2020 March Oak Cliff

WHEN IT COMES TO COLON CANCER DETECTION, 45 IS THE

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If you’re in your mid-40s and haven’t had your colon checked, it might be time. Screening guidelines have changed.

The American Cancer Society’s guidelines for colon cancer screening now recommend that adults at average risk get screened starting at age 45 instead of 50. Getting screened is the first step in prevention. Talk to your doctor about which screening option is best for you. Methodist Dallas Medical Center providers o er personalized healthcare services for every stage of life and every state of health. Trust. Methodist.

The new John R. Ford Family GI Laboratory and Advanced Endoscopy is now open. For a physician referral, call 877-637-4297.

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MARCH 14 PALETAS Y BICICLETAS

The more trash kids pick up at neighborhood parks, the more chances they have to win one of at least 30 brand-new bikes. But this free annual Bike Friendly Oak Cliff event is about having fun. Expect a bike ride between Lake Cliff Park and Kidd Springs Park, piñatas, mariachis, luchadores and, of course, paletas.

Lake Cliff Park, 300 E. Colorado Blvd.

noon-5 p.m. bikefriendlyoc.org

MARCH 8

Beekeeping 101

Learn the basics of backyard beekeeping with local honey producer Lieber Honey in this free class that starts at 1 p.m.

Where: A.J. Vagabonds, 336 W. Eighth St. More info: 972.982.2773

MARCH 14-15

Jukebox Jamboree

The Polyphonic Spree celebrates 20 years with a set of the band’s favorite songs to cover, followed by a set of original songs. This is the first in a series of 20th-anniversary shows the band is doing this year, and it’s also the 10-year anniversary of the rebirth of the Kessler Theater. $26-$48

Where: The Kessler Theater, 1230 W. Davis St. More info: thekessler.org

MARCH 28

MARCH 21

Trivia at the zoo

Take an afterhours tour of the Dallas Zoo, followed by zoological pub trivia in the pavilion. Beer is for sale, and bites are provided at this adults-only event, from 4-7 p.m. $25-$30

Where: The Dallas Zoo, Marsalis Avenue at Interstate 35 More info: dallaszoo.com/ events

All Out Trinity

The Trinity River Levee Run ($45-$85) starts at 8 a.m. The community marketplace is from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. The gravel ride ($30-$55) starts at noon. Yoga on the bridge ($25-$30) is at 1 p.m., and salsa on the plaza (free) starts at 2 p.m.

Where: Ronald Kirk Pedestrian Bridge, Singleton Blvd. at Beckley Avenue

More info: allouttrinity.com

GET ON THE BANDWAGON

There is a new college team in town. The University of North Texas at Dallas approved a $7 per credit hour fee for athletics. Approval came in the form of a student-body vote, and it won 63% support. The fees will fund an athletics program that includes men’s and women’s basketball, cross country and track, starting in the 2020-21 academic year. The university, on University Hills Drive at East Camp Wisdom Road, plans to add men’s and women’s soccer in the future.

“This is a momentous day for UNT Dallas as we take another significant step toward becoming an all-encompassing university in the heart of southern Dallas,” UNT Dallas President Bob Mong said. “Athletics will enhance the student and alumni experience, increase our visibility and bring awareness of the university’s mission to make college accessible and a ordable for all.”

My long-term goal is to be a politician. I’m going to run for City Council in Dallas and just move on up from there.

– CHASITY SAMONE, THE OAK CLIFFER WHO WAS PLAYMATE OF THE MONTH IN PLAYBOY’S FIRST-EVER “EQUALITY ISSUE” IN FEBRUARY.

#PICTUREPERFECT

A fire gutted the former Polar Bear Ice Cream stand on Zang Boulevard in January. The unique building, an old- time roadside attraction, is about 90 years old. Find this photo on Instagram, @OakCliffAdvocate.

COMING AND GOING

[+] POETS OAK CLIFF, a new bookstore, opened in a space that previously held a hat store, across Bishop Avenue from Lockhart Smokehouse. Writer Marco Cavazos opened the store with business partners Kelsi Cavazos and Russell Hargraves. They also own the adjacent Cigar Art together. “Our vision is to be a community bookshop,” Hargraves says. “We’re not looking for a huge footprint or a giant online presence. We’re just looking to amplify Oak Cli ’s literary culture, while doing something we love.”

[-] GRASSROOTS KITCHEN, the Elmwood restaurant from neighbors Adam and Thania Loew, closed after about two years in business.

GOOD NEWS OF THE DAY

It took Bike Friendly Oak Cli five years to convince the City of Dallas to install a bike and motor scooter corral at the southwest corner of Seventh and Bishop, and it finally went up in February. They’re planning a ribbon cutting in coordination with Paletas y Bicicletas on March 14, at around 3:15 p.m. Find updates at oakcli .advocatemag.com.

