We moved to Plano in 1976 when I was in 7th grade, went to Haggard. Got to love the good times growing up in Plano. I live in McKinney now, but my Business is in Plano, near Plano Parkway and Jupiter.
hi papa i moved to plano halloween nite 1975 , went 4th grade Meadows, yes it was an amazing time to live in plano! the growth was off-the-chart for a ten yr period or so!
@@rogerbelger2014 We moved to Plano in September 1975! Went to Sigler elementary (4th grade) there. My Dad used to give me rides on his motorcycle out through the country, north of Parker Rd. on Custer was a two lane farm road, and all countryside. It was a truly great time!
My boyfriend drove an '87 Toyota Supra. It was so nice! 2-toned with sunroof, chrome dipped rims. Loved riding around in that car with him back then. We are in Houston though.
This was my old stomping ground during my life as a young adult, around 17-18 in 1979 to my late 40's in 2010. I lived on the border of Dallas and Richardson off Spring Valley rd. I started working at Ted Prohaska auto refinishers (Plano) in 1980-1981. It's so freaking weird seeing all these streets and landmarks that I'd kinda forgotten. I'd spent the earlier part of my life out in East Texas and in the Little Elm/Frisco areas back in grade school to the middle of High School. Talk about change! WOW! Little Elm and Frisco looks so different now. I got lost the last time I went there. LOVE your video man!!!
Thank u for this video!!!I live in far north Dallas Tx and I pass through Plano all the time!!!To me Dallas,Tx is the best city in the world!!!Plano has come a long way!!!Your video quality is pretty awesome and I can tell that you made good money!!!Nothing like a going back to the 80’s!!!
3:20. It’s crazy that till this day this ranch is still there. I can’t imagine the hundreds of offers he must have received for the property over the years.
Very neat footage! Even though I recognize the Park-Custer ranch even today (I passed it a lot in 2009-2011), things have certainly changed with Plano being heavily built up in the 1990s. I almost didn't recognize most of the scenery.
I was born in richardson in 99, I grew up in East plano. This video is amazing for me to see. I know.its way before my time, but it's cool to see how everything looked before.
Glad you liked it, I have more footage but just need time to put it together. Video cams were just starting out and you never really think the town is going to change so you film other stuff. Well, luckily I caught some of the Plano vibe.
I lived in the Dallas area 81-87 and for a few months worked at Plano Rd and Central, then I worked for a car detail shop which also had a mobile wash service for some of the car dealers around town including Larry Lange Cadillac on Central near Plano Rd. I was there twice a week just spraying dust off all the cars on the lot. I remember driving by Texas Instruments hundreds of times back when the 75/635 interchange was still the cloverleaf. When I moved back to D/FW in 2008 the High 5 had replaced the cloverleaf and T.I. was gone, plus Central had been re-built. Allen and Frisco were built up by then, 121 was no longer a country road but a full multi-lane tollway, the President George Bush Tollway had been built and a lot of other changes. I left Texas in 2011 but I hear from friends around D/FW about other changes since then. What radio station was 92.5 back then? When I was in D/FW the 2nd time is was classic rock with Bo & Jim doing the morning show like they had on Q102 back in the 80s.
Wow! first of all 92.5 was KZPS ... I think they were somewhere else on the dial but then got bumped down to 92.5 if I remember right. I worked at TI off Plano Pkwy from around 84-86 and then we all moved up to McKinney. I went back in 2014 to have a reunion with a band I was in during the 80s... wow, everything was so built up, I barely recognized the place.
After that Food Lion closed down, they turned into an 'Alternative School". We had to carry every single text book and notebook around in big tubs to every class because we couldn't be trusted with backpacks. 🤣🤣I haven't been through this area probably since I was there in high school.
Outstanding... I grew up in Plano, I'm 22 but I do get around real heavy a lot more than others. To my younger eyes I do see a lot of similarities, but even from my limited years in comparison I've seen many changes firsthand... When the camera panned Haggard farm from the south side of Park I was really surprised, most of that looks the same now. Some road work was just finished at the Park/Custer intersection a couple weeks ago and some more of the Haggard land was claimed by imminent domain but otherwise very minute differences. I should know, Park is one of the four options in and out of my neighborhood!
