The historian behind Flashback Dallas is working to digitize archives from WFAA for the G. William Jones Film & Video Collection at SMU.

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One of the real treasures we’ve come across is this 9-second video from 1933, which shows a 7-second clip of the Houston Street Viaduct.

Watch the video and check out the screen grabs below, where you can see the Downtown skyline and the old Oak Cliff streetcar trestle with a snippet of the actual streetcar at the end.

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