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Oak Cliff Memories...
Frank Reaugh artist "Sketch Trip" -- Click here to Remember Frank Reaugh
Dad, are we there yet? Back when Davis Street was State Highway 80, it was lined with dozens of motels such as this "Dallas Motel" between Cockrell Hill Road and Gilpin Avenue. The "Turnpike" which is now I30 took most of the business traffic away from Davis, and many of the motels that remain are only "a shadow of their former glory..."
Move over Putt-Putt. One of the most popular Oak Cliff teen hangouts on warm summer evenings in the 50s and 60s had to be Wee Saint Andrews Miniature Golf Course. Who could forget the strings of lights illuminating the carpet-covered putting greens, and the Top 40 rock-and-roll hits blaring from the speakers? (Photo courtesy of Bill Melton.)
On my honor... Thomas Alan Hord, grandson of the Hord’s Ridge founders, was appointed scoutmaster of Troop One in 1913. Hord worked with scouting until his death in 1973. Bob Reitz (above), curator of the Camp Wisdom BSA Museum in southwest Oak Cliff, is standing beside the book previously used to record all Circle 10 Eagle Scouts. Now, Eagle Scouts' names are carved in a granite monument outside Scout Headquarters, 8605 Harry Hines Boulevard. (Photo by Alan Elliott.)
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Living on the wild side? Where would you find this cultural anthropology example in Oak Cliff? Check back for more info...hint -- it's not in the Boy Scout camp, but it is on Camp Wisdom....at the Museum of International Cultures.
The banner at the top of the page is from an 1895 promotion. Oak Cliff is still shaded by large oak trees on rolling hills -- and is still a pleasant part of Dallas where people say "howdy' when you walk past them on the sidewalk.
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