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Oak Cliff history: Our neighborhood was home to pro baseball for about 50 years

By Rachel Stone|2015-06-02T14:45:31-05:00March 27th, 2015|

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Oak Cliff history: How Jimtown Road became Clarendon Drive

By Rachel Stone|2015-06-02T14:45:32-05:00February 20th, 2015|

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Picture postcards are a big part of one Oak Cliff family’s history

By Rachel Stone|2015-01-29T09:17:04-06:00January 26th, 2015|

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  • A delivery boy straddles his bike in downtown Dallas in the 1930s. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress

Oak Cliff history: Bike racing was a 1920s and ’30s pastime

By Rachel Stone|2015-06-02T14:45:34-05:00December 29th, 2014|

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Oak Cliff history: Before there was Red Bird, there was Westcliff

By Gayla Brooks|2015-06-02T14:45:35-05:00October 27th, 2014|

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Oak Cliff history: The wild and brutal escapades of two notorious gangsters

By Gayla Brooks|2015-06-02T14:45:37-05:00September 29th, 2014|

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Oak Cliff history: How the automobile killed George Kessler’s picturesque plan

By Gayla Brooks|2015-06-02T14:45:38-05:00August 25th, 2014|

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Oak Cliff history: A bygone family plumbing business left its mark

By Gayla Brooks|2015-06-02T14:45:40-05:00July 28th, 2014|

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  • Abandoned retail buildings occupy the 700 block of Pierce in the North Cliff neighborhood. Photo by Mary McLauhlan

Oak Cliff history: The abandoned 1920s retail strip in North Cliff

By Gayla Brooks|2015-06-02T14:45:41-05:00June 23rd, 2014|

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Oak Cliff history: A theory as to why everyone knew everyone

By Gayla Brooks|2015-06-02T14:45:43-05:00May 26th, 2014|

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  • This 2,500-seat Casino theater once was part of Lake Cliff amusement park. When the park closed, developer Charles Mangold relocated the building to Fifth and Crawford where it become the James P. Simpson Studio, which burned down in 1929. Photo courtesy of Joe Whitney

Oak Cliff history: How our neighborhood came to be

By Gayla Brooks|2019-06-06T13:55:36-05:00April 28th, 2014|

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Oak Cliff history: How the La Reunion colony influenced the culture of our neighborhood

By Gayla Brooks|2015-06-02T14:45:46-05:00March 31st, 2014|

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