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What would you do?

Ispend a fair amount of time interviewing potential employees. Luckily, it’s not because we have lots of employee turnover; rather, it’s that we have lots of ideas and opportunities.

Recently, I was interviewing an applicant, this one a writer/editor interested in replacing someone moving back to California. So, out of curiosity, I asked the applicant about a couple of ideas we’ve been kicking around.

I mentioned to her we have a robust and active readership online (about 800,000 monthly), a fact that seems to elude a high percentage of our print-only magazine readers (about 180,000 monthly). I also asked her what she thought about potentially charging our online readers $1 per week to help support the multiple daily stories we write about neighborhood events, crime, development, news and restaurant/retail openings and closings, most of which never appear in our print magazine. What we produce online is like receiving a neighborhood newspaper for free daily; we even send the information out weekly via e-newsletter to more than 34,000 of you (check it out and sign up at advocatemag.com/social).

So, I asked, do you think readers would help us if we asked?

She thought about it for a bit, which I’ve found to be a good sign when considering applicants; people who have an instant answer for every question tend not to be all that interested in teamwork, given that they already seem to know everything.

“Since you have that incredible engagement with your readers,” she asked, “why don’t you ask them what they think?”

I liked the way this woman was thinking.

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vidual monthly magazine is now about $2 apiece, and our advertisers support 100 percent of this cost. If readers don’t pick up a magazine, thumb through it and buy products from our advertisers, we’re “dead meat” in a business sense.

So I tried again: What about potentially selling a small advertisement on the cover of our magazines, one that advertisers may be excited to purchase but shouldn’t interfere with the stories we’re telling? Would an ad like this, which would help generate additional income to pay our expenses, be OK with our readers?

As a journalistic purist, this idea seemed to be a bridge too far for her: “I don’t like that one,” she said, “but again, why don’t you ask your readers?”

So that’s exactly what I’m doing this month: Would you please take a couple of minutes to give me your thoughts about these ideas, as well as any others you have to help us improve?

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That’s OK, though: She has already contributed to our company, even if she never comes to work here.

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READERS REACT TO: El Corazon de Tejas building demolished

(see page 20)

Let’s remember this when that new CVS opens. Maybe a protest of the opening day/week will send a message to other developers that we’re serious about our historical Oak Cliff buildings.

MATT PETERS

Losing the laid-back homey Oak Cliff feel a little at a time.

ROGER BOOTH

Exactly what we were looking for when we moved here a little over a year ago, a CVS on every corner. Stupid.

KELLY DUNN

Now is the time to try to protect other wonderful old buildings, not after they are sold and have a demo permit.

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JUNE 3

Furry friends

Meet pups looking for a caring home from Operation Kindness from 9:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. The Texas Coalition for Animal Protection will be onsite to provide dogs and cats with vaccinations. Kidd Springs Recreation Center, 711 W. Canty St., 214.670.7535, greendallas.net, free to attend

Out & About

THROUGH JUNE 9

‘IDENTITY’ EXHIBITION

“Identity: I Am One, I Am Many” features artwork that examines how culture, politics and gender impact identity. The cultural center partnered with Sunset Art Studio for the Cesar Chavezinspired exhibition. Oak Cliff Cultural Center, 223 W. Jefferson Blvd., 214.670.3777, occc.dallasculture. org, free

JUNE 3

SUMMER READING

The library is kicking off the Mayor’s Summer Reading Challenge with crafts, food and drinks from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Attendees can get a closer look at the sun through a telescope. North Oak Cliff Library, 302 W. Tenth St., 214.670.7555, dallaslibrary2.org, free

JUNE 8-11

FILM FESTIVAL

The Oak Cliff Film Festival highlights independent films from across the world while promoting our neighborhood’s best businesses. This will be the fourday event’s sixth year in action. Various locations, oakclifffilmfestival. com, $11.50-$175

JUNE 15

WINE WALK

Sample wine throughout Bishop Arts during the Summer Time Wine Walk at 6 p.m. Fill your glass at local businesses while you shop. Bishop Arts District, bishopartsdistrict. com, $20-$30

