austins BBQ, the Astro and Bronco Bowl are gone. White flight took my family out of Oak Cliff forever in 1985. That last clip of the Worth Food Mart at Kiest and Polk became a Piggly Wiggly and then a succession of different names.
Even though I graduated from Sunset in 1970 I enjoyed your montage of pics, especially the businesses. Also, great choice of music. I've loved that song all of my life. I remember buying that 45RPM as a teen for 99 cents. Kimball had a real good football team in the mid 60's but Sunset...not so much. I remember attending a Kimball - Sunset game one year when Kimball was undefeated and Sunset had several losses. Much to everyone's surprise, Sunset won the game 14-0. The win rocked the Dallas High School football world. In case you didn't know, Aunt Stelle's snow cones which had many successful years, closed about 5 years ago. Many broken hearts over that one.
Another great video, Mary. Keep them coming. I will mention this, that the Burger King on west Davis just west of Hampton Rd. is where I ate my first whopper. Believe it or not, that Burger King is still there today cooking up burgers. It has to be one of the longest running businesses in Dallas.
I spent the first 11 years of my life in the 2600 W. 12th in Oak Cliff. Graduated from Sunset in 1970. This video took me back to my childhood. Regularly attended every theater shown on the video along with the Rosewyn theater in 900 blk. of West Jefferson and the Vogue theater next to Sunset High School Would spend Saturdays walking in "downtown" Oak Cliff until it was time to hit the Texas theater for a double feature with cartoons. i think the price was 35 cents to get in. Thank you so much for posting this video. Give us more!
