REWIND: For decades, the Dallas Underground tunnels remain largely a secret

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3 жыл бұрын

Buried beneath the ground for nearly 50 years, a piece of Dallas history has remained largely, and literally, overlooked by the people who live and work downtown.
The Dallas Pedestrian Network, or the Dallas Underground, connects many downtown office buildings and is home to several stores and restaurants while providing an escape from weather and traffic on the surface.
If you walk the tunnels today, you will find some stores and eateries, but also plenty of empty space.
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@creaturafauna 2 ай бұрын

I worked in Renaissance Tower back in the late 90’s. The tunnels were bustling with businesses and people. Now it’s a ghost town…

@randomrazr 25 күн бұрын

why did they close it

@tytipton6346 3 жыл бұрын

We were blown away when we found an entrance to the tunnels in our apartment building during college. Pretty surreal and exciting. Houston has a cool system too.

@CharlesPry 3 жыл бұрын

this space has been largely empty for decades, rent these spaces for incredibly cheap to small new businesses and revitalize actual culture. rent the spaces to art students as studios, make a park, i can think of hundreds of things to do with this space. any money made at this point is better than it just being wasted. literally you only have to make enough money to offset the cost of making it, which truthfully is none if you play it right.

@dirt420 Жыл бұрын

yeah this is why capitalism sucks nothing gets done efficiently

@Blaziken36 3 жыл бұрын

They look like the backrooms

@parkerasel8129 3 жыл бұрын

Was thinking that too lol

@nolan412 Жыл бұрын

Why I clicked.

@esyphillis101 Ай бұрын

Possibly an influence.

@EjTaylor 2 ай бұрын

Many years ago I somehow found myself accidentally lost in the Dallas tunnels for like an hour. Didn't even know they existed. I'm glad to now have validation that the tunnels are in fact real and I was not in reality trapped in a liminal space hellscape.

@DocStrangeSelig 5 ай бұрын

We utilized those tunnels back years ago when I worked downtown. The Blue Front was an amazing German restaurant back in those days! I could walk from my building (now called 1700 Pacific) all of the way down to what is now called Renaissance Tower. There were all types of food available for lunch from burgers to cookies.

@cj2798 2 ай бұрын

That's awesome

@nefelibata636 3 жыл бұрын

ooh that would be amazing to skate in. and it's very spooky in a certain light. a mall done in 80's/90's style would be fabulous. or if they had a few halls just for those who had nowhere else to go that'd be great.

@rileyhasguns597 Жыл бұрын

My throughts exactly

@Rosarium2007 2 жыл бұрын

I used them frequently to beat the heat when I lived in Dallas. Not that hard to find if you look. Not many active businesses in the tunnels circa 2005-2013, mostly a ghost town feel, but at one point before some got closed off I often made it from the parking garage at Main & Lamar to the foodcourt at Plaza of the America at Pearl & Pacific without ever going outside in the heat. Though somewhere east of Thanksgiving Square I would have to switch to the skybridge system.

@francenastewart8645 Жыл бұрын

Do you remember the under ground ice skating rink?

@thomasmcjohnson2284 3 жыл бұрын

My mom use to work for corporate blockbuster in the late 90’s to 2000’s and on her breaks she would have lunch in the so called underground city.

@jonnyhernandez4188 3 жыл бұрын

I thought everyone from Dallas knew about them. Not really a big deal, just some restaurants and stores.

@keisha4620 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting.

@boomershooter414 Жыл бұрын

Real life backrooms

@cheriebomb158 Жыл бұрын

I love it. America needs more walkable cities and Dallas certainly isn’t one, so this could be amazing for getting around. If only it was expanded upon more!

@agreedboarart3188 2 жыл бұрын

I can't remember if the Reunion Tower was connected to this underground system but I know there were underground tunnels there. It was pretty cool.

@toddrunyon 2 жыл бұрын

I don't believe Reunion Tower was ever connected to the system.

@toddrunyon 2 жыл бұрын

For those thinking it would be exciting to visit... it's not. After five minutes, you will have seen enough. While technically there are some restaurants in the system, they are located in the lower levels of individual buildings so they mostly serve the people that work in that building.

@daboys1215 9 ай бұрын

Come to Montreal if you want to shop underground. There are many stores down there all connect to the metro.

@musicmanfelipe Жыл бұрын

The annual Tuba Christmas concert still uses the tunnel underneath Thanksgiving Square for staging and rehearsal.

@user-zo2rk9ov5v 2 сағат бұрын

This needs to be revamped and reopened completely.

@marmaly Жыл бұрын

Check out the PATH system in Toronto - conceived around the same time. It has become the largest continuous underground tunnel system connecting over 50 buldings.

@wildphiljohnson5336 2 жыл бұрын

Blues Front was best German Restaurant so sad when they closed down. Crazy Ray had his roasted peanut shop down there. Saw Victoria Principal down there one time filming Dallas.

@Music.cigars.2024 3 жыл бұрын

As above, so below

@diarilopez8495 Жыл бұрын

I’ve skated through these! Super cool

@dannyray137 9 ай бұрын

Are there security guards?

@RicketyOldBones 2 ай бұрын

Well that's different!

@aaronz1451 Жыл бұрын

bro its the backrooms

@J71389 3 жыл бұрын

Houston has the same thing except more extensive I believe and completely packed between 7-3 every weekday.. especially during lunch! Haven’t ben since covid though so for bow it may look like Dallas’s system at this point

@TheAnomics1 3 жыл бұрын

Houston's is empty. Went to visit And it's nothing down there

@lumensauce3199 Жыл бұрын

@@TheAnomics1 That's a delusional statement. That tunnel system is very vital to the business day and full of shops, services and workers. 'Nuff said.

