Wow. At about 1:20 in there appears to be a Model A Ford driving away on that freeway from the camera filming. That car would have been about 25 years old by the time this mid-50s movie was made.
@@BillLaBrie ~ Have you ever heard that when they first came out, most people thought that it would suck the air out of your lungs to drive that fast! 😉
@@bonniemoerdyk9809 A doctor in the late 19th century said that humans would never travel faster than 37 mph because our bodies couldn’t take the atmospheric pressure. Lol
Nothing really new. You're bound to see cars that were produced 20-30 years in the past even today. I still see a decent amount of 90s and especially 2000s cars even now.
@@thetexanhusky In the early mid 60s my fathers friend had an early midn30s car he drove over to our house. I don't think it was his only car though. He was older than my father was and very well may have bought it new. He was probably in his 50s or pushing 60 at the time which would have made him in his 20s in the 1930s.
And the way they tried to fix it ended up causing more issues than it solved. "Just add one more lane. Just one more lane. Just one more lane. Just one more lane."
Triple railway overpass and / or Dealey Plaza, where President Kennedy would be shot on November 22, 1963: 0:59, 2:16, 15:29, and 15:44. View from triple railway overpass: 1:32 and 15:35.
@@michaelmedina8304 "The Texas Electric Railway is a historic interurban railroad that operated from Dallas, Texas, to Denison, Corsicana, and Waco. It began operation in 1908 and through the merger of several companies became the largest interurban railway operator in the South before its demise in 1948." ...They weren't streetcars, but did use streetcar tracks to reach the company's terminal in downtown Dallas. "Today several pieces of infrastructure still remain. The Dallas Area Rapid Transit light rail system utilizes the right-of-way of the Texas Electric Railway for several of its lines, including the Red Line. The original Plano Station still serves as Downtown Plano station on the DART Red Line. The wood frame passenger depot in downtown Plano and its attached brick electric transformer section remained in use until December 31, 1948. The Plano Station building now hosts the Interurban Railway Museum where a restored Texas Electric Railway car may be seen, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The Monroe Shops (1914), once the maintenance facility for Texas Electric's vehicles, was restored in 2011 and now serves as headquarters to the DART Police Department. The Dallas Interurban Building (1916), once serving as the main Dallas depot, now houses residents and retail. The Texas Electric Railway Allen Station still stands at 105 South Butler Drive."
This video is a fascinating glimpse into the minds of city-builders in Dallas at that time and you absolutely here their priority given to automobile traffic. Funny enough, there are multiple scenes where people on foot dramatically outnumber the cars. While this video footage is rolling along, the voice over continues to talk about prioritizing auto flow despite it clearly being a pedestrian dominated places.
When they enforce building codes and stop trying to attract every darn business to come to the city. The city doesn’t need 120 tattoo parlors, 50 strip clubs and over a hundred beer stores.
I just posted that same question. I wonder if Oliver Stone ever saw this film. Clearly he didn't, for if he did the people who made it would have been listed as suspects.
I have only been to Dallas once, but I recognized Dealey Plaza which would become infamous in just a few years. The street where President Kennedy’s assassination took place had traffic going in the opposite direction of that day in 1963. It seems to me that downtown areas were so much more vibrant than today. I can only imagine what parking downtown must have been like. It was bad 3 years ago.
Probably not as many or no parking garages back then. In Dallas back in those days u could park on the side of a downtown street like u still see in small towns and just pay a nickel or a dime for 1 hour parking in a parking meter.
What an interesting look into the civic activists of Dallas. The committee, the T-Men volunteers, the Juvenile Drivers License Committee. It blows my mind how earnest and organized they were. But wasn't this the same time when bombs were going off in South Dallas and the newspapers were covering it up to try to protect the city's image?
Has there ever been a time without some kind idealism and those that would see that same idealism brought down? In late 1950’s Dallas there where almost the same political dynamics I see today and probably the same we will see in the future.
Goes to show that there is NEVER an easy or perfect solution to solving traffic issues no matter what city, and there never will be. The problem is population growth. The more jobs that become available, the more the population increases, the harder it is to solve the traffic problem. It's that simple.
