Ari Lynn Even in the ‘60s there was still a lot of activity downtown, at least during the daytime. The new downtown Sanger-Harris on Elm Street (now the DART headquarters) opened in 1965. It had an air curtain you walked through to enter on Elm Street, so no doors. The only apartments downtown then was the Manor House. My mom moved to Dallas in 1943, and worked in the Davis Building from 1953 to about 1982. We would drive downtown or ride the bus to do some of our shopping, especially at Sanger-Harris. A lot of the old buildings downtown, like the Baker Hotel and the Medical Arts Building were torn down in the ‘60s and ‘70s, replaced by parking lots.

Wow. It's dead now.

@@steveharkins4049 My grandmother always stayed at the Adolphus when she visited, that and the downtown library, and an occasional trip to one of the movie palaces that were yet to be split into plexes before going under the wrecking ball...and once in a blue moon, lunch at the Zodiac Tea Room at Neiman-Marcus’s flagship store-models circulated among the tables in the latest fashions being sold at the store, and the sugar was colored crystals that as a kid were really magical to me. Otherwise, it seemed to my child’s eyes to be all office buildings and pawn shops.

Less multiculturalism leads to more life, actually

Right.

Carl, the improvements are nothing different from any other city - far from being progressive in any way, they are the usual corporate response that really don't change or improve anything much.

Carl, each of those projects is a single developer. What I'm talking about is a city plan that supports more than one corporation - supports the city and many small and large businesses. My initial post would help all of downtown, not just one or two residential tower builders.

They rather just give you parking tickets...

what you speak of sounds of COMPLETE regentrification. that would put the current people out of their homes and would create more harm than good. please think of this from a perspective that doesnt displace people. not to mention how DPD would patrol things please. in your scenario all i can see are blacks being locked up for being on their own property, and whites moving in claiming those historically black neighborhoods are theirs and we need to leave.

@@DevaJones03 how would turning a street into a pedestrian walk way do that? The only thing guaranteed is less traffic and pollution and more activity downtown for everyone. Would also spotlight Fair Park, Deep Ellum, and Oak Cliff.

You know whats gonna be in 80 years?

Planet Uv Da Kangz?

You have a good sense of perspective.

+Jonethan Palacios Why?

Where are the old building now? It seems there's no earthquake in Dallas in history. Are they all knocked down to build some new ones? If so, it's a pity.

Dallas was great when it still had Texas in it.

Jonethan Palacios that's a bold statement

Milwaukee is better

Same here I'm Bryson Kennedy am from Dallas Texas and you?

I grew up in Dallas and remember how nice the downtown area was back in the 60s and 70s. Recently it has really declined. It's very dirty and there are bums loitering everywhere, most of them high on drugs.

Ya'll would not have happened to move to the Lake Highlands area would yall?

Pat Melton My parents settled in Dallas in 1968.Actually my dad was already a resident but married my mother from Texarkana. They lived near Love Field in the early 70s and heard the planes fly over the complex often.

Lol my dad took me in the 90s and I'm a try to take my kids now

I remember Braniff.

I remember well !

People didn’t leave downtown because it was busy. The auto destroyed nearly every large and small city in America. People are now realizing that you don’t need a car to live and that cities are great places to raise kids. Walling yourself out of the city is no way to live. Sitting in traffic, for hours a day, on massive anti-pedestrian interstates that cut through cities was a terrible way of destroying a living and breathing community. Even if people wanted to move outside the city they could have built commuter rail to bring them in, instead of tearing down buildings for more parking lots. What was left, like in Forth Worth, that made the city a place you wanted to live or work? Nothing. NYC doesn’t have even one interstate running across it. You want to come into the city you’ll have to cross a bridge or tunnel that was built many decades ago. Smaller cities like Dallas could have done the same, feeding the city from the perimeter. In NY you don’t see any open air parking lots anymore anywhere near midtown or downtown. The only way cities like Dallas can grow in the decades to come is by building rail. Otherwise people will spend even more time in their cars and will move further out. If that’s your idea of living I feel sorry for you. The auto and all it promised decades ago nearly wiped NYC off the map. Thank god people won. The pedestrian won and cars now don’t take priority. Millions of us live just fine without the responsibility and expense of owning one. I travel all over the world without ever renting one. I even spent a few days in downtown Dallas a couple of years ago. In a newly remodeled old hotel. I spent time with city leaders, the mayors brilliant daughter even, and found Dallas folks to be very interesting and with something to talk about besides fuel economy.