Wow. I was there then too. It was much better then your negative attitude describes. You don't realize just how damn good you had it, buddy. And yes Q102, the ZOO and others on a weekend night was some of the best music ever created. You held the tradition well, jammin' it at full volume. That's exactly how we did it too. With all that action going on in those days, if you were bored that was your own fault. The place was seriously happening back then.
Yes they were! But I think this video is from '88 or '89, which mean KZEW 98FM "The Zoo" was already gone. They went defunct in late 1988. Was too bad, they were a lot like Q102 but a little more edgy.
Yeah a guy I grew up with had a 1984 Toyota Supra that was a light blue color and he had it up until a couple years ago and he sold it for a decent amount considering it was a one owner and in pretty good condition. Luckily I still have my 1988 Mustang GT that is a one owner sitting in storage. I need to pull it out and get the spiders webs out of it and take it for a Saturday night cruise like we did back in the 80's and 90's. I wasn't too far from Plano I was in Duncanville in the 70's through 90's
I am a little surprised you had plastic trash bins like the ones today. I was in Dallas proper in the late 80's and we still used our own metal trash cans we put in the alley.
Yeah, I don't remember when Plano's plastic trash thing started... probably around 1990 or so. I sold my house in a housing slump in 93, I think it only brought $85K ... so I lost out on it pretty big.
Glad you liked it, I have some 80s pix from E. Plano / W. Plano (which was generally around Independence and Parker)... maybe I'll do a slide show someday. I actually edit that video down as I had all the places I used to live recorded as well.
@@apfanco I'll put that in the cue, it takes a bit of time to scan all the photos and put it together though. There are a few more videos on my channel on Plano and Dallas. One is heading to west plano for a band practice. Another is the Plano balloon fest at Bob Woodruff park, another is cruisin Forest Lane one night and so on. Check em out.
@@zone47 Do you know what year your balloon fest footage is from? My Scout troop had a stand there for several years in the early 90s selling something or another, and I’d love to see if any of us made it onto your tape.
@@markintexas3030 It was 1992 ... I have a tee-shirt quilt made with that balloon fest shirt and date on it. It was a cool thing to watch. I have extra footage but don't remember any scout troops or any closer up people shots.
I think this is the early 90s. From Wikipedia: In December 1992, the station went back on the air as KDZR ("Z-Rock 99.1 FM"), playing heavy metal rock from ABC Radio Network's Z Rock satellite feed, which was based in Dallas.
It could have been that late but to me it seems it was just a bit earlier maybe fall of 92. I thought Z-rock was out of Denton, or maybe at one time it was but they were on the air for a while. I moved in march of 93.
@@zone47 From the music, your car, the street scenes, the other cars on the road, I could have sworn this footage was from 88 or 89. I was here then! But I guess '92 isn't that far removed from the late '80's. In '91 I bought a brand new Chevy stepside pickup, five speed stick, 5.7 V8. Man that truck was sweet! I can remember driving it home that day in April of '91, as if it were yesterday. Kept it for 14 years before selling it and bought a brand new '05 Chevy truck shortbed regular cab, 5 speed stick again. Still have it to this day.
@@trevorjameson3213 Yeah, when I first pulled that tape out and re-watched it, I was thinking it was late 80s but then I saw my Toyota 4x4 and knew it had to be at least 92.
Man I remember Z-rock in the early mid-90’s. Those cats be jamming out to some good 80’s heavy metal. They use to always play rat, dokken, mötley crue.. I was a young kid 13-14 but those was the days
WOW! 92.5 KZPS. The TI sign that was around forever. BUT WAIT! we have the Alpine radio with EQ...DO NOT forget your EQ. Q102 was a Texas legend. Crazy how now if you drove around with 50lbs of camera on your shoulder you'd get questioned for suspicious activities lol.
