I found a series of postcard views of the Oak Cliff Viaduct. Here’s one from the 1940s. I guess the city lights are reflecting brightly on the Trinity, although I really think it’s someone’s flight of fancy. Maybe they were wishing for a town lake.

Entrance to the Marsalis Zoo, circa 1970. In the skyline the Southland Life Building is on the right and it’s no longer the tallest office building in town.

Don’t let the rustic facade fool ya! Cain’s Hitchin’ Post opened in 1947 as a restaurant at 2504 W. Davis, just west of Hampton Road, but in 1951 owner Claude Cain, Jr. added the 2500 square foot “Saga Room” for drinking and dancing. The club featured “colored combos” and dancing until 1 a.m. It was apparently a lively joint until the beer election of December 1956 prohibited the selling of alcohol in such places. After that, Cain’s seems to have rode off into the sunset. No obvious evidence of the building remains today.

Aug 1: Thanks to Steve Bonner for corrections and additions to this blurb. He tells me after Cain’s closed the same building was Nayler’s Country Kitchen for several years. The last business at the location was Amvet’s Bingo.

Built in 1925, Sunset was the second high school in Oak Cliff. Still standing at 2120 W. Jefferson. Go, Bisons!

The Dallas Motel was located at 3224 W. Davis, which would put it just about where Davis crosses Westmoreland. This photo is circa 1962.

Veterans Hospital on Lancaster Road

Construction of the 5-story red brick building trimmed in white limestone was completed in the summer of 1940.

This part of South Oak Cliff was once the town of Lisbon.