KERA Report On Crime In Dallas - June 1973

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[@jonlambert76]

This is like a documentary! Props to whoever in 1973 pulled this together with all the camera moves and background music.

[@JoshuaMitchell-bey7]

I’m 32 years old and I appreciate the history behind the neighborhood I grew up in. Whether it’s good or bad.

[@omarevans719]

What's up Josh???

[@JoshuaMitchell-bey7]

@@omarevans719 My guy!

[@skip031890]

Yet, I bet you were one of the people cheering for the Confederate statue to come down behind city hall. Appreciate history good or bad, huh? 🙄

[@Mark-uv6sm]

​@@skip031890 As for me,I was crying,, Why you ask?.I could have Sold the metal to salvage yard.

[@CMeri-sl6bt]

​@skip031890 since when are LOSERS celebrated? 😂

[@jackjr.sparrow3668]

Look at all those classic cars and trucks…so cool!!!

[@Chuck-mm2yp]

I love it when they mention prices.

[@robertfarrar6212]

Lived in Dallas and Mesquite '84-'00. Just north of Bachman Lake-Love Field then Mesquite close to Balch Springs. Last drove through '18...wow! Drove back to Ms.from Colorado back in '18 on NW Highway, and didn't recognize the neighborhoods. However, I took Greenville Ave. to Bryan & Fitzhugh and stopped by Jimmy's Food Store; the best Italian sub sandwiches in DFW. Diagonally from Jimmy's was Bobbye Halls' Hobby House-worked there '85-'97 fun times! Harold Taft, Chip Moody, Mark Davis and Bill Mack were the best!

[@user-hu1um2xk5h]

Wow. I remember those news men. We were at the same place, same time! Lots of my family are still there, but I haven't been back in years. I know it's not the same. This doc really brings back the memories like crazy. I watch it and can suddenly feel the air and smell the smells and I'm transported back to that grass and dirt and scorching hot pavement. What a place and time it once was. Definitely had it's racial problems though, but it was the rock and roll capital of the world back in those days! Even the bad people were kinder than most nice people are today. Cheers to you who ever you are.

[@DallasPix]

Love these older videos!! Especially when it shows one of the old theatres.. The Elite shown here, was originally known as the White Theatre.. Opened in 1934.. closing its' doors in 1955.. Later becoming a cafe for a while. It was demolished sometime around 1965.. Today, sadly it is a vacant lot.. was located at 2720 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Dallas, TX..

[@paulgardner5079]

Is that the same THeater that Erykah Badu bought and was going to turn into something, and wasnt Elaine's right by there before they moved?

[@DallasPix]

@@paulgardner5079 the Forest Theatre she bought..still there.. I believe it's since been sold.. My understanding is the the whole strip, including the Theatre is up for sale.. Randy A Carlisle

[@patrickmccarron5059]

"No Beer, Wine, Guns, or Knives Allowed Inside" - Gee, that doesn't seem like a fun place.

[@benrichardson2693]

This was just a few months before i was born. Crazy

[@gilldavidmour4199]

Cool music!

[@mindeloman]

Hall and Roseland is now a nice area.

[@gabrielmerino7522]

I like to go back in time. This is my city.💪💯... EST 1985...Oak Cliff

[@paulgardner5079]

My family lived in th ecliff till we moved to arlington in 88

[@user-hu1um2xk5h]

Wow. And you survived? I hear it used to be a white area of town. I grew up mostly in Denton, Grand Prairie, Arlington, Mesquite, those areas, but did venture into other areas like Oak Cliff all the time for reasons I don't want to say. It wasn't all that bad back then. Mostly not.

[@troykelso]

Oak Cliff used to be a rich part of town.

[@Solomon-kt5dc]

Reminds me of West Dallas in the 80''s.

[@paulgardner5079]

you wouldnt recognize west Dallas now

[@saxongreen78]

Dominoes...fell clean off the map by 1980 - old blokes used to play in pubs, too.

[@1211]

Hall and Ross Ave are downtown areas today. No longer considered ghettos.

[@Doug-mc3dd]

04:30 He's been in the Service Station business since 1924.

[@joettaf15]

In 1973 I was never afraid to be out in the Dallas neighborhoods. Being a female teenager my friends and I would walk from neighborhood to another with no fear.

[@dnavarro972]

2:53 if only everyone had this mentality

[@youngtrill9745]

I seen those Oxtails on that door menu 😂 Texas in every way

[@wwhs1928]

And it hasn't changed 🤔🤣🤣

[@aintmissinnothin]

Thanks

[@chrishultgren777]

Everyone knows what the problem is, every decade the excuses get more convoluted.

[@T8RZTOTZ]

Yeah but they actually called out black crime

[@trevorjameson3213]

@@T8RZTOTZ Yes they did, back in '73. But they sure can't do that now (even though everyone knows it)

[@T8RZTOTZ]

@@trevorjameson3213 yep heard that

[@DonaldSterling-of8tb]

Yea we know who the problem is

[@willisrealis]

They just don’t know 10 years from then they will have bad dope epidemic problem

[@SuavelleAdams]

This documentary had to been filmed way back in the late 60s and early 70s !

[@Mark-uv6sm]

Doesn't seem anything has Changed instead of 1973 just say 2023. .

