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4 CLICK-WORTHY All the web news 10 PROFILE Wes Keyes on poverty and gentrification in West Dallas 14 DISC GOLF Throw a casual round at Founders Park 16 EMPANADAS APLENTY Chimichurri brings a piece of Argentina via Mexico City 22 SWING INTO SUMMER The culture and history of golf in Oak Cliff 30 BACK STORY When Sunset High School ruled the links

Colorful discs in a bag ready for a round of disc golf. Photo by Kathy Tran.

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[+] Royal Blue Grocery is rebranding and will be known as Berkley’s Market when it opens on West Davis this summer. The small-footprint grocer leased the building at 634 W. Davis that previously housed Bolsa Mercado in 2019. Dallas City Council offered the owners a $350,000 economic development loan in January 2020, after neighbors opposed giving them grants. But the company turned down the offer. [+] Chip’s Old Fashioned Hamburger is working on a location near Methodist Dallas Medical Center. The restaurant, which has three other locations in Dallas and Plano, leased the space on North Beckley at Greenbriar that previously housed a juice bar and coffee shop. The owners also applied for a permit to sell beer and wine. The family owned restaurant has been around since 1981. [+] Tiff’s Treats is coming to Fort Worth Avenue at Colorado, in the shopping center where there’s a Chipotle. The cookie-delivery company started in Austin in 1999 and opened its second location, in Downtown Dallas, in 2006.

Now the company has more than 50 locations in Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Oklahoma. [+] Potpourri Boulangerie reopened in May after a year of pandemic-related hiatus. The restaurant at 317 N. Zang first opened in 2015. Their reopening menu consists of loose-leaf teas, coffee drinks, pastries, breads and cakes.

A PIECE OF THE PAST Mountain View College, now known as Dallas College Mountain View Campus, opened in 1970, so it turned 50 years old last year. The school’s architecture was loosely based on the design of NorthPark Center, with skylights and planters, as seen in this photo from 197 1.

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[+] Check out this barbecue place before it makes Texas Monthly’s list.

Dallas’ own barbecue guru, Daniel Vaughan, says Smokey Joe’s BBQ at 6407 South R. L. Thornton Freeway, is one of the best barbecue places in Dallas. The restaurant has been around since 1985 but has upped its game since a second-generation owner Kris Manning took over in 2014, replacing the old barbecue pit with state-of-theart smokers and revamping the menu.

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NEIGHBORHOOD RENEWAL A nonprofit has purchased a shuttered recreation center in one of Oak Cliff’s neglected pockets with plans for an $8-million renovation. Behind Every Door acquired the 50-year-old Cedar Crest Community Center, which the Salvation Army previously owned until it closed in 2019 due to financial cuts. The community center, at 1007 Hutchins Road, comprises 8 acres and includes a 20,000-squarefoot community center with a basketball court and workout center, a 4,000-square-foot chapel, a football field and a playground. It will serve the estimated 2,000 children and teens who live in the neighborhood, including adjacent apartments. The property is less than half a mile from Roosevelt High School and Cedar Crest Elementary. The nonprofit is partnering with TREC Dallas, Veritex Community Bank, Troy Aikman, Jordan Spieth and Clayton Kershaw. Learn more at behindeverydoor.org.

Judge Barefoot Sanders Law Magnet at Townview teaches algebra and college transition and is chair of the math department. Principal Garet Feimster describes Tadesse as “the most well-rounded educator I have ever been around. He is a driven, well-organized teacher-leader who intentionally inspires relationships with his students.”

Education news EDUCATORS AT TWO OAK CLIFF SCHOOLS won Dallas ISD’s teacher of the year award recently. SENECA DENMAN of Boude Storey Middle School teaches social studies and is the department chair. Denman wins high praise from her coworkers as well as her students, and DISD says her students consistently achieve double-digit gains on local and state assessments. YONATHAN TADESSE of

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DISD SCHOOLS will reopen completely when school starts in August . The district made the announcement recently: “With COVID-19 cases continuing to significantly decline, we are confident every school can safely open to students when school starts again in August.” The district will continue following CDC-recommended cleaning and sanitizing protocols.

The VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS DEPARTMENT at DISD received the Best Communities for Music Education Award for the second year in a row. The award is given annually by the National Association of Music Merchants Foundation, which “celebrates and promotes the intrinsic value of music education.”

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The Dallas Park Board unceremoniously announced in 1954 that the city’s municipal golf courses were desegregated.

L.B. Houston, who was the city’s parks director, told Leo Shead, who was president of the Dallas Negro Golfers Association, that there was no rule prohibiting Black residents from hitting the links.

We don’t know who was first to try it at Stevens Park, Cedar Crest and Tenison golf courses, but previously, Black people were not permitted to play them except on occasionally designated days.

Golf already was very popular

among Black residents thanks in part to the city-owned Hilliard Golf Course on Lemmon Avenue, which opened with nine holes in 1950. Previous to that, Black Dallasites could play on the six holes added to Moore Park in the 1930s. But Hilliard was billed as the first municipal golf course for Blacks in the South when it opened.

The 65-acre course was never meant to be permanent, and it only lasted about four years.

The city built the course on land it had acquired for expansion of Love Field airport.

Prior to 1954, there was still Elm Thicket Park, which separated Highland

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That neighborhood is quickly vanishing due to a frenzy of teardowns and new homebuilding.

T h e c i ty to o k ba c k E l m Thicket Park and Hilliard Golf Course in 1954, after reducing the course from nine holes to five, to expand the runway at Love Field. And only then was it decided that Black folks were allowed to play any of the municipal courses.