@@tooterooterville I went there also at that time. I thought it was much better then, but that might be because I was so young. Hadn't been in 30 years. I was in my 50's. Road the wooden roller coaster at my teenage daughter's urging. I hurt for a week. :)
I'm a 3rd generation TEXAN and Dallasite. I find this amusing. I was 6 when this video was made and life was so wonderful then. We even had prayer in schools, and saluted the flag and took Calif. Placement Exams and they were spontaneous, not taught to us in advance. In those days, DISD was highly recognized for excellence! Dallas has always been a great place to live and has had some of the finest leaders come from our city to lead the State and nation, not to mention we are in the best state, Texas, in the country!🇨🇱
Yes we have come so far in 65 years. NOT! I am a little bit younger and so grateful that I am the age that I am. I don’t have children or grandchildren but I don’t envy the subsequent generations one bit.
@@mariselamendiola Ask them that. How would you know? Also, who cares? This woman can have her good memories. Look around at what the colored people did with all their freedoms and look at how nice the schools are now that they are overrun with monkeys.
9:42. Funny, we had student crossing guards too in the mid 80s in my small town. We had two schools directly across the street from one another and a crossing in between. The older middle school kids would volunteer tor crossing duty.
Back in the 1950s police officers violating Citizen's rights was acceptable and considered normal... nowadays citizens will not accept that behavior from police officers. Check out James Freeman Channel. James likes police officers that uphold their oath but also feels corrupt police officers are not above the law
@@stevengallant6363 My question is: why would you push into a situation, even if the legalities are somewhat sketchy or even blatantly sketchy, where the offending LEO who is armed and is self convinced of his right to use force? You're only going to jeopardize yourself and possibly others around you. If the accused charge is so egregiously wrong, wouldn't that be clearly demonstrated in court? And with the offending LEO clearly being exposed and then likely being discharged or even charged himself?
@@amynguy covid and the 2020 riots really did a number on downtown.. in 2015-19, downtown was getting consistantly better and cooler. when I attended Eastfield, I would always go have a few drinks downtown before I caught the last train home to garland. went downtown last year, it wasnt NEAR what it had been, it reminded me of downtown when I was a teen in the 90s
The tents were shanty town shacks in the 20s and 30s. Bonnie & Clyde and poor people were the inhabitants. During bad economic times(like now with skyrocketing costs for utilities, food prices, and housing) homelessness will inevitably come. I'd like to think this cycle will end eventually.
Now do you think a film about traffic issues is going to show the homeless? What foolish nostalgia. The homeless were just out of sight then. And the reason it got worse was corporate greed and PAC money, not that people were better then.
Auto-centric development in the Dallas area has indirectly prioritized living far away from the city center. While the city population itself has had less robust growth since the 1950s, the suburban areas have been booming for decades (roughly ~8 million people in the Dallas MSA). The very strategies to speed traffic along presented in these videos led to a boom in North Dallas starting around the video was made, and has since gone to increasingly further flung suburbs, especially in the northeastern quandrant extending out from Dallas' core (North Dallas, Plano, Frisco, McKinney, Prosper, etc). While these suburbs are notably smaller than Dallas population-wise, there's enough of them to really tilt the balance in the area from city-centric to regional-centric focus.
Wow, a lot of people didn't like to stay in their own lanes back then... I'd love to go back in time and drive all around the Dallas area. It would be fascinating to see how much smaller all the cities in the Metroplex were back then.
I can't imagine being a traffic cop standing in the middle of the road directiong cars. I wonder how many were hit? Great video and look back in history.
