Hell's Half Acre: A CBSN Dallas-Ft. Worth Special

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@LidiaExplores Жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed this deep dive. I just visited the downtown Fort Worth area a few days ago, and I wanted to learn more after seeing the Wild Bunch sculpture and the Hell's Half Acre historical markers. Forth Worth has such a multifaceted history. With the Flatiron Building, the JFK Memorial, the Water Gardens, and a couple other historical landmarks, the downtown area is an interesting area to explore.

@consuelor3453 7 ай бұрын

Proud Fort Worth native. Born and raised. ❤️🤍💙

@ignaciotorres8970 2 жыл бұрын

Kenny never took a sip of that bourbon 🤣

@MrKramer13 7 ай бұрын

Molestina

@keithbarrett4630 2 жыл бұрын

A neat tidbit I've read was that Short paid for Courtright's funeral...which was very well attended. The White Elephant on the north side of town was considered to be an upscale gambling establishment for gentlemen.

@VahidMusictx Жыл бұрын

Hells half acre is in Fort Worth. Not Dallas Fort Worth. Just Fort Worth. Stop putting the two cities together. Dallas has nothing to do with hells half acre.

@doomscrivener 5 ай бұрын

I was born at Carswell. Grew up around Ridgmar and the Northside of town. Spent many days wandering around the Stockyards, the museum and Omni on Montgomery, events at Will Rogers, etc. Cowtown is the only home I’ve ever had even though I’ve lived all over. My sister is buried at Mount Olivet. I used to walk there as a kid to see her.

@johnnyenloe Жыл бұрын

It just moved out to Azle on the Jacksboro Highway

@DSoSJohnH 4 ай бұрын

A belated Welcome to Azle. I hope it's treated you well!

@OutOfTheAether 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve been interested in this after I read about it online.

@LaShondraMiller-u9r 2 ай бұрын

Pure Evil 🙈

@bobsteadman9728 2 жыл бұрын

This was my old stomping ground. This was home. Although you had other cowtowns there was no other place like it. Still miss the Stock Show & Rodeo followed by a few libations at the White Elephant (It's been there since the beginning of Ft. Worth) or Filthy McNasty's. Now I'm stuck in northern Virginia just outside DC. Other than Civil War history there's really no character here.

@ronn773 5 ай бұрын

In 1969, at the age of 12, my family moved 2.7 miles south of this area. After my paper route, I could go into the bars, play pool, & have a cold beer. We called the men lingering in Hell's Half Acre, "Wineos." Think Skid Row. I never saw any ladies of the evening. By 2000, the City of Fort Worth had cleaned the city up a lot. Not sure who, but someone deserves a lot of credit!

@progrocker2112 Жыл бұрын

Local history is so fun. Shit I was looking up Pantego today and the fact that it and another city are encapsulated by Arlington but live on is amazing. For me it's the namesake of my alma mater, Lawrence Bell, that produced the Huey, ubiquitous in Vietnam.

@QuarrellaDeVil 3 ай бұрын

8:27 Nearly a decade earlier, firebrand evangelist, J. Frank Norris, declared war on Hell's Half Acre and many of the prominent businessmen who owned land there. His mouth had him in trouble for ages, and he claimed self-defense when he shot and killed someone in his office down on Throckmorton. There's a P.F. Chang's there now. The famous Wild Bunch photo was taken in Fort Worth; hence, the sculpture. The story is basically that the gang had their photo taken on a whim, and the studio owner had no idea as to who his visitors were. A bit later, authorities saw this example of the studio's work hanging in the window, and they said "Wait a second ..." Be sure to yell "There is no sanctuary" when you're next in the Fort Worth Water Gardens.

@jaylucien669 3 жыл бұрын

Bring it back!

@OutOfTheAether 3 жыл бұрын

Wtf no

@D1TemplarKnight Жыл бұрын

It is here, you just have to dig a little deeper.

@billlong9109 Жыл бұрын

Brothels are still around the metroplex

@IvanGarcia-eu5un 9 ай бұрын

@@billlong9109where I can’t find them

@RustyCrawford-cc1zy 6 ай бұрын

Have you ever thought about some time in the Is future ur daughter may find out That you were down there, paying women to put their mouth on your wee.Wee. I'm sure it won't. Feel very good being Thought of as a squirrel. By your own kin

@roblesozzy 2 ай бұрын

He was just walking around with a double of warm af bourbon 😂

@maxcox7097 10 ай бұрын

Hattie, Luda and May street in Fort Worth are named after madams.