[+] LUCKY DOG BOOKS on Je erson Boulevard came close to closing several times before finally shuttering earlier this year. But the used bookstore reopened in February.

[+] ANN’S HEALTH FOOD CENTER & MARKET opened its “healthy convenience store” at 2550 Red Bird Lane in February.

[+] ATLANTA-BASED CHIME SOLUTIONS is building a 50,000-squre-foot call center at RedBird Mall, with plans to hire 500 people before it opens this fall. The company says it will add an additional 500 jobs in the future.

BUSINESS BUZZ

n Advocate Magazines won a $25,000 grant from Facebook Journalism Project Community Network to expand community journalism in West Dallas and South Dallas. The grant will fund listening tours in those neighborhoods, helping us to understand where and how neighbors get their news, and what stories need to be told. We’ll announce next steps at the conclusion of the listening tours.

n Physical therapist Valerie Johnson moved her family and her practice, Balance Therapy, from Fort Worth to Oak Cli recently. The practice specializes in physical therapy and exercise for Parkinson’s disease, as well as imbalance and dizziness disorders. Find more information at balancetherapytoday.com.

n Amegy Bank is now open at the corner of West Davis and Llewellyn, the site of the original Gloria’s restaurant. The Houstonbased bank announced its expansion into southern Dallas in 2018. The branch is planning a grand-opening party soon.

SCHOOL NEWS

n The Sunset High School girls swim team started the season with four athletes. The team grew to 20 swimmers, many of whom had never swum competitively before. But they won the district championship, “by a landslide” on Jan. 17, coach Keenan Fogelberg says. The team went undefeated all season. At the district meet, they won eight gold medals, five silver and one bronze. Sunset swimmer Victoria Coleman was named female swimmer of the meet. The Carter High School boys swim team also won the district championship.

n St. Cecilia Catholic School welcomed a new principal this semester. Lisa Hernandez came from Cistercian Preparatory School in Irving. Parent Jake Barclay says Hernandez hired six highly qualified teachers in her first four weeks on the job. “Morale is up exponentially, and parental involvement is at an all-time high,” he says. “There is a feeling of positive change that exudes beyond the halls of our school.”

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A PIECE OF THE PAST

She’s one of the greatest athletes from Oak Cli you’ve probably never heard of. Betty Jameson was the first woman to break 300 in a 72-hole tournament, scoring 295 at the U.S. Women’s Open in 1947. The Sunset High School graduate won 10 pro tournaments in her career. Along with fellow Sunset alumna Bettye Mims, she was among the founders of the Ladies Professional Golf Association. Jameson started playing golf at 15, when she was a student at Sunset. Her mother gave her 50 cents for green fees and 50 cents to rent clubs “at a golf course just outside of Dallas.” That might’ve been the Mims family’s course in Grand Prairie, Sunset Golf Center, which opened in the 1920s and closed this past summer. Jameson, who died in 2009, will be among the 2020 Dallas ISD Athletic Hall of Fame inductees this coming May. Other Oak Cli ers in this year’s class include five-time NFL Pro Bowl player Jessie Armstead and NBA player Micheal Williams, who both graduated from Carter High School.

WE’RE OPEN—SO COME ON BY!

Is there an art to banking? At Amegy Bank there sure is. And it all starts with a client-first approach. Which means more face-to-face conversations, more smiles, and a lot more handshakes. And now that our new banking center is open in the historic Bishop Arts District, you can experience the art of banking for yourself. So whether it’s for personal or family business banking, we’re ready to lend a helping hand for all your financial needs.

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UP FRONT

GOOD SHEPHERDS

Story by RACHEL STONE | Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO

They lived in a makeshift space on the sun porch for months before their one-bedroom backhouse was livable. Then that backhouse was home for almost three years before their Winnetka Heights dream home was ready.

Now that it’s just the way they wanted, Christopher and Allyson Harrison plan to stay the rest of their lives. “I spent two freezing winters in this house,” Allyson says. “It’s got my blood, sweat and tears.”

It also has her fingerprints all over it.

She was an interior designer before the Great Recession hit, when she took up a second career as a public-school teacher. But she used all of her design super powers on this two-story antique house. She knew that underneath decades of slapdash renovations, this house had good bones.

“She drew up the whole design exactly how she wanted it, and we took it to an architect,” Christopher Harrison says. “He was like, ‘Why are you hiring me? This design is better than anything you could pay for.’”

When the Harrisons bought it, the house had pre-war knoband-tube wiring and no ductwork. There were wires coming out of walls, and the front porch was hanging on by a thread. They won a Preservation Achievement Award from Preservation Dallas last year for the painstaking restoration of the century-old home on North Windomere.