There is still a red Pegasus atop the hotel. And the original is by the convention center hotel. D Magazine: "It’s not every Dallas City Council meeting that you hear that a giant red horse might fall from the sky, but it’s Wednesday and it’s 2022, so sure, it tracks. Except, technically, it’s two giant red horses. In the last agenda item the Dallas City Council tackled before taking a lunch break today, the Office of Arts and Culture informed the members that the Pegasus derrick atop the Magnolia Hotel downtown was in danger of potentially, uh, toppling down - all 30 tons of it. An hour and a half later, all but one council member approved spending about $358,000 to secure and repair the piece of public art that the city has had in its charge since 1934. Now, for those of you playing along at home, this is not the original 1934 Pegasus. This is the new sign that was installed in 1999 in time for the hotel’s New Year’s Eve unveiling. ...When the Omni Hotel was built, the restored original 1934 Pegasus was installed in front of it - safely on the ground. Both structures are part of the city’s public art catalog." Austin Chronicle: "The original Pegasus sign was lost for 15 years before being discovered in a warehouse and renovated with new red neon lights. The 35-by-40-foot flying horse slowly turns (once every five minutes) on a short oil derrick at 555 S. Lamar St. in a park near the entrance to the Omni Hotel, still welcoming visitors and selfie photographers to Dallas."
From 16:16_16:22 the Pegasus is on top of the center skyscraper to the left spinning slowly. You have to know what you're looking at to notice it though.
I wonder if J.D. Tippit is one of those police officers shown. Or even if Jack Ruby is seen in any of these pictures. He was always where the police were.
Had to listen to it again...been 3 years. LOL I meant the narration, along the lines of Sgt. Joe Friday saying "This is the city...blah blah blah." Not the music.
That's what I thought. He must have been saying, "Ok, here's the plan. A guy who comes back from Russia gets a job in that depository over there and brings curtain rods to work the day the president comes to town, and soon _I'm_ the president! (satire. I don't buy that)
I believe we should have a special forces auxiliary police dept. to enforce only traffic laws. The police in general are tasked with too many functions and expected to respond to too many different situations.
Back in Time and Find One Morning Leavin' Home, all Cars, Women Skirts, Hairstyle, Everything is from 1955. But When you Went to Sleep Last Night, it was June 2022. 🤯
I guess I stop complaining about traffic since I now know it’s been this way since 1955…that’s what I’m going to say when someone says anything about traffic…it’s been that way since 1955…there’s proof…show this video 😂😂😂❤❤❤
Must be those three thousand new residents a month that don’t know how to drive…I’ve been driving here since 1976 and compared to most every big city I’ve visited the Dallas/Fort Worth drivers have been some of the best ever..if we could only teach those new idiots how to drive 🤬🤬🤬
I think I had three driving lessons at 16, . no drivers ed. bought my car and went for it. went off to the military, ets no one ever asked if I knew how to drive, it was always expected of me I can and would. Low bed trucks. jeep dump trucks my primary was a cat operator. I drove in Korea and in Vietnam, I can't recall being the one ever to drive in the main cities, in Korea or Vietnam , high balling yes, a made rush peddle to the metal, you can't see the truck of what ever in front of you, you follow the trail of dirt flying up in front of you. you didn't stop for anything / anyone who was hit: it was crazy stuff, took me a couple of years plus to adjust to what driving on cities streets and roads.........I was always getting pulled over for some odd rule of law I never heard of... that was more than 50 years ago. I'm an old man now, we avoid being on the streets after 3:30 4.. We left a small town in CA, moved twice, any more today, way to many people, so we moved to the high desert eastern WA over 10 years ago, we been coming here for 20 years to visit family. mover here, retired, it was great no traffic, at night they rolled up the streets, not any more, just like CA the way people been flooding in to here, We were on the out skirts of the town now the commercial is being built up around us. go to church, know the word of GOD, repent. get saved. amen
A hint of the culture at the time points to the difference in morals compared to today,men are wearing shirts and ties,women are wearing dresses that are below the knee.
Who Gives A Rats Ass.. Many Years Later. Still The Same Or Even Worst.. As Long As The People Making The Rules Is People That Only Care For Money. Nothing Changed and Nothing Will Change!
Wow. At about 1:20 in there appears to be a Model A Ford driving away on that freeway from the camera filming. That car would have been about 25 years old by the time this mid-50s movie was made.
My grandfather had a '34 Ford V-8 that he didn't sell until '63. He said he hated the weird look of the newer cars.
I like to see the junctions of older and newer technology like that. Cars with wooden bodies and newer ones of metal.
