2020 December Oak Cliff

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OAK CLIFF NATIVE MIGUEL DONJUAN created this “Heroes” mural on the side of a building on Singleton Boulevard. Donjuan’s wife, Diana, is an emergency-room nurse at Methodist Dallas Medical Center, and the hospital sponsored the mural as part of the Wild West Mural Fest in October. The painting is based on a design of Donjuan’s creation that is printed on a motivational banner at the hospital. The open studios, exhibits and live painting in the honeycombed West Dallas enclave known as the Fabrication Yard are over until next year’s event, but it’s not too late to go see all the new work. Find a map at wildwestmuralfest.com.

I don’t think I could’ve been successful anywhere else because of the way people support each other here. I’ve never had such a sense of community anywhere.

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Guerilla street art on a West Davis utility pole.

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Development Digest

REAL ESTATE ROUNDUP

New York investors bought up most of a block of Zang Boulevard between Tenth and Sunset earlier this year. Abingdon Square Partners says it has no immediate plans for the properties, which include a retail strip and a medical office. The investment firm has also been buying property in Deep Ellum and the Design District.

Exxir Capital, the developer behind Bishop Arts’ southern expansion, purchased the Bishop Highline apartments at 305 and 431 Melba in February. The two buildings comprise 118 units. Developer Urban Genesis, who built them in 2018, has two other projects under construction in Bishop Arts.

WEST DAVIS PLACE-MAKING

GroundFloor Development plans to fill 2.7 acres on West Davis at North Oak Cliff Boulevard with 20 luxury townhomes starting at $880,000, plus a five-story residential building with 28 units. The development, Kessler West, is on the site of former apartments. The land was vacant for more than a decade before David Weekly Homes built two- and three-story townhomes facing Stevens Village Drive. The Kessler West townhomes will be built in three phases. The first is already under construction and expected to be completed this spring.

A new retail building is under construction on West Davis at Vernon, next door to Oil & Cotton. The building will comprise 4,480 square feet of restaurant and retail space with 54 parking spaces at the rear, and could be completed early next year. Spaces of 1,442-3,008 square feet are now leasing.

MULTIFAMILY MUSHROOMING

About 40,000 apartment units are under construction in Dallas, one of the busiest cities in the nation for apartment building, and hundreds are coming to our neighborhood. The intersection of Zang at Beckley will look a lot different in about two years when Omniplan is expected to deliver a five-story apartment building diagonally across from Spiral Diner. Zang Flats will have 71 residences. Groundfloor lofts on the street-facing side will mimic the look of storefronts, and the complex will have a pool deck on the mezzanine level. It’s on the Oak Cliff streetcar line and a couple of blocks from Lake Cliff Park. Two blocks away, Kairoi Residential plans to build an eight-story apartment building with 352 units on the former site of El Fenix on Colorado. The stretch of Beckley Avenue between Greenbriar and Interstate 30 will soon fill in with multistory apartments. StoneHawk Capital Partners expects to break ground this month on 340 apartments on Beckley at Morgan, across the street from Lone Star Donuts. The apartments will replace one-story warehouse and industrial buildings a block away from Methodist Dallas Medical Center. The 400,000-squarefoot property has built-in skyline and Trinity River views as it’s on the edge of the west levee. Georgia-based Flournoy Development Group has almost completed the Trinity Skyline apartments nearby.

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Retro Advocate

THIS USED TO BE OAK CLIFF. The shopping center known locally as “Show Hill” because of the Star Theater, was built in 1945 at Moore and Eighth streets in what was then a segregated Black neighborhood. The theater closed in 1959, and the buildings were demolished about 20 years ago. Sign up for our weekly newsletter about history at oakcliff.advocatemag.com.

Get involved

The West Oak Cliff Area Plan is now in the works, and the City of Dallas is gathering input from neighbors. The approximately 5-square-mile area straddles ZIP codes 75208 and 75211, from Davis and 12th to the north, Illinois to the south, Tyler/Vernon to the east and Cockrell Hill to the west. Many residents want zoning changes in their neighborhoods in this chunk of Oak Cliff, so City Councilman Chad West recommended doing it comprehensively. “I believe that if we as neighbors don’t have a plan for the future of our neighborhoods and commercial corridors, someone else will come up with one for us,” West says.

