Dallas Sightseeing Tour - 1970

KERA Collection.
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[@marktaft]

I love the cameraman's attempt to find the JFK window LOL

[@pinon214]

He was scrambling all over the place 😂😂

[@shannonm75]

Need more like this of tours and notable places across Dallas.

[@CEOLISSS]

Penthouse apt starting at $1100 a month. What a deal!

[@SURENITY]

You can’t even get a hood shack for that these days!

[@bluedesks6629]

Adjusted for inflation that would be 8,700 dollars in 2023

[@user-hu1um2xk5h]

My mom and dad would meet on Buckner Blvd about four or five years later after this was filmed. They used to let them race their hot rods in those days just as long as they weren't drinking. They'd all line up their cars along the strip and set their speakers on the hoods and drag race their home growns light to light. After one race he won in his 1965 GTO he continued down the strip for a ways and stopped at a red light, looked over in the truck to his left and there she was along with her sister, my aunt, and a preacher man driver who was going steady with my mom at the time. So my dad ended up with my aunt for a time until my mom sabotaged their relationship so she could be with my dad. She was like that. He was a professional paint and body man with his own shop in Ft. Worth. All of my uncles were mechanics who owned gas stations there. My grandmother worked for Bell Helicopter as a cook. She was the best cook of all time! Made everything from complete scratch every single day. My grandfather was a salesman and later tv repair man. My mom used to tell stories about how he'd take them to the top of the Reunion Tower to the restaurant that spun around and they'd eat caviar. That was back in the fifties or sixties. Back then, mid 1970s to mid 1980s, Dallas and it's entire metroplex areas was seriously cool. It was literally the Rock & Roll capital of the entire universe in those days. An incredible place to grow up. The place was happening and fantastic! It was basically a never ending party! Fun was the agenda every single day. I can't believe how fortunate I was. Anybody who was there in that place and time will know exactly what I'm talking about. Mere words could never capture the reality of what it was truly like. I had no idea how unique and special it was until one day I left. It is nothing even close to what it used to be and it will never ever, ever, ever be possible to ever be like that again. Cheers!

[@jonlambert76]

Many of these are still here in 2022. Updated for sure, but you see the locations in this vid.

[@taylorvanamburgh4840]

I like how matter-of-fact he is.

[@croweryanpaul]

The comments about Central Expressway at 3:21 are perfect!

[@CiscoSZR]

The billboard with the fountain off of I35 and the tollway exit is there. It's all by itself then. Wow

[@ChristiRich]

Kress! Oh, how I remember shopping and dining there with my grandmother.

[@Danny-ow7hl]

Didn't even know they had a Kress there. 😮😮

[@ChristiRich]

@@Danny-ow7hl It was on Elm, between Ervay and Ackard, about a half block from HL Green.

[@glennanderson9034]

Lots of apartment complexes

[@April-ko7xu]

Wow! KERA collection. Thanks so much.

[@invisableobserver]

Wow, Greer Garson had a penthouse in Dallas. @ 2:29. That tour had a good route, I'm surprised a bus was allowed to go down Lawther Drive at white rock lake.

[@keithnichols7926]

Greer Garson was married to Buddy Fogelson, a Texas oil millionaire. She spent her declining years in a suite at Presbyterian Hospital. I thought the marriage a strange relationship, she an English actress portraying in films the stiff upper lip of proper English ladies and he, I assumed, being primarily a Texas wildcatter.

[@invisableobserver]

@@keithnichols7926 Thanks Keith for the info, If I had known she was there I would have tried to meet her, my mother could have passed as her twin. Buddy must've been a very persuasive sweet talker cause he sure didn't have the looks. Amazing how many stars spent their last years in Dallas; I remember walking past a building that the sign said paramount studio in Downtown on my way the high school (crozier tech.), I wonder if it had a connection with the one in Hollywood.

[@CiscoSZR]

I like how the Army Navy store is now a McDonald's. Grand Ave and I-20

[@invisableobserver]

@@CiscoSZR you are showing your age Cisco. I used to buy levi jeans at that army navy store, also they were the only store that sold Red Snap jeans that made the girls look so hot. I wish I could still go to that army navy store, McDonald's makes people fat & sick, I've never been in one.

[@CiscoSZR]

@@invisableobserver Right on! I can't tell where that mansion is at the part where he says it belongs to one of the richest men in America. Any idea?

[@keithnichols7926]

I took such a tour many years ago, but I don't recall as much freeway travel. I do recall seeing the mayor's house. I believe Erik Jonnson was mayor at the time.

[@robertadams6184]

Wonderwhatwasthechargeofthetour

[@robertadams6184]

Historyondisplay

[@markd5625]

41 hospitals?

[@danorthsidemang3834]

That's what the man said, buster.

[@April-ko7xu]

Probably includes rehabilitation and convalescent facilities. Just my guess.

[@bennorwood8433]

What happened to this tour

[@robertadams6184]

Stemmonsfreewaystillthesame

[@turntableone4356]

What about South Dallas tour? Where is JR's and Sue Ellen's Cedar Springs Maple area?

[@keithnichols7926]

This video lasts only about 5 minutes, so the actual tour must have included a lot more than we see here. However, less prosperous areas, such as parts of South Dallas, probably were not included.

[@9to5jackson]

Cool

[@justinpetitt335]

2:50

[@DavidSwinney]

What a weirdly edited video.

[@notedx10]

or ?

[@WAL_DC-6B]

Hmmm...."Gay 90 Ice Cream" on the side of the building at 4:13. Never heard of that company!

[@chrishultgren777]

It means "The happy 90s" as in the last decade of the 19th century being a wonderful time to be living in. I'm sure you know that although.

[@robertadams6184]

Kindofmorbid