dallashistory

This was in the press as of recent and it is a new and neat way to see some of the places by wheels and peddels in oak cliff, i also suggested the bonnie and clyde tour, the pill hill tour , la reunion and the Cement Cities for the sunday bike events, if you want to add more to this kind of getting to see Dallas by foot, rail or on bike...it ups to you. to post what ever...A/T

I'm an old Cliffy and I dont know where/what "Pill Hill" is-help please

that is where the skillerns family had lived and they were pretty big after they created the chain from several smaller drugs stores they bought up in dallas, an article in the morning news shows several brothers and sisiters who owned homes in that area by the kessler park or in that area today..sonny bryant of the b.b.q house also lived inthe area.. as did jane mansfeild...

A little bit to the north of The Cliff ~ but Bonnie and Clyde are said to have gassed up at the little station which used to stand in Renner, Dallas, Texas ... on their way to somewhere. 'T'was still there -- with its tall, antiquated pumps -- in the 1970s; vanished into a suburban afterthought, now.

Also, my grandmother used to chat with Sonny Bryan frequently on the 'old' Oak.

I came back from the recent La Reunion event and they had a pretty good turn out from the art event, while the big story is the Interurban trestles that still exist in the area, while i was telling one of the builders for the area that bonnie and clyde use to hide out in the old Portland Cement grounds where the old West Dallas dump is today and you can still get to the site but...you.........

have to treck thorough some woods and follow down hills that were scared when white austin chalk was exstracted from the area to make cement...by massive bulldozers , which were guite primative back then... while this area was a no mans land of sort, having a good ford car at the time, would get one in and out of area like this....

Again the Oak Cliff bike ride is a great event to observe....A/T