[@trevorjameson3213]

Well that particular area has changed for the better. But the criminal areas have just moved to other areas (Forest/LBJ for example).

[@Mark-uv6sm]

@@trevorjameson3213 Correct me , but the area Was Ross Ave? Correct?

[@robertfarrar6212]

@@Mark-uv6sm Yes, Ross Avenue.

[@Mark-uv6sm]

​@@robertfarrar6212 thanks, appreciate your eye for detail.

[@shannonm75]

Typical Dallas. Has it's crime all over Pleasant Grove for example.

[@jazzvictrola7104]

Seagoville, Balch Springs, S. Buckner Blvd. that's where it is. Lived in Dallas 38 years, '67-'80 in the Forest Hills then Ferguson Road & Highland Road area. 1981-2005 had a condo in a triangle formed by Lemmon, Inwood and Mockingbird. Moved back to Waco in 2005.

[@jaylucien669]

@@jazzvictrola7104 Shoot, you should see the Forrest Ln/Skillman area now.

[@paulgardner5079]

@@jaylucien669 I just left that area in 2021, it was bad. I lived on the corner of Walnut and Audelia

[@Smarterthanyou-mthrfkr]

⁠@@paulgardner5079every day they wildin around audelia

[@taytayrazors9033]

I Have lived in Pleasant Grove all My life and I love it 💯 nothing bad Hasn't happened to me.

[@LannieLord]

1:41 The White Stripes have a song called The Red Door , I wonder if it's about this place ?

[@scatx]

2024 and is the same

[@skip031890]

These people refuse to hold their people accountable. This whole issue of "crime" only happens in their neighborhoods. 🙄

[@tarusprentice7782]

Very interesting

[@cathryncolcer]

House at 4:49 is located at 2707 South Blvd

[@dnelson8380]

All I see is excuses. Still the same dang excuses today in Dallas.

[@T8RZTOTZ]

I heard them say what it is... black people.

[@mike.e358]

So what’s the excuse for white people causing problems all over the world?

[@davidcarper5411]

Victim culture even back then

[@BIGTalk]

​​@@davidcarper5411 The beginning of the documentary mentioned poor education, poor employment, poor housing, and poor health as causative agents of high crime areas. Context is necessary when viewing this piece of media. It was released in 1973. Barely five years after numerous Civil Rights laws were passed. Civil Rights legislation of the late 1960s was important because those laws helped alleviate unjust conditions for Black Americans who were intentionally disenfranchised and oppressed by the US government for over three hundred years at this point in time. In fact, many of the individuals shown in this documentary are the children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of enslaved Black Texans who were emancipated with no education or economic resources. Many Black Codes and Jim Crow laws enforced by Texas legislators ensured that a large majority of Black Texans; including those in Dallas remained poor and uneducated following Emancipation from slavery. We know poor education, poor employment, poor housing, and poor health drive high crime; but what drove the poor education, poor employment, poor housing, and poor health of this historically impoverished area??

[@PR-nq4dt]

Their excuse today is "illegals are taking our jobs". Well back then illegal immigration wasn't a problem like it is today. I think it's just the lack of effort in the black community to want to better themselves back then as well as today. This is also the narrative of politicians (mostly republican) to the black community which does nothing to help them.

[@davidfreesefan23]

Five months before the 10-year anniversary of JFK’s assassination.

[@bennorwood8433]

This is Dallas

[@dnavarro972]

Til this day

[@rkid727]

Man this is Philly, Chicago, Baltimore, Houston, LA, NYC. It’s not just a Dallas thing.

[@sliedogg]

@@rkid727 It's a people thing,. Buildings don't cause crime.

[@BrokeMoeHowardUHF]

The Pussy Cat Lounge was the place to be in Dallas! 1:22

[@paulgardner5079]

I dont think there are too many hole in the wall joints left in the old sunny south. I think part of that might be that the Cliff isnt dry anymore, so there are little lounges and bars over there, also it seems that over by the fair park, there are a lot of new, more stylish downtown type joints. There was one little joint in south Dallas I remember being especially rowdy, it was called Annie Mae's

[@Mark-uv6sm]

Meow meow meow

[@thelastdon6562]

​@@Mark-uv6sm😂😂😂

[@chrishultgren777]

5:12

[@hulahipz9293]

I had no idea that ripple was an actual drink! I thought it was made up stuff by Mr Fred G. Sanford on that old TV gem of a show, Sanford & Son📺🍾

[@DanKirchner5150]

ya gotta do wat u gotta do to git wat u gotta git

[@tacocasa9812]

OAK CLIFF THATS MY HOOD, HOW BOUT THEM COWBOYS 🤠 SUPERBOWL 🎉

[@CAdams93]

Superbowl?!!!! , you're delusional just like the rest of them fans lol 😭

[@juansaladzar]

This reminds me of south Dallas in 1973 brah

[@kellyscout-vw4mz]

1🇺🇸🌈🎄☕🥷🏽🏈 A LITTLE WHITE GIRL NAMED KERA WAS MY NEIGHBOR SHE WAS COOL WE HAD MCDONALDS TOGETHER I BOUGHT CHOCOCAT...AND BLACK HAWK DOWN...

[@etexbassfreak]

That’s normal it’s Dallas no different from Detroit