JUNE 19

BOOK CLUB EN ESPAÑOL

The Wild Detectives launches its Spanish-language book club, called El Book Club, this month with “En medio de extrañas victimas” by Daniel Saldaña

París. Members can receive 10 percent off the cover price of the book. El Book Club starts at 7:30 p.m. The Wild Detectives, 314 W. Eighth St., 214.942.0108, thewilddetectives. com, free to attend

JUNE 26

INCLUSIVITY ADVOCATES

Indivisible Oak Cliff is a progressive, nonpartisan organization that promotes constitutional and human rights.

State Rep. Rafael Anchia will speak about Texas’ anti-sanctuary city bill and other issues during a group meeting at 6:30 p.m. Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff, 3839 W. Kiest Blvd., indivisibleoakcliff. org, free

THE DOCTOR IS OUT

Oak Cliff’s beloved house-call veterinarian retires

By RACHEL STONE

At the height of their business, the Moomaw family hand addressed and signed 600 Christmas cards every year.

It was a personal touch in a business that’s all about people.

Veterinarian Robert Moomaw has taken care of Oak Cliff pets and their people for more than 40 years.

“It’s easy to love animals,” Moomaw says. “You also have to love people.”

Moomaw and his wife, Terry, retired last month; about 200 people and their pets attended a retirement party at Kiest Park in their honor.

Moomaw graduated from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine in August 1974 and worked in a group practice, South Oak Cliff Animal Hospital, until 1988.

Two years later, following the expiration of a non-compete clause, he opened his mobile practice.

At first, he served clients from West Dallas to Midlothian. But he reeled it in slowly until Terry joined the practice as his assistant in 1998. At that time, they drew a circle around their house near Kiest Park and deemed it their service area, with a few exceptions for very close friends. Dr. Moomaw went from driving

Dr. Robert Moomaw with his dog, Josey. Moomaw is a third-generation Oak Cliffer who started practicing veterinary medicine in 1974.

(Photo by Danny Fulgencio)

as much as 27,000 miles a year for house calls to more like 12,000 miles by 2007.

The majority of their clients lived between Interstate 30 and Clarendon. Once he became familiar with clients, he often met with housekeepers and nannies or, occasionally, just a key left under the mat.

Julie Altenau has been a client for about 20 years. Dr. Moomaw put down her dog Samantha, who lived to be 18, and then her Old English Sheepdog, Lulu, who lived to be 12. Now she and her husband have Tessie, a herding dog that’s a little bit ornery and has to be muzzled when Moomaw visits. She says having a difficult dog makes her even more thankful to have a house-call vet.

“We haven’t seen the inside of a vet’s office in years,” she says.

Visiting private homes has made for an interesting career, Moomaw says.

A couple of times he unwittingly walked into meth houses where pets needed vaccinations and flea prevention. He once was called to sew up a hurt pit bull before realizing it had suffered a

dog-fighting injury. That was Oak Cliff in the ’90s.

Altenau says she had neighbors who left their dogs outside all the time, and Dr. Moomaw would go over and give them flea treatments.

“That’s just the way he is,” she says. “He cares.”

Moomaw recalls the elderly lady who offered him a diet cream soda wrapped in a paper towel every visit. There were lonely clients who encouraged him to linger for a while and chat.

Part of the job is ending pets’ lives, and he’s had to euthanize countless cats

and dogs when the end was near. It never gets easier, he says.

Even though he’s a vet, much of his work involves psychology.

“The value of a pet is the mental health and wellbeing of the human,” he says. “It’s really their happiness that I’m treating.”

The Moomaws, both third-generation Oak Cliff residents who have known each other since middle school, plan to spend more time with their grandchildren, ages 8, 4 and 8 months. They have no plans to move from the house where they’ve lived since the ’70s, but they’ll spend more time at their condo on South Padre Island. And they’re planning to take a long road trip in Robert’s 2002 Corvette.