@TheAnomics1 Жыл бұрын

@@lumensauce3199 maybe now but when I visited it was empty

@goochpunchtickles3617 Ай бұрын

There are tunnels in Tulsa Oklahoma, used for the same reasons

@Mohammad-ex7wr 3 жыл бұрын

❤️

@KevinTumlinson 4 ай бұрын

Houston (you know... the "Bayou City," a city known to flood at near-Noah levels periodically) has a tunnel network nearly identical to this.

@AlisaPowerDashaREDV76brigades 2 ай бұрын

A homeless guy i knew told me about this back in 2014 or 15 he said he was in those tunnels

@blank_3958 Жыл бұрын

They should explore ‘The Path’ in Toronto

@shernitadee 2 жыл бұрын

These tunnels were built in the 1920s, when they moved the Trinity River.

@rawcado Ай бұрын

It's another underground railroad like the one in Alton Illinois that a guy found under his house.

@jaymcdowell214 Жыл бұрын

Houston has a great underground tunnel system. Most ppl use it for the summer heat and humidity. Lots of shops, banks, doc offices etc. Should look at underground in Houston see why it's popular there.

@TRIPLEDIGITS 11 ай бұрын

Crime Stoppers offering $5,000 but didn't pay the last people!!!!

@carrowxhex6891 3 жыл бұрын

How you get down there would have been helpful. Where are the entrances?

@chris98til 3 жыл бұрын

Try entering thru the Renaissance building

@scottscage6409 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, the homeless would like to know. Lol.

@toddrunyon 2 жыл бұрын

@@scottscage6409 Don't worry. The homeless know and routinely try to sneak in but are usually reported to security quickly.

@ablus Жыл бұрын

@@toddrunyon imagine reporting someone seeking shelter to security

@tripjet999 7 күн бұрын

...where Ruby shot Oswald.

@mrs.sherry 3 жыл бұрын

It is not hidden and just because it was not known to you guys doesn't mean it is not known to us.

@shannonm75 28 күн бұрын

I used to go down with a friend to eat lunch.

@t.isurvivalist7537 Жыл бұрын

Great place for A homeless shelter, or A hotel.

@nolan412 Жыл бұрын

The Backrooms is real. And in Dallas!

@disco7128 2 жыл бұрын

How do I rent a space?

@pattiocon6075 3 жыл бұрын

I went in there b4

@verynice126 3 жыл бұрын

What was down there

@pattiocon6075 3 жыл бұрын

@@verynice126 down there was about 1987 right and I was afraid to go down there but I was with someone else so we went down there and we just walked around and was like underground stores just like cafes and little shops you got to remember 1987 that's when it was popping and me everybody was going in and out of there

@nickmemphis4812 3 жыл бұрын

The general public Can't deal with the Concept of idea.

@dianasavannah154 Жыл бұрын

*the Idea *an Idea *this Idea *that Idea You’re checking the general public but you didn’t spell check lol

@waynerandles6126 Ай бұрын

Let the kids with the skateboards have fun under there🤗

@Floydian4everr 18 күн бұрын

Houston has the same w LOTS of businesses doing well

@StephenAndrew777 3 жыл бұрын

Downtown Dallas, eh?

@Salty_Sprinkles Жыл бұрын

Those tunnels have zero Rizz.

@Twintelepathy326 Жыл бұрын

Only in Dallas?…

@gilbertestrada7630 3 жыл бұрын

I got lost there a few times. Haha

@aheimdahl5201 Ай бұрын

There are parts of these Tunnels that remind me of The Backrooms, lol

@Zedeezia Ай бұрын

"Privately managed" 🙄😵

@lordhelmet9066 3 жыл бұрын

Added to bank robbery notes

@dianasavannah154 Жыл бұрын

😂

@blazecab6950 11 ай бұрын

I noticed Elm Street on that map. I wonder if this tunnel system played a role in the JFK conspiracy 🚇

@aetherflow 8 ай бұрын

It wasnt built until afterwards, but that sure would've added layers to it.

@sniddler9114 2 жыл бұрын

AAAAAAAHHHHH! I NEEEED A MEDIC BAG!

@roadsnephew1498 2 жыл бұрын

I thought the same buddy I thought the same when clicking on this vid

@frankpabon8329 2 жыл бұрын

how about prepping these underground tunnels - IN CASE of a nuclear war? this would fit quit a few people IF PLANNED out very well....

@elreydecorridos3186 3 жыл бұрын

Bi truth its they did not want to advertise so the homeless wont take over which is bs because I'm sure it's such a site to see

@dianasavannah154 Жыл бұрын

These things been there bout 50 years & you think the homeless people downtown don’t know about them? Get. Real.

@morallybankrupt1461 3 жыл бұрын

I know where I’m going when real life fallout 3 happens.

@Mel16Ish 2 жыл бұрын

What if the building upside of* that place collapses over the tunnel system 4 whichever reason? Like in season 5 “The 100”?

@barbarabee3834 2 жыл бұрын

Human trafficking tool?

@bluedesks6629 Жыл бұрын

No.

@empresstaitu7345 11 ай бұрын

Yes

@empresstaitu7345 11 ай бұрын

Universities have them under too

@ummsalamah7711 3 жыл бұрын

Not true

@dianasavannah154 Жыл бұрын

Hi can you specify???

@ched_chubbs7998 2 жыл бұрын

I need a medic bag!!!!!!?

@peterhoebarth4234 11 ай бұрын

Fema - Tunnel - Concept

@jeffreyedwards767 2 ай бұрын

Lost in the [] ⁸back ◇ room ⁸ 1977 []