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It was South Main! Now, I am unsure where the south picked up but right about there would be right. The appellation covered Main Street all the way out to Prince's Drive In, Playland Park and the race tracks.

I remember shopping at the old Sears with my Grandmother in the mid to late 1940's. She had a particular corset she liked that was only still carried by Sears. The section of the store was called Foundation Garments and had torso mannequins dolled up in same on high shelves above the merchandise. I mostly recall the constant "dings" sounding about the store, never figured those out.

It is a shame that more preservation of original buildings did not take place. Fort Worth is a delight with its downtown of restored, beautiful art deco and before architectural gems.

My mother worked at the Sears on South Main...and yes, it was always called SOUTH Main. The art deco must have been before my time. I only remember it with the cladding. But I loved the wide staircases. So much more fun than the escalators. And the "dings"... always the "dings." I hadn't thought about them for years. What memories.

I remember site #3 on Telephone Rd. at Westover. This was located near the Tropicana Pool. That was a long time ago....1960 or 1961?

I lived on Park Place and went to Hartman Junior High so I passed that building every day to and from school. I remember thinking how exciting it was to have something so important right there in the neighborhood. I remember the Tropicana Pool, too. Went to many a swim party there.

My wife remembers a Goggi's Pizza in the area

Big Humphrey's was the pizza of choice on Park Place.

I find Park Place a very interesting street, and I have always loved that law office's brick work. It looks like a sixties-style bldg., but those houses on that section of Pk Place are some of the first built; the forties seams right , to me, year built. It must have been remodeled. I recall a second one, nearby, with similar brickwork.

I was studying the Park Place aerials recently. I am curious as to the street name Reveille, what is it's significance?

Too bad the apt. bldg and police station (sitting next to it) near Telephone and Pk Place are to be, or have been demolished.

I grew up in the house on the corner of Park Place and Juniper, in the next block from the police station. The houses in that neighborhood (including the law office) were post-World War II housing for returning servicemen. I'm confident that's the origin of the name Reveille. There was one large, older house right across Park Place from us, but all the houses south of Park Place were all post-WWII vintage. My mother, who lived in the house until the early 1990s, told me our house was the first built in the Santa Rosa development.

I have photos and when I get a chance I'll dig them out and post them here.

I just discovered this site, thanks to a friend who is interested in the history of Sharpstown, where he grew up. What a great find!