His retirement won’t leave Oak Cliff pets out in the cold.

Moomaw handed the reins to another house-call vet, Stacie Smith. Find her at dallaspaws.com.

Left: Elvy nests in the grass. Dr. Moomaw is an organic gardening enthusiast. Opposite page: The Moomaws in their backyard. Terry Moomaw started working for her husband’s practice in the 1990s.

(Photo by Danny Fulgencio)

STONE

DID YOU KNOW: The Tyler Street Market was the first Good Local Market outside of the East Dallas/White Rock area.

When Good Local Markets expanded to Oak Cliff in March, they brought their market to a community that lacked easy access to fresh produce.

The market is at Tyler Street Tower, a 14-story residence for low-income seniors.

Besides the market itself, Good Local Markets offers nutrition and wellness classes for tower residents. Many of them receive food aid from the State of Texas, which the market’s vendors accept.

“We explain what eating seasonal and local means,” says market director Casey Cutler.

All of the produce sold at the market is in season and grown within a 150-mile

radius. Some of it comes from Athens, 60 miles away. And there is one vendor who grows kale, sprouts and micro greens in East Dallas.

Besides that, you’ll find Karens-based The Barefoot Baker, a family business that bakes loaves with organic flour in brick ovens.

Half Moon Pie Co. makes sweet and savory fried pies, often using ingredients they buy at the market.

Good Local Markets also expanded to Paul Quinn College’s We Over Me Farm. That one is Thursdays from 3-7 p.m.

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Opposite page: A selection of produce from a local farmer.

Above: Jams, breads and cookies from Highway 19 Produce. (Photos by Elliott Muñoz)

CLE A RLY

These rides are anything but average

CLAS SICS

By Rachel Stone

Photos by Danny Fulgencio

Some might joke these neighbors have oil instead of blood and a mechanical pump where their hearts ought to be. But really, it’s about a love for an era. These neighbors share a passion for a bygone time when vehicles were made by hand and form often trumped function. They don’t mind the extra effort these cars entail because they’re keeping a little piece of history alive with every nut and bolt they save. It’s worth the time and expense, they say, because it allows them to live another life every time they climb behind the wheel.

Tyler Wayne with his ’68 Mercury and his Shelby Cobra reproduction. Both cars are projects Wayne worked on with his dad.

AMERICAN MUSCLE

Tyler Wayne’s dream car was covered in dirt and rust.

Then a high school senior, he kept seeing it, parked in the back of a shop that he used to drive by every day in the Austin neighborhood where he grew up.

Finally one day, he asked the owner about the car, a 1968 Mercury Cougar XR7, and found out it was for sale.

“I asked my dad about it, and he was really excited,” Wayne says.

He paid $1,600 for it in 2004, towed it home on a trailer and started cleaning it up. Thus began a lifelong love of American muscle cars and motorcycles.

Wayne, now 30, owns a small business in Oak Cliff, Wayne Works, where he makes furniture and lighting.

When he got the Cougar home, its original cranberry-red paint had faded to a flat brown. His dad, always a car guy, was supportive but hands off.

“It was a baptism by fire,” Wayne says.

He read old shop manuals and the history of Ford motors. He learned acetylene welding, how to rebuild the engine and whatever else his project needed. After moving to Dallas to attend Southern Methodist University, he’d continue working on the car during breaks. He finally restored it, painted it

a dark metallic grey and drove it back to be his daily driver as an SMU junior.

“It has a lot of sentimental value,” Wayne says. “I’ll never sell that car.”

In 2012, Wayne and his dad decided to begin working on another car they’d always wanted. They bought a 1965 reproduction Shelby Cobra kit from Factory Five Racing.

Wayne is almost giddy when he describes the day it was delivered to his garage. He remembers the exact date: Aug. 22, 2012.

Father and son worked on the Cobra about every weekend, and in February 2013, they painted it Brittany blue, a

period correct color. The paintjob alone cost about $7,200, bringing the car total to around $50,000.