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DEC. 5 STAY HOME

5 THINGS TO DO THIS MONTH

DEC. 2 GET INTO THE OAK CLIFF BLUES

Houston-based photographer Tracy Anne Hart brings her new book about Stevie Ray Vaughan to the guitarist’s hometown. Hart’s photos of Vaughan from 1983-1990 create the visual portrait that is “Seeing Stevie Ray.” The seated outdoor event with limited capacity starts at 7:30 p.m. The Wild Detectives, 314 W. Eighth St., thewilddetectives.com

Support The Well Community without leaving the comfort of your pajamas. The nonprofit’s annual Starry Nights fundraiser is completely online this year, with a video presentation and a live contest from 7-8 p.m. The event is free to attend, with donations benefiting mental health support. The Well Community, thewellcommunity.org

THROUGH DEC. 16 DONATE TO A TOY DRIVE

Prism Health North Texas is accepting donations of coats, food and toys for families affected by AIDS and HIV. Prism Health North Texas, 351 W. Jefferson Blvd., phntx.org

THROUGH DEC. 16 PUT PRESENTS UNDER THE TREE

Promise House makes it easy for anyone to give presents to its residents with an Amazon wish list. The Oak Cliff-based nonprofit provides housing for homeless teens from all over the Dallas area. Promise House, promisehouse.org

DEC. 19

BRING YOUR BINOCULARS

The Trinity River Audubon Center leads a bird walk from 7:30-8:15 a.m. Limited to 10 participants, who must wear masks. Tickets cost $10 and can be reserved online. Trinity River Audubon Center, 6500 S. Trinity Forest Way, trinityriver. audubon.org

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COMING & GOING

[+] Business is going so well for the new Bishop Arts restaurant KRIO that the owners of the Cajun/Asian concept are opening a second restaurant and bar in the neighborhood. Atlas is currently under construction in the space formerly occupied by the clothing boutique Strut at 408 N. Bishop Ave. Atlas will focus on food and drinks from around the world.

[+] SOIREE COFFEE BAR jazzes up Trinity Groves, literally, with a performance stage and drinks named for Ella Fitzgerald, a salted brown-sugar latte, and Lena Horne, honey lavender latte. The Louis Armstrong has a kick. That’s a maple latte with caramel and bourbon. The restaurant also offers sandwiches, salads and brunch.

[–] PINK MAGNOLIA, the West Davis restaurant owned and operated by chef Blythe Beck, has closed.

[+] HULA GIRL, with Hawaii-inspired poke bowls, and LB Wings, chicken wings by the pound in signature flavors such as General Tso’s, smoky molasses, green curry and mango habanero, opened recently in Trinity Groves.

[+] Argentinean restaurant CHIMICHURRI opened recently in the Bishop Arts District from Tacos Mariachi owner Jesus Carmona and restaurateur Ramiro Fernandez Pazos. The menu features sausages, pizzas, empanadas and grilled meats.

EDUCATION NEWS

n Dallas ISD teacher Eric Hale, who lives in the Kessler area, is the 2021 Texas Teacher of the Year. Hale, who works at David G. Burnet Elementary in Northwest Dallas, is the first Black man to receive the honor. Now he is among the finalists for National Teacher of the Year, chosen in the spring.

n The Dallas Business Journal has named DISD Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, an Oak Cliff native, among its “Most Inspiring Leaders of 2020.” Hinojosa was honored for his collaboration with state and local officials to maintain instruction in the early weeks of the pandemic, developing a plan to reopen schools, advocating for online access and providing more than 10 million meals to families while schools were closed.

n Dallas voters in the November election approved two bonds for DISD totaling $3.5 billion. About $3.2 billion will be spent on repairs and upgrades to school buildings, and about $270 million will be spent on technology.

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CARAMEL AND DUCK FAT

How Oak Cliff makes Pixie Pies happen 

Dallas’ relaxed cottage-industry rules are a lifestyle savior for pastry chef Samantha Moss. The 38-year-old New York City native runs Pixie Pies out of her home kitchen off Center Street. Moss worked as a caterer in New York before moving to Texas 13 years ago. She was the opening pastry chef at the Breadwinners store at NorthPark Center and then worked at Nick & Sam’s for about five years. She had major brain surgery five years ago because of a condition, chiari malformation, which causes brain tissue to extend into the spinal canal. As a single mother with a disability, Oak Cliff neighbors make it easy for her to get by as an entrepreneur, she says. That doesn’t mean it’s not a lot of work. Moss rises before dawn, bakes all morning and makes deliveries in the afternoon, while supervising her 8-year-old Dallas ISD third grader, Shyla Lily Owen. The Pixie Pie menu, available on Facebook, includes four cookie varieties for $20 per dozen and four types of pie that cost $12-$24.

How she got into cooking

I taught myself how to cook at 10 because I was alone a lot. When I was 18, I was making food for my boyfriend’s lunch every day because I was home at the time. He was a painter in New York City, and his client was Libby Titus, who is the wife of Donald Fagan from Steely Dan. She tried some of my food and immediately demanded that I cater one of her events, and it launched my own little company for a while.

How she started Pixie Pies

My daughter started school, and I was picking her up every day. I had left the steakhouse and decided that I was going to do it from home, make pies and cookies and deliver them. Between the PTA and [Facebook groups], and because of my pedigree working at Nick & Sam’s, I was busy right away.

Her best seller

The Fat Nona pie is the best seller, hands down. It’s a caramel apple pie with a duckfat vodka crust. Because I’m Italian and from New York, I also do a lot of desserts that are from that, like a black-and-white

cookie, rugelach … I do an Italian Easter pie every year. That’s basically like a pizza encased in a huge crust.

