Shelli Orona went from dropout to dynamo
Don’t count her out Return to “Still I rise” home page The day that Shelli Orona wore her slippers to school was a turning…
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Nothing can hold back Aye Naing
Recipe for success Return to “Still I rise” home page Aye Naing had to work hard to communicate clearly when she was younger. Now,…
Brawl on the move, Greenville Avenue
It was a major-fail rumble. The Lakewood Rats crew and an Exall Park gang — about 150 high schoolers altogether — met “by appointment”…
Plane crash on the lake, Near Garland Road
Stunt planes were all the rage in the 1920s and ’30s as daring pilots tested the limits of the burgeoning technology. Aviators regularly took…
Zodiac Killer at the lake?, Lawther Drive
Northern California was terrorized by the Zodiac Killer, who claimed five confirmed victims but was suspected in multiple other murders between 1968-74. But in…
Warren Angus Ferris Cemetery, St. Francis and San Leandro
Some people in Forest Hills seemingly live on an old burial ground. Warren Angus Ferris was a prolific American surveyor who charted Yellowstone before…
Birthplace of Daffy Duck, White Rock Lake
Tex Avery went down in history for his creative work animating cartoons for Warner Bros. and MGM in the golden era of the medium….
UFO sighting, White Rock Lake
On a mild, slightly breezy March evening in 1959, two men spotted something unusual in the sky over White Rock Lake — cylindrical, dime-sized…
Porter Chevrolet and the giant Santa, 5526 E. Mockingbird Lane
It was undoubtedly an eye-catching publicity stunt. Two years after Big Tex was unveiled to rave reviews at the 1951 State Fair of Texas,…
Dr Pepper National Headquarters, Greenville and Mockingbird
Dr Pepper is a true piece of Texas pride, invented in Waco in the late 1800s. It came to the neighborhood in 1948 when…
Bob-O-Links Golf Course, Abrams, between Mercedes and McCommas
The McCommas family were early neighborhood settlers who bought up 640 acres along Abrams in the 1840s. When the golf craze swept the country,…
Mrs. Baird’s Bread Company, 1401 N. Carroll
Mrs. Baird was a widow in Fort Worth trying to make ends meet for her children when she began baking and selling bread out…