They took it to the annual Cobra Club meet in San Marcos that March and put a couple hundred miles on it.

Wayne’s mom made a photo memory book of the whole process.

“It’s learning new things, achieving milestones, and doing it all with people you want to spend time with,” he says.

The ’68 Mercury is in pieces right now. Wayne still likes to tinker on it. He and his dad have taken the Cobra on a few other excursions.

Wayne says he still has car goals: A ’67 or ’68 Austin Healey, which he calls “A Sunday gentleman’s car.” He’d also like a ’49 or ’50 Mercury, a “lead sled.” And a ’77 Trans Am because of “Smokey and the Bandit.”

“It’s an element of nostalgia for a time that I didn’t grow up in,” he says. “It’s hard to be in a bad mood when you see a car like that. It makes people smile.”

STUNT CAR DRIVER

“Friday I’ve got to wreck an 18-wheeler.”

This is Jeff Millburn talking about an average workweek.

The 51-year-old first started working on cars as an escape growing up in Odessa. He acquired a motorcycle and started working in body shops while still in high school.

What started as a West Texas distraction eventually turned into a career in cars.

Millburn, whose original shop was in Oak Cliff, has owned racing teams and restored many cars. Now he works primarily as a stunt driver. If you see a Ford truck commercial anywhere in the United States, it’s Millburn behind the wheel. Same for Toyota Tundra. He does precision driving and owns four camera cars that TV producers use in filming.

Millburn was working in a North Dallas car dealership in the late ’80s when he had the opportunity to try out as a mechanic on a Top Fuel racecar team.

“I went from overhauling transmissions on minivans to working on the most amazing racecars around,” he says

He took a 50 percent pay cut for the privilege, a risk he weathered without fear.

“It’s an element of nostalgia for a time that I didn’t grow up in.”

“It paid off because it led to me getting to do things that I want to do,” he says. “I get to live how I want.”

Milburn has a lot of cars and motorcycles.

There’s a ’65 Chevy Truck that he’s had since 1988. A 1951 Mercury that’s “like a work of art.” A couple of 1960s Chryslers. His newest car, and the only one not painted black, is a 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner in its original yellow paint. It gets the most attention but is not Millburn’s favorite.

In all, there are six classic cars and two parts cars, plus four camera cars and two box trucks used in his work. He also has about a dozen motorcycles, most of them Harley Davidson.

It costs a fortune just to keep all of those vehicles registered and insured, he says.

But he’d never sell any of them.

“I have this sense of wanting to save them,” and he says he’s sold cars he’s restored after rescuing them from the crusher, but “I’ve never sold a car once I consider it mine.”

Besides the vehicles, Millburn’s sense of personal style is impressive. On date night, he steps out in vintage suits that match his cars. His shop and home in the West Dallas area are full of 1900s car and motorcycle ephemera — mid-20th century automotive advertising signs, 100-year-old Harley-Davidson gearshift knobs, black-and-white photos of unknown women posing in front of cars.

Millburn says he’s thinking about retiring soon, but there’s no way his life would ever not be about cars.

“These cars are going to stay with me the rest of my life,” he says.

Clockwise from left: Jeff Milburn’s 1951 Mercury; one among his multitude of motorcycles; part of his collection of automotive-related signs.

“I went from overhauling transmissions on minivans to working on the most amazing racecars around.”

OLD SCHOOL

Imagine cruising Kiest Park in the 1950s: The boys with their Elvis Presley haircuts, driving jalopies and flirting with girls in circle skirts and headscarves.

That was the high-school life that Ed Bass lived.

His ride was no jalopy, though. It was a ’48 Ford coupe.

Bass has been around cars his whole life.

His father opened Safety Brake in Oak Cliff when Bass was a kid, and he started working there around age 8.

Bass, now in his 70s, graduated from Adamson High School in 1958 (he was a member of the Oak Cliff garage band The Jokers) and started working in his father’s garage fulltime.