It’s not just baking

I actually do a lot of catering for my clients and meal trains. Some of my best customers have turned keto, so I make keto pumpkin pies that are sugar free and gluten free, and I’m making meals for them as well. I have some clients with food allergies, and they trust me because I take that very seriously. Then I just randomly do meals. I’ve been making sag paneer for two weeks because I do Indian cuisine as well.

Special orders

I get a lot of requests from people who want comfort food that they can’t find here. That’s been fun. I had a request for this chocolate cake with mousse layers on the inside and shaved chocolate on the outside. It was a giant, very heavy cake that I recreated just from pictures and the description.

The holidays

I get extremely busy. Last year, I had to hire a delivery person. From the time I open my eyes in the morning to the time I go to bed, I’m baking. This year is different because the parties and church gatherings aren’t happening.

Mistakes home bakers make

Not trusting the science and not understanding what the science does in baking. They over-mix things or don’t get ingredients to the same temperature. They think it’s just the ingredients and they don’t think about the chemistry behind the ingredients. And also, go by weight instead of measuring.

Why she named it Pixie Pies

I’m called a pixie a lot because I’m kind of tiny and flighty. I even have a Tinkerbell tattooed on me.

Because of Oak Cliff

I don’t think I could’ve been successful anywhere else because of the way people support each other here. I’ve never had such a sense of community anywhere.

Interview by RACHEL STONE

Portrait courtesy of Steven Doyle. Top and bottom photos courtesy of Samantha Moss

LIVING FOR LIVE MUSIC

Musicians emerging from the pandemic struggle

ON A PERFECT FALL DAY in October, guitarist Pepe Valdez led a trio in an afternoon of Peruvian criolla music in the rear of a former tire shop on West Davis.

The socially distanced crowd consisted mostly of family and friends of the band, plus a few Oak Cliff neighbors.

“I love the concept of using an old mechanic’s shop for music venues,” says Victor Rimach, whose agency Chasquis Group put on a series of small concerts in the space adjacent to the former Bolsa Mercado.

Before that, they presented DJs and live bands in the courtyard at Trompo Bishop Arts. Rimach says he plans to put on more shows at both venues as long as weather permits.

“There are a lot of great musicians in Oak Cliff,” he says. “The musicians are suffering as much as any live music venue

in terms of income, so the intention is to find them gigs.”

The Wild Detectives also started putting on local live music in limited seating outdoor events as a way for musicians to earn a little cash.

Local singer/songwriter Sarah Johnson released her debut EP, “Volcano,” in September, a few months later than intended, but she hasn’t been able to tour.

On a Sunday afternoon, Johnson plays outside of Mosaic Makers Collective in Bishop Arts. This isn’t the ideal scenario, but Johnson is in good spirits.

“It has just limited where we can play,” Johnson says. “But at the same time, it’s forced people to be creative. You just have to hustle.”

While some Oak Cliff venues are having shows, don’t

Story by ALEX GONZALEZ AND RACHEL STONE | Photography by MELISSA LAREE CUNNINGHAM

Singer Mariana Dominguez accompanies guitar player Pepe Valdez during a backyard show at a former tire shop in Oak Cliff.

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expect any record release parties or live performances at neighborhood favorite Spinster Records in the near future.

“We’re a very tiny store, in the grand scheme of what a venue would be,” says longtime Spinster employee Kate Siamro. “Until the masks are off and it’s normal to not wear a mask, we’re not having any shows, sadly.”

Spinster Records takes many safety precautions. Upon entering the store, guests are encouraged to use hand sanitizer before touching records and surfaces in the store. Shoppers can also order vinyl online and pick them up at the store curbside.

While many venues are struggling to survive, Siamro says record stores are doing well, which she attributes to people’s desire to elevate their home setting.

“I think with music, the closest way to get to live music or anything that interacts with music would be to buy a turntable and records,” Siamro says.

It may be a long time before we can catch our favorite local band at a packed venue, but for the time being, Siamoro hopes music will help heal our weary souls.

“When you put a record on, you’re having an experience with music,” Siamro says, “And that’s not something you can usually touch.”

HEART AND SOUL

A LOVE LETTER TO EL JORDAN

Story by RACHEL STONE | Photography by KATHY TRAN

Caldo de res is a humble star of the show at El Jordan.

EL JORDAN feels like home, where aunts and grandmas will rock your baby while you eat.

After 24 years in the Bishop Arts District, the owners and staff of the Mexican café have seen littles grow up, go to college and bring their own babies to breakfast.

Through first dates, pregnancies, divorces and deaths, El Jordan has been there with personal kindness that’s as comforting as the food.

“Mr. José would always come out to say ‘hello.’ He and Ms. Lorena would stop on the street to greet us when we ran into them,” neighbor Sara Gradual Vivona says. “The whole staff always remembers our names and little things about the kids to make them feel special.”

