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Whether you are looking for restaurants, real estate, school information, churches, or a peek into history, this is your neighborhood website, oakcliff.com. You will find a richness of culture here and plenty of friendly folks that are working to make this beautiful little corner of Dallas an even better place for family and business.
This website is about Oak Cliff past and present. Most of the information on this site was contributed by folks like you -- so if you have information or pictures of Oak Cliff please share them with us! Click here and we'll let you know how to best send them to us.
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"The" Oak Cliff Book Get your copy now -- it makes great reading and a great gift. See below for how to order online -- or get it at at one of these stores.... |
Come back often -- there is something new on the site all the time. You might be interested in some of these pages...
- Bronco Bowl
- Oak Cliff Earth Day 2010 at Lake Cliff Park
- The Mystics
- Pig Stands
- Sivils
- Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Ads from Oak Cliff's Past
- YesterCliff -- Memories of the past
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Oak Cliff Earth Day -- Click to see pictures... |
Old Oak Cliff School Photos? We got 'em...
Trinity Heights Elementary School Dance, 1953 at Kiest Park. Do you remember any of these folk?
(Courtesy of Judy Rose)
Front Row from left side: (Maiden names) LaVerne Lawler, Sandra Murphree, Judy Davis, Barbara Bond, Pat Reeder, Anita Patterson, Pat Polasik, Wanda Fleeman, Betty Gail Jones, Charlyne Jones, Valerie Stallings, Virginia Steele, and Angie Brown.
Back Row from left side: Ronny Wenzel, unknown, Billy Dennis, don't know next 3 names, Terry Callicott, Donald Lee, Morris Bass, Jon Dean Smith, and John Baker.
SOC Golden Debs 1958 in a parade down Jefferson.
New! Margaret B Henderson 1970 1st Grade
(Stephen Potts is second from the left, third row and Robert Dill is far right on the same row.)
See more old school photos
The Oak Cliff School History Project -- we're building pages for schools in Oak Cliff. Please visit, and send us pictures or stories... Adamson, Sunset, South Oak Cliff, Kimball, ... more to come.. we need your help to get more information about these schools...
This is a picture of the old Kessler Theater (one of the places on the tour), on the corner of Davis and Clinton. Standing is Jeffery Liles and Edwin Cabaniss who are renovating the theater -- built in 1941, owned by Gene Autry and Universial Studios, hit by the tornado in 1957 -- this building has seen a lot of Oak Cliff's history -- now it is getting a facelift and a new lease on life. New use for the building will include office space, an instructional arts center, and a performance venue.
New -- For more Oak Cliff memories, visit YesterCliff where old haunts can still be visited, at least in your memories...Sivils, Pig Stands, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Bronco Bowl, and others..
Recently Found...
These "coins" were recently discovered by Dan Lewis. They are about the size of a quarter. The Boedeker Bakery was probably a part of the "Boedeker Block" that was a popular 'hang out" in Oak Cliff in the 20s and 30s. The centerpiece (as I remember my mother telling me) was an ice cream parlor. In fact a March 25 Times Herald carried a story that "prominent ice cream manufacturer, F. W. Boedeker" died on that date in 1920. Thanks Dan! If you have more info, please send us an email.
Laying the cornerstone at Altersgate Methodist Chruch -- early 1950s -- can anyone identify any of the participants? emailEVENTS IN AND AROUND
OAK CLIFF
- SUMMER CLASSIC SERIES at Tyler St. United Methodist Church - Sunday night, June 13 at 7 p.m. - The Dallas Praise JAZZ Orchestra
- PLAY BALL! The Dallas Youth Baseball is a league run by a group of volunteers from Oak Cliff. The league makes it home at Kidd Springs Rec Ctr, on Canty St in Oak Cliff.
For information regarding league meeting, sign-ups etc, visit www.leaguelineup.com/dallasyouthbaseball
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Yearly Kimball H.S. Mini-Reunion -- 3rd week of January, held in Coleman Texas, hosted by Charles Kritley. For more information, contact txkirtley@verizon.net.
- List your reunion or event here!
Please visit
The Oak Cliff Memorial
for those who have served our country.
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