Had a max speed of about 65mph, if you were brave enough.
@@BillLaBrie ~ Have you ever heard that when they first came out, most people thought that it would suck the air out of your lungs to drive that fast! 😉
@@bonniemoerdyk9809 A doctor in the late 19th century said that humans would never travel faster than 37 mph because our bodies couldn’t take the atmospheric pressure. Lol
You know it’s an oldie when you hear terms like “responsibility”, “accountability”, “enforcement”, and “punishment”.
...and then the film jumps all over the place about a minute before closing credits.
Looks like quite a few 1930s cars were still on the road in 1955.
Nothing really new. You're bound to see cars that were produced 20-30 years in the past even today. I still see a decent amount of 90s and especially 2000s cars even now.
@@thetexanhusky In the early mid 60s my fathers friend had an early midn30s car he drove over to our house. I don't think it was his only car though. He was older than my father was and very well may have bought it new. He was probably in his 50s or pushing 60 at the time which would have made him in his 20s in the 1930s.
My commuter beater is a 2003. So I'm driving the equivalent of a 34 Chevy in 1955.
😂😂
People just didn’t buy new cars every couple years back then
Absolutely love these videos of times gone by thanks for posting 😁👍
Thanks so much for posting.
Thank You, more to come!
Very interesting look at Dallas history!!!!!!!
And the way they tried to fix it ended up causing more issues than it solved. "Just add one more lane. Just one more lane. Just one more lane. Just one more lane."
Yet we keep voting in the same politicians who fund the whole charade. You reap what you sow.
As insane as people drive in intersections here now, no way I'd want to be a traffic cop standing in an intersection.
@@franciscodanconia4324 Sounds like a good job for a robot that can direct self driving cars thru intersections that have constant video surveillance.
Triple railway overpass and / or Dealey Plaza, where President Kennedy would be shot on November 22, 1963: 0:59, 2:16, 15:29, and 15:44.
View from triple railway overpass: 1:32 and 15:35.
1:05. Interesting traffic flow. Frightening actually.
Still there to this day.
@@Chevy4x4dawg Seriously? Holy crap!
@@bobt5778 Yup signal controled
No it's not. Commerce and Elm are each one way. Main is still 2 way, but blends with the roads on either side.
@@paulbrancato8262 Still a interesting and unique traffic flow.
Anybody complaining about the traffic in Dallas has forgotten about Houston traffic
Bc we don’t care about Houston
Talk about adding lames.
Electric streetcars running through downtown. Hard to imagine it.
And to think, Dallas brought back some vintage electric streetcars.
Electric street cars ran from Dallas to Waco.
@@steveh.3370 where are they now?
Hey, at least now you have huge congested roads and highways and massive lifeless parking lots!
@@michaelmedina8304 "The Texas Electric Railway is a historic interurban railroad that operated from Dallas, Texas, to Denison, Corsicana, and Waco. It began operation in 1908 and through the merger of several companies became the largest interurban railway operator in the South before its demise in 1948." ...They weren't streetcars, but did use streetcar tracks to reach the company's terminal in downtown Dallas.
"Today several pieces of infrastructure still remain. The Dallas Area Rapid Transit light rail system utilizes the right-of-way of the Texas Electric Railway for several of its lines, including the Red Line. The original Plano Station still serves as Downtown Plano station on the DART Red Line.
The wood frame passenger depot in downtown Plano and its attached brick electric transformer section remained in use until December 31, 1948. The Plano Station building now hosts the Interurban Railway Museum where a restored Texas Electric Railway car may be seen, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The Monroe Shops (1914), once the maintenance facility for Texas Electric's vehicles, was restored in 2011 and now serves as headquarters to the DART Police Department.
The Dallas Interurban Building (1916), once serving as the main Dallas depot, now houses residents and retail.
The Texas Electric Railway Allen Station still stands at 105 South Butler Drive."
This video is a fascinating glimpse into the minds of city-builders in Dallas at that time and you absolutely here their priority given to automobile traffic. Funny enough, there are multiple scenes where people on foot dramatically outnumber the cars. While this video footage is rolling along, the voice over continues to talk about prioritizing auto flow despite it clearly being a pedestrian dominated places.
