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with two chronic inflammatory diseases: autoimmune hepatitis and primary sclerosing cholangitis, which can both lead to liver scarring. Mike was put on a liver transplant list, but when his health deteriorated, the team at The Liver Institute took immediate action to guide him through the pretransplant process and eventually a successful liver transplant. Today, Mike is proud to be “running on recycled parts” in honor of the organ donor who gave him a second chance at life. Trust. Methodist. Visit

Oak Cliff born and raised, DeCarla Anderson has a Texas size passion for helping others. She knows the area like no other and as a Broker Associate and a designated historic home specialist, she can assist buyers and sellers with seamless transactions from beginning to end.

“I don’t do anything halfheartedly.” Amy says.

“I want my clients to be confident in knowing they’ve hired the best.”

Combine that attention to detail with her eye for design and you’ve got one very savvy agent.

Amy is a native Texan and a graduate of SMU. She and her wife, Taylor, live in Kessler Park with their dogs, Chuck and Mo.

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$46 MILLION MAKEOVER FOR SUNSET HIGH SCHOOL

A $46-million renovation of Sunset High School will include a 1,000-seat competition gym, a blackbox theater, new administration offices and a holistic makeover of the school’s mishmash interior.

Construction could start as soon as November. If all goes as planned, it could be finished in August 2023. Sunset was built in 1925, and the original building is a City of Dallas Landmark. The historic side of the school will get new windows. The front vestibule will receive security updates, and administrative offices in the historic school will be turned into classrooms. The Tenth Street side will get a new entryway and the addition of an administrative suite and nurse’s office. The competition gym would sit just to the west of that, with its entrance facing Tenant Street. New athletics facilities also include locker rooms, a weight room and a mat room.

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Styrofoam can’t go in your blue bin, but there is a Styrofoam recycling facility in Oak Cliff. Dart Container Corp. at 4444 W. Ledbetter, accepts Styrofoam in clear bags or large pieces that won’t blow away; they do not accept packing peanuts or drink straws and lids.

DEMOLITION DELAY

n A historic Oak Cliff property triggered the City’s demolition delay ordinance recently. An “airplane bungalow” in the L.O. Daniel neighborhood could be about 100 years old. Heritage Oak Cliff describes the house, which is in use as an apartment building, as “in good condition.” Airplane bungalows are so named because of the half story that sits atop the first like the cockpit over the fuselage of an old-fashioned airplane. The owners asked for a demolition permit in March.

WE CAN’T STOP TALKING ABOUT

EL FENIX. A San Antonio-based builder has plans to replace the 72-year-old El Fenix restaurant on Colorado Boulevard with an eight-story development called Lake Cliff Apartments. The development would have 352 units and cost almost $30 million to build. Construction could start as soon as this month and be completed in 2022. The architect is Merriman Anderson Architects. The developer, Kairoi Residential, also has a 12-story apartment building under construction in Uptown.

HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM REAL ESTATE FRAUD

Story by RACHEL STONE

BANK OF AMERICA accused a 67-year-old man of stealing the $4-million Preston Hollow mansion that once belonged to restaurateur Norman Brinker earlier this year. The bank says John Mann of the Glorious Church of God in Christ International Ministries filed fraudulent deeds with Dallas County.

In Texas, it is remarkably easy to steal houses, and it’s a crime that can affect people at any income level.

Here are five ways to avoid becoming the victim of real estate fraud.

1. Sign up for alerts at pfa.fidlar.com/ TXDallas. The Dallas County Clerk’s office will notify you if a real estate document is recorded with your name.

2. Look up your house on the Dallas Central Appraisal District website, dcad. org, periodically to make sure everything is in order. Cadilac suggests doing it when you change your HVAC system’s air filter.

“When you talk about theft of real estate, there are so many ways to do it,” attorney Lauren Cadilac says. “You can steal real estate in so many unique and creative ways in Texas.”

That’s because deeds are filed on the strength of notarized signatures, and they’re filed with clerks who aren’t required to verify them. So all it really takes is a fraudulent signature.

3. Put your house in a trust. Hiring a lawyer to create a trust keeps your name off the public record associated with your house, which adds a layer of protection.

4. Make sure you know what you’re buying. “We had a case where two people bought the same piece of land off Craigslist,” Cadilac says. “We found out that the dude sold the same piece of land to five people in the same day.”

5. Make sure you know what you’re renting. Cadilac represented a woman who paid a $2,000 deposit and moved into a house after answering a Craigslist ad. The “broker” who leased it to her turned out to be a scammer with no connection to the house. The home’s owners evicted her, and she lost her $2,000.

5 Oak Cliff-centric things to stream this April

Normally, we give you our picks for things to do every month, but since many events in April are being canceled because of the coronavirus, we offer these picks for Oak Cliff and West Dallas-related things to stream. Don’t subscribe to a streaming service? Your Dallas Library card gets you access to audio and ebooks as well as TV shows and movies. Learn more about that at dallaslibrary.org.

We couldn’t find Errol Morris’ “The Thin Blue Line” for free anywhere, but it’s considered one of the greatest documentaries of all time and could be worth a few bucks to rent. The event in question in the movie took place on North Hampton Road in West Dallas. Watch it and then watch the “Documentary Now!” spoof of it, “The Eye Doesn’t Lie.”