When we say “painstaking restoration,” that’s removing and refinishing all of the baseboards in 2,600 square feet of house. They had a dining room window seat rebuilt, as well as the phone nook in the upstairs landing. They used the original “Texas”-stamped bricks to rebuild their fireplace and

chimney. They put energy-saving glass in all of the original windows, which were re-hung with their circa-1900 weights. They restored two claw-foot tubs, rebuilt pony columns in the dining room and restored a small staircase.

The Harrisons had been married two years when they bought the house, and by the time they moved in, they had a 21/2-year-old and a baby on the way. Daughter, Addy, is now 41/2, and son, Christian, is 20 months.

They took their time, and they thought of everything — an electrical outlet in the center of the entry hall floor for their Christmas tree and a kitchen pantry built to utilize a dead space between walls. This house now has storage everywhere. A set of built-in storage drawers on the landing are the exact width of a roll of wrapping paper.

Allyson originally wanted to create four upstairs bedrooms but went for more closet space and three bedrooms instead. That midcourse change caused stress at the time, but she doesn’t regret it.

Besides that, it’s a fully automated smart house thanks to Christopher, who works in the technology sector and says they could live off the power grid for about two months because of the home’s natural gas whole-house generator.

“Our goal was to find the ugliest house on the block and make it better,” Christopher says. It was the first house the Harrisons ever bought, and they intend for it to be the only one. “We’re not the owners of this house,” he says. “We are its stewards.”

“Our goal was to find the ugliest house on the block and make it better”

Above: The Harrisons’ renovated kitchen used to be a porch, where they camped out for about six months while their backhouse was being renovated. Bottom: The whole house is painted with historically appropriate colors, including the pink dining room. Opposite page: Baby Christian’s cowboy-themed room.

Furnish your home with a mix of high/low and old/new.

Don’t be afraid to go to Salvation Army and Target. Get a few good pieces of furniture. Antiques are important because then you can buy the basics from Target. “I bought our dining room table on Facebook for $40 and refinished the top myself.”

Take your time.

Collect things you love when you travel, and don’t try to decorate everything all at once. Be patient and wait for the thing you really want.

Make a plan and stick to it.

The Harrisons secured their funding and did all the work at once (although it took years of continuous work). But even if you’re renovating paycheckby-paycheck, don’t lose sight of your vision. “We were forced to take our time because of all the red tape that we had to go through, but we also had the time to really hone in on what we wanted.”

You don’t have to childproof your whole house.

The Harrisons have a six-drawer dresser in the living room as well as an antique wardrobe in the foyer that are packed with toys, easy for the kids to access and simple to throw all their junk back inside. “Put out your nice things, and teach your kids not to break them. Don’t deprive yourself of beauty and design because you have children.”

Compromise with your partner. Having a high-tech house was important to Christopher, and Allyson couldn’t care less about technology. But she insisted, from the beginning, that one of the rooms would be painted a historically correct pink. That room turned out to be the dining room. They both got what they wanted.

But stand your ground.

“I almost had to threaten my builder when he wanted to put furr downs for

duct work.” An electrician also wanted to tear out the original shiplap, and they insisted he find anther way. “We wanted to modernize the house — new electrical, bigger closets — but in a way that’s respectful to the age of the house.”

ALLYSON HARRISON’S TIPS FOR A HISTORIC HOUSE:

BIG, SEXY SANDWICHES

SALADS AND BREAKFASTS SHINE, TOO, AT SHAYNA’S PLACE

LOU OLERIO moved to Dallas from his hometown in New England in 1995 to attend Southern Methodist University, and he never left.

Olerio started a homebuilding business here, and after some success with that, he decided to open an outpost of his uncle’s Rhode Island restaurant, Shayna’s Place, as a side project.

He lives in Preston Hollow but was familiar with Oak Cliff from years of doing business at the Oak Cliff Municipal Center on Jefferson Boulevard, where building permits are filed.

“I thought it’d be a great community to embrace the whole concept of Shayna’s,”

he says. “And I think it’s a great addition to Oak Cliff because there’s nowhere to get a sandwich, besides Jimmy John’s.”

First, the concept: Olerio’s uncle started Shayna’s Place, inspired by his daughter, who has Down Syndrome and a passion for food and cooking. The Dallas restaurant offers job training for special-needs adults who come in once a week to work at Shayna’s.

Second, this ain’t no Jimmy John’s. Shayna’s uses high-quality ingredients, and it shows. Ciabatta comes out shiny and soft, encompassing as perfect a deli sandwich as you’re bound to find in Dallas. Employees bake their own bread and

Story by RACHEL STONE | Photography by KATHY TRAN

The Vinny’s Kitchen is Shayna’s top-selling sandwich.

slice their own meats and cheeses. “It’s a different quality sandwich than the chain places,” Olerio says.