Owner José Gonzalez died of cancer in August 2019 at age 62. When he and wife, Lorena, needed help to cover medical costs, Oak Cliff came through, raising $33,000 in a few weeks.

After taking time to grieve, Lorena reopened El Jordan with her dedicated staff.

“It’s hard,” she says of running the restaurant without her husband. “There’s always something.”

But she’s still doing it with a smile, and the food is always greatness: flavorful caldo de res full of tender veggies, $2 breakfast burritos, migas a la Mexicana and chiles rellenos with chicken and cheese. Many Oak Cliffers recommend the

pancakes and oatmeal as well.

Kimberlyn Crowe lived a few blocks away while on bed rest for the last three months of her pregnancy.

“My husband walked to El Jordan five times a week to bring me bacon, egg and cheese breakfast tacos and a side of frijoles,” she says. “And god help the man if he forgot the frijoles!”

Vivona and her husband are among the many who have left their babies in the arms of the staff while they ate.

Her sons, Nick and Luke, now 12 and 10, are El Jordan kids. They even donated their birthday money to the fundraiser for José.

In a neighborhood full of great restaurants, El Jordan is your favorite chef’s favorite place.

“I have lost count of the number of breakfast burritos that we’ve ordered to-go and the number of migas a la Mexicana that we’ve eaten at what I consider ‘our table,’” says Jennifer Uygur, co-owner of Lucia and Macellaio.

Open since 1996, El Jordan is the oldest business in the Bishop Arts District, besides the funeral home. And it belongs to the neighborhood in a way that can’t be manufactured.

“We love all the people,” Lorena Gonzalez says. “They keep us going.”

“God help the man if he forgot the frijoles!”

Huevos rancheros and carne asada.

dough oak clif A Humbl e Tr e a t Glorified

Cupcakes reigned as America’s hottest food trend for a decade, yet a Sprinkles-style boutique never opened in Oak Cliff. A subsequent generation of dessert-shop trends involved a lot of fried dough. There was the cronut, a croissant-doughnut hybrid that Dallas chef Najat Kaanache claims to have invented three months before they became the must-have treat in New York’s SoHo. A beignet shop in Deep Ellum currently draws lines out the door. In the Bishop Arts District, one block is being transformed thanks to glorification of the humble doughnut.

STORY BY RACHEL STONE | PHOTOGRAPHY BY KATHY TRAN

the salty donut

The Salty Donut started five years ago as a pop-up in Miami. Husband-and-wife owners Andy Rodriguez and Amanda Pizarro opened their first permanent shop in a space so small that it didn’t have its own kitchen; the doughnuts were made offsite and delivered throughout the day. Their second Miami location does have a kitchen, but it’s small.

The company made a calculated expansion to Dallas, and they landed in a former mechanic’s shop in Bishop Arts. This was the company’s first opportunity to design and build a store the way they wanted it, and it represents their vision for the future.

They created a charming patio breezeway that extends from Davis to Seventh, where neighbors catch up on Saturday mornings and weekday afternoons.

Inside, you can see into the kitchen to watch how the doughnuts are made. They’re made, by the way, with 24-hour brioche dough. The Bishop Arts store employs a full-time pastry chef, Audrey Scheib. “People always ask me if I get tired of doughnuts,” she says. “I eat them every day, and I never get tired of them.”

They’re not cheap. A glazed doughnut costs $2.75, and a specialty doughnut costs about $4.25. The best seller is the horchata doughnut, soaked in homemade horchata, crusted with chocolate and topped with cinnamon meringue.

It’s a take on the best seller in Miami, tres leches, says store manager Laura Lewallen. “We wanted to make it more Texan,” she says.

The Salty Donut also sells a few cake doughnuts, including two that are always on the menu: brownbutter and salt and Texas chocolate sheet cake. Other regulars are guava and cheese, and maple and bacon. Six slots on the menu are reserved for seasonal rotation, such as Oreo and almond cookie butter. There is always a vegan option and a glutenfree doughnut.

Besides that, the shop serves Intelligentsia coffee and a full menu of espresso drinks.

“I think our coffee program is as strong as our doughnuts,” Lewallen says. They also offer beer and wine and serve-yourself seltzer on tap.

The Salty Donut, 414 W. Davis St., 972.707.9889, saltydonut.com Hours: 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. TuesdaySunday, closed Monday

sout hern don uts m a id

Texas gives the world many great things, but a blueberry cake doughnut might be the best, and Southern Maid Donut is one place to get it in our neighborhood.

This locally owned franchise opened about 10 years ago in a renovated tire shop. Not only is it a convenient drive-through on the way to Interstate 30, it’s also cute, with public art and pleasant landscaping.

Southern Maid serves all of the typical doughnut shop fare, including sausage rolls in two sizes and Community coffee. A midmorning visit likely will find old-timers lingering over their coffee in the booths. There’s also a covered patio.

A mixed dozen of “fancy” doughnuts costs $7, and a dozen of the blueberry costs $8. That’s one way to make 12 people happy for under $10.