Bass had saved up $8,000 when his dad decided to retire in 1973, so he bought him out, and he’s been there ever since, wrenching on generations of Oak Cliffers’ cars.

Bass is old enough to retire, but Safe-

ty Brake stays incredibly busy. During phone conversations, he’s distracted, intermittently giving instructions and information to his mechanics. He’s in the shop every day, and he loves cars.

Over the years, he’s collected a lot of them.

At his home in Cedar Hill, Bass has a 1973 Mustang Grande Coupe in near showroom condition. He started collecting Chevy El Caminos just a few years ago, and now he has three of them — ’69, ’70 and ’72. There’s also a ’69 Chevy Nova Super Sport and a few other cars.

His favorite body style is the 1969 Chevy El Camino. He’s working on one now, planning to put in a Corvette motor and transmission.

Bass says he’s somewhat sentimental about cars, but there wouldn’t be room to fit all the vehicles he’s owned.

“I had a lot more at one time,” he says of the collection.

Bass says he’s somewhat sentimental about cars, but there wouldn’t be room to fit all the vehicles he’s owned.

Second-generation auto mechanic Ed Bass at Safety Brake, which his father started in 1945.

TEX-MEX TEARDOWN

By RACHEL STONE

by DANNY FULGENCIO

allas took down another nostalgia-inducing old building in May.

The 77-year-old building that most recently housed El Corazon de Tejas was torn down over two days to make way for a new development, possibly a CVS store.

We first alerted neighbors to impending changes on West Davis Street between Beckley Avenue and Zang Boulevard after a developer requested a replat for the restaurant building and an adjacent shopping center, a sign that something big could be in the works.

The restaurant closed about a week after we first reported that Alabama-based Orange Development LLC, which previously has built CVS stores, had plans for the 4.5-acre lot. Orange since then has confirmed that CVS is the plan.

Despite the Dallas Landmark Commission’s resistance, demolition permits already had been issued, so the bulldozers moved.

Anyone paying attention to commercial real estate in the Bishop Arts District shouldn’t be too surprised at this move. Massive new developments already are underway on the three other corners of Zang and Davis, where the Oak Cilff streetcar line ends.

Alamo Manhattan is transforming the western corners of Zang and Davis with apartments and retail. And Crescent Communities is doing the same at the former site of Dallas County Schools.

Wyatt Food Store, then a major grocer in Dallas, constructed the building with its tiered topper around 1940. The grocery store was notable for its large number of parking spaces by mid-20th Century standards.

The building became El Chico restaurant in the 1950s. When El Chico pulled out in the ’70s, the Cuellar family stuck with the location, running Tejano Restaurant for a few more decades. The family revamped that classic Oak Cliff Tex-Mex spot into El Corazon de Tejas in 2013.

Here’s an opportunity to get involved: The Old Oak Cliff Conservation League hosts a panel discussion on neighborhood preservation at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 20, at Arts Mission Oak Cliff, 410 S. Windomere.

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MAKERS’ UTOPIA

The real estate development giving entrepreneurs a leg up

By RACHEL STONE

Photos By DANNY FULGENCIO

The train-facing side of Tyler Station will be fronted with small shops and maker spaces; a marketing firm is taking the corner space. Inset: Monte Anderson, left, and Gary Buckner are partners in Tyler Station.

The next big shopping arena in Oak Cliff is the size of a Walmart plus a CVS store.

It’s huge, but it’s no big box. Tyler Station, adjacent to DART’s Tyler/Vernon station, is a developer’s mixed-use dream in a 125,000-squarefoot former factory.

Monte Anderson bought the building that once housed Dixie Wax Paper Co. an early mass producer of wax paper and other food packaging — after selling the Belmont Hotel in 2015.

He and partner Gary Buckner of Stash Design began renovating the massive

industrial building soon after. They had about 250 tons of smokestack equipment removed from the roof. The roof work alone cost them about $400,000. Prior to that, the building was dangerous and uninhabitable; it flooded any time it rained and was full of critters and infested with mosquitoes.