So cool, when will they release the findings on diminishing congestion?
Ha!!
When they enforce building codes and stop trying to attract every darn business to come to the city. The city doesn’t need 120 tattoo parlors, 50 strip clubs and over a hundred beer stores.
@@johnhix484it’s a city. dallas should relax strict zoning and expand dart
@1:12 ... that's the spot JFK was shot, it looks to be filmed from on top of the Texas School Book Depository.
I just posted that same question. I wonder if Oliver Stone ever saw this film. Clearly he didn't, for if he did the people who made it would have been listed as suspects.
I have only been to Dallas once, but I recognized Dealey Plaza which would become infamous in just a few years. The street where President Kennedy’s assassination took place had traffic going in the opposite direction of that day in 1963. It seems to me that downtown areas were so much more vibrant than today. I can only imagine what parking downtown must have been like. It was bad 3 years ago.
Probably not as many or no parking garages back then. In Dallas back in those days u could park on the side of a downtown street like u still see in small towns and just pay a nickel or a dime for 1 hour parking in a parking meter.
Remarkable how many vehicles are crossing over the lane markings consistently, particularly on curves.
What an interesting look into the civic activists of Dallas. The committee, the T-Men volunteers, the Juvenile Drivers License Committee. It blows my mind how earnest and organized they were. But wasn't this the same time when bombs were going off in South Dallas and the newspapers were covering it up to try to protect the city's image?
Has there ever been a time without some kind idealism and those that would see that same idealism brought down? In late 1950’s Dallas there where almost the same political dynamics I see today and probably the same we will see in the future.
Bombs what was all that about? Are you sure?
Amazing as we approach 2025 and we still have a huge traffic problem
“insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results”
Goes to show that there is NEVER an easy or perfect solution to solving traffic issues no matter what city, and there never will be. The problem is population growth. The more jobs that become available, the more the population increases, the harder it is to solve the traffic problem. It's that simple.
15:45 Triple Underpass & Grassy Knoll - Dealey Plaza!
First exit i35e north of oak cliff, also a ramp now connecting to woodall rodgers freeway
Wow. This is incredible. My hometown. The place sure was great! It really was a fantastic city.
I was born in 1951 we lived in Oak Cliff. I remember riding on the trolley when I was 4 years old.
I grew up in the Houston area but remember going to "Six Flags Over Texas" sometime around '59-'61. Thought the place was another world at the time.
@@tooterooterville I went there also at that time. I thought it was much better then, but that might be because I was so young. Hadn't been in 30 years. I was in my 50's. Road the wooden roller coaster at my teenage daughter's urging. I hurt for a week. :)
@@tooterooterville The Texas Giant!
I love the nostalgic stuff. 👍
I'm a 3rd generation TEXAN and Dallasite. I find this amusing. I was 6 when this video was made and life was so wonderful then. We even had prayer in schools, and saluted the flag and took Calif. Placement Exams and they were spontaneous, not taught to us in advance. In those days, DISD was highly recognized for excellence! Dallas has always been a great place to live and has had some of the finest leaders come from our city to lead the State and nation, not to mention we are in the best state, Texas, in the country!🇨🇱
Yes we have come so far in 65 years. NOT! I am a little bit younger and so grateful that I am the age that I am. I don’t have children or grandchildren but I don’t envy the subsequent generations one bit.
Unless u were colored
Liberalism has destroyed education.
Salute the flag?? 😂 Idols.
@@mariselamendiola Ask them that. How would you know? Also, who cares? This woman can have her good memories. Look around at what the colored people did with all their freedoms and look at how nice the schools are now that they are overrun with monkeys.
9:42. Funny, we had student crossing guards too in the mid 80s in my small town. We had two schools directly across the street from one another and a crossing in between. The older middle school kids would volunteer tor crossing duty.
@ 15:30 Is that perchance a view from the School Book Depository? Like say, Oswald's future sniper's nest? That's definitely Dealey Plaza down there.
