Our Threshold for Tomorrow: DFW Airport Promotional Video (1972)

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6 ай бұрын

A video shot in 1972 promoting the (then) upcoming opening of Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport, now known as DFW International Airport.
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@planesandcooking5142 4 ай бұрын

This is like someone had a crystal ball and could read the future. I am so amazed how they got so much right about the future success of that airport.

@gregsells8549 3 ай бұрын

4:39 The airport south of the DFW site was Greater Southwest International (formerly Amon Carter Field), which had become a white elephant as it failed to relieve Dallas Love Field. It closed the day DFW opened, and all that remains is the stub of runway north of Hwy. 183. The runway south of the highway is now the route of Amon Carter Blvd which serves the development on the airport site.

@RTD3 Ай бұрын

Amazing planning and it's still working and growing as predicted.

@andrewsunde7915 20 күн бұрын

Amazing that they planned for so much... DFW is even bigger now than ever planned, and the metro area has filled in nicely around the airport. The airport can still grow with all that room.

@nasaboyscout 6 ай бұрын

Happy birthday DFW

@StoneColdSteveAustin316. 6 ай бұрын

This video was beautifully created during their time. OH HELL YEAHHHHHH

@franciscodanconia4324 10 күн бұрын

14:23 ah Braniff. I remember flying out of Dallas right when they went bankrupt in the 80s and seeing a fleet of their planes grounded on an apron at the outskirts of the airport.

@franciscodanconia4324 10 күн бұрын

They laid out the pad for a sixth terminal 52 years ago and are just now building it out. Plus adding more gates to the existing terminals A & C, validating the modular design of the terminals. DFW was planned well for the future. And there’s enough space to build at least two more terminals south of the existing ones.

@franciscodanconia4324 10 күн бұрын

18:23 those air bridges were the neatest thing when I was a kid. Driving under a 747, how cool was that?

@JeffK787 4 ай бұрын

An absolute delight. It is mind-boggling that DFW is bigger than Manhattan! Great airport to fly through still in 2024!

@asadlionish 5 ай бұрын

My 1st Home airport in US DFW ❤

@DFWIntlAirport 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for traveling with us!

@sunrain4820 4 ай бұрын

I’m learning my place NOW😍

@sunrain4820 4 ай бұрын

Blessing to you all😍

@franciscodanconia4324 10 күн бұрын

22:58 wow. Projecting 14 terminals by 2000….

@saxmanb777 5 ай бұрын

I loved riding the AirTran. Sad it couldn’t be upgraded.

@franciscodanconia4324 10 күн бұрын

There’s an AirTran car at the railroad museum in Frisco. I’m glad they preserved one.

@sunrain4820 4 ай бұрын

Here I am.

@oliviarodrigo2025 5 ай бұрын

I went there but this so busy airport i was 9

@sunrain4820 4 ай бұрын

Tell ‘em All BYE.

@sunrain4820 4 ай бұрын

NO we not doing no more business together ever again.

@sunrain4820 4 ай бұрын

That’s private. Very Independent.

@lisasdfwhightechworld9946 4 ай бұрын

The North Central Texas Council of Governments was the entity, in a move to eliminate the hard feelings over the name of the airport, paid an advertising agency a lot of money to come up with the name "The Dallas Ft Worth Metroplex". This provided a distractor and it worked. (Ft. Worth officials had wanted "FWD" instead of "DFW").

@Bsnsobscuregames 5 ай бұрын

Man euless and Irving were empty when they built DFW

@lisasdfwhightechworld9946 4 ай бұрын

I wish I could go back to 1972 in DFW.😶

@christiansotelo55 3 ай бұрын

@@lisasdfwhightechworld9946imagine if time travel was possible......except even one person would screw everything up the second they get to the past.

@franciscodanconia4324 10 күн бұрын

I was born in Dallas in the 79s but we lived up in Lucas just a little south of McKinney. It was the boondocks then and 75 was still mainly a two lane highway. Our K-12 schools was literally just one building. Now I work north of there and Lucas is just one more small suburb subsumed by everything around it.

@franciscodanconia4324 10 күн бұрын

@@lisasdfwhightechworld9946I really miss the Texas of the 80s and 90s (and my youth) before everything grew.