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The hail stone descriptions here are amazing. Especially the one in 2012 at White Rock. I recall that sometime after we moved from Dallas to Ft. Worth (bet1978 and the mid 80s) a hailstorm damaged...
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Bug, neither my husband nor I recall a Bloody Hollow at White Rock. Perhaps he was thinking of the drowned girl in white wet clothing legend. Some places have the same legend with the girl near a...
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Ben And others search Dallas hail storm june 2012 for some great film of this hail storm Ralph
View ArticleRe: Land at the corners of 67, Hampton & Red Bird
MWT Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Id forgot about the blimp. Seems like it was used > for football games. My Dad was an ATC at DFW for many years and knew many...
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Sharon, From what I recall he said that this was an area somewhere around Lakewood Blvd and Lawther. He said that it had been filled in so he could not remember exactly where it was. As for those...
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TPS what exact years did you do that because me and my friends did almost the same thing and at the same creeks.
View ArticleRe: Bluff View Estates - Maps
M C, thanks for posting these wonderful, historical maps of the Bluffview area. We drove there in 2007 to see the neighborhood and the lookout. (Cannot believe kids actually used to scale that)....
View ArticleRe: Collin McKinney (1766 - 1861)
David Crockett's wife and heirs received a land grant on the Trinity River near the Audubon center. Neil near Verona in Collin Co. Of course Neil never lived there and I suspect Crockett's wife never...
View ArticleRe: Thompson Slough - East Fork Trinity River
My grandparents spent many weekends back in the 1920s-30s at a Gravel Slough on the Trinity below Dallas.
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View ArticleRe: Collin McKinney (1766 - 1861)
Sharon Marsalis Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes and since I started going over Texas History > that I had not really considered for the last 48 > years,...
View ArticleRe: Collin McKinney (1766 - 1861)
Going on pictures from the era they all looked much older.....the rigors of life at that time. Jim
View ArticleRe: Sivils Drive In
jelly teefo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My dad new Sivil,alway`s a big roll of money in > his pocket.Yes the girls were on roller skates .I > think maybe...
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Dave, you are correct about the boots. I recall from a long thread on Sivils here in the past that at first the carefully chosen girls wore white cowboy boots and later white go go boots. Roller...
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Sharon, that is the same article that M.C. referenced above. BTW, on most computers, you can adjust the size of the images for a pdf file. Look at the top of the article, and select the per cent of...
View ArticleHotel/Motel Name Please
There was (is?) a hotel/motel at the corner of N.W. Hwy. and Lemon Av. We called it Bluebeard's Castle. Best club in Dallas then. You could talk at the tabels, large dance floor, and great music. So...
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oops, it is the same article which I did not even notice. Apologies, M C. Thanks also, Dave, for the tip on the file enlargement. Sometimes I really worry that I am going senile. Of course I could...
View ArticlePreston Road
OLD PRESTON ROAD. The Old Preston Road was originally part of a major Indian trail that extended from near the site of present St. Louis, Missouri, to southwestern Texas. Between 1840 and the coming...
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cwuub9 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > OLD PRESTON ROAD. The Old Preston Road was > originally part of a major Indian trail that > extended from near the site...
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Preston Road has been reported on many times here. Search the archives. Most of what was reported (and perhaps most of what is known) about early Preston Road was detailed here by M.C. and MWT....
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