Southern Maid, which also has a location at Wynnewood Village, serves croissant sandwiches that cost about $3.50 each, as well as $2 breakfast tacos.

Southern Maid Donut, 937 W. Davis St., 214.941.4046

Hours: 6 a.m.-1 p.m, Monday-Sunday

lone star donuts

Until recently, the best thing 75 cents could buy in Oak Cliff was a pretzel doughnut from Lone Star Donuts. The 70-year-old Oak Cliff institution stopped selling its fresh doughnuts and breakfast sandwiches in November because of economic effects of the pandemic.

But the store still sells popcorn, packaged sweet rolls and Baby Cakes, their little packaged doughnuts, directly from the factory. Baby Cakes come in powdered sugar, cinnamon sugar or plain. When you buy a package of similar doughnuts in the grocery or convenience store, there’s no telling how stale they’ll be.

These guys straight from the source are always fresh and delicious. They make a perfect last-minute item to pickup for a Christmas or New Year’s gathering. Put a few each into paper cups and pass a tray of them for a no-touch party treat. Their big bags of popcorn also make it easy to package up COVID-safer snacks served in individual paper bags. Bring cash because everything is so inexpensive that you’ll feel silly paying with plastic.

Lone Star Donuts originally opened in what is now the Bishop Arts District in 1950. Two couples, the Burdines and the Wards, opened it with one employee who cut the dough, and they produced and sold 300 doughnuts a day. The husbands made deliveries, and the wives ran the shop.

Back then, when the old Dallas streetcar still stopped at Bishop and Davis, it cost 5 cents for two doughnuts and a cup of coffee. In 1957, the Burdines bought out their partners, and in 1963, they moved to their current location on Beckley Avenue. A second-generation owner, Gene Burdine, turned to expansion in the late 1960s, opening 32 retail stores throughout the Dallas area. But a decade later, the company decided to focus on its products for grocery and convenience retail, and it closed all of the Lone Star Donuts franchises.

The company got its sweet rolls and Baby Cakes into Sam’s Club in the 1990s, and production increased rapidly, with the storefront on Beckley as the only place that sold its fresh doughnuts. Kathy Burdine, the company’s third-generation owner, now runs the place. The company announced recently: “We hope to be back to our traditional line of products once the effects of the pandemic have passed.”

Lone Star Donuts, 1727 N. Beckley Ave., 214.946.2185 Hours: 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, closed Sunday and Monday

Tweed Ride

Decade-old Bike Friendly Oak Cliff is revving up again.

The nonprofit, created in an effort to change attitudes toward cyclists in Dallas, gave away 55 refurbished two-wheelers and new helmets to neighborhood kids in September, the same day the group serviced more than 40 bikes for free. Plans for similar events are in the works for next year. Meanwhile, the group wants to show us a good time on our bikes. BFOC hosts a virtual Tweed Ride on Dec. 6 that leads riders independently on a historic tour of Oak Cliff, West Dallas, Fair Park and Downtown. Find the full route on BFOC’s social media, and if possible, make a donation to its mission of putting butts on bikes. Show us your best vintage look and time travel to destinations near or far. Tag #BFOCtweed, @bikefriendlyoakcliff and @advocateoakcliff on Instagram. And become more intimate with our city’s history.

1 South of Jefferson Boulevard

Original 7-Eleven Edgefield at Twelfth

This building is now the Dallas office of the LULAC National Education Service Centers, which provides academic support to 130 low-income students in Dallas ISD. About 90 years ago, it was the site of the first 7-Eleven. Oak Cliff-raised Joe C. Thompson Jr., known as “Jodie,” started as a stable boy for Consumer Ice Co. in the days before refrigeration, when ice boxes kept food cool. He later became director of Oak Cliff’s Southland Ice Co. John Jefferson Green operated the Southland-owned ice dock on Edgefield at Twelfth. In 1927, he had the idea to sell milk, eggs and bread from the dock, and the concept of a modern convenience store was born.

Kiest Park Rugged at Grayson

The 263-acre park was donated to the City of Dallas in 1931 by Edwin J. Kiest, who was publisher of the Dallas Times Herald, and named for his wife, Elizabeth Patterson Kiest. Find the recently installed sculpture dedicated to Oak Cliff’s famous musical brothers, Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan, who grew up nearby. Kiest Park was known as a teen hangout from the get-go, and kids cruised their jalopies there from the 1930s. The Friends of Oak Cliff Parks restored the 2.5-acre historic memorial garden and pushed the City of Dallas to fund restoration of the Works Progress Administration-era pergola and water rill to its 1934 appearance. This park is also the site of a 1937 bike race, the Texas state bicycle racing championships, which included men’s and women’s races.

Sunset High School Jefferson at Oak Cliff Boulevard

Sunset High School was built in 1925 and became a Dallas Historic Landmark in 2016. A $46-million renovation, expected to be complete in 2023, includes construction of a 1,000-seat competition gym but will not disturb the historic façade. Famous alumni include actresses Linda Darnell and Yvonne Craig; writers Terry Southern and Billy Lee Brammer; LPGA founders Bettye Mims Danoff and Betty Jameson; and former Dallas Mayor Robert S. Folsom.