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LIKE WHAT? I learned a lot about crime and culture and poverty and how they’re mixed. I met people fighting for rights in their own neighborhoods, dealing with a drug house next door or with food insecurity. I saw so much injustice in that part of Dallas for years and years and years, and I really got to love that part of the world. I had no intention of leaving. But Brother Bill’s had a hiring committee looking for a new executive director, and they asked me to apply. That was almost four years ago.

TELL US ABOUT WHAT SERVICES BROTHER BILL’S PROVIDES. We’re a wrap-around service nonprofit, and there are a couple of points of entry. We started everything with our grocery store. We don’t call it a pantry. Normally, our neighbors get their shopping carts and pick what they want. Since the pandemic, we can’t do that. It’s a drivethru now.

people don’t need our services anymore. A neighbor told me her husband works for DART now and has good insurance, so they no longer need to use our clinic. We want to move people away from us so they’re not dependent on us anymore.

EXPLAIN YOUR FOCUS ON DIGNITY. When someone comes to us for groceries, we don’t want them to look at us as their savior. We want them to look at us as an equal, and we’re just there to facilitate a grocery store so they can get everything they need. If they’re a patient of our clinic, we ask them to chip in some money for their health care so they have a value add. It’s a suggested donation I think of $10. But we create these opportunities for honor and dignity. We call the people that we serve “neighbors.” That might seem like a small thing. For us it’s a biblical metaphor, but it’s also a Mr. Rogers metaphor. We love our neighbors, and we try our best to support them. Most of my employees started out getting food from Brother Bill’s. So they already know what it’s like to be in that situation.

WHAT ARE SOME OTHER WAYS YOU DO THAT? Christmas was a big event, but it was always held on Christmas Eve. Families could come, and volunteers would come and give out presents from Brother Bill’s. We realized first of all that’s not a great time to do a program because people want to go to church with their families on Christmas Eve. So we thought if we did it the week before Christmas, kids are out of school, so we have a program for the kids. They can go in the back and make gingerbread houses.

And then mom and dad can go shop for unopened presents, just like we do for our grocery store. Then they either wrap them in a wrapping station, or they hide them in the trunk of their car. And when they get home, they gave the presents, not Brother Bill’s. It’s a nuanced change, but it’s important because it empowers dignity.

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AND YOU PROVIDE MEDICAL CARE? We have a full clinic on site. Our physician’s assistant is from West Dallas originally, and we pay for him, but he’s loaned to us through Methodist Health System, and we have a great partnership with Methodist on that. It’s a full primary clinic, so it’s not an emergent clinic. We’re their doctor’s office.

WHAT ELSE? The next tier is empowerment, and that includes learning.

Learning could be Zumba, ESL, financial literacy, soccer camps, ballet camps, STEM camps. We have Children’s Hospital come up once a month and take the food our neighbors are getting from the grocery store and teach them how to cook it. Those classes are always packed. We also have a job-training program called Pathways. That’s six to eight women at a time who go through a real intensive program.

They learn about their finances, their faith, their friends, and everything they need to know to be successful in life in order to find a job and hold a job. Two of our employees went through that program.

WHAT’S THE NEXT THING? Tier three is neighbors who once needed to get food from us, now they’re employees or volunteers, or they’re donors. When

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WHAT OTHER WAYS IS BROTHER BILL’S A LITTLE DIFFERENT? We listen to our neighbors. We have a community council in which we empower our neighbors to think about stuff.

Neighbors wanted a DART bus stop so they could get here more easily, so they advocated for that, and now we have a DART stop right outside.

WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT OUR READERS TO KNOW ABOUT YOU? Brother Bill’s is like a seven-minute drive from Oak Cliff.

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that our people are leaving. We’ve lost so many neighbors because of that. I just want people to know that these are your neighbors. During the pandemic, these areas have been greatly affected in ways that some other communities have not. My employees have lost 10 family members during the pandemic.

One of my employees lost five family members, and two of those were her brother-in-law and sister-in-law who were in their 30s and 40s. What’s more is the mental-health aspect. We have mental-health counseling five days a week, and we have three counselors on site. Our counseling numbers doubled during the pandemic through telehealth medicine. We’re still not out of the woods yet.

TELL US ABOUT ALL THE WORK YOU DID EARLY IN THE PANDEMIC. We haven’t closed one single day except for the winter storm. When everything got shut down, we moved to a drive-thru model immediately. We served diapers and formula for new and expecting moms that very Friday. And then the next day we gave a lot of food out. So we’ve been doing it and doing it and doing it more than we ever have. One big statistic that shows the need during the pandemic is that in 2019 we served 750,000 pounds of food. Last year we served 1.3 million pounds of food.

WHAT HAVE Y’ALL LEARNED SINCE THE PANDEMIC? Nonprofits underestimate their clients’ ability to use technology. We got (an SMS aggregator) to text neighbors.

The silver lining is that we’ve used technology to communicate with our neighbors on a new level. We text them, and they can sign up on their own. I would encourage any nonprofit out there to look at your population the same way you look at yourself. Of course, there are differences, but everybody has a cellphone, and it was an opportunity for us to reach out and let them know we aren’t going anywhere. We’re still here.

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TELL US ABOUT YOUR TECHNOLOGY GRANT FROM THE CARRUTH FOUNDATION. Now we’re working on new technology with Sharing Life Community Outreach in Mesquite. We’ll be one of the first nonprofits to have an e-pantry. So it’s like an Instacart, where they can shop at Brother Bill’s on their phone. We’re developing the app with a former Erickson employee. The Northern Illinois Food Bank gave us permission to use their model, but ours will be different from theirs.

