Drive through Fort Worth, Texas late 90's

Starts near 3700 Crestline, up Camp bowie/W7th into downtown, stop at the main library, then back west on the Lancaster St bridge
Who cares right? Someone might one day. So here it is. No making fun of my crappie sounding car

[@NealDurando]

That damn light at Montgomery and Camp Bowie!

[@wesleymadsen4357]

That damn light at university and camp bowie still killing people

[@keithwilson6060]

Ah, “the bricks” of Camp Bowie. May they never go anywhere.

[@pepstalynn]

They better not ever go away. They're legendary just like Main Street from the Convention Center to the Court House.

[@gdub350]

@@pepstalynnfrom my understanding they’re considered a historical landmark or one of those designations, they’re not going anywhere, no matter how many cars they jiggle apart.

[@samcarter2371]

Fort Worth has changed so much it doesn't feel like Fort Worth to me anymore.

[@switchlite44]

All the Mexicans

[@OhNo_4mor4freaknbiden]

Biden’s mexicans. Lol

[@alexindia8915]

Your right about what you said. No one cares about today because it is now and accessible. However as time passes and things change, buildings get torn down, new ones built and people die, we begin to appreciate the walk down memory lane more and more. I enjoyed watching your drive cause I was 35 that year. I would have been ecstatic had your film been a drive through Fort Worth in say 1964, the year I was born. Or maybe 1940, the year my dad took an executive position and moved to Fort Worth.

[@stevesharpe3370]

You are lying, if you were 35 you’d be 60 now and wouldn’t be playing on the internet we kids and 20 year olds? You would probably be in a retirement home or with ya grandkids! Stopping capping cuz! On god

[@bearandrabbit6826]

@@stevesharpe3370 TROLL... GET A LIFE.

[@larrygalbreath]

Yep, today's regular old stuff becomes tomorrow's historical treasure. I wonder what kind of camera he was using?

[@captaineldeezee1336]

​@@stevesharpe3370 You must be joking. 60 ain't old. Getting up there, sure, but not care home old. And you think the internet has a cutoff age at 20? 20 and 30 and 40 year olds built the Internet, back in the 90s. You must be out of your mind, broski.

[@stevesharpe3370]

@@captaineldeezee1336 60 is senior citizen it is old because most people don’t live to 50 and that’s 10 years older then that! Technically 30 is the beginning of old age where you would stop using websites like this and just watch the news and read the paper

[@keithwilson6060]

That Montgomery Ward was our standard shopping venue when I was growing up. That catalog counter was burned in my brain.

[@jessesanchez5182]

Who ever made this video should make a new one and compare side by side footage of what's still around and what's no longer here

[@BurlapandLight]

This takes me back. Thanks for sharing this!

[@vernixx]

Thanks for BLOWING MY MIND! I feel like I just went back in time...should have stopped by The Wreck Room!

[@backcountryme]

Or JJs hideaway. Man I spent a lot of money at both those places.

[@michaeljneal]

Montgomery Plaza; man it looked so different back then! Thanks for the video!

[@kiki_2x572]

this is literally a gem

[@weljo2001]

Know that area well. Was born at Carswell AIR Force Base in 1962. Went to North Side High School and dated a girl from Arlington Heights. Worked at the Original Black-Eyed-Pea on Camp Bowie during High School in the late 70's...Played football at Farrington Field

[@michaelshort6036]

As a native Fort Worthian who had to move to Houston 6 years ago,(puke), this makes me feel good inside. I miss home.

[@mattnicholson5588]

This is Priceless!

[@kiki_2x572]

post more bro i wanna see like the grand plaza an the hulen mall back then lol

[@stevesharpe3370]

The hulen mall was safe and nice back then and la gran plaza was called town center and there was a Sears

[@tommyakbar957]

town center!!!!! lol

[@juanmonsivais3000]

I remember when it was called Seminary South. Man I miss them times

[@smokebear9843]

Nahh frfr

[@bearandrabbit6826]

Bro! This is so cool! We moved to Ft Worth in July 97. Lived on Bryce near Montgomery. I recognized Arlington Heights as soon as you started driving! It's incredible how different it looks today! Kinda miss the old Ft Worth...You recorded a real piece of history! ❤

[@Unavailablecacadodo]

I saw Tool at the Fort Worth convention center back then.

[@gw2955]

The Cash America building is there. It was wiped out by a tornado on March 28th, 2000.

[@backcountryme]

I was at work that day just off Pharr street. Watched the tornadoes destroy downtown. Dad and I stood on the steps of the building and watched them go by within a few hundred yards of the building. Surreal day.