Also watch “The Highwaymen” on Netflix, which tells the story of notorious West Dallas outlaws Bonnie and Clyde through the eyes of the lawmen who hunted them.

Netflix also has “Dallas Buyers Club,” the 2013 biopic about Ron Woodroof, who contracted AIDS in the mid-1980s and smuggled unapproved pharmaceuticals for himself and other Dallas patients. The movie is based on a Dallas Morning News magazine story by Bill Minutaglio, who lived in Oak Cliff at the time. Minutaglio and his wife, Holly Williams, wrote the book on Oak Cliff history “The Hidden City.”

“The Confession Killer” on Netflix is a must. This limited series about Henry Lee Lucas, once considered the worst serial killer in history, is not another gratuitous true-crime story. It showcases the reporting of Dallas-based journalist Hugh Aynesworth, one of the few who had the story right, and spills so much Dallas tea, you won’t believe it.

Have you watched “11.22.63,” on Prime Video? It’s a limited series based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, a time-travel story about a guy who goes back to live in the 1960s and try and stop the JFK assassination. It’s pretty entertaining, and part of it was filmed in Oak Cliff, at 214 W. Neely, where JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald once lived.

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n Presidential hopeful Joe Biden won the Texas Democratic primary election in March after spending the previous night at Chicken Scratch restaurant with alsoran Pete Buttigieg. Biden also ate at an East Dallas Whataburger with Beto O’Rourke.

n The Oak Cliff Lions Club will give its Bill Melton Humanitarian Award to philanthropist Lyda Hill. Hill, an entrepreneur and a daughter of Dallas’ ultrarich Hunt family, made the pledge to donate the entirety of her wealth to charity. She has given $50 million to the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, $25 million to the UT Southwestern Medical Center and $20 million to her alma mater The Hockaday School, among many other gifts.

n Broadway star Skye Turner turned 11 in December, and her first feature film comes out this year. Turner portrays young Tina Turner (no relation) in “Tina,” the Tina Turner musical on Broadway. She also stars as young Aretha Franklin in the biopic “Respect.” Filming wrapped in February, and it’s expected to be released in October.

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[+] TORTAS LA HECHIZERA

A local sandwich chain plans to give it a shot at the corner of Jefferson and Polk. Tortas la Hechizera, a Grand Prairie-based restaurant with several outposts in the Dallas area, is coming soon. The restaurant specializes in enormous sandwiches on fresh-baked bolillos but also serves enchiladas, tacos and chilaquiles with eggs.

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Bishop Arts restaurant

Hattie’s closed in February after 18 years in business. The restaurant’s original chef, Estevan Galindo, died in 2017. “Jim Lake Companies and Hattie’s have mutually agreed to end the lease at 418 N. Bishop Ave., but we will work together in the future to honor Hattie’s in some way,” owner Tony Alvarez said in a letter to customers.

Two Oak Cliff spots made the semifinalist list for the 2020 James Beard Awards, “the Oscars of food.” Salaryman made the list for “Best New Restaurant.” Clyde Greenhouse of Kessler Baking Studio is on the list for the “Outstanding Baker” category. Las Almas Rotas, a mescal bar in Exposition Park whose owners live in Oak Cliff, made the list for “Outstanding Bar Program.”

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TALK ABOUT HIDDEN TREASURE.

The Marnell house, an American Foursquare that’s moving to Fouraker Street soon, was hiding priceless details.

The house is moving courtesy of Oak Cliff Coffee Roasters and Urban Genesis, the developer that plans to build apartments at 400 W. Tenth St., where the house has stood since about 1909.

The house has had at least two addresses. It was 250 Tenth St. when it was built sometime prior to 1910 and changed in 1911, when all Dallas city streets were renumbered, says Alicia Quintans, a preservation architect.

Quintans, who also serves on the City’s Landmark Commission, is working with coffee roaster Shannon Neffendorf to move the house to a lot that backs up to his Davis Street Espresso, where he plans to restore it.

For most of its life the house had one owner occupant. Sarah Marnell lived there for 70 years, according to Quintans.

Sarah and Lawrence Marnell, an accountant for the Texas & Pacific Railway, came to Dallas in 1885 and built a shotgun house that faces what is now Bishop Avenue, then Madison. That smaller house is still standing.

Sarah Marnell converted the main house to apartments after her husband died, and it’s

been used as an apartment building ever since. Quintans uncovered a trove of antique wallpaper and architectural details, including pocket doors, under decades of drywall and redos. She expects the house could be moved sometime in April.

They’re working with McMillan House Movers and Miller & Sons Construction.

Here is a full report on the history of the house, courtesy of Preservation Dallas:

“Sarah and Lawrence P. Marnell residence, 400 W. Tenth Street

c. 1910

Lawrence Marnell, an accountant for the Texas & Pacific Railway, and his wife, Sarah, came to Dallas about 1885. They built their first residence on the southwest corner of Tenth and Madison (now Bishop; the street name was changed in 1905) about 1890, a onestory, wood-frame main house with a two-story shotgun style residence at the back of the lot, facing onto Madison. At the time, the address of the main house was 250 Tenth Street; the address was changed to 400 W. Tenth in 1911 when all Dallas city streets were renumbered. Mrs. Marnell lived at this location until her death in 1959, a total of almost seventy years.

