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.
Oak Cliff was a great place to live and grow up. I graduated from Sunset and I have so many wonderful memories from living in the 60s. We were so lucky to and blessed. Jefferson Blvd with all the great stores was as great as any mall, and to go to downtown Dallas was a special time. We dressed up, and if we went to the movies downtown, WOW, that was a special night. Oh how times have changed. I'm glad I was blessed to be brought up in a gentler time, even though things were storm clouds were on the horizon, people were more respectful of one another, we still had prayer in schools, and there didn't seem to be so much division in our country as there is now. I know I'm older, and I'm thankful that I was glad to have these wonderful memories to cherish of great place to grow up as a native Texan.
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.
🤔I just love your video and music. I am from Oak Cliff, too. It was a kindler gentler era. ACTUALLY, without trying to be cruel, I think it's ruined for good. Gangs, violence, etc. BUT, I've got my good memories from the late 60's. Polar Bear Ice cream was 6 cents a dip. Lots of drive in Movies. Normas is still THE Best CFSteak on Earth, but I usually go to the one in N. Dallas when back there. Charcoal Broiler is just OK food, but Iove to eat there. EL Fenix is just considered average TexMex now, but I could eat there all the time. I LOVED IT. The Best view was to go to DBC with my Girlfriend at night and look out over Mountain View Lake and you could see for miles over Grand Prairie. Lots of lights.I dont live in Dallas anymore, but like Dorothy said: There's No Place like Home. (Oak Cliff)😁🥳✌️🥰🇺🇲
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.
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!
I lived on Clinton and went to Rosemont Elementary--then to Greiner...then moved and was so ahead of my new friends in ELP and Hawaii...I loved Kidd Springs--was there when Kennedy was killed. SO hard to go back and Oak Cliff has never been the same...
We lived in a duplex on Ryan st. , off of Kiest I think the houses are still there. I remember going to the Wynnwood shoppping center to watch 'War Wagon" and a three Stooges movie. We attended Jefferson Davis elementary (I bet that name was changed!). We moved to Pleasant Grove in 1966, but I worked in a print shop on Jefferson across the street from the movie house that Oswald was caught in. Any info on the neighborhood above appreciated. Thanks for posting!
I was brought up at 824 Ryan and they were rental units; I think now all the duplexes were converted to single family. I think the living areas of 1/2 of the duplex would be considered 'too small' for a family now. (Yes Jeff Davis school has a different name now.). The small shopping center at Keist & Polk was built shortly after we moved to Ryan, and I definitely spent a. lot of time there doing nothing. I assume you remember the big grass circle on Ryan was a great place to hang out and play baseball and football. We moved to the Red Bird area in 1962. My father lived in that 'new' house until his death in 2008.
Yes. I remember that circle! I tried to fly one of those motorized airplanes there and promptly crashed it. There was a shopping center close by that I almost forgot about. It had a Ben Franklin Five and Dime store. WE lived there in 64. We had the only car on the street with Goldwater stickers all over it. Thanks for the reply!@@jonblehar7689
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.
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 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
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.
