Lotsa History

I moved to Arlington when I was 7 years old. It wasn't even on the map at that time, just a "dot" between Dallas & Ft Worth. The only draw at that time was employment at General Motors. I attended school at CB Berry Elementary and had some of the very best teachers - Key, Workman & others. The following summer Six Flags Over Texas opened and my mom purchased discount tickets at Buddies Supermarket for $5 each that was on Abram St (now the sorrowful area of Amber Hagerman's abduction.) My mom somehow managed to back her 1955 Chevrolet into the one & only tree in the Six Flags parking lot when we were leaving. Vandergriff Chevrolet was able to quickly repair the damage. As a teen our favorite restaurant was Candlelite Inn on Division St. And I recall gasoline was only 24 cents a gallon at a nearby station. When I began dating everyone's favorite spot was the Arlington Downs Drive-in theater at the Grand Prairie line. Later in life I briefly moved away to Paradise TX & Golden CO but kept coming back to Arlington. It has grown so tremendously in the past 67 years. There's every kind of restaurant, store, entertainment venue, park & the traffic that goes with that population. Still, it's hard to leave...