DO YOU SEE A LOT OF INVOLVEMENT FROM OAK CLIFFERS AT BROTHER BILL’S? Yes. Andrew Snow’s company, Track 15, is our development wing. They help with grant writing. We wrote over $1 million in grants in 2019. We also have several board members who live in Oak Cliff: Bret Schuch, Dr. Keith Bloom and Lori Dipprey. I have to thank the Oak Cliff community, especially my neighbors in Winnetka Heights and Kessler Park. We’ve gotten Oak Cliff engaged in ways they never have been before.

WHAT IS BROTHER BILL’S BROTHERHOOD? There are a lot of people in community who are hunters or have access to lean organic game. Many of our neighbors are diabetic, and we are able to help their diets with portions of the harvest that these hunters bring to us. It’s a really cool opportunity to engage more men as volunteers here.

CLAY-SHOOT FUNDRAISER: Brother Bill’s hosts a clay shoot at 11:30 a.m. June 24 at Elm Fork Shooting Sports. Besides a shooting tournament, enjoy live music, drinks and a dinner made by chef Matt Balke of Encina. Find more details and buy tickets at bbhh.org.

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M A K E N EW F R I E N DS Disc golf is a free and friendly leisure sport IT SEEMS LIKE FOUNDERS PARK has always been there at the end of the Houston Street and Jefferson viaducts.

But this dramatic 16-acre city-owned tract wasn’t turned into a proper park until the 1990s, after the fledgling Friends of Oak Cliff Parks pushed for it.

The park sees more traffic than ever since the Roger W. Lytle Disc Golf Course was installed there in 2015.

“It’s the cutest course in Dallas,” says Daniel Sobalvara of Kessler Park. “You always have a view of Downtown Dallas from there. No other city have I found that you have the same backdrop as Founders Park.”

The 40-year-old traveling chef has been all over the country to play disc golf, and his favorite course of all time is at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

But Founders is his home course and his favorite in Dallas.

It’s the perfect place to introduce people to the sport, he says.

“You can learn, and it’s not intimidating,” he says. “Because some courses are big, and they’re like OMG I have to throw it that far?”

It’s not deep in the woods, and players are never very far from the parking lot. The course is short, and while there’s interesting topography and scenery, it

doesn’t require very much walking, says Cole Benge, who plays the course about once a week.

Benge says he’s had two aces on the course. That’s a hole-in-one, and disc golf players say this course is known for its relatively easy aces.

But let’s back up. Disc golf became popular in California before the mid1970s. From regular golf, it borrows the typical nine or 18 holes. Founders Park is unusual in that it has 11.

The object of the game is to throw the disc or Frisbee into a chain basket.

Each hole has a par score, and there are putters, mid-range discs and drivers.

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Opposite page: Cole Benge and Julie Langford swap discs during a round at Roger W. Lytle Disc Golf Course at Founders Park in Oak Cliff. Benge plays frequently and got his girlfriend into the sport recently.

The player with the lowest score wins.

The course at Founders Park is one of four in Dallas proper, and there are more than 60 courses in the Dallas/ Fort Worth area.

It’s a game for all ages. Sobalvara got his dad into it several years ago, and they recently played a round on his 74th birthday. He says “a little kid” once showed him the ropes on the kid’s home course near Lake Tahoe.

Unlike regular golf, disc golf is free.

There are no tee times, and players can come as they are. Getting started takes at least one disc, and second-hand ones cost about $5-$8 each.

George Clark, a Founders Park regular who lives in West Dallas, recommends that newcomers to the sport start from the basket, learning to make it in and practicing putts and then moving out to driving distances.

Clark, a 36-year-old mortgage loan originator, plays at least four times a week. His job in Plano is near a course that he plays on his lunch breaks. He hits the Founders course after work. On

the weekends, he might venture out.

“It’s addictive,” he says.

By the way, disc golf has a reputation as a stoner sport, and some players carry cans of beer in their bags. But it can be a sober sport as well.

Freddy Bear, another regular, says he took up disc golf after spending nine months in alcohol rehab. Now two years and four months sober, he says the sport is part of his therapy.

“It’s one of the smallest courses, but it’s one of the most fun courses,” he says of Founders.

Clark says there’s “not a lot of riffraff ” in the sport. He grew up playing golf and says disc golf is a low-pressure way to stay active.

“I’m not a huge workout buff or anything,” he says. “It doesn’t take a lot of time to get ready to go play. You can just go and pick up a game or play alone.”

Sobalvara is heading to a job in Telluride this summer, where he plans to spend a lot of his free time on a course there that can only be reached by gondola.

He says “my course,” Founders, is not the most difficult course in Dallas, but it does have its challenges.

He came up with a way to shoot 22 holes there by teeing off at each of the 11 holes from two spots, and lots of regulars have learned it, he says.

The most remarkable thing about disc golf is its culture of friendliness, Sobalvara says.

He once met a guy at Founders who was carrying a plastic bag with a disc in it.

“He said he was from Denver and was about to fly out in a few hours and had time to play,” Sobalvara says.

“Long story short, we started throwing, and I wound up taking him to the airport eventually. That’s how easy connections are made.”

To anyone thinking about taking up the sport, Sobalvara recommends giving it a shot because there will always be some friendly person around who’s willing to explain the course.

“Just go out there and ge t it,” he says.

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A selection of handmade empanadas at Chimichurri. There are six varieties, and they cost $4 each.