My shoulder is still hurting... I still have that Alpine. It must of had 65,000 miles of tape run through it and it never broke! Thanks for the comments! :)
92.5 KZPS was ok, Q102 began its long descent of suck just a few years before the time of the video. The one that is still sorely missed is 98.7 Kzew, The Zoo.
Yes, when I uploaded the video I was thinking it was late 80s but then seeing the tan Toyota 4x4 in my drive I knew it was 1992. Sorry for any confusion.
I lived in that area, attending Forman Elementary. I would ride my bike on Shiloh past 14th to the Shiloh Airpark past Renner Road. Shiloh was unpaved past the Cotton Belt tracks, and 14th was the narrow blacktop FM 544 to Murphy and Wylie. In a few years, Shiloh will be the terminus of the DART Silver Line to DFW Airport.
I drove a 1985 Toyota in Houston, Texas in 1985. I worked at a Kroger grocery store. My purchase upset a young woman who was in charge of changing the store's shelf prices. She is the only person who ever expressed any disapproval.
My dad used to work at TI as an electronics technician from I think, 1984 to 1994. But I don't remember if it was the location in this video or a different one closer to, or in, Louisville. How many sites did they have? I think I remember the building was blue, but I could be wrong. My parents made a similar video, where they drove from there, down I-35, to our house in Hickory Creek, so they could show my grandparents where we lived. If I can find it, I'm going to upload it.
@@zone47 Oh, ok, this is the one that my dad worked at then. I thought it looked the same, but I wasn't totally sure. My dad's birthday was on Valentine's day, so one year, when I was in kindergarten, my mom picked me up from school and we went up there to the parking lot, to decorate his truck as a surprise. We used soap to write happy birthday on the windows and taped a bunch of balloons and stuff to it. He drove a blue and white Chevy Blazer. I thought it was a weird coincidence, because that day in school for Valentine's day, we made folders that said "truckload of love," with a picture of a similar looking truck with hearts for hubcaps and everything. I didn't know I'd be making a real one, later that day, lol. What did you do at TI?
@@Melissa0774 There was a Defense Systems Electronics Group that I was part of and we built range finder target designator lasers for a larger system. It was fun and interesing work. Funny story on the birthday truck!
@@adrianc6534 Wow! That's interesting. I know they sold off the Defense Systems Electronics group to Raytheon but don't think any of the campus buildings were included. It's odd it's still there. watched a infrared scanner demo there in the mid 80s.
Hey! thank you! Do it Right the First Time! ... has that phrase survived? I was in the Defense Systems Electronics Group which is now Raytheon. We were in the North Bldg and then moved to Forest Lane, then Plano and then McKinney.
I put this probably around 92-93? Looks like you came up Parker near Custer where there was a Super 1 Foods. I helped open that store. Love the Toyota in the driveway!! I grew up almost in the center of the Parker, Spring Creek, Custer and Alma square.
Huh, huh, huh. TI. I got fired from there because I fell asleep. Sit on the dock to the clean room 11p to 7a. Don’t eat, drink, go inside the building or go outside. Don’t do security work kids. It’ll melt your brain.
I should have been fired there. I worked 11:18 t0 7:18 and we had no parts to do our work so I took a 2 hour lunch and road my Honda 750F all around Dallas in the dead of the night. Did a top speed run on LBJ and got stuck on the tollway with no money in my pocket. Luckily I didn't get busted and lived on to another day.
Well, I'll try and help. Shiloh was the first street (out of the alley) that I pulled on to, and then I made a right on 18th. I looped around where it turns into Valencia Dr. where the middle school is Armstrong. Then down off of Park at Bob Woodruff park. Next was 16th street heading west to the service road at 75 Central. Next I was cruzing west on E.Park and over to W. Park by the Haggard ranch. Then I think I went south on Custer to the field just past Plano Pkwy and that's where they were building new stuff. George Bush turnpike wasn't there yet. Next was heading south on Waterview from Campbell, then left on Pinecrest Dr. where my old house is. Next down Central to Midpark then the the North Building of Texas Instruments. Finally I went up North on Central and then it cuts to East Plano on Shiloh at FM544. I have a longer version of this video but thought it would get too boring.
