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Apartments on Marsalis ??
I grew up in Oak Cliff and went to James Bowie Elementary School from 62 to 65. My parents owned the apartments on the corner of Marsailes and 8th St. There was a man that had previously owned the apartments names Berlis Malley. He lived in the apartments till 1964. Does anyone remember him or a family named the O'Rourkes? They had a large old house next door to the apartments and attended mass at the Catholic church on Marsailles and 8th. My parents apartment was next door to Earl Hayes Chevrolet and was torn down to build a 7 Eleven. Does anyone have memories of any of this. Let me know (Please respond to comments.)
-- Then and Now Photo --
Mystery solved... Dee Lokey sent us this picture taken in the 70s ... showing the Oak Cliff Tire Company in the background... and wondered where it was taken. Several folks around here did some quick thinking and Patsy Summey took a picture from Lake Cliff Park at about the same location, showing what it looks like today.. so we were able to help Dee solve the family mystery... do you know an old Oak Cliff photo that shows some landmark? Maybe we can help you see what it looks like today... email us to let us know.
Research on Hospitals in Oak Cliff
I just happened to stumble onto your North Oak Cliff site and I was most impressed with it, especially with the historical vignettes and photos. I am sort of familiar with your area as I have had some relatives who lived nearby (current whereabouts unknown) - in the June Drive area, near Westmoreland and Illinois, as well as in Lancaster and also near Kiest Park. I was in the area many years ago. As an avocation, I like to find out the histories of former hospitals, especially the smaller, less known ones. I am preparing to write something on such a hospital near where I live in Florida. But as for Oak Cliff, I have learned through various reference sources there were quite a few smaller hospitals scattered throughout your area. I would like to know more about them, i.e. their physical appearance, their specialties, the doctors (reputable and maybe not-so-reputable) who practiced there, and the hospitals' ultimate fates. As a postcard collector, I wonder if pictures of these places, or sources for pictures, can be put onto your site.
Here are the hospitals I would like to know more about: Stevens Park Osteopathic, which I think is considered to be in your area; Lake Cliff Hospital, 201 E. Colorado, or very near the Methodist Hospital; Green Clinic & Hospital, 1107 W. Jefferson Blvd.; Oak Cliff Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Hospital, 101 N. Zang Blvd.; Oak Cliff Medical & Surgical Hospital, 233 W. Tenth St.; South Oak Cliff Medical Center, 728 S. Corinth St. Road; and John Buist Chester Hospital & Clinic, 3330 S. Lancaster Road.
I am hopeful you or your contributors can help out. I know this is a lengthy e-mail, but I thought it would be worth a try. If you are able to respond, my e-mail is willineus@wmconnect.com. My mailing address is 2681 E. Washington Ave., No. 26, Eustis, FL 32726.
Many thanks for taking the time to read this and many more thanks to you and the contributors who might be able to help with this.
Most sincerely,
William "Bill" Bygrave
Manor Bakery?
Thank you for the Oak Cliff website!
I'm a native of Oak Cliff, born and reared there in the mid-40s, attended Oak Cliff Methodist Church on Jefferson, graduated from Kimball high school.
My question: Do you know what happened to the Manor Bakery shop that was next door to the A&P on Jefferson Street? Manor made the world's best peanut butter cookies and a unique, divine bread called "Salt Rising" bread. I'm wondering if a larger baker bought out Manor?
Sincerely,
Mary Hill
Austin, TX
Beauty Shop
I am trying to find someone who lived in Oak Cliff. I thought by chance you may can help me or know someone that could. In the late 60’s or early 70’s I knew Karen Haney, daughter of a Haney that owned her own beauty shop and her dad was retired mechanic. I think they went to the Oak Cliff Church of Christ. Karen married (Calvery) and has a daughter, Emma Kay.
Your assistance with any information would be greatly appreciated.
Linda
From Charles Kirtley: I had a great childhood and teen years in Oak Cliff. Here are some of the place I and a few of my co-horts frequented. Dairy Queen on Hampton, Hampton Road drive-in, Kiest Park on Sundays, Sivils, Austin's B-B-Q, Snappy's in Arcadia Park, Yellow Belly Drag Strip, Glendale Park, Kid Springs, We St. Andrews Min. Golf, Dal-Rock Roller Rink on Industrial, Chalk Hill drive-in, Heights, Vogue, Roswin, Texas, theaters,and many more. Golfs burgers in Wynnewood, Red Bryans, Kips on Zangs. In the summer it was Wiess Park for me since it had ball diamonds, swimming pool, and rec center for basketball and all sorts of stuff to keep us heathens off of the streets. Seems like M.E. Moses in Westmoreland Heights always had a seasonal item for us kids. They offered pea shooters, tops, yo-yos, kites.
Remember horse shoe taps, white bucks and zip-up shoes. Tom McCans was the place to go for the latest shoes. I believe I must have had twenty Dyneshine shoe polishes and all the equipment to keep my shoes in top condition. Button down shirts and blue jeans that I got mom to tuck the cuffs "under', it was a fad, on my jeans. I had the duck-tails for about two years until I entered sixth period athletics, then it was a flat-top. How could a kid ever want anything better than grow up in a great place like Oak Cliff? What a ride!!!!