What was the speed limit on the highway during that time? Asking because old cars had less gears and lower gear ratio.
Weird seeing a view from the courthouse out to where I-35 is not.
What the hell kind of traffic pattern do they have going on at 1:00 and 1:30 in this video? That's insane.
They should have invested in a mass rail/subway system, like BART in San Francisco.
@@sweezlesquee😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 you still absolutely need a car.
@@sweezlesqueeI wouldn’t say DART is sick. Still need a car to get to the stations.
@@deanchapman1824if dallas started out with transit. we wouldn’t need cars as much. the metro area wouldn’t be as bog
6:42. What no screaming sovereign citizen.......
Back in the 1950s police officers violating Citizen's rights was acceptable and considered normal... nowadays citizens will not accept that behavior from police officers. Check out James Freeman Channel. James likes police officers that uphold their oath but also feels corrupt police officers are not above the law
@@stevengallant6363 My question is: why would you push into a situation, even if the legalities are somewhat sketchy or even blatantly sketchy, where the offending LEO who is armed and is self convinced of his right to use force? You're only going to jeopardize yourself and possibly others around you. If the accused charge is so egregiously wrong, wouldn't that be clearly demonstrated in court? And with the offending LEO clearly being exposed and then likely being discharged or even charged himself?
The drive on Elm Street heading toward the Stemmons Freeway was especially troublesome...
Im actually a bit surprised Dallas was that big population wise back then...now its about 1.25 million, right?
as crimes have increased in Dallas downtown, people keep moving up north towards Carrollton, Plano and now ever further to Prosper/Celina.
@@amynguy covid and the 2020 riots really did a number on downtown.. in 2015-19, downtown was getting consistantly better and cooler. when I attended Eastfield, I would always go have a few drinks downtown before I caught the last train home to garland. went downtown last year, it wasnt NEAR what it had been, it reminded me of downtown when I was a teen in the 90s
@@amynguyAnd now all the way to Red River. Take Preston all the way to Lake Texhoma.
Man!! Absolutely Beautiful...no homeless,no baggy saggy pants...and NO TENTs
So Very True, when people listen to others, When people knew their place in the community.
The tents were shanty town shacks in the 20s and 30s. Bonnie & Clyde and poor people were the inhabitants. During bad economic times(like now with skyrocketing costs for utilities, food prices, and housing) homelessness will inevitably come. I'd like to think this cycle will end eventually.
Now do you think a film about traffic issues is going to show the homeless? What foolish nostalgia. The homeless were just out of sight then. And the reason it got worse was corporate greed and PAC money, not that people were better then.
@@Mark-uv6smbring back Jim Crow 😂
Man! Why do people keep moving to Dallas with all those dangerous old cars on the street?
750,000 people? Now, it only has 1,302,000. I'd have thought there were more.
Auto-centric development in the Dallas area has indirectly prioritized living far away from the city center. While the city population itself has had less robust growth since the 1950s, the suburban areas have been booming for decades (roughly ~8 million people in the Dallas MSA).
The very strategies to speed traffic along presented in these videos led to a boom in North Dallas starting around the video was made, and has since gone to increasingly further flung suburbs, especially in the northeastern quandrant extending out from Dallas' core (North Dallas, Plano, Frisco, McKinney, Prosper, etc). While these suburbs are notably smaller than Dallas population-wise, there's enough of them to really tilt the balance in the area from city-centric to regional-centric focus.
They taught traffic was a lot back then. The whole Dallas-fort worth region is a hot damn mess of traffic lol 😅
Yet 70 years later the same traffic problems
13:30 Yeah, get rid of the streetcars and replace them with wider one way streets. That will solve the traffic problems. 🤦♂
That was a shot of Dealy Plaza there in the beginning. Who could have known its significance just eight years hence!
Wow, a lot of people didn't like to stay in their own lanes back then...
I'd love to go back in time and drive all around the Dallas area. It would be fascinating to see how much smaller all the cities in the Metroplex were back then.
I can't imagine being a traffic cop standing in the middle of the road directiong cars. I wonder how many were hit? Great video and look back in history.
anyone remember the red Pegasus on the Magnolia hotel
There is still a red Pegasus atop the hotel. And the original is by the convention center hotel.