Also see: Cedar Crest House, the white mansion across Jefferson Boulevard from Sunset, was built in 1905 and is also a Dallas Historic Landmark. Turner House, 401 N. Rosemont, was built in 1908 and is an event space owned by the Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts, a club founded by artist Frank Reaugh in 1926.

J.D. Tippit

Tippit memorial marker

This is the site of the most infamous cop killing in Dallas history. Police officer J.D. Tippit was patrolling the neighborhood near Adamson High School on Nov. 22, 1963, when he stopped Lee Harvey Oswald following the JFK assassination. Oswald shot and killed Tippit. The site received a historical marker in 2012.

Also see: Top Ten Records, 338 W. Jefferson, is the Oak Cliff record shop that Tippit frequented. The Texas Theatre, 231 W. Jefferson, is where the police ultimately arrested Oswald. Santos Mufflers & Radiators, 401 E. Jefferson, is the former Texaco station where Oswald dropped his black jacket. Hughes Funeral Home, 400 E. Jefferson, sent an ambulance to the scene of the Tippit murder.

J.D.

Hampton

Tyler

Turner House Mallory Drug store Texas Theatre Cedar Crest House

3 West Dallas

See also: The Lillie McBride house, 3111 N. Winnetka, is another infamous location in the Barrow gang’s history that’s slated for demolition or relocation. Western Heights Cemetery, Fort Worth Avenue at Neal Street, is the final resting place of Barrow, his parents and siblings.

The Barrow filling station 1221 Singleton

This building is the childhood home of Clyde Barrow, the outlaw who was half of Bonnie and Clyde. The original Barrow home was on Muncie at Sylvan, and it was moved to this location, where the Barrows ran a filling station and lived onsite for decades. An Oak Cliff-based developer bought the station last year and has plans to demolish it and redevelop the land.

Lake Cliff Park 300 E. Colorado

Lake Cliff Park opened July 4, 1906, and was part of developer Charles Mangold’s vision for Oak Cliff as “the Southwest’s greatest playground.” It had an amusement park with a log ride, swimming pool, skating rink and three theaters. The WPA built the pergola on Colorado at Zang in 1934, along with other stone features. The park also featured a short-lived “motordrome,” a track for motorcycle racing, in 1912.

Also see: The Oswald rooming house, 1026 N. Beckley, is where Oswald was staying at the time of the JFK assassination. The Houston Street Viaduct was built in 1912 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. At the time, it was the longest reinforced concrete highway viaduct in the world, and it was the first connection from Oak Cliff to Dallas that could not be washed out.

5 East of Zang

Cemetery

Venture east of Interstate 35 to find this sacred place that is one of the oldest burial grounds in Dallas, with the earliest graves dating to the 1860s. From the beginning, it was open to people of any religion or race. Many early Dallas dignitaries are buried here, including 1936 Dallas Mayor George Sergeant and real estate developer John M. Stemmons, for whom the freeway is named.

Also see: Tenth Street Historic District, the neighborhood surrounding the cemetery, was founded by freed slaves following the American Civil War, and many of the homes were hand built by their original owners. The Interurban Bridge remnant, on Clarendon between Corinth and Moore, was part of the passenger railway system that served Dallas, Denison, Corsicana and Waco for more than 30 years. Moore Park, 1900 E. Eighth, is one of Dallas’ historically Black parks. It now features the Santa Fe Trestle Trail, a pedestrian connection between Oak Cliff and South Dallas.

What is tweed?

Tweed is a rough woolen fabric traditionally used in Scottish and Irish clothing. “Tweed runs” gained popularity in northern England in the early 1990s, with riders donning vintage clothing and pedaling antique bicycles. BFOC organized its first Tweed Ride in 2009. No tweed in your closet? That’s OK. Try out any vintage look that’s convenient or throw on anything comfortable and go exploring.

THE BEAN SCENE

Oak Cliff’s coffee cup overflows

Ten years ago, our neighborhood had one or two local coffee shops. Establishments like Oddfellows and Davis Street Espresso upped the game. And now there are so many rockstar coffee shops around, we can hardly keep up. Oak Cliff quietly became a coffee snob’s paradise over the past few years. Here are a few new ones we love.

CULTURE AND CANTINA

Cafecita on the boulevard

When I moved back to the Dallas area eight years ago, Jefferson was the place that oddly felt most like home. Odd because it reminded me of McAllen, a place I lived that was not my hometown. The buildings, businesses and “life” of the street deliver that border town feel, where two cultures happily collide in sounds, sights and tastes.

Xamán (pronounced “shaman”) looks intentionally to add to the cross-cultural appeal, with a central Mexicoinspired menu and vibe.