[@Allen811973]

this bring me back my times I live in Fort Worth and this was before the 2000 tornado that hit the Cash America building and downtown good save on this video !!!!!!!!!!

[@johndavis8669]

5:43 West 7th has turned into a bunch of buildings in less then 20 years. You wouldn't recognize it now. If an identical tornado struck now. The damage would be 8 times versus the 2000 tornado and that would be cost of damages.

[@possjaden83]

Thanks man I didn’t know I needed to watch this

[@Marty1410]

What a cool video. I was the carpenter at the Kimbell Art Museum in the 90's, and I lived off of Byers and Camp Bowie. I was also a laborer on the building on the east side of 7th St bridge when it was being built. That was 43 years ago! Anyway, thanks for the lift down the bricks.

[@angelolovato6494]

Thank you putting this up I was born in 85 and love seeing how things use to be

[@elizclark1967]

Good for you! Its cool to compare how the streets/city looked the and today..

[@danielleslater2317]

The IGA store is now a CVS. Miss living near the West side

[@P1_Cars]

14:10 car guys be like: SHEESH a Nissan 300zx!

[@translateslowly]

89 grand am with a 4 banger. I swear it ran better then it sounds

[@OhNo_4mor4freaknbiden]

How bout that Nissan stanza mini wagon . .. that one’s a classic

[@ankor1066]

You can see Bank One Tower and Landmark Tower with its dead clock on the roof. Fort Worth was very different then.

[@joseangelramirez1782]

Homeboy had the original GoPro 😬. Love it Sir. I grew up there. Didn’t know I was an inner city kid 😆

[@817Moon]

Just to think that this was before the tornado brings back so many memories !

[@larrygalbreath]

I sure remember that. I lived on the Northside, and I got hailstones the size of baseballs in my backyard.

[@LarryRobinsonintothefog]

Glad someone did this. Once I figured out where they were, I remembered all the sites. Thanks for the memories.

[@davejew01]

Man you ought to recreate that exact same drive

[@pepstalynn]

Top notch idea.

[@broondjongen]

Man, that Wendys on 7th street looks the exact same, untouched.

[@sbclaridge]

That Wendy's actually closed down within the last few months (at the time of this post), but it did survive in that location until 2022. Part of me suspects redevelopment might be coming soon to that lot. I started doing DoorDash deliveries at the end of September 2022, and I do recall stopping there once or twice to pick up an order in the weeks before it closed.

[@theheavy2742]

I came to comment this. The Wendy's always had issues with customer service in my experience. @@sbclaridge

[@VahidMusictx]

That Wendy’s is now been demolished and they will be putting a multi purpose building there. About a 6 story building I believe.

[@raylaguna2601]

Fort Worth before the 2000 Tornado.

[@larrygalbreath]

The downtown area was my Monday rout. I was hoping you would go through downtown. I drove through those streets for quite a few years. I used to service the Firestone garage when it actually was a tire store. Then they made it the office of the Firestone Apartments. Thanks for the tour. 👍

[@roypribble2233]

I use to work for Tx Electric Service Co. And Firestone use to keep our old Ford vehicle serviced.

[@drpepper421000]

At first I was thinking why would you film this but now I wish I had done more of this. I liked seeing the old Montgomery Wards building when it was a store and not condos. I’m glade they didn’t tear it down. Anyone remember when I30 went through downtown Fort Worth on a long elevated bridge.

[@danielknepper6884]

Oh yeah late 80s early 90s

[@heatherherrera9559]

U drove right past my grandpa's house in the beginning of the video 💙

[@larrygalbreath]

😆

[@thepinkyprincesspoetc.a.5767]

Never been to Texas...Thanks for the view and History hon❤️

[@germb747]

Videos like this make the 1990s seem like the 1960s, but I guess that's what video camera were like back then.

[@PostByJuice]

if only you didn't turn right on Lancaster and would've went straight and turn left on Pennsylvania you could've recorded my old house :( but thanks for sharing! Miss Old Fort Worth

[@justineaker2516]

I just moved into some apartments in Rock Island, I lived in Fort worth at 4 in 98 so seeing all this stuff today is awesome.

[@larrygalbreath]

Rock Island used to be a tough neighborhood. A friend of mine got killed right outside of his house over there. I remember when they started building all of the nice apartments, only on the west side of the street, with the nice views.

[@greysonperkins5785]

Born and raised in Fort Worth, crazy seeing how things were so different back then as I was born in 2002. The Camp Bowie and W 7th I grew up with and know looked so different back then..