D Magazine:
"It’s not every Dallas City Council meeting that you hear that a giant red horse might fall from the sky, but it’s Wednesday and it’s 2022, so sure, it tracks.
Except, technically, it’s two giant red horses.
In the last agenda item the Dallas City Council tackled before taking a lunch break today, the Office of Arts and Culture informed the members that the Pegasus derrick atop the Magnolia Hotel downtown was in danger of potentially, uh, toppling down - all 30 tons of it.
An hour and a half later, all but one council member approved spending about $358,000 to secure and repair the piece of public art that the city has had in its charge since 1934.
Now, for those of you playing along at home, this is not the original 1934 Pegasus. This is the new sign that was installed in 1999 in time for the hotel’s New Year’s Eve unveiling.
...When the Omni Hotel was built, the restored original 1934 Pegasus was installed in front of it - safely on the ground.
Both structures are part of the city’s public art catalog."
Austin Chronicle:
"The original Pegasus sign was lost for 15 years before being discovered in a warehouse and renovated with new red neon lights. The 35-by-40-foot flying horse slowly turns (once every five minutes) on a short oil derrick at 555 S. Lamar St. in a park near the entrance to the Omni Hotel, still welcoming visitors and selfie photographers to Dallas."
From 16:16_16:22 the Pegasus is on top of the center skyscraper to the left spinning slowly. You have to know what you're looking at to notice it though.
Used to see it from Burnet field watching the minor league team the Dallas Rangers.
I can't imagine the kind of traffic jam that happens in that parking garage every afternoon.
Everybody was skinny back then.
And no mention of the litter.
This was before Tom Landry.
Looks like Maple Terrace and Stoneleigh at 2:13 at the very top of the video.
I wonder if J.D. Tippit is one of those police officers shown. Or even if Jack Ruby is seen in any of these pictures. He was always where the police were.
I wonder how many people even remember who J.D. Tippit was...
@@Paul-zz8lu JFK assassination history followers know his name well.
Some scary projector malfunctions towards the end!
The intro reminds me of Dragnet.
It sounded like JAWS.
Had to listen to it again...been 3 years. LOL
I meant the narration, along the lines of Sgt. Joe Friday saying "This is the city...blah blah blah." Not the music.
@@valentinius62 I hear it now. You're right.
Sure glad they solved that traffic issue.
😢😢😢
:)
And beefed up their police department so those who break the law get arrested and tried. Like what happened 8 years later.
Qhat time ai ?
“Buildings in downtown have gone up yet the downtown streets weren’t widened.” Now if that wasn’t the most ironic statement I’ve heard.
Those streets haven't changed much. Just more buildings.
Whats this
05:06 This man on the left side looks quite a bit like LBJ.
@@timmartin7664 Man, do your research. He was deep into politics already at this time.🤦♂️
This isn’t 1920.
At 4:58 that almost looks like LBJ.
That's what I thought. He must have been saying, "Ok, here's the plan. A guy who comes back from Russia gets a job in that depository over there and brings curtain rods to work the day the president comes to town, and soon _I'm_ the president! (satire. I don't buy that)
, man that film is scratch the f******
I believe we should have a special forces auxiliary police dept. to enforce only traffic laws. The police in general are tasked with too many functions and expected to respond to too many different situations.
In 1955 you thought you had a population growth problem . Oh back to those thilling days of yesteryear .
Which car in 55 had 300 horsepower.🤔 According to the video?
Chrysler 300 packed a 331 cid hemi. It was the CTS-V of it's day
Traffic engineers then made a lot of big mistakes. Separated entire neighborhoods by highway
@gabe The choices made within cities though were atrocious
Thanks LBJ !!!
@@HardRockMaster7577 It was a decision made by city planners
Dallas traffic cops wore white caps back then.
It’s ass Nigga shut the f up am gonna go to yo destroy yo Nigga tomorrow Nigga this is what 😮 you expect niggga
Dallas ❤❤❤❤❤
My Pop was a Dallas Cop Then,26 year career.
