Dallas House Moving Company — 1940
by Paula Bosse
Moving from W. 12th to … W. 12th…. (click for larger image)
by Paula Bosse
My brother and I are helping our mother move. At least we aren’t having to move a two-story brick apartment building, as seen in the photo above, which is from a 1940 ad for the Dallas House Moving Company (est. 1935), owned and operated by Homer Gardner. The caption for the photo is below (click to see a larger image):
Dallas House Moving Co. advertisement, Aug. 1940
The apartment house (which contained six units) was one of several houses and apartment buildings which were moved in 1940 to accommodate the widening of Zang Boulevard in Oak Cliff. The building was moved from 138 W. 12th Street to 214 W. 12th. The 900,000-pound structure was loaded onto a steel track and was moved the short distance on steel rollers.
So when I sigh heavily on having to move things my down-sizing mother really does not need to be keeping (like … schnapps glasses?!), I have to take a moment and keep this relatively simple move in perspective. No steel tracks necessary
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Flashback : Dallas 
the street view today
So sad
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Paula, Homer Gardner was my granddad. I believe I have a copy of the newspaper article about the move filed away. He payed railroad track and moved the building on the tracks.
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