I do... Van Halen... this old band out of the late 70s... Rush, this crispy band out of the mid 70s... it's when bands were different and you get whatever they can crank out.
Awesome video! What year was this? My family moved us to Plano in 1990. I can almost tell you exactly what roads you were on until you got to Richardson
I can tell from my tan 4x4 in the drive it was probably 1991 or 1992. I lived in Plano from 1980 (population 67K) to 1993. The first road in Richardson was Waterview Dr. It used run between Arapaho and Campbell. Yeah, those huge fields were between Plano and Richardson off Custer I think. Glad you liked the video.
@@vintagefancollector1436 Yeah, I drove back in 2014 and almost didn't recognize the place. All the small towns were now huge and sort of lost their old school identity due to all the roads being paved over and all the big box shopping in place.
@@zone47 that’s my daily work commute, it’s part of my mundane routine lol. I also have a keen eye to that sort of thing. This video is unbelievably cool. Thanks so much for sharing.
@@zone47 *No my guy, best question that no one seems to catch on to is what happened to that sweet detroit muscle 67 Chevelle in the garage next to your car. Beats a chinese car any day.*
@@John-ik2eg I sold that car in Ohio in 1996 unfortunately. But only because I picked up a 1987 Porsche 911 coupe that needed some refurb. If you're into cars, here is a story/video you might like... there is a lot of Texas in this slide show too > ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xvzcjYAyCc8.html
@@zone47 now im pretty sure you knew my dad. i remember the F4 fantom that was mounted upside down on that tower platform to the west end of the property going twards denton on 380. his first name is Mike
@@awh5773 I'm sure I did, there were different groups and it was 30 years ago. My manager was Ed Harder and then Joe Archer, I don't know if that rings a bell or not. I knew a Mike Snook in our group.
@@zone47 well thats not him but im pretty sure yall met a few times. he still wont to this day tell me what he did there. the mc kinney plant had this painting on the walls like star trek enterprise bridge or something like it on the walls. and i still have my little professor calculator lol
@@awh5773 I worked with a blond haired engineer named Mike, maybe about 5'10 or so but forget his last name... he had a bit of an edge with his temper but overall was cool.
Ever notice how recordings of recordings present the worst 'sound quality' in the world? LOL Van Halen coming on at around 3:00 made that 'riding on the crash cymbal' opening sound like sheer white noise...or maybe brass noise...
You listen to great music, same stuff I listen to. I loved Plano before all the hoards of foreigners moved in and made it into a ghetto. I worked at Ti also, so did my girlfriend. I forgot about z-rock, You should have drove the malibu though. Where is that 67 malibu today? I liked the credits at the end.
I was in Plano heading north on Shiloh and stopped at FM544/14th street. It's amazing how different/big the metroplex is now. Back then heading west from Shiloh, the roads would quickly turn into 2 lane backtop heading out to the little town of Wylie. From Shiloh/Parker it was the same thing, two lane blacktop heading out to Lavon, which by the way was open to anyone with no fees. I lived on Crystal Way just east of Shiloh. Oh yeah, and Renner road was part blacktop and gravel... it was a good way to slip over to Garland with no traffic lights.
@@jacksonmagaw2958 Yeah, there use to be a Ditzler / PPG paint store on the other side of that intersection where I used to buy paint for painting stuff.
You drive around in Plano video in 1987 ? I ❤ 80's until today 2024 awful problem is weather and crap Democrats and government many closed malls and classic restaurants!
The video was about 8 years before the GB turnpike was built, but they were starting to stake it out in 93. I wish I had some video of the old Rabbit Run motocross track. It was still there and people riding back there in the late 80s.
@@zone47 omg you actually responded!?! Also i used to live in gateway crossing, its actually right across from the highway, and you also went to my 8th my grade school [Armstrong] Its really cool to see history honestly
@@shameyt6033 Glad you enjoyed it, I have some other video I can post of east and west plano, I just need to convert it from 8mm video tape to mp4 which is sort of time consuming.