Xamán imports beans from farms in Mexico and turns them over to a rotating array of local roasters. In addition to your everyday cup of joe or espresso drink, Xamán offers traditional Mexican drinks not typically found in Dallas. One is café de olla, hot coffee with sweet and spice that tasted like a hug on a cold and rainy day. They also feature horchata and pastries from a variety of micro, local and typically Mexican-owned bakeries.

If you’re craving something more substantive, Xamán also offers brunch and tapas.

When it comes to taste, Xamán lives up to its goal of featuring flavors that transport you to another place.

As for vibe, Xamán takes you there, too. The café’s exposed brick walls, neutral tones and green plants give it an inviting and warm feel. It’s an unassuming and humble place, decorated with large bags of coffee beans and minimalist indigenous art and photos. And if you’re looking for something stronger, walk down a low-lit hallway to a wooden barricade that opens up into a Mexico-City inspired cantina, with flickering candles and agave-based spirits.

Xamán Café, 334 W. Jefferson Blvd., xamancafe.com

Covid protocols: The café is open for dine-in and features a few tables outside. Takeout available.

CONTINENTAL CENTRAL

A perfect cortado

Continue your caffeinated journey a few blocks from Xamán at La Reunion in the Bishop Arts District. The cross-cultural appeal here feels more European.

La Reunion, going on its first-year birthday, calls itself a “parlor,” and that description fits. Without trying, it feels more Greenwich Village than Bishop Arts, which was a pleasant surprise. Unpretentiously sophisticated.

La Reunion offers all the drinks, from local brews on tap, to wine, and a variety of cocktails, but we are here for the coffee. One sip tells you why they’re known for simply serving really good coffee.

The beans are roasted in-house, with a roaster on display at the entrance. I like to judge a place by its cortado, and La Reunion’s did not disappoint. It’s served in short orange shot glass, which felt fancy, and it complements whatever you may be eating or reading. La Reunion also features a nitro cold brew on tap and seasonal coffee drinks with all the bells and whistles.

In addition to coffee drinks and other spirits, La Reunion offers breakfast tacos and sandwiches made in-house.

La Reunion, 229 N. Bishop Ave., lareunioncoffee.com

Covid protocols: Open for dine-in and is generally pretty busy. It offers a carry-out service if you prefer not to linger.

COWBOY COFFEE

Wayward does things its own way

For a more downhome feeling, the newly opened Wayward Coffee Co. on West Davis offers good coffee without the frills. A cowboy on the front window greets you, and it sets the mood for a hip West Texas feel.

A community table, plus other seating, along with plenty of plants and large windows make Wayward an inviting place work or converse.

The shop offers a rotating selection of roasters from around Texas and the country. During a recent visit, they featured Flat Track coffee from Austin. Roasters apply for a chance to showcase their beans at Wayward, and the chosen ones are featured before another star moves in. It’s a creative way to offer coffee lovers a variety of tastings and highlight small roasters.

Their seasonal drinks were among my favorites. One cold coffee drink, the Floyd, mixes cold brew, orange, vanilla, Topo Chico and cream. It tasted like an orange dreamsicle, but the coffee balanced the sweetness, offering a surprise to my tastebuds that I’d definitely go for again. The Goldrush, a latte with honey, vanilla and cinnamon, also mixes flavors beautifully. The typical pumpkin-spice drink has a spot on the seasonal menu, referred to as the “drink that shall not be named.” Order it confidently, without judgment, because there is no wrong way to take your coffee.

Wayward is just far enough from the other small coffee shops on Davis and Tyler to grab its own set of regulars and not get lost in Oak Cliff’s myriad coffee houses. Its simple style and dedication to bringing varied coffee experiences to the neighborhood help separate it from the rest.

Wayward Coffee Co., 1318 W. Davis, waywardcoffee.co

Covid protocols: Open for seating and generally pretty busy, but offers to-go drinks and online ordering.

3 MORE LOCAL COFFEE SHOPS WE LOVE:

Espumoso Caffe

408 N. Bishop Ave.

This no-frills Bishop Arts staple gives North Beach, San Francisco vibes. Decent coffee, delicious empanadas and great peoplewatching.

White Rhino Coffee

233 W. Seventh St., Suite 120

An import all the way from Cedar Hill, White Rhino has good seating, a full-menu and a friendly staff. Nice place to work or for meetings but also easy to get in and out.

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These kings of Kiestwood Village rule the hearts of coffee lovers south of Jefferson Boulevard with its own canned cold brews, creative seasonal drinks and all-around good vibes.

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By BRENT MCDOUGAL

Children Again

A baby changes everything

There’s a phenomenon that refers to warm water currents from the South American coast that affect weather all over the world. The pattern got its name from Peruvian fishermen who noticed that the warm waters arrived around Christmas time. They named it El Niño. The baby. The Christ Child.

Soon people began to say that El Niño was responsible for much more than floods, droughts and tropical storms. Economy declining? Must be El Niño. Arthritis acting up? El Niño. Stocks go up or down? El Niño. Late for work? Gotta be El Niño.

