Waiting for the Bus at Gilpin and Mt. Royal — 1955
by Paula Bosse
Waiting for the #54…
by Paula Bosse
I saw this photo in a 1955 booklet called Public Transportation in Dallas and loved the neat-as-a-pin Oak Cliff street, its manicured, chilly starkness accentuated by the leafless trees. It’s also a needed reminder — as we’re dragged into August — that someday we’ll (probably) have autumn and winter again.
See what this view looks like today, on Google Street View, here.
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Sources & Notes
Photo from and cover of the slim booklet Public Transportation in Dallas (1955), Dallas History and Archives, Dallas Public Library.
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Flashback : Dallas 
Brings back memories of riding the the bus to downtown to go to high school at crozier tech
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what’s sad is DART is decreasing service across their system; and then there’s the trains catching fire
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Even before reading the article one of my favorite things here is that the photo includes a steel reinforced concrete street sign. I lived at Shiloh and Benbrook. My first day of school photo in my friend Kent’s yard in 1961 clearly shows one of those signs in the background.
Some time in the last 10 years or so I came across a Google Street View image that showed one still in place but I do not remember where it was.
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It looks like DPL/ONCOR has used the same power pole for the last 70 years. It has a very distinctive curve.
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And SOMEDAY maybe we’ll have efficient, clean, fair public transportation in this growing city.
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