They also serve breakfast all day — avocado toast, egg sandwiches on English muffins or croissants, bagels and lox, smoothies.

Shayna’s Place

Now open daily from 7am Come enjoy delicious sandwiches, salads, smoothies and pastries, as well as selection of coffees and BYOB.

The top-selling sandwich, Vinny’s Kitchen, has prosciutto di Parma, salami, capicola, sharp provolone, tomato, red onion, hot peppers, romaine and dressing on ciabatta.

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The shop also makes whole-grain bread and offers Udi’s gluten-free bread.

Besides sandwiches, the menu features a choice of five big salads, plus soups, always New England clam chowder and a soup of the day.

The restaurant serves Oak Cliff Coffee Roasters coffee and Oak Cliff Beverage Works’ Real Sugar Soda. A huge ice cream sandwich, with chocolate-chip cookies baked inhouse, costs $5.

After 14 months as a restaurateur, Olerio finds that this side business is more project than profit. “Everybody seems to like the food,” he says.

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Top: An ice cream sandwich with chocolate-chip cookies made inhouse. Above: A slice of quiche and a smoothie.

LEADERS OF THE PACK

ONE OAK CLIFF SCOUTING TROOP PRODUCES A FLOCK OF WANNABE EAGLES

IN 86 YEARS as a scouting troop, this must be a record. Scouts BSA Troop 5, which meets at Kessler Park United Methodist Church, has six kids seeking the rank of Eagle Scout this year. We met all of them during a den meeting in the little cabin behind the church, which holds decades of scout memories. Troop 5 recently added an associated girls’ troop, and there are a few in that group who are beginning to plan their own Eagle Scout projects as well, scout master Laura Walsh says.

JACK SCHULTZ, 17

Bishop Dunne Catholic School, 11th grade

Parents: Ashley and Chris Schultz

His project: Design, build and install a bat house, a birdhouse and a picnic table at Twelve Hills Nature Preserve. How it’s funded: Schultz cooked and served lasagna and salad for two $8-a-plate Wednesday night dinners at KPUMC, which is the church he attends, raising about $400.

Why this project: “I grew up in a house right behind Twelve Hills. It was special to me because I would go there once or twice a week. I’m a nature-lover, so I wanted to do something for the animals and the ecosystem.”

What else he does: Works on cars with his dad, rides a skateboard, plays soccer and baseball.

The Boy Scouts Troop 5 clubhouse holds decades of memorabilia. Six of the troop’s members are seeking the rank of Eagle Scout.

Interview by RACHEL STONE | Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO

WILLIAM DUVALL, 17

Hillcrest High School, 11th grade

Parent: Taylor Duvall

His project: Design, build and install an informational sign about what to do in a severe weather event for the children’s education area at the Dallas Arboretum. He surveyed his troop and classmates asking whether they know what to do when they hear storm sirens; the majority didn’t. Why this project: “I attended Weather Con at the Frontiers of Flight Museum, and I heard Pete Delkus complain that the weather sirens in Dallas go off for reasons other than severe weather. It confuses people. That gave me the idea. And then the [Oct. 20] tornado hit my community really hard. It hit home that this is an important service for the community.”

Career path: He has always been infatuated with the weather. He decided to become a meteorologist when he was in eighth grade, after a friend’s mom noticed his deep understanding of weather systems and said, “You should be a meteorologist.”

What else he does: International Baccalaureate, United to Lead.

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ALEX TRAVELL, 17

Booker T. Washington High School, 12th grade

Parents: Kevin Travell and Shelly Seibert-Travell

His project: Taught a weekly “art party” for kids via Make-A-Wish Foundation. Travell, a visual artist, is turning the children’s art pieces into two greater works that will be auctioned at The Wish Ball, the charity’s annual blacktie gala. He hopes each one could fund a child’s wish, which typically costs about $8,000 each.

What else he does: Student council president, rock climbing, photography, graphic design.

After graduation: He was already accepted to his first-choice school, the University of Colorado at Boulder, but plans to take a “gap year” to pursue a street-wear clothing line with a fellow Booker T. graduate.

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HEATLY, 18

Bishop Dunne Catholic School, 12th grade

Parents: Gene and Rhonda Heatly

His project: Renovated and assembled a library for the Kessler School, building bookshelves and supplying books. The self-funded project is valued at a couple thousand dollars. Why this project? “It was local, and it’s a school that I went to. I wanted to give something back. I’m just glad to have helped serve my community.”