[@lyndaoldham5608]

My hometown! I get excited!

[@backcountryme]

Wow. I grew up in Burleson but moved to Canada in 2000. This brings back so many memories. One day I will move back home to North Texas.

[@tommyakbar957]

Bro how is Canada

[@backcountryme]

@@tommyakbar957 cold and becoming more socialist every day.

[@johndavis8669]

You will hate the cost of homes.

[@backcountryme]

@@johndavis8669 oh yeah. My dad and most my family is still down there. The housing cost is insane.

[@johndavis8669]

@@backcountryme People here think another horrible tornado won't come. They ought to think again. Just add current property values and the cost of damages would be very high where rebuilding would only be affordable if the size of the homes would have to be smaller. The ripple effect would be felt for a few years where property values within 30 miles would drop.

[@NsyShwl]

Is this off of Camp Bowie?? I used to drive up and down this place as a young man.. i recognized it when i saw the McDonald's and the Hospital off of Camp Bowie and Montgomery... Thanks for letting us relive these old times again.. its crazy how a camera can literally capture the life of a person in time..

[@jorgedeharo385]

I drive through downtown often and in this video it’s crazy for me because some areas look unrecognizable to me

[@Unavailablecacadodo]

Same bro

[@sbclaridge]

I really only recognize West 7th because I grew up in 1990s Fort Worth, although I do recognize a few buildings that still exist today. Namely the Montgomery Ward building (since heavily modified with retail and condos). Those apartments across the street from the Montgomery Ward must have been brand new back then; that's about the only building along West 7th in this video that hasn't been either demolished or completely remodeled between then and now. The Wendy's did close down a few months ago (late 2022), though I believe it remained recognizably similar between then and now as well. While it was demolished to make way for Crockett Row, I do recognize that four-story reddish-brown brick building at 5:47, and if I recall correctly, Acme Brick had offices there.

[@kleverich]

I lived in FW a few years after this was shot. I was thinking "that looks like west of downtown", then BAM there are the Camp Bowie Blvd. bricks. Looking at the same area on Google Street View, many of the familiar landmarks are gone.

[@b.sherrieb9977]

EPIC! Levels - haha, with an MPACT machine! That church at the beginning is being replaced with a five story hotel.

[@negativeindustrial]

1:18 That Celica on the right wasn’t sold until the model year 2000. So if this is “late 1990s” it’s, at the earliest, September of 1999 and that car is extremely fresh off the boat from Japan. More likely this was filmed in the early 2000s.

[@gw2955]

7:26 The Cash America building is intact in this video. It was wiped out by a tornado on March 28th, 2000.

[@negativeindustrial]

@@gw2955 So we can narrow this down to a six month window that straddles the turn of the millennium. I wonder what other clues we can find?

[@stepchildofsoul]

No earlier than August of '99. That's when the Carter Museum closed for the big renovation. I was living on CB @ Clover and walked to Asel Art all the time back then.

[@translateslowly]

the date was a guess but I'm within a year in ether direction.

[@negativeindustrial]

@@translateslowly Definitely. We’re just playing internet detective.

[@claudeperkins539]

He starts the car, turns left at 0:31 onto Owasso, passes right in front of my old house!

[@jeenkzk5919]

Oh how I wish I could borrow that time frame and head to Crystals Pizza in Irving!

[@danielknepper6884]

I think there was a Crystal's Pizza on camp Bowie/ highway 80 back in the day

[@jeenkzk5919]

@@danielknepper6884 it was definitely a great place! I think went to that location you’re talking about.

[@steveludwig4200]

5:41 - Bill McDavid Pontiac on right. Worked there in the New Car Wash station Summers of 72 and 73. My Dad was best friends with Bill. RIP to both...

[@roypribble2233]

Ft.Worth appears to be constant changing. I left in 1971 and i worked as xtra Christmas help at Montgomery Ward in 1961. So i could never get around the city now, id be totally lost!

[@pepstalynn]

Dam. Back when the old Montgomery Wards building was around. That's some old school stuff there.

[@sunny1992s]

Not just MontWards, but the entire Linwood area was still around.

[@terryroach6481]

Sardines, Back Porch, Montgomery Ward's... thanks for the memories!

[@bearandrabbit6826]

Level's Grocery store! Lol Love it!

[@johndavis8669]

Now you can find Tom Thumb on West 7th.

[@keithwilson6060]

I saw the CNB building downtown!!

[@stevesharpe3370]

Now that’s a tough city!

