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The Richland Bowl 1957 opening. The facility originally cost $300,000 to build. The builder was Ray Lofland. It was advertised as “The first modern Bowling Alley in Tarrant County with a country club atmosphere.” Originally 16 lanes, it was soon…

Arial view of an American Airlines terminal at DFW Airport in 1983.

North Richland Drug owner, Alan Hamm, is shown with employees Eva Evans (left) and Maire Erskine (right). Alan and Nancy Hamm purchased the drugstore in 1959. It was located in the northeast corner of the Greater Richland Shopping Center.

The grand opening of Greater Fort Worth International Airport/Amon Carter Field, 1953. In 1946, it was called Midway and later changed to the Greater Southwest International Airport. In 1950 the Fort Worth City Council renamed the airport Amon Carter…

The Grapevine Concert Band visits downtown Smithfield in the early 1900s.

Cynthia Orr in front of her father’s pharmacy in October of 1958. The building was originally a short lived 7-Eleven Store on Grapevine Highway.

Smithfield Feed and Seed’s store front in 1975. The building was located on Main Street in Smithfield, but was later demolished.

Parker Cemetery, located near the northeast corner of Interstate 820 and Highway 10, is the final resting place of more than a score of the descendants of Isaac Parker. Isaac is buried near Weatherford. His son, Isaac Duke Parker; his wife, Lucy W.…

This photograph of the girls’ basketball team at Birdville High School was taken about 1925.

Birdville High School Bi-district Football Champions 1939-40.
Back row: Glenn Thomas, Arthur Parr, James Cheatham, Marvin Harris.
Front Row: Joe Hatchet, J.W. Sinclair, Roy Jenuine, Junior Rudd, Troy Pennington, James Cate, Marvin Mackey.