Now Tyler Station, originally constructed in 1922, is positioned to become the home of a brewery, a coffee roaster, a martial arts studio, a movement studio, creative agencies and more.

Besides Stash Design, there already is Kickstand Media, which is collaborating

Storefronts will line the former loading dock, just across from the DART rail. These shops, from entrepreneurs and small makers, will have front doors along the dock, but inside, they’ll also be open, separated by metal “cages,” Anderson says.

Entrepreneurs and small businesses — they also want to attract lawyers, accountants and other professional services — can rent space for as little as $400 a month, which includes fiber optic internet service.

with Telegraph Creative to form a video production company called Wax Space, a tribute to the original occupant.

Oak Cliff Brewing Co., expected to open as soon as this summer, took a huge chunk of the building’s second story. That’ll be totally separate from the rest of the floor for sanitary reasons. But the remainder, thousands of square feet, is planned as an open concept where shops, agencies and studios can see into one another’s spaces. It also allows light to flow throughout the space.

“It’s open air, so they can get to know each other and collaborate,” Anderson says. “We’re creating an environment where they can all work together.”

Taking an enormous space inside the first floor of the complex, Buckner’s Stash Design already has begun to expand its business creating unique furniture and fixtures for restaurants and other commercial spaces. They also have begun working with Dallas Designing Dreams to offer space to disabled makers who can produce things that can be sold. Stash already has identified niches in their market that other makers could fill. To that end, Southwest Airlines is donating tons of leather and other supplies that could be used to upholster bar stools, for example.

It’s great to create art and other work for one’s own satisfaction. But the goal for Tyler Station is to become a space where individuals from all over southern Dallas could earn money by making things.

When they apply for a space, the building owners won’t be concerned with their financials.

“What we’re looking for is skill,” Anderson says. “We’ll help you from there.”

“It’s open air, so they can get to know each other and collaborate.”

Tyler Station’s redevelopers had about 250 tons of smokestack equipment removed from the roof before they could replace the roof.

By BRENT MCDOUGAL

Overcome feeling overwhelmed

Instructions for keeping your head above troubled waters

My mother made me join the swim team each summer during my elementary school years. Some kids love to swim, but not me. It felt like torture rolling out of bed at 6 a.m. on summer days and jumping in freezing cold water for the 16-lap warm-up.

I never was a good swimmer, but one day I was struggling especially. Around lap 12, I couldn’t go any farther. I remember the feeling of panic as my arms flailed and my lungs took in a gulp of water. The edges of consciousness blurred as I sunk to the bottom.

Fortunately, someone jumped in to save me. But I’ll never forget that feeling of overwhelming helplessness.

There are moments when I feel like that kid again, and I know you have too. I meet people all the time who say that they feel like they’re in over their heads. “I’m drowning,” they say, “just trying to keep my head above water.” The combination of hyper-busy schedules with no margins, excessive worry, and unexpected crises can leave one feeling fretful and in despair.

Jesus said, “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”

(John

14:27)

We shouldn’t think that Jesus is some kind of genie-in-the-bottle, summoned to give us peace whenever we want it. Instead, Jesus taught us the kind of life that would bring us peace. It wouldn’t protect us from chaos and disruption, but instead would give us a life that would not ultimately be shaken.

How can you experience that kind of life?

First, build on something solid. Like a home, every life needs a foundation. Jesus said, “Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will

be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.” (Matthew 7:24) When we hear his words and put them into practice, we make a life of peace for ourselves. Refusing to worry, ceasing from judging others, telling the truth (all of these are found in the Sermon on the Mount) — these actions naturally incline toward a life of peace within and with one’s neighbor.

Second, be a peacemaker. “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.” (Matthew 5:9)

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EPISCOPAL

ST. AUGUSTINE’S /1302 W. Kiest Blvd / staugustinesoakcliff.org

A diverse, liturgical church with deep roots in Oak Cliff and in the ancient faith / Holy Eucharist with Hymns Sunday 10:15 am

METHODIST

GRACE UMC / Diverse, Inclusive, Missional Sunday School for all ages, 9:30 am / Worship, 10:50 am 4105 Junius St. / 214.824.2533 / graceumcdallas.org

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF OAK CLIFF / oakcliffuu.org

Sun. Worship 10am / Wed. Meditation 7pm / 3839 W. Kiest Blvd.