[@817Moon]

Funkytown I reckon! 😎

[@thaneg21]

Sounds like a Model T from Six Flags Cruising Tha Bowie \~/ \~/

[@danielknepper6884]

Lol

[@NsyShwl]

Wow the corner of University and Camp Bowie look way different now 👀

[@pjj9491]

I recognize all of that...

[@dubmantx]

This is so cool, i graduated 2000 from southwest. crazy seeing what has changed and even just seeing it again pre tornado. did you have the camera under your car? did you invent the dashcam and cash in big time?

[@lialia2268]

Wow I miss my home

[@thomasmontoya7279]

very cool

[@ryanclifton7033]

Back before Fort Worth became super big

[@VahidMusictx]

Even back in the 90’s Fort Worth was still consider a big city. In the 90’s it was around 450k people. It’s definitely massive now. One million people

[@Bramon83]

Eckard's, Montgomery ward, 4 years since a cowboys superbowl, 2 years since a stars cup..... and a car that cant decide if its a cammed 383 or a VW 1500.....

[@rogermoreno1152]

This dude did GoPro long before GoPro was a thing

[@joaomontesinos]

What year is it exactly?

[@VahidMusictx]

@13:44 that domino pizza is till there to this day. Along with the Firestone Aparmtnmwnts

[@stevesharpe3370]

Not much has changed. The cars just look newer LOL

[@crystald1986]

I'm not to far from 7th st right now lol

[@miggy4real1]

more like memory lane to me

[@loren4777]

What sucks is all the orange lights now are probably LED now and I hate these new led lights

[@johndavis8669]

Orange street lights are the thing of the past. The late 1990s no cameras on school buses. No one demanding outrageous wages. $1.18 per gallon and would remain that way till after fall of 2002.

[@johnstevenson4194]

What year is this?

[@pacnick11]

oh that was the end of the video, pullin into the parking

[@waterywatery]

12:30 quick get over behind the Nissan Stanza

[@b.g.bbeezo100]

Bro were you driving a Go Kart or a Motorcycle?

[@JAYTHEMPGCHARACTER]

2000 march: Good day but a EF3 tornado ruins it

[@backcountryme]

Wish we had those gas prices back. Ha

[@romeogreen9008]

What year

[@negativeindustrial]

At the earliest it’s September of 1999 judging by the 2000 model year Toyota Celica shown at 1:18 on the right. It’s more likely this was filmed in the 2000s but could be very late 1999.

[@willtrojan8854]

The video was recorded about 30 years ago

[@thetexanhusky]

*over 20

[@sbclaridge]

Probably closer to 23 (and a half) years ago, at the time of this post in February 2023. Some other commenters narrowed the timing down to late 1999 and early 2000 (due to a model year 2000 Celica that wasn't released until September 1999, the start of the Amon Carter Museum renovations in August 1999, plus the fact that it was before the March 2000 tornado). Given that the trees are fully-leaved, with perhaps some hints of trees starting to change color (I know some of the trees in Trinity Park are deciduous), I'd probably narrow it down to late October or early November 1999. If I'm just imagining things with respect to the trees starting to change color, then I'd guess either September or October 1999. If it were mid-to-late November (and to some extent early December) there would be plenty of autumn color, and you wouldn't see very many leaves on the deciduous trees after mid December. With respect to spring, you don't really start noticing a lot of leaves on our deciduous trees until late March and April, so giving the timing of the tornado, we can essentially rule out early 2000 entirely; this video most likely dates from autumn 1999.

[@gregbgregb8487]

Ok ok ok ok

[@mvpentertainment5233]

I see the new jail downtown so this is after 2010

[@keithwilson6060]

Nope, the jail has been around longer. The old Cash America building facade puts this before the 2000 tornado.

[@robertlynn4435]

Nissan 300ZX 14:12

[@denicemclean990]

What are you driving?

[@negativeindustrial]

Something very poorly maintained.

[@translateslowly]

89 grand am with a 4 banger

[@wesleymadsen4357]

76109

[@switchlite44]

My area code

[@pepstalynn]

Mine is 76115

[@apj341]

Crappy sounding car 🤣

[@Cowboy1Brian]

Montgomery Wards! RIP

[@user-kp1pz6zv8y]

Miss the days before everyone decided to move here. Now it's a Cluster fu## traffic jam everywhere you go lol

[@pepstalynn]

Exactly.

[@jema5039]

They ruined our home state tbh. I wish we could go back to not having all these people here its harder to find real texans unless ur in the country now.

[@translateslowly]

"real texans" you mean the Mexicans or even before that?