Merry Christmas From the Dallas Police Department’s Parking Enforcement Squad
by Paula Bosse
Santa on Elm Street (click for larger image)
by Paula Bosse
I don’t know what the story is behind this photograph of Santa Claus riding on the back of a three-wheeled motorcycle (they were used by the Dallas Police Department to patrol downtown streets for parking violations). Maybe Santa’s sleigh has broken down and he’s thumbed a ride to get to a scheduled event at a department store. Let’s hope it wasn’t the result of said sleigh being parked in a No Parking zone and a rather too strenuous ticket dispute by Mr. Claus necessitating a visit to the station to discuss the situation further. (Look at the brick-paved street!)
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I’m not sure of the original source of this photo, but I want to thank reader Chris Walker for sending this to me. Thank you, Chris!
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Copyright © 2015 Paula Bosse. All Rights Reserved.
Flashback : Dallas 
I knew exactly the site of this pic only when I recognized the style of the, I think, Wilson Building.
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Definitely going west on Elm. See the signs: Palace Theater, Haverty’s Furniture, Butler Bros., Mangels, Wilson Bldg..Very familiar territory. Don’t remember ever seeing Santa on a police vehicle, but I worked downtown in the 1950s and some in the 1960s.
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Elm looks great paved in bricks!!!! Dallas should go back to that!
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My crystal ball (and the old Texas license plate site) agree that the Buick parked at the curb is wearing a 1947 plate.
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