Inclusive – Justice Seeking – Spirited – Eclectic – Liberal – Fun!

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST

PROMISE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST / www.promiseucc.org

Worship: 10:30 am Sundays / 214-623-8400 / 2527 W. Colorado Blvd.

An Open and Affirming Church where everyone is welcome!

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Be a “maker” (craftsman, artist, creator) of peace in your family, work and community friends (even among your enemies).

Third, pray in all things. This is one of the most challenging practices of the life of faith, but the more you practice, the easier it becomes. Paul wrote, “… in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.” (Philippians 4:6) The promise to follow is that God’s peace will guard our hearts and minds.

There’s hope for the overwhelmed. The hardest thing to believe is that Someone is nearby to jump in when we hit bottom.

Brent McDougal is pastor of Cliff Temple Baptist Church. The Worship section is a regular feature underwritten by Advocate Publishing and by the neighborhood business people and churches listed on these pages. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.

Notice of Nondiscriminatory Policy As To Children

Cliff Temple Child Development Center admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to children at the Center.

Cliff Temple Child Development Center does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship programs, and other Center administered programs.

The combination of hyper-busy schedules with no margins, excessive worry, and unexpected crises can leave one feeling fretful and in despair.

BISHOP DUNNE CATHOLIC SCHOOL

Contact: Charleen Doan at 214.339.6561 ext. 4020 or admission@bdcs.org

A co-educational, college preparatory school serving students in grades 6-12. We provide a strong faith and valuebased education with high academic standards, encouraging all students to achieve their full potential. Our curriculum emphasizes individualized attention, and is constantly at the forefront of technology integration through the use of laptops, ebooks, and our Online Education Program. Additionally, we provide a full range of extracurricular activities ranging from athletics, to the arts, to clubs and service organizations.

HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC SCHOOL

3815 Oak Lawn Ave., Dallas 214-526-5113, htcsdallas.org For more than 100 years, Holy Trinity Catholic School, has been committed to the religious, intellectual, emotional, social and physical growth of each student. This commitment is carried out in a nurturing atmosphere with an emphasis on social awareness, service to others, and religious faith in the Catholic tradition. The Immaculate Heart Program at Holy Trinity School was initiated to fully realize our school’s mission of developing the whole child by meeting the needs of one of the most underserved and underperforming groups in catholic schools, children with dyslexia.

ST. ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY CATHOLIC SCHOOL

4019 S. Hampton Rd. Dallas 75224/ 214.331.5139 / www.saintspride.com

At St. Elizabeth of Hungary, our fundamental task is the education of the whole child -- combining learning with faith, Catholic doctrines and moral teachings. We introduce all PK3-8th Grade students to the integrated ways of STEM. This approach to education is designed to revolutionize the teaching of subject areas such as mathematics and science by incorporating technology and engineering into regular curriculum. Over the past 10 years, 95% of St. Elizabeth 8th graders were accepted to their first choice high school. Join us for an informational school tour and see for yourself how easy it is to become a Saint! Call 214.331.5139 for information.

TYLER STREET CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

915 W. Ninth St. Dallas, TX 75208 / 214.941.9717 / tsca.org Located just a few blocks from Bishop Arts, Tyler Street Christian Academy is a nondenominational, private Christian school. With an 11:1 student/ teacher ratio, pre-school through 12th grade students receive one-on-one attention in a loving, Christ-centered environment. For the past 45 years, Tyler Street Christian Academy has educated by inspiring students to love learning, strengthening them with Christ-like character and Biblical foundations for living, and encouraging them to pursue their dreams and callings. It is our objective to produce graduates who are intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually mature. We place a high value on servant-leadership, and strive to instill in our students a sense of responsibility for their community.

