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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.

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 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.