Fort Worth

Oak Grove Community Park is 67 acres and is finally getting funds for real development.

At one point Fort Worth’s population dropped from 3,000 to 600. Until the unified effort to bring the railroad to the town.

The old Vickery Elementary School building, while dilapidated, still has nice bones. Hopefully the Beta Tau Lambda chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity will have success in restoring it.

Shoppers tend to stick to a handful of stores they are comfortable with and don’t regularly compare prices. People are creatures of habit, he said, and retail stores take advantage of that.

Texas A&M. Convention Center. Hotels and Hospitality. Straightening of Commerce Street. Other land redevelopment.

And there’s an effort to determine how to spend it. Seems you get a (small) voice. Sort of like how Dickies Skate Park off Hemphill came to be.

I’m not sure exactly where these are and Google Maps doesn’t have an easy way to search by exit numbers. If you know, tell us.

It’s rough here in Fort Worth for the next 10 days. The highs range from 102 to 109 with nighttime temps falling into the upper 70’s after another week.

There’s a “passport fair” at the Downtown Fort Worth Post Office on Lancaster on Sunday August 6th. These fairs are described as “passport acceptance facilities such as post offices, libraries, and local government offices are hosting special passport acceptance fairs across the United States to help you and your family apply for your passport.” More about them at https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/passports/special-passport-acceptance-fairs.html.

This post isn’t really about the beer but about The Fort’s past. Does anyone remember? This place used to be over on Magnolia. Before the current (Fort) owners bought the place, it was Chimera. And before then, Zio Carlo. The old place is now a liquor store on the corner of Magnolia and College.

Demolished ASAP. As I predicted, no date set and one day it’d just go poof before any more uproar.

Saving it will cost too much even with grants and donations, so it will be razed. Date to be determined. And usually the date isn’t announced to prevent more uproar. One day it’ll simply be no more.

Today on this day, July 19, 1876, the first train entered Fort Worth. The small town could not wait for this to happen while rails were laid as fast as possible and a makeshift trestle was built over Sycamore Creek which today runs roughly between Beach St and Riverside Dr.

It’s on Saturday, July 22 at their location in the Stockyards. You have 60 seconds to cram as much down as you can.

More information about the impending demolition of the Berry Theater on Hemphill in South Fort Worth.

The police department is asking everyone to calm down and deescalate when on the roads. Going so far as “Here in the State of Texas, you have to be an adult to have a driver’s license. Make adult decisions.”

The blue flame was part of the Fort Worth’s skyline since 1957 but in 2018 it had to be taken down because the structure was beginning to fail.

Despite the headline, only one is in Fort Worth and that’s Goldee’s Barbecue. The other 2 are in Tarrant County, but in Arlington and Grapevine.

One is the Fort Worth Public Market near Henderson and Lancaster that is soon to be “restored and revamped.”

The adjustments are to “beat the heat.” It goes into effect on July 10. Neither the article or the sites web pages state when summer hours end. That is unfortunate.

From June to August, the heat wave claimed 1,700 lives and cost $71 million dollars (adjusted for 2022) in agricultural damage.