THE ROUNDUP

Piece Of The Past

Coming And Going

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Trompo Bishop Arts was expected to open at 407 W. Tenth St. in September. Luis Olvera spent years planning a Bishop Arts expansion while running Trompo on Singleton Boulevard in West Dallas. This version of the barebones but beloved taquería has B.A.D. flair, including an outdoor dining space.

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Mi Lindo Oaxaca closed after less than a year in its second location, a two-story building on North Willomet at West Davis. This locally owned Mexican restaurant did well enough in its former location on Fort Worth Avenue that the owners moved to a bigger space in early 2019. We hear they now have plans to open a taquería in another location.

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The Oak Cliff Hotel

Thomas L. Marsalis built the Oak Cliff hotel at Jefferson and Crawford, where the Oak Cliff Municipal Building is now, in 1889. Building it cost $100,000, which would be about $3 million today. It opened on July 10, 1890, and had 100 rooms. The magnificent hotel announced it would close for the winter in November 1891, and it never reopened. Marsalis overextended himself developing Oak Cliff and was in so much financial trouble that he moved his family to New York that year. He sold the hotel, and it served as the Oak Cliff College For Young Ladies starting in 1892. By 1904, it was a hotel again. It operated as the Hotel Cliff and the Forest Inn and was demolished in 1945. —RACHEL STONE

Raising Cane’s is expected to open at Wynnewood Village Shopping Center Oct. 8. The Louisiana-based fast-food chain has 484 stores nationwide, including this one. Brixmor Property Group is planning a $30 million renovation of Wynnewood and signed leases with LA Fitness and Maya Cinemas.

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There are no longer Zang Boulevard exits from Interstate 35. The Texas Department of Transportation closed the Zang Boulevard exit from northbound Interstate 35 in September. The southbound exit closed several months ago, and Beckley Avenue is now the exit to take for Zang and 12th. It was an odd sweep of an exit, a quirky part of Oak Cliff traffic that’s been there since about 1956 when the interstate was built.

The “igloo” on Zang. Polar Bear ice cream closed decades ago, but it’s one of Oak Cliffers’ favorite memories. The unique building on Zang fell into disrepair years ago, and its future remains in peril.

“My late husband and I had our second date there in ’71. Must have been magical because we got married a month later and lived “happily ever after” for over 35 years. Ah, the good old days.”

— Sharon Welling Gilbert