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“ T H E L AST ASA DA” l i g h t s u p t h e dining room at C himichurri, a neon sign o ve r a s en d -u p of T h e L as t Su ppe r th at f e at u r e s Ar gen t i n e s occe r gre ats in s te ad o f Je s u s a n d t he apos tle s .

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a s p e a k e a s y c a l l e d t h e Ta n g o Room in the separate private di ni n g r oom at t h e back of th e building. Carmona eliminated an office and enlarged the room, w h i c h w i l l h av e a b a r a n d t w o big banquettes. Entry will be t h rou g h t h e a lle y, marke d with m o re n e on , a n d a h e av y c u r tain will separate it from the res tau ra n t .

The full name is Chimichu r r i A r g e n t i n i a n B i s t r o & B a r, a n d i t ’s a l s o a s t e a k h o u s e w i t h a $3 5 r i b - e ye. C a rmon a worke d for many years in steakhouses such as John Tesar ’s restaurants Kni f e a n d S p oon , af te r all.

But anyone can grab a $4 empanada. There are six, and they’re beautifully handmade, including one with lamb, onion and fennel

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T h e wine l is t incl udes 40 l abels, 80% from Argentina and 20% from California. A glass cos ts $8 -$ 14.

The dinner menu also features an arugula salad with roasted bee ts, blue cheese and fried gar lic chips in red wine vinaigre tte.

C a p p e l l e tt i , p a s t a s t u ff e d w i t h braised lamb and mushrooms, is s e r ve d in a cr eamy sauce.

Plus, there are six pizzas, including one with burrata and mortadella and one with arugula an d Parmesan.

It was a rough pandemic year for Carmona, who was laid up with a broken ankle, besides closing his beloved res taurants.

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Boutique Streak New places to shop in Bishop Arts Compiled by RACHEL STONE

In one generation, the Bishop Arts District went from boarded up to artist studios to local hangouts to a bona fide Dallas brunch scene, with opportunities at every turn for engagement photoshoots and sweet social media content. A few OGs remain, such as Indigo 1745, Epiphany Boutique, Fête-ish, Bishop Street Market, Home on Bishop and DIRT Flowers.

A few others can no longer be called newcomers: We Are 1976, Red Pegasus Comics, DFW M’Antiques, Spinster Records and Society candle store, for example.

Here’s a look at some of the newer places to shop in Bishop Arts.

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The Laughing Willow

This boutique in an old house is a whole vibe, from the sidewalk chalk to the porch swing to the outdoor live-music stage.

Inside, find kids clothes and shoes, women’s accessories and dresses, home décor and gifts.

301 N. Bishop Ave., thelaughingwillow.com Hours: Monday-Tuesday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday, noon-8 p.m. Sunday

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Dolly on Bishop

There are many vintage clothing stores in Dallas, but there’s only one Dolly Python. Well actually, there are two. The funky East Dallas retailer has been around for more than 15 years, and this outpost opened a few years ago after owner Gretchen Bell moved to Oak Cliff. Find vintage T-shirts and cowboy boots, chic summer accessories and all the odd tchotchkes that make Dolly Dallas’ eccentric queen of cool.

315 N. Bishop Ave., dollypythonvintage.com Hours: Noon-6 p.m.

Tuesday-Wednesday, noon-8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m.

Sunday, closed Monday.

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Urban Owl If you can’t find the gift you’re looking for at this shop, then perhaps it doesn’t exist. Find jewelry and accessories, mugs, magnets, puzzles, CBD

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All Good Things Kristin Miller opened this shop about four years ago because of her love of stationery and paper goods. But it also offers children’s

products and greeting cards.

clothing and all kinds of gifts.

415 N. Bishop Ave., shop-urbanowl.com Hours: 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Sunday-Wednesday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday

404 W. Eighth St., allgoodthingspaper.com Hours: 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday

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Magic Hour

What a concept. This is a late-night cocktail bar and restaurant serving snacks like guacamole with edible 14-karat gold and drag shows on the weekends, and it’s also a boutique that sells sterling-silver rings, bracelets and necklaces.

This boutique is owned by a mother-daughter duo who started in retail by selling vintage furniture picked up from estate sales out of their garage. The shop offers everything from home goods to pantry items to dog toys, including many handmade and small-batch products.

320 W. Seventh St. Hours: 3 p.m.-midnight Wednesday-Thursday, noon-2 a.m. Saturday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday-Tuesday

250 N. Bishop Ave., magichourshop.com Hours: 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Blue Feather This fitness studio specializes in aerial yoga, but it also has a retail component that offers sustainable athleisure wear.

233 W. Seventh St., bluefeatheraerial.com Retail hours: 1-6 p.m.

Friday and Saturday

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AJ Vagabonds

This isn’t Colorado.

There’s no national park.

But Dallas has its natural assets! If you’ve ever wanted to kayak the Trinity River or play a round of disc golf at Founders Park (See page 14), this boutique has got you covered in the way of gear and expertise.

The locally owned shop carries high-end camping gear, cute T-shirts, some bike stuff such as inner tubes and lights, plus unique gifts for the outdoorsy ones in your life

336 W. Eighth St., ajvagabonds.com Hours: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Wednesday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Thursday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday.

Ellison Valencia Gallery

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This gallery puts the art in Bishop Arts. Business partners Cody Ellison and Ken Valencia opened it after years in business with their Bishop Arts stores, including Home on Bishop and Dwell on Davis. The gallery features affordable original art from local artists.