Social media. happened. Those were human beings back then full of life and vigor. We have reduced ourselves to sedentary overweight jaba the huts living behind a keyboard with fake cyber identities.

Shannonm75 corporations took over and reduced these cities to parking lots and half empty skyscrapers.

But everyone's skin looked pink and healthy now at least light skinned people look pale or yellow. Something's wrong with the livers and the junk that's consumed.

tritosac While I don’t think that social media or at least the connection and quick flow of information in general is inherently problematic or bad, I do have to agree that how it’s working now is definitely a problem we have to solve.

@@shannonm75 That's just because it was filmed so long ago. The color presented in skin tones aren't equal to what they'd look like in person.

It is a city

True true. I think Philadelphia is about to rebound and stop the bleeding themselves. We just need Chicago to do the same.

StylistecS to what?

Wtf are you talking about

He's talking about architecture. Omg how can you guys lack so much culture to not know what he's talking about?

It can be a double edged sword. In a perfect world you could keep these grand old structures while also zoning land for the modern skyscrapers etc. But the sad truth is you can't keep the old buildings filled and they eventually fall into disarray. *See Detroit

So amazing I'm Bryson Kennedy am from Dallas Texas and you?

@@brysonkennedy8076 same. Born and raised here.

@@kimberlycampbell1100 That's nice,I'm a widower with one daughter her name is Holly what about you?

Yeah it's fantastic I'm Bryson Kennedy am from Dallas Texas and you?

I'm from Finland.

Yep..."Smart phones " are the worst thing that's EVER happened to our once Great Society!

@@andypistole8363 ok boomer

@@hemprope4326 lol

@@andypistole8363 I totally agree. I wish we could go back to the days before smart phones.

@@andypistole8363 Cars you mean

It's really declined in recent years. I was born and raised in Dallas in the early 60s. I moved to St. Louis in 1987 and whenever I visit Dallas I can't believe how ratty the downtown has become. I remember how clean it was back in the 60s and 70s. Now it's so filthy and there are vagrants loitering everywhere.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England Wow. Using a dictionary must be interesting for you, let alone the internet.

ReturnoftheBrotha you must be dumb

Yup

@ReturnoftheBrotha NewEngland states - composed of 6 states in the north east. People from the area refer to themselves sometimes as being from New England.

@@augustusbetucius1572 unfortunately some are just too lazy - my family would refer to being from New England. Anyway you are correct !

B250R www.imdb.com/title/tt0031482/

Not as many people walk the streets these days cause more people are fat. I wouldn't want to show my grandkids 2018. It sucks. People today are fake.

@@tritosac you fat or something?

No are you?

This comment aged pretty well. Pre-COVID era is now quite nostalgic for the obvious reasons.

My dad worked for Mobil Oil Co(Magnolia ) and yes, it was The Flying Red Horse, when they owned it. Only later on was it called Pegasus. The company called it Flying Red Horse, a real landmark you could see from way outside the city limits. Dallas has changed tremendously, not really for the better. There's too many people. It really used to be a lot of fun in the 50s, 60s, 70s. By 1985, the changes were too much. People always dressed up to go downtown. Then the 70s came and everyone started to dress casual which morphed into what we have now. People have changed. We can change again, you know. Right now going downtown is too dangerous. It really did used to be fun. The big nice stores will probably not be back which is sad. Consider that air conditioning was not everywhere until the 70s. Now, we can't live without that. It is not the same, for sure.