Favorite day of scouting: “The Caddo Lake canoe trip. You paddle all day and eat lunch in the canoe.”

What else he does: Theater, campus ministry, archery team, taught himself to play piano.

JOEY UBRECHT, 17

Dallas International School, 11th grade

Parents: Barbara and Ed Ubrecht

His project: Renovating a student lounge at his school, building platforms, tables and benches with fellow Scouts. Ubrecht and volunteer classmates also will add power strips, ambient lighting and couches. Estimated value of labor and supplies: $3,500.

How it’s funded: Soliciting donations through his school and fundraisers such as selling snacks at school. Why this project: “Our school’s been growing a ton, and we just don’t have the space for everyone to work in that area. It’s not accommodating. We’re trying to make it fit the needs of the modern student.”

What else he does: International Baccalaureate, swimming.

“It gave me a place where I don’t have to worry about anything else. On a campout, there’s no technology. All you have to do is hang out with your friends in nature.”

EDDIE UBRECHT, 17

Dallas International School, 11th grade

Parents: Barbara and Ed Ubrecht

His project: Building a 200-square-foot pergola on the patio of Texas Discovery Gardens at Fair Park.

Why this project? “I always went there for the butterfly garden, and I wanted to do something for them. I’ve never really built anything before, and I thought this would be a good opportunity to try building something.”

What else he does: International Baccalaureate, soccer, basketball, plays drums in a band.

Why he loves scouting: “It gave me a place where I don’t have to worry about anything else. On a campout, there’s no technology. All you have to do is hang out with your friends in nature.”

Yes, they’re twins: Eddie and Joey Ubrecht’s dad, Ed, is also an Eagle Scout.

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KEEP OAK CLIFF WEIRD

THEY CAN’T TAKE AWAY OUR OUTSIDER SPIRIT

Story by RACHEL STONE |

Photography

by DANNY FULGENCIO

So many things changed in Oak Cliff over the past decade that it feels like a totally different neighborhood. But every now and then, there’s something to remind you of how things were. From taxidermy lions to Selena shrines and hand-painted houses, Oak Cliff is more than just a bridge apart from Dallas.

LG’s 24 Hour Pawn

The first thing to note about LG’s 24 Hour Pawn is that it closes at 8 p.m. It was the only pawnshop in Texas open 24 hours a day, and the name is a throwback to the days before ATMs, when there was no way to get money if the banks were closed. The family that owns the shop fought state regulators for years to stay open through the night — they eventually lost, but the name remains.

The store’s history dates back about 45 years in Oak Cli , when L.G. Mosley and his daughter Tammy Mosley Hollingsworth opened a pawnshop in what is now the Bishop Arts District. Later they moved to Je erson Boulevard, first in a space across the street from Charco Broiler, then to the old Roland Ellis department store space in Je erson Tower. LG’s moved to its current space, at 407 W. Je erson Blvd., next to Charco Broiler, in 1979.

The second thing about LG’s is the authentic taxidermy polar bear. L.G. Mosley, a 79-year-old West Dallas native who says he could pull as much cotton as a full-grown man by the time he was 6, traded the bear and a stu ed African lion that’s also on display, plus a Learjet, for a house his son had built in North Dallas but couldn’t manage to sell.

“Later he was mad at me,” L.G. says. “He wanted to buy it back, but I wouldn’t sell it. He

said, ‘I killed that bear, and I want it.’”

L.G. can tell stories ’til the cows come home. He went from picking cotton to roofing houses, running his own crew at the age of 13. When work was slow, teenage L.G. had the ingenuity to find disaster areas as far away as Hawaii, where insurance companies would pay out for roofing jobs.

After he figured out how to undercut lumberyards by importing shakes and shingles from Canada, he went into building houses, trading horses and, like a good ol’ self-made Texan, hitting oil. As a side hustle, he’d begun hauling saddles and electronics from Mexico to sell at flea markets. He and his wife started out carrying things across the border in their ’39 Ford and eventually had about 45 vendor spaces with truckloads of inventory at Traders Village Grand Prairie, before NAFTA put a stop to that.

He started the pawnshop for daughter Tammy, who married as a young teen and ran o to live in the country. Her dad needed a way to lure her and husband, Bill Hollingsworth Jr., back to Dallas. One day, while she was fishing at the creek with her infant son, Tammy says L.G. pulled up on the

bridge above and said, “Come on, we’re starting a pawn shop. Let’s go hitch up your trailer house.”

It was originally L.G.’s Pawn and Gun, and they were open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. The three of them — L.G., Tammy and Billy — took turns running the shop, and they had a bedroom on the second floor.