408 N. Bishop Ave., 214.924.0271 Hours: Noon-6 p.m. Wednesday, noon-8 p.m. Thursday, noon-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday and Tuesday

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Marcel Market

Oui oui, mon amie! Husbandand-wife business partners Amelie and Gregory Monvoisin are from Paris and moved to the United States because of family ties. Their boutique carries all things French, including jewelry, clothing, skin-care products, stationery and pantry items such as French mustard and cookies.

250 N. Bishop Ave., marcel-market.com Hours: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Sunday

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wo Oak Cliffers were among the original members of the LPGA. One PGA champion is from here. Oak Cliff was home to the tournament now named for Byron Nelson. And the only PGA championship ever held in Dallas was played here.

A country-club sport that’s perceived as elite became accessible to most of Oak Cliff decades ago.

Today our neighborhood is home to two highly regarded public golf courses whose history and influence are part of the fabric of life in Oak Cliff.

Here’s why Cedar Crest and Stevens Park golf courses are more than just places to catch a round.

H O M E COU RS E Ce d a r C rest G o l f Co u rse se r ves t h e n e i g h b o r h o o d

Ira Molayo first played Cedar Crest Golf Course as a 10-year-old after his mom took up the sport and enrolled him in a golf camp there.

He grew up 2 miles from the City of Dallas-owned course where he’s now director of golf. Since 2008, Molayo has driven to make golf accessible to kids and teens.

Three years ago, he founded a nonprofit, I Am a Golfer, which provides lessons, equipment, team golf and course access to Dallas kids ages 7-17, at little to no cost to them.

“Golf has been so exclusive that we don’t create those avenues for kids,” Molayo says.

Beyond just teaching them the game and hopefully inspiring lifelong play, Molayo also wants to show kids that golf can lead to careers.

Every year, I Am a Golfer hires about 35 paid high school and college interns to help run the pro shop and the many summer tournaments held at Cedar Crest.

Interns learn customer service, inventory, retail transactions, management and professionalism. College students run marketing campaigns, including social media, printed materials and signage.

Sometimes they’re just shagging balls, but there are lessons at every turn.

“Having a kid from South Oak Cliff who just doesn’t see a lot of white people being able to walk up to someone and shake their hand,” Molayo says. “It’s an environment that enriches them just by being here.”

Black kids are more likely to face discrimination, and often, they’re not given as many chances to make mistakes, so it’s a safe space for them to fail, he says.

The nonprofit, whose major funders include the Trinity Forest Golf Club, the Jordan Spieth Foundation and AT&T, also has awarded about $45,000 in scholarships to its interns in the past three years.

Ira Molayo

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L EG E N DA RY STAT US T he 1927 PGA C hampionship at Cedar Crest remains the only major championship ever played on a Dallas course.

Legend has it that Walter Hagen, known as “ the father of professional golf,” woke up late on the penultimate day of the tournament after a night of drinking. He was down five on hole 13, and the sun was shining in his eyes. The flashy Hagen rarely wore a hat because he was known for his attractive black hair. He was getting ready to tee off, when a kid in the gallery shouted, “Mr. Hagen, would you like my cap?” He showily took the cap, birdied the hole and won the match. He won again the next day, capturing the fourth of his career 11 majors.

And who was the kid who loaned Hagan his cap?

A 15-year-old Byron Nelson.

“Byron Nelson was here in 1927 to watch his favorite golfer on tour,” Molayo says.

Back then it was Cedar Crest Country Club. It went downhill after the Great Depression, and the city bought it in 1946.

Homes in the neighborhood were originally built for the families of white businessmen who could commute by streetcar to Downtown Dallas. After World War II, it became home to Black doctors, professionals and business owners.

Somewhere around the 1980s, Cedar Crest became known as “ the course in the hood,” Molayo says. The original clubhouse had been destroyed in a fire, and a glorified shack served for decades until the current building went up in 2001.

But before that, it was notorious for gambling.

“It was to the point where you could just show up and ‘rail,’” Molayo says. “Rail means you can rent a cart and just ride around and watch people play,” to bet on them.

Because of that, everyone knew it was the place to be when caddies had their day off from the Colonial and Byron Nelson tournaments, Molayo says.

The days of illicit gambling are long over.

The course was renovated in 2004, and the greens were updated in 2016. Both renovations were done

by D. A . Weibring and Steve Wolford, highly regarded course architects who stayed true to A.W. Tillinghast’s original design.

Many of nearby homes have remained in the hands of Black middle-class families who’ve lived there since the 1940s.

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B u t t h e n e i g h b o r h o o d i s c h a n g i n g a ga i n . A brand-new two-story modern home was recently cons truc ted across the s tree t. And townhomes are going up nearby with prices starting in the $300,000 range. “ They’re popping up,” Molayo says. “It’s a lot of people from California or out-of-state, and they buy up a spot or renovate it.”

Golfers come from all over Dallas to play Cedar Crest, and the course is home to many tournaments throughout the year, including the AT&T Byron Nelson Pro-Am. Molayo says he thinks the golf course is the main asset of the Cedar Crest neighborhood, and he works to bring the community in as much as possible.

“I really tr y to leverage golf to help kids and young people. I want to use the golf course to create jobs and employ people,” he says. “I want it to be a destination for people from all over the Metroplex. When they come here and get on the course, they’re going to love it.”

Cedar Crest Golf Course Where: 1800 Southerland Ave. Course rates: $13-$45 More info: golfcedarcrest.com, iamagolfer.com

DID YOU KNOW? Cedar Crest hosted the United Golf Association’s Negro National Open in 1954, during a time when Black people were barred from the PGA. It also hosted the only Dallas Open, which was on the PGA tour in 1926.

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OAK CLIFF GOLF CLUBS Aside from the municipal courses, our neighborhood is home to two private golf clubs, and each tells a unique story about Oak Cliff.