@@mariantreber8055 Did you ever get a chance to go inside? I worked on the 24th floor which would have been executive offices back "in the day" but was just a regular office. One day we were headed home and the elevator got a "shimmy" in it where it shuttered and stopped going down for a couple seconds then it "let loose" and caught up the few feet it had gotten behind. Now I am sure it was only like a foot but in your mind you think it fell two floors and we hit every button we could find to open the doors and dove out nervous as heck. WHEW. The interesting part is to turn on the AC took like 6 big switches that engaged various pumps and fans that reminded me of a Frankenstein movie. To adjust the AC in an office you used like a 10 foot long wooden "stick" with a hook on it that you used to open or close the vents. 24 floors up the windows to my office opened up. Nice Spring day you could open them but my incredible fear of heights made it everything I could do to look out. As a child (born in 65) I remember that horse being the tallest thing around for miles. I think my Dad worked in the building around that time frame as well. I bet you have some great memories.

@@jch450 - I think I've only been in the lobby there. My dad worked in the field lab, which was miles away, on Duncanville Road. It's been gone for years. I wish I could remember more. I sure miss the downtown of old. My parents got married in 1939. We have a long history in this area Dallas and Ellis County. I can barely remember the roads before the freeways. Dallas was a small city, but really fun.

That's nice I'm Bryson Kennedy am from Dallas Texas and you?

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More likely, Oswald and Ruby. In the mid 70's I met an older guy that made a living in the "Burlesque Houses" around town. His name was Uncle Willie. He was a tap dancer and jokester. He MC'd at pretty much all of the "Burlesque" clubs in town. Super nice guy with a ton of stories of Dallas' underbelly in the 40's, 50's and 60's. He told me Oswald frequented the Carousel Club. I asked him if he was ever interviewed by the FBI. He said, and I quote... "They didn't want to know the Truth." Rest in Eternal Peace, Uncle Willie.

@@lowes891646 sounds right

I am so fucking tired of conspiracy theories.

@@Discrimination_is_not_a_right thanstay off internet and history channel

@@bradleysmall2230 No.

Lovely I'm Bryson Kennedy am from Dallas Texas and you?

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+Jibreel Riley Feel good now. Feel bad tomorrow. HA!

Mass Produced American Citizen I live in Dallas and downtown is just filled with homeless people

Blasto Manto I had a Cousin who lived there. He was a homeless heroin addict for like 8 years

@@blastomanto5687 well, consciously have worked to 'clean-up' downtown in the last several years-

nah it was worth it. cars and suburbs are great

I was born in Dallas in the early 60s. It used to be a really beautiful city but the downtown area in particular has really declined in recent years. It has become really dirty and there are vagrants loitering everywhere. Also, like you said they have demolished some of the really beautiful buildings. One tragic loss was the Baker hotel next door to the Magnolia building.

Look at Fort Worth they have all the old cattle chute County shit but why does dallas have to tear every damn thing down

Joe Pagan that's called an oil boom

Fort Worth has been doing that kind of thing, but even with the stock yards, there's pressure to keep it intact and build while keeping what's there as it is. They did that with the Montgomery bldg. I'm not crazy about how they did it, but it was batter than razing it entirely and building something new and ugly in its place. Also, I think FW may be trying to be careful about not becoming Dallas. something its always tried to avoid doing.

I agree I'm Bryson Kennedy am from Dallas Texas and you?

That’s crazy to think about. We could be ralated to some of those people in the video

I agree I'm Bryson Kennedy am from Dallas Texas and you?

Mighty YoungSir I found the talking to be very informative and gives background to downtown Dallas and why we no longer have this feel to the metroplex because of the freeways and city hall messing everything up

damn shame about the signage, they coulda just moved it-

ZiplineShazam it still has Texas in it

This was pre federal court ordered desegregation.

1984

you're a giant cesspool

ashley miles What a mature young lady you are...

... it was a joke. People who are offended by jokes are sad individuals.

Michael Rogers Bryan George

Well 2020 August 6th Having lived downtown since I was a kid and my folks ran a business this year during the George Floyd riots Dallas became a ceas pool genuine for good with Windows shot out Black Lives offices on every corner but its the Hip Hop gangs the smell of exotic pot and the cars all point to why White people will leave Dallas.

Tidwell Dallas didn’t have dirt roads even in the 1890’s I’m sure

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It says 90 second clip right up there under the video.