Looking North at Central Expressway and Mockingbird Lane in 1957 vs today
Posted by MrTacocaT12345@reddit | Dallas | View on Reddit | 29 comments
This view is looking north. Many of these structures still remain today such as the Public Storage building, the Lofts at Mockingbird, and the Meadows Building. At the top left corner, you can just barely make out the tree-lined road leading to the Caruth Homestead. At the right side, you can see the magnificent Dr. Pepper Bottling Plant (now demolished).
Airsimba@reddit
Who are the Caruth I’ve always seen that name but I don’t know who they are?
Icy_Huckleberry_8049@reddit
The DAART line used to have trains that ran on it all the time - day and night. Even though it was dangerous, we'd hop the train cars and ride them between Greenville and Skillman. In either direction, whichever way the train was going.
CatteNappe@reddit
Fascinating! We've lived here since the mid 70's, starting in a duplex in that section in the lowest right corner. The Bekins storage building, and the Dr. Pepper plant were neighborhood landmarks. Of the other notable buildings, our barber and hair stylist are still in the Meadows Building. Back in the day there was a fancy-ish restaurant on an upper floor there, that did a special Thanksgiving holiday buffet. Many probably remember the former Mrs. Baird's Bakery in the lower left corner of pic #1 and #3, where the tennis courts are in #2.
Icy_Huckleberry_8049@reddit
We used to smell the bread baking in the evenings if the wind was coming from the west.
Icy_Huckleberry_8049@reddit
I grew up across form there DP plant, and we used to get free DP's when the drivers would come in from their routes in the afternoon.
smokeypokey12@reddit
If r/Dallas was just post like this I wouldn’t be upset. Thanks for sharing OP!
PalpitationFrosty242@reddit
what you don't like, "where is all that noise coming from, someone should alert the authorities" NIMBY-style posts?
smokeypokey12@reddit
Ahaha I really don’t mind, I just love lost like these
arlenroy@reddit
Me too! There was another post about the history of topless clubs and mob involvement in Dallas a few days ago, it was really detailed and in depth.
smokeypokey12@reddit
I’ll have to go find that one!
nevermore0069@reddit
That's a great perspective match!
Mentholio@reddit
I can smell Ms. Bairds in my memory...and Jason's Deli up the street, and the old art deco Dr Pepper plant, fun times at BookStop...80's kid memories.
halfbrit08@reddit
I had no idea the lofts had been around that long. I wonder when they were renovated.
ScarHand69@reddit
Damn! TIL that public storage building has been a storage building since at least the 50’s.
notbob1959@reddit
Built in 1955.
MrTacocaT12345@reddit (OP)
Yes, present image is sourced from Google Earth which has a 3D building option that apparently removes street vehicle traffic
AnastasiaNo70@reddit
How are there no cars on or near 75 in the newer pic? Were they edited out?
Whitey138@reddit
The newer “pic” is from something like Google Maps 3D view which I think aggregates a bunch of different pictures so they almost all blur out.
toodleroo@reddit
RIP Dr. Pepper building.
prereqs@reddit
thats looking North...
Such-Rise6816@reddit
It's cool that the DART Red Line is built on tracks that were already there.
noncongruent@reddit
Yeah, building new commuter rail from scratch is oodles more expensive than converting existing rail ROW, and takes years or decades longer.
GomersOdysey@reddit
God our urban design is such ass
yarmulke@reddit
What, you don’t like sprawling parking lots?
MrTacocaT12345@reddit (OP)
Also, on a side note, the Dr. Pepper National Headquarters and Bottling Plant, built in 1948, was demolished in 1997 and replaced by a Kroger (corner of Mockingbird and Greenville). You can see more pictures of this awesome Art Moderne styled building here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Dallas/comments/s4syu5/dr_pepper_bldg_19461997_now_kroger_on_mockingbird/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
rumdrums@reddit
I used to drive past it when I was a kid in the late 80/90s, but I think it was already empty by then.
VoldemortsHorcrux@reddit
You ever look at maps and satellite views and just go "wow, humans are such a cancer on the earth. We've destroyed so much nature". Like yeah I get that each person is like myself and wants to live and no individual wants to think about it. Like my townhome is where I feel comfortable and I dont think of it as destructive and it feels like something that was meant to be here. But 26 years ago it was built over some land that had a population of animals on it...thanks for coming to my Ted talk
Critterinthecreek@reddit
Scrolling on my phone to see a vintage photo of the building I’m currently scrolling on my phone is was something I wasn’t expecting. Thanks for sharing this is really cool!
BigBirdLaw69420@reddit
You in the meadows building now or something?