Oak Cliff Country Club, later renamed to Golf Club of Dallas, was built in 1954 and hosted the Dallas Open Invitational, the tournament now named for Byron Nelson, from 1958-1967.

It is notable in that context as the only place where a golfer has won a PGA tournament on his home course. Sunset High School alumnus Earl Stewart Jr. worked as a pro there when he won the Dallas Open Invitational in 1961. (See page 30.)

After years of declining membership in the club, developer Huffines Communities considered buying it to build 500 homes there in 2017, but neighbors overwhelmingly opposed the idea, and Huffines dropped it.

Megachurch Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship bought the club last year.

The church didn’t respond to inquiries for this story, but golf ministries have become popular in Christian congregations.

A letter from the club to members in May 2020 stated that the church planned to keep the 200 acres as a golf course. “It’s clear they just want what is best for the club,” former director of golf Philip Bleakney said at the time.

Dallas National is the golf club so exclusive that you might not even know it’s there. Built in 2003 and designed

by Tom Fazio, its original members, which included Tom Hicks, Lee Trevino and Roger Staubach, paid upwards of $100,000 a year to join. You can’t play there unless you’re invited by a member. And when you’re inside, you won’t know where you are.

“They don’t want anyone looking in on it,” says Jim Henderson of Stevens Park, who has played the course. “And they don’t want their members looking out on the neighborhood there.”

It was built on about 700 square yards inside a former cement quarry and is said to have striking vistas from every tee box. It’s strictly golf — no pool, no tennis courts, no big clubhouse, no weddings, no engagement photos.

Ira Molayo of Cedar Crest says it’s very challenging and unlike any other course in Dallas.

“It’s one of my top favorite courses, the few times I’ve had the privilege to play there,” he says.

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DID YOU KNOW? The National Youth Administration, a New Deal agency, built the original Stevens Park caddie house in 1937. The Works Progress Administration built the clubhouse and pavilions in 1942.

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N O M E M B ERS HIP NEC ESSARY Ste vens Park G olf Course belon gs to th e neighb or hood.

When it and everything else was closed during the coronavirus pandemic, it became a w o r k o u t c e n t e r, p i c n i c s p o t a n d walking course for neighbors. It is the downhill sledding headquar ters of Nor th Oak C liff snows tor ms. And when it was time to modernize the course in 2005, neighbors stepped up to ge t it d on e .

A handful of neighborhood residents rais e d mon e y an d pushed the city to u s e bon d fu n d s to f ul l y r enovate the cou rs e all at on ce .

T h e Ste ve n s Park cour se was or igi n a l l y b u i l t w i t h 9 h o l e s i n 1 9 24 . I t was later expanded to 18 holes, but it h ad s an d gre e n s that wer e raked.

“It was a fu n ky cour se,” say s dir ect o r o f go l f Ji m He n d e r s o n , w h o h a s worke d at th e cou rse since 1988.

They didn’ t want to do the job piecemeal, so it was comple tely overhauled to the tune of $8 million, including new greens, fair ways, sprinklers and a maintenance barn, as well as erosion con trol in 2011.

T he group of neighbors who spent fi v e y e a r s w o r k i n g f o r t h a t p r o j e c t formed a nonprofit called North Oak C liff Greenspace that s till raises as much as $50,000 a year to maintain the course and surrounding areas, including the Kessler Parkway trail, amounting to about 2.5 acres of garden beds, plus signage and cart path s .

The nonprofit partnered with Kessler Neighbors United to raise half the money needed to renovate the tennis cour ts on the parkway, with the city paying the other half, and they raised $60,000 to place a pedestal clock near the clubhouse.

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it ’s amazing what we can ge t acc o m pl ished,” Hender son say s.

From the beginning, neighbors have d r i v e n t h e p a r k ’s d e v e l o p m e n t . A n Oak C liff business association pushed the city to acquire land from what was then the Bishop Dunne Memorial Home, an orphanage, to e xpand to 18 hol es in 1926.

Stevens Park has never been the most diffic ult course in town, but the environment is unbeatable — unfenced in a beautiful historic neighborhood, with vie ws of Downtown and r ol l ing hills.

It ’s a uniq ue ur b an gol f e xper ien c e.

Since it ’s hemmed in b y the neig hb or hood, space didn’ t al l ow Col ligan G olf Design’s 2011 rework to make the fair ways longer. New technology allows any one to dr ive the b al l far ther. Yo u couldn’ t play a pro tournament there, but it’s a fun course that’s meant to be enter taining for gol fer s of any l e vel, Hender son say s.

It hos ted high- school tour namen t s b ack when Sunse t High S chool w as a golf powerhouse (see page 30), and at a time when women were e xcluded fr om many gol f spaces, Ste vens Par k was a hub for women’s tour namen t s.

Henderson says municipal golf courses were overbuilt in the 1990s and by the year 2000, there was a bit o f a l u l l i n t h e m a r ke t . B u t s i n c e its r enovation, Ste vens Par k G ol f Course has always been ver y popul ar, he says.

The popularity of the sport swung upward after the pandemic b ecause it ’s easy to maintain distance outdoors on a golf cour se. “ T he golf course is an anchor to the neighborhood,” he says. “And it’s really neighb or dr iven.”

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WORSHIP

By ERIC FOLKERTH

R i d e t h e wa r m c u r re n t L i fe i s n o t a l l ea r t h - b o u n d

I

like to joke that hawks are my spirit animal. I’ve had several semi-mystical encounters with them over the years.