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Drive-in dynasty

20th century car culture birthed Pig Stand and Sivils

By RACHEL STONE

U.S. Highway 80, which runs through Oak Cliff as West Davis Street, was part of the old Bankhead Highway system that ran from coast to coast.

Automotive and travel-related businesses began springing up along the highway in the 1920s — car lots, motels, gas stations and mechanic garages.

The highway also was the site of America’s first drive-in restaurant.

The first Kirby’s Pig Stand opened in West Oak Cliff, at the Fort Worth Pike and Chalk Hill Road, in 1921. The little barbecue stand with carhop service was an immediate hit because drivers were “too lazy” to get out of their cars, according to news stories from the time. J.G Kirby opened the second Pig Stand on Zang at Colorado not long after the original opened. Pig Stand was so successful that

by 1924, 30 years before Ray Kroc bought McDonald’s, there were nine other stands in Dallas. That year, the company sold 50,000 of its “pig sandwiches” at those 10 stores, according to Texas Monthly. The company also expanded to San Antonio, Houston and Beaumont, and it opened Pig Stands in six other states as well.

The pig sandwich was a Tennessee-style pulled pork sandwich with sour pickle relish, according to Texas Monthly.

Pig Stand copycats started springing up all over Dallas, and the company sued several of them for copyright infringement over the use of the “Pig Stand” and “pig sandwich” names.

Another wildly successful drive-in would make its appearance nearly 20 years after Pig Stand supposedly invented onion rings. And this one would intro-

duce a whole new concept in selling fast food — overt sex appeal.

Sivils Drive In restaurant opened at the triangle where West Davis meets Fort Worth Avenue in 1940.

J.D. and Louise Sivils had opened their original restaurant in Houston, and they discovered that hiring “pretty girls” as carhops would draw more customers. Louise Sivils modeled the Sivils carhop outfits after drill team uniforms after seeing a football halftime show.

J.D. Sivils appears in Pat Korman’s 1976 documentary “Carhops” and says the following:

“The girls had to be real pretty, the prettiest girls we could find. And we had really the pick of the field because jobs were real hard to get then, and we could really pick out the girls we wanted.

They weren’t too short or not too tall and not too fat.”

The restaurant was featured on the cover of Life magazine in February 1940, and after that, Louise Sivils received letters from all over the country. Young women everywhere clamored to work there.

The Sivils Drive-In girls earned $3 a day, plus tips of nickels and dimes. There were as many as 100 carhops working every day in the restaurant’s heyday.

Sivils, open 24 hours a day, served beer, burgers, fried chicken, trout sandwiches, steaks, barbecue, salads and sandwiches, plus a “complete fountain service,” according to a fullpage newspaper ad from 1940.

Located near where Fort Worth Avenue meets West Davis, Sivils closed in 1967 as fast-food chains began to dominate and after the Dallas-Fort

Worth Turnpike, later part of Interstate 30, began drawing traffic away. By then, Oak Cliff had been dry for 10 years. Pig Stand had a longer life. J.G. Kirby died of pneumonia at 39, but his wife, Shirley, and business partner, Reuben Jackson, carried on, offering franchises and continuing expansion.

Business remained steady, and former carhop Royce Hailey bought Pig Stand, then a chain of 23 Texas restaurants, in 1961. The last remaining Pig Stand in Dallas, at Northwest Highway and Abrams, closed in 1985.

There were Pig Stand restaurants in San Antonio and Beaumont as late as 2006. The owner had filed bankruptcy the previous year with hopes of saving the last remaining Pig Stands. But expenses proved too high, and they shut out the lights.

Opposite page: A postcard for Oak Cliff’s Sivils Drive In shows the dozens of glamorous carhops and the “captain” who shouted orders from the tower above. Above: The Pig Stand on Zang at Colorado. Pig Stand restaurants drew attention for their unusual architecture.

“The girls had to be real pretty, the prettiest girls we could find. And we had really the pick of the field because jobs were real hard to get then.”