@mow4607 Жыл бұрын

Richard's book is a great read!

@paulfisher9554 3 жыл бұрын

Too bad they didn't mention all of the natural springs that run through HHA, which is the reason all of the bath houses and brothels were there.

@AbolishFamilyCourt 2 жыл бұрын

Where's all the natural springs? I live here... They must be tucked far away or dried up

@JCII100 Жыл бұрын

Ya. Where we’re the springs?

@carywest9256 Жыл бұрын

@@AbolishFamilyCourt They dried up, because of human pressure. Nothing last forever, ya know.

@irvingcastillo2502 Жыл бұрын

I’m only here cause of the band Fugitive song called Hells half acre

@jeffreym.keilen1095 7 ай бұрын

Reminds me of "The Combat Zone" in Boston.

@Wellch 2 жыл бұрын

Location was nowhere near Dallas.

@carywest9256 Жыл бұрын

30 miles in Texas is near! That's the distance betwixt downtowns.

@VahidMusictx 4 ай бұрын

@@carywest9256Fort Worth is a completely different city than Dallas. Doesn’t matter how close or far. They are still 2 different cities. Fort Worth is now the 11th largest city. Catching up to Dallas population in about 8 years.

@ludovicleprinceroyal8721 4 ай бұрын

@@VahidMusictx Fort Worth ratchet as hell

@chrisonskates 2 ай бұрын

@@carywest9256 it's almost an hour to commute that far. That's not near.

@SuperPanther34 7 ай бұрын

I used to work at a coffee shop in Fort Worth where I got to serve Mr. Smart. This is pretty cool to see him be a historian, much less on this Fort Worth documentary.

@maxcox7097 10 ай бұрын

I thought Hell's half acre was where the convention center is now. Whatever was where the convention center is now, was totally filthy and gross, I watched them tear it down in the 60's. My father called it the slums, you could see inside the rooms when they tore the buildings down, it was total filth. I remember heavily stained floral wallpaper, probably from tobacco smoke and other things.

@richardcoronado4081 5 ай бұрын

It's time to start separating Ft Worth and Dallas. Tho, they are very close by 30 miles, they are two very different cities. Start showing some respect to each city. Both are unique in each their own way.

@trevormckeehen2010 15 күн бұрын

Not to mention the multiple fairly large cities in between including Arlington. Arlington alone has a large university, 2 current and 1 former professional sports stadium, 2 large amusement parks, and a population of about 400,000 within city limits.

@LaShondraMiller-u9r 2 ай бұрын

How can I say that its a ghost town that can still be seen at night..Ft.Worth is an evil place😢

@Emocar2 3 жыл бұрын

Waiting for the time travelers comments

@AbolishFamilyCourt 2 жыл бұрын

Still very true in Fort Worth today

@progrocker2112 Жыл бұрын

Mostly at Bucks.

@ivebeenswank Жыл бұрын

how do you know about this? maybe if you spent less time whoring & focused on paying your child support/alimony you wouldn't be so worried about "abolishing the family court"

@nickbavera362 5 ай бұрын

if my last name was Molestina , and i was going into sho-biz , i think id change it.

@paulenciso 8 ай бұрын

Ken what????

@JustinShafer 3 жыл бұрын

Wow!

@thehardnesschannel1605 8 ай бұрын

Do you know if there was bug hole $ex? If so how much? How much was a blowy? Handy? And how much was the fish taco? This video just keeps talking about crap

@mykelltaylor8441 2 жыл бұрын

The way y’all try to make it seem cool. Why not talk about all the terrible things that happen to blacks then.

@Ambuscade94 2 жыл бұрын

Victim mentality 🙄

@sweetlanakay Жыл бұрын

Yes, I agree with you

@RR64434 Жыл бұрын

There were terrible things but that isn’t what this video is about.

@waterywatery 2 жыл бұрын

There probably WASN'T a conscious effort on the part of the fountain designers regarding the water symbolizing the "washing away of past dirt". The Water Gardens were designed by two New York architects. If that was your suspicion, Brendan Smart, why didn't you just interview the fountain designers to verify? If they are not still alive, surely there was a dedication ceremony that may have eluded to this idea. No? Presumptuous.