Historical Photos White Rock Lake, Dallas, Texas

[@femrock]

Liked the photos - the music was a bit dramatic but...... My mom and dad were involved in a lot of things going on at the lake during that time. They married in 1938 and mom told me stories about going to the lake at 6:30 in the morning and building a fire and cooking their breakfast out there. Then in 1970 -71 my friends and I would cruise around the lake on the weekends and see our friends - they put a stop to that a few years later.

[@RajivRoy58]

Love it! Love living around White Rock Lake

[@stevejxnms]

Love to see the history of White Rock Lake. But that music made me feel like I was gonna see people taken off boxcars and led into a concentration camp.

[@invisableobserver]

Strange you say that; there were two prisons at the lake (German war camp & the pea patch) and the train would bring prisoners there, though years before then an orphan train brought children to Dallas on that same railroad, and infants were displayed in incubators at the fair for adoption. Orphan trains brought kids to re-populate America because there was a cataclysm that happened near 1800 that wiped out most of the population.

[@carollewis3912]

Great pictures.

[@kathleenkathleenp3463]

Kathleen Pulte, You failed to show or mention "The Lady of the Lake." She is supposed to have drowned in White Rock Lake in 1917 and her ghost has haunted the lake during the full moon for years. I haven't heard much about her in the last few years.

[@j-ski3554]

kathleen KathleenP is that a true story...? I been out there many of times late at nite and didn’t see much of anything I Hurd flag pole hill is very active but never been at night looks creepy 😆

[@sylvanahernandez1264]

True La Llorana

[@invisableobserver]

There is also a ghost legend called the blue mist at white rock. From what I heard it jumped on cars and they would not start again.

[@2lucky1957]

@@j-ski3554 Can confirm Flag Pole Hill was very active in the 70's. Cops used to go out of their way to sneak up on car "dating" couples.

[@dodemonscryofficial]

Here you go

[@erflingnot]

BJ thank you….. critics….I appreciate your opinion ….do it better yourself…. There’s a lot of work and some of it is done automatically by whatever program that BJ used…. Don’t criticize what you have not experienced. This is said lovingly…… not critically…. I’m very talented but I don’t think I could’ve done a better job because I would not have spent the loving time! Love the lake!

[@invisableobserver]

My great grandmother and another elderly person told me the the dam was built to flood the area to cover up some very old structures, also the pump station and the bath house were repurposed from a much older building are also built on top of older structures that were already there long before the 1800's. Also the CCC destroyed some of the old structures that were around the lake and built on the same places. Also some of the old houses on Garland road across from the lake were rebuilt on older buildings that were there. I wonder if this area was used as a quarry at one time. The old museum house at 0:48, it was built upon the foundation of a structure that was previously there, in this photo they show new roof & additions to the very old stone & brick structure that was already there before the lake was dug, the addition of the restrooms at right of the photo have an evil history, this house was not built by the CCC. I wonder what beautiful buildings at white rock were destroyed, repurposed and hidden and why? I think my father took the photo at 2:02 and maybe the one of H.L. Hunt at 2:34, that was the very old iron flagpole from the 1800's, I wonder where it is today, it was replaced by a modern one. I liked Mr. Hunt, he was not a plutocrat as the public called him, & his family were so polite & kind. He talked to me at the lake a few times about Lifeline when I was young then I was worried about him when I did not hear from him again.The H.L Hunt home is much older than we are told, it was not built in 1929, notice in the photo how much older the flagpole is than the house. If any of his children or grandchildren are around today I'd really like to meet them. It is so horrible to see the lake today; all the foreigners invaded it & trashed it out. Do you have any photos of buildings from the 1800's of this area? any old ones of DeGoyer? or the older structures on the hill?

[@perfectperson214]

Foreigners? Are you stupid? Hippies trashed it, its pretty nice now. I live right next to it.

[@jerryguyer8062]

Is the closing photo of H.L. Hunt?

[@invisableobserver]

yes it is, please read my comment that I posted.

[@Relaxation-Clips]

This week - lake video clip:😀😃😄
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