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57boxman · Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 7:37 pm Post subject: Post your Vintage Dallas Photos

Expressways of Dallas, May 1972. (Bob Smith/NARA)

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57boxman · Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 7:43 pm Post subject:

Where are all the Cowboy hats like JR wore? You got to dig the groovy white shoes.

Street scene, downtown Dallas, May 1972. (Bob Smith/NARA)
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57boxman · Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2013 8:27 pm Post subject:

Dallas,tx 1978

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David Graves · Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 9:22 am Post subject:

got a few to share on this if I can find time to locate the photos ..

Here is one, this is looking into the west towards Ft Worth at Interstate 30 (then DFW Turnpike), the first bridge is the exit/entrance ramp from Highway 360 to I-30, the second bridge is Highway 360 itself, all of those structures still exists today. For those that don't know the exit/entrance ramps on I-30 have a unusual design to them because of the toll booths that were in place then and that is how traffic was controlled and tolls collected. The structure and roadway in place just south or to the left of I 30 in the photo is the TX DOT office that recently was torn down and currently is used to store TX DOT equipment. That section of highway was originally designed as a toll road and agreed that once the initial construction was paid for, the toll booths would be removed. Unlike today when a highway is built is becomes a toll road FOREVER! Much has changed to the pasture land in this photo as Six Flags sits on the southwest corner of I-30/360 today, couple of sports stadiums exist further west of there, well it just will never look like this photo again that is for sure!

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57boxman · Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 8:40 pm Post subject:

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wheezer · Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 3:53 pm Post subject:

good stuff....2/59 had me in the sixth grade. A few years later I discovered the 1957 Chevrolet.
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57boxman · Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 4:07 pm Post subject:

I love hearing stories about Green Valley and Dallas International Motor Speedway. My friend went to the International Pop Festival in 1969 held only a few weeks after Wood Stock. He skipped school to attend the festival. Another friend grew up in Lewisville who was a few years younger remembers all the hippies invading Lewisville and camping out at the track. I had another friend who was at the DIMS when tragically a local TV reporter was killed in a Jet car accident.
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57boxman · Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 4:19 pm Post subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_International_Pop_Festival

From my knowledge of the clubs members I'm guessing no one went to the IPF. I as only 11 years old at the time and 850 miles away. For some reason, I don 't see many greaser Tri-five guys there at the festival. The long hairs in our group (which I would be if I had hair) are too young to have gone.
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wheezer · Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 4:54 pm Post subject:

Not wanting to get off topic, but I'll bet a lot of members attended the races at DIMS. Four of us drove down in June of 1971? in my 69 Chevelle SS396 from Tulsa. The only time I ever saw the engine hot light was in the DIMS parking area. I recall it was pretty hot that day. We did not have a camera.
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57boxman · Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 5:56 pm Post subject:

For us Yankees: What is DMIS?
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David Graves · Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2013 6:55 pm Post subject:

wow .. hitting home for me ..

I did not attend the Tx Intl Pop Festival (a tad to young) but I sure wished I could of/would of. I do have a video documentary of the event (crude but better than nothing and truly captures the time that was the late 60's) and I am fortunate to have complete recordings of each act that played - which included Chicago, Led Zeppelin, BB King, Santana, Janis Joplin among others. It was a BIG event.

I attended many racing events at Green Valley beginning in the 60's up to the closing in the early 80's. Drags, road racing even Evel Knievel did his magic at the Valley. Long gone, homes and other community buildings now occupy the land that once was a great race track in North Richland Hills.

Dallas International Motor Speedway (DIMS) was a place I also attended many racing events at (heck I rode my bike there to watch some of the races from a hill across I-35E from the track). Again the drags were the big thing for me but I also loved to watch the road racing that took place on the 2.5 mile road course. First class and heavily in debt, it only lasted from June of '69 until March of '73, a victim of the economy but as many racetracks found had it survived urban sprawl likely would have closed it as it's location across from what became the Vista Ridge Mall would not have tolerated a noisy race track.

I have lots of memorabilia and photos I took at both race tracks. I try to post regularly some of my photos over at the SHRA website www.shraracing.com in the Forum section 'Stories & Photos From The Old Days. Check it out along with the SHRA Facebook page for more nearly each Thursday for 'Throwback Thursday'.

Here is my shot of the last pass down the DIMS quarter mile - this is Leroy Goldstein driving the Candies & Hughes Top Fueler for the win at the IHRA Longhorn Nationals in March of '73.

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57boxman · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2013 9:24 pm Post subject:

A then and now picture at the corner of Young/Canton and Pearl Expressway in Dallas.

I should take my 150/'57 and Larry's truck and park them to make a better now and then photo; what do you think?

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57boxman · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2013 10:35 pm Post subject:

Here is a photo of the 77 Hamburgers Drive In on Harry Hines Blvd., in Dallas, Texas. Built by the same man who built the 77 Ranch Tourist Court next door.

Is that the phone building in the background?
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