On two of my birthdays, I’ve had close encounters with two separate hawks, in ways that felt like messages from God. The message was something like: “take courage…have strength…fear not…”

Also, years ago now, I was sitting in a doctor’s office waiting for the door to open and biopsy results to be revealed. I gazed out the window amid anxiety and fear, to see a lone hawk perched upon the corner of an adjacent building.

She was just looking off into the distance.

And again, I heard… “take courage… have strength…fear not…”

But the most memorable moment I’ve had with a hawk was watching one deal with its own moment of crisis.

As I pulled up to church after lunch one day, I looked up to see a lone hawk, being “dive bombed” by two large black crows.

It was an amazing sight. I put the car in park and sat there transfixed. Those crows were really, really mad about something.

(I cannot deny that the hawk might well have been guilty.)

It was “two against one,” and they repeatedly circled and dove toward the hawk. I had no idea how the hawk could possibly get out of this situation.

But slowly, effortlessly, the hawk spiraled higher and higher into the sky. It caught the upward current of the warm breeze. It barely flapped its wings, and never pecked back and its attackers. In fact, it didn’t even seem like the hawk was paying them any attention to them at all.

It just kept going higher and higher, until it was but a mere dot in the blue Texas sky.

What happened, of course, is that the crows couldn’t go that high. It was beyond their physical capability.

The hawk got away from the crows by going HIGHER. In Romans 12, St. Paul says: “Don’t be

conformed to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds.”

I love this Common English Bible translation. It suggests there are “patterns” to this world.

The world’s patterns are earth-bound, repetitive, depressing, and fear-filled. The world would lock us into believing it will never change. The world’s patterns are filled with random violence and distrusting hearts. And it can easily feel like we’re being “pecked” to death by adversaries both outside us, and within our own hearts.

But through the Spirit of God within us, we have the capacity to be “transformed,” even amid the world’s depressing patterns of attack.

We can “go higher,” and find a way to be renewed.

Obviously, we can’t live way up in the air. We have to come back to earth. But it strikes me that our particular problem these days is being so “grounded” that we never really see beyond what is right in front of us.

We see plenty of trees, but very little forest. Our vision is clouded by endless lists of “to dos,” and the demands of life.

The hawk knows it can always “go higher.” St. Paul knew that there is spiritual wisdom that can help us transcend our earthy cares.

So, when you’re feeling especially attacked, under siege, or just stuck in the rut of every-day life, let the hawk be your guide. Don’t fall into the trap of believing that the repeating patterns of the earthbound world are all there is to your life.

Ride the upward lift of God’s Spirit, and go higher.

WORSHIP BAPTIST CLIFF TEMPLE BAPTIST CHURCH / 125 Sunset Ave. / 214.942.8601

Serving Oak Cliff since 1898 / CliffTemple.org / English and Spanish 9 am Contemporary Worship / 10 am Sunday School / 11 am Traditional GRACE TEMPLE BAPTIST Come to a Place of Grace!

Sunday Worship: English Service 9:30am / Spanish Service 11:00am 831 W. Tenth St. / 214.948.7587 / gracetempledallas.org

C AT H O L I C ST. CECILIA CATHOLIC PARISH / StCeciliaDallas.org / 1809 W Davis St. / Saturday - Bilingual Mass 5PM; Sunday – English Masses 7:30AM & 11AM; Spanish Masses 9AM & 1PM

DISCIPLES OF CHRIST EAST DALLAS CHRISTIAN CHURCH / 629 N. Peak Street / 214.824.8185

Sunday School 9:30 am / Worship 8:30 am - Chapel 10:50 am - Sanctuary / Rev. Deborah Morgan-Stokes / edcc.org

E P I S C O PA L CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH / ChristChurchDallas.org Sunday School: 11:15am /Mass: 9am & 10am English, 12:30pm Español Wednesday Mass: 6pm English, 8pm Español / 534 W. Tenth Street

METHODIST KESSLER PARK UMC / 1215 Turner Ave./ 214.942.0098 I kpumc.org 10:30am Sunday School/11:00 Worship /All are welcome regardless or race, creed, culture, gender or sexual identity.

N O N - D E N O M I N AT I O N A L KESSLER COMMUNITY CHURCH / 2100 Leander Dr. at Hampton Rd.

“Your Hometown Church Near the Heart of the City.”

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Sundays 10:00 am / Worship & children’s Sunday School 1139 Turner Ave. / trinitychurchoakcliff.org

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ERIC FOLKERTH is senior pastor of Kessler Park United Methodist Church. The Worship section is underwritten by Advocate Publishing and the neighborhood businesses and churches listed here. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.

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BACK STORY

By RACHEL STONE

Powe r h o u se of go l f W h e n S u n se t H i g h Sc h o o l a ce d t h e ga m e

T

he Sunset High School football team were city c h a m p i o n s i n 1 9 2 7, a n d the basketball team won the S a n g e r Tr o p h y f o r b e i n g c i t y champs in 1930.

Back then the golf team was jus t ge tting warmed up, entering high school tournaments and some times winning, af ter Ste vens Park G olf Course was ins talled in 1 9 2 5 . In t h e l a t e 1 9 3 0 s , S u n s e t b e c a m e a Te x a s go l f p o we r h o u s e , reigning for more than a decade t h a n k s t o c o u r s e ava i l a b i l i ty a n d a few superstar athletes.

T he school ’s first golf star was a kid named J. Ward Fouts, who had a hole-in-one on the fifth hole a t S t e v e n s Pa r k i n Ma r c h 1 9 3 4 .