Business was so good that they had to rent the basement for inventory. L.G.’s accountant learned the pawn business there and went on to start what is now the largest

pawnshop chain in America. Around 1978, L.G. traded that guy their twostory building on Je erson and all of its inventory, including jewelry and safes, for 4,000 acres in Colorado.

His wife, Jynnifer, was fit to be tied when he sold the business without telling her. But L.G. had flown in a helicopter over the land, and had a feeling, because of the rock formations, that it had oil, and y’all, he was right. He was even once featured, wearing a platter-size gold-and-diamond belt-buckle, on “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” with Robin Leach.

“I don’t really like money,” L.G. says. “I just like business. I like making deals.”

He says he once restrung an old guitar and traded up and up until he got the ’39 Ford.

Now a third generation is learning the ropes.

Tammy and Billy’s son Chase Hollingsworth runs most of the shop’s day-to-day business with his fiancée, Emily Marie Garcia, and his cousin, Chappell Stanzel.

Tammy says her dad taught her to work hard, be honest and drive a bargain. After 40 years on

Je erson, they’ve dealt with a lot of people living in poverty or homelessness, with addiction and mental illness, but they try to behave gracefully and help when they can.

“Everybody is treated like they’re somebody,” Tammy says. “We’ve always tried to be there when people need help. I don’t want anyone to feel less than I am, and I wouldn’t ask anyone to do anything I wouldn’t do.”

The family recently expanded their space, and they’re renaming it after all these years to LG’s Million Dollar Pawn and Gun.

The mural house at 110 Bishop Ave.

Juan Manual Campos started his art career as a kid growing up in Mexico, photographing wedding portraits on black-andwhite film and then developing the photos and hand coloring them with acrylic paint.

It was a painstaking craft that required needlelike brushes and a high degree of skill.

He moved to Dallas in 1981, and you’ve seen the little house he shares with wife, Rosa. It’s the one painted teal and orange, with portraits of Selena, John Wayne and Elizabeth Taylor outside.

The Camposes bought the house in 1989. Rosa says her relatives asked at the time, “Why would you buy a house in the ghetto?”

But she opened her hair salon in the front room, and they still live happily in a few hundred square feet at the back.

Now the former hair salon is an art studio, where 83-year-old Juan Manual Campos paints every day, “almost all day,” his wife says.

Soft guitar music plays as he shows some of his work: A two-sided wood cutout of Frida Kahlo,

a charcoal portrait of Emiliano Zapata, James Dean as Jett Rink in blackand-white acrylic. Jesus, head in hands, looming large over sepia-toned immigrants at the barbedwire border.

A friend recently replaced their water heater, but Campos kept the old one, and he’s copying vintage comic book panels onto it in oil paint.

If not for his wife, he couldn’t do this, he says. She’s always tolerated him turning on the lights in the middle of the night to sketch something and then paint all night.

“I said, ‘All I want is to paint, and you can do whatever you want,’” he says. “I paint because it’s in my blood.”

He’s always made a living with wageearning jobs and gigs such as painting murals in supermarkets and the shop windows on Je erson Boulevard.

In the ’80s and ’90s, Campos was part of an art collective simply called Artistas, with Alfonso Estrada, Vincent Morin, Filberto Chapa, Anita Cisneros and a few others.

He’s the only one still living.

In the summertime, he paints the front steps of their little house in bright colors, and he adds to or updates the weathering collection of outdoor board paintings. He has dreams of turning their adjacent vacant lot into a sculpture garden.

These days, the Camposes are solicited many times a day with o ers on their coveted double-lot property in Bishop Arts, all low-ball o ers, Rosa says. But they have no intention of moving, anyway.

“As long as we’re healthy, God willing,” Rosa says.

The Bishop Arts home of Juan Manual and Rosa Campos is painted in bright colors, and some of Juan Manual’s art is displayed in the yard.

Chango Botanica

A god of thunder, lightning and fire, he is the most feared deity in the Yoruba and Santería religions.

Chango represents the devastating power of nature, and he’s not to be trifled with.

If you find the larger-than-life statues of him in the window of Chango Botanica a little scary, that’s appropriate.

While those uplighted figures may intimidate, inside the sta is friendly. Some of them have worked there for decades. And you can find all manner of religious accoutrement, including candles, oils, incense and the Mexican charms known as milagros. The shop is open seven days a week, and in 43 years, it has never closed for a day.

Francisco “Pancho” Diaz originally opened the store in what is now an o ce space at the Kessler Theater in 1977. He bought the building at 1405 W. Davis St. in 1995.

“It would be easy for me to sell it,” Diaz’s youngest son, Jorge, told the Advocate in 2014. “But what is that going to accomplish?”

Jorge Diaz has said he’ll never sell the building because his father, who died in May 2014, would’ve wanted it to stay.