Earl Lucas was born in 1970 in Dallas Texas. He went to Booker T. Washington high school and was in the arts program. Black Enterprise Magazine notes that he is one of 25 to 30 african american car designers in the world. A texas native who reside in Detroit, he is a ford design manager who is responsible for the swanky looking styled exterior of the new Taurus 2010. He attended the college for the creative studies in detroit. - Cassandra Garth
My memories of Oak Cliff are from the early 70's. My father, Shelby Hudson, was the superintendent of the Sunshine Home, a campus for children in foster-care who were unplaced. The kids there (12 boys and 12 girls) were from the ages of 10 to 18, if I recall correctly, and we had a small apartment attached to the main building where my sister, myself, and my baby brother lived with mom and dad. It's been on my mind lately as dad passed away November 17, 2008 at the age of 70. Some of the happiest moments of my childhood took place on that campus. - Brad Hudson
This is actually an answer to the question someone had regarding Boyd Guitar School. I happen to have been one of Mr. Boyd's students as well from '63 thru '67. His shop was actually located on Beckley Ave just south of Jefferson Blvd on the east side of the street. He had a retail store in the front that sold guitars, amps, string, etc. In the back was his office where he conducted lessons. I happened into his shop one evening in 1969 just as he was closing. We visited for a time and he suggested we take a drive to Lone Star Donut up on North Beckley to have a donut. We probably visited for about two hours at the donut shop. His brother was in fact Bill Boyd, musician and local radio personality. He had another brother Jim who played guitar with the Light Crust Doughboys. Mr. Boyd moved his school in the late '70s closer to his home in East Dallas. I saw him one more time in 1979 when he came to a restaurant I managed at the time. He passed away around 1983. - Bill Hayes
My mother worked for Mr. Humphreys in Galveston, Texas, where we were both born. After he died, Mrs. Humphreys would come to Dallas, pick us up in her limo, meet with Paul Baker, and watch the progress of the Dallas Theater Center being built - The Kalita Humphreys Theater (in memory of their daughter).
She told me Mrs. Humphreys' father was Judge Whitt Davis, and that W Davis Street was named after him.
We lived in Oak Cliff when we first moved here in 1953. I was only 5 1/2, but my mother remembers more & is a wealth of resources.- Jean Davis
Jimmy Wallace of Jimmy Wallace Guitars attended Carter High School.
He is very active in his church as well. -Michelle Murray Ingram
I grew up in Trinity Heights on Harlandale street. Harlandale street was unpaved then. I was born in 48. One of the things I remember, maybe a little morbid, was the Penguin root beer stand on Lancaster, across the street from the Veterans Hospital. The hospital, when the weather was nice, would roll out men with no limbs, or unable to get around on their on. My parents told us that these men had been wounded in the war. Everything that I heard growing up from adults was a reference to either before "the war" or after the "war" Each year as I grew up, there would be less and less of those amputees out front. - ronnie bridges
The bronco Bowl was an exceptional venue.There were several clubs in the Dallas area , in the 70,s and 80's that hosted bands that had not yet graduated to the big halls. The bronco Bowl was a bit larger than those, so they got the bands that were on the "verge" of something big.Here's the shows I saw there:
3/19/1983 DALLAS ODW, PSYCHEDLEIC FURS BRONCO BOWL
5/20/1983 DALLAS EMERALD, PRETENDERS BRONCO BOWL
6/13/1983 DALLAS ALARM, U2 BRONCO BOWL
3/17/1984 DALLAS ALARM, PRETENDERS BRONCO BOWL
6/10/1984 DALLAS CHEQUERED PAST, LITTLE STEVEN BRONCO BOWL
10/29/1985 DALLAS THE NELSONS, ADAM ANT BRONCO BOWL
11/19/1985 DALLAS INXS BRONCO BOWL
9/13/1987 DALLAS GUNS & ROSES, THE CULT BRONCO BOWL
1/14/1989 DALLAS NEIL YOUNG BRONCO BOWL
11/14/1989 DALLAS FLESH FOR LULU, PIL BRONCO BOWL
2/24/1990 DALLAS THE FRONT, ALICE COOPER BRONCO BOWL
11/7/1990 DALLAS 24XY SPYS, JANES ADDICTION BRONCO BOWL
12/9/1991 DALLAS NEIGHBORWOOD, TIN MACHINE BRONCO BOWL
2/13/1992 DALLAS SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES BRONCO BOWL
10/14/1992 DALLAS JAYHAWKS, BLACK CROWES BRONCO BOWL
11/6/1992 DALLAS BLACK SABBATH BRONCO BOWL
12/12/1992 DALLAS SUICIDAL TENDENCIES, MEGADETH BRONCO BOWL
3/14/1996 DALLAS LUNA, LOU REED BRONCO BOWL
10/15/1998 DALLAS GIRLS AGAINST BOYS, GARBAGE BRONCO BOWL
12/1/1998 DALLAS SHAWN MULLINS, CHRIS ISAAK BRONCO BOWL
Great memories. Sadly they finally remodeled it in 1996, next thing you know, it closed.Home Depot indeed, what a waste. - rick rieckhoff
Memories, I sure do have them and could hold a record for attending the most schools throughout my years of growing up in Oak Cliff. From Lad & Lassie pre school to Clara Oliver elementary to T.L. Marsailas Elementary to R.L. Thorton Elementary to Boude Storey Jr. High to James Bowie Elementary to W.E. Greiner. I do have lots of memories of growing up in Oak Cliff. I even through a paper route which included the house where Oswald lived. Kid Springs was a wonderful fishing hole for us youth in the sixties and then there was the Griddle System and there Chicken Fried Steak. - Alan Struble
Ron Pritchett attended Sunset High School and graduated in 1971. Past President of Montgomery Press for 19 years and is currently a Realtor with Century 21 Judge Fite Company.
Tevin Campbell: singer, songwriter, musician, TV/movie actor, broadway actor - Mae
Monty Ousley Weddell Owner Thee Art Gallery at weddellart.com Long time Oak Cliff resident and artist, published author, historian, former AAU Mr. Dallas (MD '87)Rep. political candidate, election judge, graduate Sunset ('62). Contact at moweddell@gmail.com or 214-330-1635