I just realized they don't have any stoplights I'm like why is the traffic cop there what is he doing. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 that's so amazing an crazy to think.
Does anyone here who lived in Dallas in the 60's remember the Elm st. cave in?
I wish Dallas would preserve and tell it's real black history. Too bad it's hidden but those who know, know.
1:13 Triple Overpass where JFK be assassinated in near future
Well that's the city the CIA picked to assassinate JFK
@@Spillers72 , a communist killed JFK, not the C.I.A.
Well no wonder traffic is plugged up! Look at all those old under-powered clunkers they are driving... no wonder they have problems.
It's still bad like that. Nothing has improved.
Drove truck went there every week....
Back in Time and Find One Morning Leavin' Home, all Cars, Women Skirts, Hairstyle, Everything is from 1955. But When you Went to Sleep Last Night, it was June 2022. 🤯
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They think traffic in Dallas was bad then now boy they will be shaking there heads now 😅
OK, but you’re not gonna make the streets in downtown wider
I guess I stop complaining about traffic since I now know it’s been this way since 1955…that’s what I’m going to say when someone says anything about traffic…it’s been that way since 1955…there’s proof…show this video 😂😂😂❤❤❤
Wonder when crosswalks were invented and implemented?
There is a long history of crosswalks: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_crossing#History
They need AI to make the lights Stay Green magically no matter the traffic, just like they do today.
Must be those three thousand new residents a month that don’t know how to drive…I’ve been driving here since 1976 and compared to most every big city I’ve visited the Dallas/Fort Worth drivers have been some of the best ever..if we could only teach those new idiots how to drive 🤬🤬🤬
Thank you to the late gentlemen who authored this report, and hence destroyed our once great downtown, all in the name of better flowing traffic.
Ever notice intractable problems have a life of their own?
I think I had three driving lessons at 16, . no drivers ed. bought my car and went for it. went off to the military, ets no one ever asked if I knew how to drive, it was always expected of me I can and would.
Low bed trucks. jeep dump trucks my primary was a cat operator.
I drove in Korea and in Vietnam, I can't recall being the one ever to drive in the main cities, in Korea or Vietnam , high balling yes, a made rush peddle to the metal, you can't
see the truck of what ever in front of you, you follow the trail of dirt
flying up in front of you. you didn't stop for anything / anyone who was hit: it was crazy stuff, took me a couple of years plus to adjust
to what driving on cities streets and roads.........I was always getting
pulled over for some odd rule of law I never heard of... that was more than 50 years ago. I'm an old man now, we avoid being on the streets after 3:30 4..
We left a small town in CA, moved twice, any more today, way to many people, so we moved to the high desert eastern WA over 10 years ago, we been coming here for 20 years to visit family. mover here, retired, it was great no traffic, at night they rolled up the streets, not any more, just like CA the way people been flooding in to here,
We were on the out skirts of the town now the commercial is being built up around us. go to church, know the word of GOD, repent. get saved. amen
Now we just have homeless people & gangsters downtown! I think traffic is a tiny problem compared to now!
Yea I was really surprised, this looked like newyork.
The Arlington Frisco Tx Boys suck!
#2022
@@amynguy I think the vibe in Dallas was like that at one point in time.
2024 Dallas population
1,302,753
What's with the 2 narrators taking turns? Sounded kinda gay, I imagined them sitting there with their arms around each others' shoulders.
Traffic lights weren't so popular, the majority was caucasian.
A hint of the culture at the time points to the difference in morals compared to today,men are wearing shirts and ties,women are wearing dresses that are below the knee.
Timothy Leary started the something like drop out and dope up in the early 60's then everything went to pot quite literally.
Need some more T men! With yellow paint ball guns!
I want to be a T Man!
1955 TMan.
2021 Karen.
Who Gives A Rats Ass.. Many Years Later. Still The Same Or Even Worst.. As Long As The People Making The Rules Is People That Only Care For Money. Nothing Changed and Nothing Will Change!
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Isn't that where the CIA murdered JFK?
It’s way better now…
lol, yeah. sure thing.
lmao yeah ok
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