When i was a kid in the 80’s downtown was a depressing place, not many people. My dad would tell me about how he used to walk across the Houston bridge by himself from a neighborhood called peanut flats at the base of the levy in oak cliff. He would sell oranges downtown. He said that everybody used to go downtown to shop or go to tha theatre, and that it was a very busy place. He saw a lot of crazy things happen, for example, some black children would put bottle caps between their toes and tap dance for money until their feet were bleeding. He was from NL Mexico. He had to tell people he was Spanish to avoid harassment. My dad owned The Letterpress Shop on Exposition across from the fair park entrance. RIP dad
Thank you, Mr. Collins. This was a wonderful treat. I was born in 1955 so quite a bit of this I am seeing for the first time. My parents and grandparents told my siblings and I about Lake Cliff Park when it was such a big attraction. But your video included the first photo I had ever seen of it. The tornado of 1957 came down our street but it missed us. I don't remember it because I was only 2 years old but when I was older I heard what a big scary deal it was. You know, in the section where you mention some famous people from Dallas? Well, you just barely scratched the surface. We forgive you, of course. Oh yeah, my high school, Adamson and Sunset High School were big rivals in Dallas!. My parents AND grandparents graduated from Oak Cliff High School, which, as you mentioned, was renamed Adamson and I and some of my sibs graduated from there also. Thanks again for this!
I had a elementary school teacher in East Dallas, a Great Teacher, that grew up living and picking cotton as a little girl before the land was flooded to make Lake Ray Hubbard. I also remember when central 75 was smaller, the end of little mexico before changed to victory plaza, the first chili's, Town East first built and Big Town mall - movie theater and bowling alley. Btw, Spanky of the OG little rascals lived in Lancaster and his grand mother lived behind Texas theater in oak cliff.
Bryan's cabin, when I was a boy in the 60's, was located on it's original spot in the S.W. corner of the Old Red Courthouse lawn. It was moved to current location when the county built the parking garage for the new courthouse and jail across on Commerce St. now called George Allen Court's Building. My dad's sister worked for an insurance company in the Cotton Exchange Building. My paternal grandpa owned a Gulf Station on East Grand Av. where the West bound service road is now of I-30. My Pops was a deputy sheriff in Dallas and he said that Sheriff W.E. (Bill) Decker told that when HE was a boy he would ride his pony out to the cemetery and look down on the city. That cemetery is at the Convention center right now. WOW! Out in the country. Now in the heart of Downtown. Hey great video and hope you have more to offer. 👍✌️😉🫡🤠
My grandfather on my dad's side was born and raised in Dallas. Some of my relatives are still there. Dallas as a city always has a great story to tell.
@@butchez73 I was actually just telling my family that I watched a cool ppt of a bunch of historical areas in Dallas. We just moved here from Arkansas in late summer 2017. We might use this as a map of places to check out. Thanks man!
And some of the trees that we still have amongst the city or some of the well-known trees that they hung people from and I don't even know what kind of people or who
I moved to Dallas/South Oak Cliff as a teenager in 1966. Married in 68 and moved to Duncanville. Live in Red Oak now. Dallas was a great place back in the day. Now it SUCKS.