The botanica’s managers declined to comment for this story, but we know real estate speculators pester them because even the Advocate receives a couple of emails every year from real estate professionals asking if we can get through to them.

Country Burger

Maybe they should rename it Tejano Burger.

The burgers and tots at Country Burger are reliably good. But the restaurant, open since the 1980s, is known for its reverence of Selena.

Everywhere you look, there is some tribute to the Queen of Tejano. Her photos are embedded in the napkin holders and framed on the walls, along with newspaper clippings and posters. There are Barbie-type Selena dolls, original artwork, and the latest piece, a sequined replica of the purple costume Selena wore for her last concert in San Antonio. It’s like the more time passes since the death of Selena on March 31, 1991, the greater the monument at Country Burger becomes.

Manager Rafael Jimenez is the Selena fan in the family. He was devastated after the

singer was killed, and he put up a few pieces of memorabilia in the restaurant as a way to address his grief. After that, customers started bringing him things. He even keeps a copy of Selena’s last will and testament, a gift from a customer, in his o ce drawer.

Country Burger is ground zero for Oak Cli ’s annual Selena celebration, 214 Selena. This year’s party at Country Burger, which typically features a car show and Selena look-alike contest, is March 29.

FIVE MORE DELIGHTFULLY STRANGE THINGS ABOUT OAK CLIFF

Aaron

The storefront on Je erson Boulevard has a marquee sign depicting two eyes and a strangely basic name: Aaron. Who is Aaron? Why is he watching us? What are they selling in there? The place never seems to be open. I’ve never seen anyone going in or coming out. No one answers the listed phone number. The Internet tells me nothing. The mystery was unbearable until one weekend, while staying at a hotel in Corsicana, flipping channels, a Spanish-language call-in astrology show came on TV. At the bottom of the screen were two Dallas phone numbers and an address: 237 W. Je erson Blvd. “Holy cow, that’s Aaron!” I exclaimed after a quick Google. So Aaron might be an astrologist with a call-in TV show. In other words, it’s still a mystery. So be it.

The peacocks of Beckley Club Estates

This beautiful neighborhood just east of Beckley Avenue is about 95 years old, and we’re not sure which came first, the people or the peacocks. Homeowner J.P. Hossley says he and wife, Erin, sometimes feel like their backyard is a zoo because as many as a dozen peacocks hang out around their pool every day. They rarely need to set an alarm clock as the birds land on their roof every morning at dawn, then they fly up to roost in the trees at dusk.

Catalina 5G

If it’s October in Oak Cli , then there is a terrifying clown on Hampton Road. The family owned Catalina 5G thrift store on Hampton at Kingston spends the entire month of August converting their shop to a Halloween superstore. At peak tra c times, they lure in shoppers using various costumes — Michael Myers, Jason, horror clowns and other creepy characters. Stay weird, Catalina 5G.

Fox Gas Station

There’s no glamour in hauling laundry to the washateria. But what if it’s a laundromat with crystal chandeliers? At Fox Gas Station, on Polk at U.S. 67, you can fill ’er up, do laundry, order some pretty good tacos and tortas, have a licuado and buy phone accessories, all while awash in the elegant light of dozens of crystal chandeliers. Oh, and it’s open 24 hours a day.

The ghost of Lee Harvey Oswald

Oh, Lee, you freakin’ weirdo. The presumed JFK assassin took up residence in several Oak Cli locations. One of them, at 214 W. Neely St., was even used as a location for the Hulu show “11.22.63,” based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. What’s even weirder is Oak Cli ’s embrace of ol’ Oswald. The Texas Theatre once put his face on a T-shirt. And then a barbershop put his face on a mural in Bishop Arts. Weird, man.

WORSHIP

By SCOTT SHIRLEY

Join the fray

Eschewing unity for unity’s sake

When Mark Galli of Christianity

Today published an editorial calling for the impeachment of President Donald J. Trump, it was seen as a rift in Christendom, or at least, a rift among Evangelicals, a group that overwhelmingly supports the president. This break from the pack was received with some amount of shock because of the pervasive assumption that Christians are united. The truth is, we are not, and we have never been.

The 2016 election revealed the political divide among Christians. Despite the ever-present talking heads on television, there is a wide diversity of political views among Christians, and many of them are in direct conflict.

Understanding this divide, Christianity Today tried “to stay above the fray.” They saw themselves as a big tent where Christians of all political stripes could find welcome. Galli said, “politics is not the end and purpose of our being.” I disagree with that premise; politics is the way we negotiate how to live with one another, which is precisely the concern of any ethical framework. The big fights in the earliest proto-Church were about how to live together and how to live with the Roman Empire; these are political questions. Politics is not what brings Christians together.