Ask any parent: The coming of a baby into the world is disruptive. Several friends of mine gave birth during the pandemic, adding disorder to a chaotic year.

2020 has blown like an ill wind, upending businesses and family gatherings, ultimately causing over 230,000 deaths and counting. The pandemic has been pervasive, harsh and bitter. Everything has changed, but not for the good.

Those Peruvian fishermen knew that the coming of the Christ Child changed everything, too. His presence would topple the mighty, lift up the humble, bring good news to the poor and call out the rich for injustice.

Mary’s song at the birth of the Christ Child (known as the Magnificat) is recorded in Luke 1. From The Message translation: “What God has done for me will never be forgotten … His mercy flows in wave after wave on those who are in awe before him. He bared his arm … scattering the bluffing braggarts. He knocked tyrants off their high horses, pulled victims out of the mud. The starving poor sat down to a banquet; the callous rich were left out in the cold.”

Those words are hard to believe in 2020. It may be that the death of George

Floyd was the most tragic and jarring event of the year. One human being with the knee of another on his neck, snuffing out life — we saw that. In his final breaths, Floyd cried out, “Momma … momma, I’m through!” A sacred invocation. Many of us witnessed that act and thought, “This can’t be happening. This is not the America we want to be.”

All of us were babies once. We are never far from our own infancy. Maybe

WORSHIP

BAPTIST

CLIFF TEMPLE BAPTIST CHURCH / 125 Sunset Ave. / 214.942.8601

Serving Oak Cliff since 1898 / CliffTemple.org / English and Spanish

9 am Contemporary Worship / 10 am Sunday School / 11 am Traditional

GRACE TEMPLE BAPTIST Come to a Place of Grace!

Sunday Worship: English Service 9:30am / Spanish Service 11:00am 831 W. Tenth St. / 214.948.7587 / gracetempledallas.org

CATHOLIC

ST. CECILIA CATHOLIC PARISH / ST. CECILIA CATHOLIC PARISH / StCeciliaDallas.org / 1809 W Davis St. /

Saturday - Bilingual Mass 5PM; Sunday –

English Masses 730AM & 11AM; Spanish Masses 9AM, 1PM & 3PM

DISCIPLES OF CHRIST

EAST DALLAS CHRISTIAN CHURCH / 629 N. Peak Street / 214.824.8185

Sunday School 9:30 am / Worship 8:30 am - Chapel

10:50 am - Sanctuary / Rev. Deborah Morgan-Stokes / edcc.org

EPISCOPAL

it’s about all we can do to remember that, and pray to have the eyes and trust of children, as we move into a very different holiday season.

So many have distorted the words and work of the Christ Child, but his kingdom is about peace and life and breath. It’s about good for everyone. One day those who follow the wind of his Spirit will bring their weapons — swords and guns and ammo and billy clubs — and all of that will be melted down and beaten into tools to make food for the whole earth. There will be no more war or hunger. Isaiah 9:7 says, “His government and peace will never end.”

All that because of a baby. The baby. El Niño. Hallelujah.

BRENT MCDOUGAL is the senior pastor of Cliff Temple Baptist Church. The Worship section is underwritten by Advocate Publishing and the neighborhood businesses and churches listed here. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.

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Sunday School: 11:15am /Mass: 9am & 10am English, 12:30pm Español

Wednesday Mass: 6pm English, 8pm Español / 534 W. Tenth Street

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10:30am Sunday School/11:00 Worship /All welcome regardless of reed, cr eed, color, culture, gender or sexual identity.

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The Cowboys Were Here

Pro football at Burnett Field

The Dallas Cowboys opened The Star in Frisco four years ago, putting the team’s offices and practice facilities in a $1.5-billion sports and hospitality complex that includes a 12,000seat stadium.

In 1960, when the brand-new NFL team paid its players $5,000 a year, they practiced in Oak Cliff. Burnett Field, which went by several other names over the years, including Gardner Park, was built in 1924. That means it was 46 years old by the time Tom Landry and the ’boys arrived.

They worked out there because it was one of a few practice fields available, along with P.C. Cobb, the bygone Dallas ISD stadium where the Dallas Infomart now stands. Former Cowboys executive Gil Brandt told The Dallas Morning News in 2016

that Burnett Field was infested with rats.

“Guys had to hang their jerseys on pipes so the rats didn’t eat them,” he told the newspaper.

Burnett Field was a baseball stadium on the old Dallas streetcar line at Colorado and Eighth, backing up to the Trinity River. Minor league baseball games were played on that site starting around 1910.

Burnett Field wasn’t torn down until the minorleague Dallas Rangers moved to Arlington Stadium in 1965. The land is still undeveloped. Cienda Partners purchased it, along with the bygone Oak Farms Dairy, in 2014.

The G. William Jones Film & Video Collection at SMU recently digitized film of Tom Landry and the Dallas Cowboys practicing at Burnett Field in August 1962.

An aerial view of Burnett Field. Photo courtesy of the Dallas Public Library