Thrall Court had an interesting mix of people. If you wanted multi-cultural, that was the place to be. Next door to us on one side we had the Ricardo’s. They were a second generation Mexican family who came to Fort Worth via Del Rio, Texas. They...
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Back in the early seventies, Evel Knievel ruled. He was the ultimate testosterone rush before I even knew what the hell testosterone was.Of course, everyone wanted to mimic the crazy sonofabitch, including some adults. We heard a story of a guy somewhere.
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In the early seventies, my family moved from Rosedale Street in Stop Six to Thrall Court in Polytechnic Heights, or Poly as everyone called it. When we lived on Rosedale we didn’t have neighbors, so my brother and I never really played with any...
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The earliest time of my life I can remember is when we lived on Rosedale Street, out in the far east side of Fort Worth. This area of town was known as Stop Six. The name of the area came about from it being stop number 6 on the old Fort Worth to Dallas..
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