There must be something else that holds us together. Many Christians would say they are “higher things,” the things of God.

One might assume that the higher things that unite Christians are beliefs, the things we think about God. History proves this false. Despite councils and reformations and counter-reformations, the Church has split over beliefs any number of times. Christians have cut out one another’s tongues over disputes in beliefs — then later canonized the same people as saints! Right belief depends on who has power.

It might be more helpful to think about the things of the Spirit. “The fruits of the Spirit” are given in Galatians 5:22-

23: “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness,gentleness, and self-control.” If we name ourselves as Christians, we claim that the Spirit is transforming us toward these virtues. These hold us together through other disputes, the theological and political. It is this spiritual unity to which Galli appeals, even saying that their delay in criticizing Trump and his supporters was due to “patient charity.”

This is the danger: unity at the cost of justice. When and how to criticize can only be done according to one’s conscience. However, the conscience can be obscured by the delusions, doubts and desires with which we all wrestle. Even the fruits of the Spirit can become myopic so that love, patience and generosity are only offered to some, to those who look and act like us, so that we can maintain a peace that is ours alone.

Remaining silent to preserve unity and peace among Christians is in no way loving to anyone else. It’s not loving to the 17% more people who were victims of hate crimes after the 2016 election. It’s not loving to the thousands of children still in cages or to people seeking asylum. It’s not loving to the 700,000 people losing SNAP benefits or the 8 million people whose disability benefits are threatened. It’s not loving to anyone who likes to drink water or breathe air, much less the tens of millions who will be displaced by climate change in the next 30 years.

Staying above the fray only benefits ourselves and people like us, but the Spirit compels us to bring Good News to the world. Jesus never stayed above the fray; Jesus was the fray. It’s time we got back in there with him, unity be damned.

Scott Shirley is the social justice chair at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff. 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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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

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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

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Sunday School: 11:15am /Mass: 9am & 10am English, 12:30pm Español

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10:30am Sunday School/11:00 Worship /All welcome regardless of reed, creed, color, culture, gender or sexual identity.

NON-DENOMINATIONAL

KESSLER COMMUNITY CHURCH / 2100 Leander Dr. at Hampton Rd. “Your Hometown Church Near the Heart of the City.”

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Why save the Barrow filling station?

Crime and poverty are part of the West Dallas story

Eagle Ford Road had such a bad reputation for crime and ill repute that business owners petitioned to rename it Singleton Boulevard, after a Dallas County Commissioner, in 1941.

Eagle Ford Road is obviously a cooler name, in hindsight, but that was the beginning of efforts to give West Dallas a cleaner image.

Now West Dallas has gone so far the other way that the City of Dallas Landmark Commission wants to make the Barrow filling station on Singleton a designated historic landmark, which would give it historical gravitas based on its connection to two of America’s most notorious criminals, Bonnie and Clyde.

The old filling station, on Singleton at Borger, is where the notorious Barrow family of West Dallas lived and worked. Clyde Barrow, infamous for his crime spree with Bonnie Parker, grew up in abject poverty in a shotgun house on Muncie Avenue. His dad primarily worked as a metal scrapper, and his parents pulled that house about a mile down the road by mule to its current location on Singleton. They added on to make their business, living in the back and running their service station in front.

An Oak Cliff-based developer, Brent Jackson of Oaxaca Interests, bought the property recently, because of its value as a corner property in what is now at the center of a quickly gentrifying neighborhood, with high-dollar condos and apartments just across the street. Jackson, who took heat when he tore down the old Alamo motel on Fort Worth Avenue to build Sylvan Thirty, might have to wait if he plans to redevelop it.

The landmark process could take about two years, and if designated historic, he wouldn’t be able to tear it down at all without the commission’s approval.

of the real old West Dallas, no matter how dark.

“This is part of the good, the bad and the ugly of West Dallas. It’s part of history,” Landmark Commission member Rosemary Hinojosa, who represents the neighborhood, said in a hearing on the matter in February.

Besides that, it’s one of very few of Clyde Barrow’s haunts that is still standing in Dallas. Another one, the Lillie McBride House a couple of blocks away, is expected to be demolished or moved soon.

West Dallas was home to the poorest of the poor in Dallas for decades, starting in the early 1900s when levees were built, opening up land for industrial development.

Some longtime residents of West Dallas want the building as a marker

Jackson, who owns the building, is taking its history into consideration. The Landmark Commission gave him 30 days to meet with neighbors about what they want for it. But he also says he wouldn’t feel right celebrating criminals who committed “heinous acts.”

“This is part of the good, the bad and the ugly of West Dallas. It’s part of history.”

Photo of the Barrow filling station courtesy of the Dallas Public Library History and Archives Division

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