L e s s t h a n t w o m o n t h s l a t e r, h e l e d S u n s e t t o t h e c i ty t i t l e . Fo u t s d i e d i n 1 9 4 3 at a ge 24 . L e s l i e A .

Stemmons Jr., the younger son of t h e W i n n e t k a He i g h t s d e v e l o p e r who has a freeway named for him, w a s a m o n g Fo u t s ’ t e a m m at e s , along with Briard Mims and a g i r l , B e tty Ja m e s o n .

Ja m e s o n h a d t a ke n t h e D a l l a s Wo m e n’s G o l f A s s o c i a t i o n’s c i t y title in a tournament that spring.

A b o u t a we e k p r i o r t o t h at h i g h school city championship, in w h i c h s h e s c o r e d a 74 , s h e w o n h e r fi r s t m a j o r t o u r n a m e n t , t h e S o u t h e r n w o m e n’s t i t l e , i n Ne w

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O r l e a n s i n May 1 9 3 4 . I t w a s t h e w e e k o f h e r 1 5 t h b i r t h d ay.

K n o w n s t a t e w i d e b y t h e a ge o f 13 for her power and accuracy at the tees, she turned pro in 1945 and won se ven tournaments before the LPGA was formed. She won the 1947 U.S. Women’s Open with a 295 total, making her the fi r s t w o m a n t o s c o r e u n d e r 3 0 0 in a 72-hole tournament. She and fellow Sunset alumna Bettye Mims D a n o ff, w h o s e f a m i l y o w n e d t h e b ygo n e S u n s e t G o l f C o u r s e , we r e among the 13 founding members o f t h e L P G A . Ja m e s o n , w h o w o n a t o t a l o f $ 9 1 ,74 0 o ve r s e ve n years in the LPGA, also founded t h e Va r e Tr o p hy, w h i c h i s g i v e n to the LPGA member with the l o we s t t o t a l s c o r e f o r t h e s e a s o n , named in honor of Jameson’s idol, G l e n n a C o l l e tt Va r e .

T h e s c h o o l ’s n e x t s t u n n e r w a s E a r l S t e w a r t J r. , w h o w o n t h e individual state title for Sunset i n 1 9 3 7, 1 9 3 8 a n d 1 9 3 9 .

A t e a c h e r a t H i g h l a n d Pa r k High School originally devised the tournament because s tudents at that out-of-district school were not eligible to compete in the city tournament. It was played at Cedar Crest Golf Course all three times Stewart creamed everyone. Sunset also won the team state title in 1938. Stewart

went on to win the national NCAA individual golf title for L ouisiana State University in 1941. LSU won the national team title the following year with Stewart as a m e m b e r.

Stewart became a PGA tour pro, and he won the tournament n o w k n o w n a s t h e B y r o n Ne l s o n at the Oak Cliff Countr y Club i n 1 9 6 1 , b e a t i n g A r n o l d Pa l m e r b y o n e s h o t ; h e ’s s t i l l t h e o n l y pro in history to win a major tournament on his home course.

He later became the head coach at Southern Methodist University, w h e r e h e b r o u g h t t h e w o m e n’s team to the NCAA Division 1 c h a m p i o n s h i p t i t l e i n 1 97 9 . T h e late PGA champion Payne Stewart (no relation) was another of his a t h l e t e s a t S M U. A n d t h e n t h e r e ’s D o n Ja n u a r y.

With Januar y on the team, Sunset won three straight city tournaments. He went on to what i s n o w t h e Un i v e r s i t y o f N o r t h Te x a s , w h i c h w o n f o u r n a t i o n a l D i v i s i o n I N C A A t i t l e s i n a r o w, f r o m 1 9 4 9 -1 9 5 2 .

A s a pro, he won 10 PGA titles, including the championship i n 1 9 6 7. T h a t c a m e f i v e y e a r s after he shot a 68 in the 1961 PGA Championship, losing by o n e s t r o k e i n a p l a y o ff t o Je r r y B a r b e r, s o h e h o l d s t h e r e c o r d

Left: Betty Jane Mims at the Texas Women’s Open in October 1941. Photo courtesy of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection at UTA Libraries.

Top: National champion Betty Jameson pitching to seventh green at the Southern Women’s golf tournament, May 1940.

Photo courtesy of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection at UTA Libraries.

Above: Photo of Sunset Golf Course via Golf Pass.

for the lowest losing score ever i n a n 1 8 - h o l e p l ay o ff f o r a m a j o r tournament.

Januar y also won 22 Senior PGA tournaments and had a career in t h e go l f - c o u r s e d e s i g n b u s i n e s s .

Now 91, he’s s till living and owns a home in Dallas.

T h e l a s t o f S u n s e t ’s b i g g o l f s t a r s w a s J i m m y Po w e l l , w h o

died this p as t Januar y at age 8 5 . He w o n t h e i n d i v i d u a l s t a t e championship for Sunse t in 1952 a n d att e n d e d t h e s a m e c o l l e ge a s Ja n u a r y.

Po w e l l p l a y e d t w o f u l l - s e a s o n t o u r s i n t h e P G A , b u t h i s b i g ge s t success as a pro was on the S enior PGA Tour, now known as the PGA To u r C h a m p i o n s . H e w o n f o u r

tournaments and still holds three r e c o r d s o n t h a t t o u r.

Between the end of his PGA touring days and his 50th b i r t h d a y i n Ja n u a r y 1 9 8 5 , w h e n he was eligible for the Senior PGA, he was the golf pro at S t e ve n s Pa r k G o l f C o u r s e , although he otherwise made his home in California.

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1520 Argonne Drive

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