About 1910, the main house was either substantially remodeled or replaced by a two-

A trove of antique wallpaper and architectural details were hiding under decades of drywall in this historic house that’s being moved.

Preservation architect Alicia Quintans uncovered antique wallpaper and long-lost architectural details in a 110-year-old house that’s being moved.

story, wood-frame residence. City directories and census records indicate that the Marnells were living in the smaller structure at the back of the lot in 1909-1910, perhaps while work on the larger structure was taking place. Mr. Marnell died before the work was completed.

The smaller house at the back of the lot appears to be the original circa 1890 structure, although a bay window was added on the north side of the house after 1905, but before 1922. The property address changed from time to time, but was referred to as 187 S. Bishop in the years after 1911.

Mrs. Marnell rented rooms in her home as well as the smaller structure following her husband’s death, and the two houses have generally served as rental property since she died.”

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HOW WILL THE CITY REGULATE AIRBNB RENTALS?

JERRI LOCKE converted a garage to a tiny house in her backyard after her elderly parents both got sick at the same time.

She built it to be wheelchair accessible and with details perfect for them to live comfortably. But then their health improved, so she put the place up for shortterm rental on Airbnb. Most of her tenants are business travelers, she says. Once, two young women rented it and came home so drunk at night that they couldn’t find the back house. But in two years, that’s the worst problem she’s had with renters.

A greater obstacle is the City of Dallas.

When she opened the Airbnb, she was sure she was following regulations. The app automatically takes out Texas sales tax and requires virtually no bookkeeping on the part of the host.

But in 2019 the City realized it wasn’t collecting its 7% hotel occupancy tax from short-term rentals. Locke and other hosts on sites like Airbnb, Homeaway and VRBO began receiving bills from a company the

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“It’s complicated, and it had been so easy.”

Jerri Locke’s “little blue house,” a converted garage that she rents on Airbnb, sits in her backyard.

Photo via Airbnb.

City hired to collect back taxes.

Between November and February, the City collected $245,000 in delinquent hotel occupancy taxes from short-term rental hosts; the tax goes to Visit Dallas, the City’s convention and visitor’s bureau. It’s unclear how the City is calculating back taxes on rentals that have in some cases been operating for years.

Going forward, the City requires Airbnb hosts to pay quarterly taxes by check, rather than allowing rental apps to collect the tax, as the State of Texas and other municipalities do. The City of Dallas Controller’s Office didn’t respond to questions submitted to the Public Information Office.

Some owners, including Locke, are throwing up their hands. “It’s complicated, and it had been so easy,” Locke says. “I’m probably going to quit.”

A City Council committee recently formed a task force to investigate how the City should regulate short-term rentals. Currently all that’s required to run an Airbnb in Dallas is to register it and pay the hotel occupancy tax.

Complaints of “nuisance” rentals, where absentee hosts allow partiers to take over properties in otherwise quiet neighborhoods, prompted City Council members to take action.

But in a hearing in February, some argued that the City already has ordinances about noise, overcrowding and other complaints that neighbors have about short-term rentals. Calling 911 for noise or 311 for code complaints ought to take care of it, but neighbors say that’s not enough.

Short-term rentals are proving difficult for cities to regulate. In 2016, the City of Austin imposed strict rules for short-term rentals, including a ban on short-term rentals where the owner doesn’t live onsite.

But a Texas appeals court ruled last year that Austin’s rules on short-term rentals are unconstitutional and struck them down.

It’s not just individuals who are operating short-term rentals. Corporations also are getting into the game. San Francisco-based Sonder, whose backers include Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, recently entered the Dallas market. The company has plans to rent an entire 27-story apartment building in Uptown and run all 270 units as short-term rentals for 10 years.

Small businesses also find extra revenue through short-term rentals.

AJ Vagabonds, a camping and outdoors boutique in the Bishop Arts District, has a tiny apartment above its shop.

“The only way we could make it pencil out financially was to create an additional revenue stream,” AJ Vagabonds owner Jason Roberts says.

“Airbnb helps you offset some costs. It allows us to make payroll and cover our rent.”

Bishop Arts landlord David Spence, who owns residential and commercial buildings, says he figures that a short-term rental can earn as much as twice the revenue of a oneyear lease. One of his buildings, Emporium Pies, also has a tiny attic apartment. But he rents it to a long-term tenant because operating an inn — marketing it, cleaning it and washing the sheets — is too much trouble, he says.

Roberts says small-time Airbnb hosts make a big impact on Dallas tourism. “I can go to any Marriott in any city and get the exact same pour-your-own waffle and do the generic type of chain shopping,” he says.

But staying in short-term rentals allows guests to get into neighborhoods, have a unique experience and shop local. Locke and other Airbnb hosts say they steer their guests to their favorite neighborhood

restaurants, shops and services. “We’re supporting a lot of businesses,” while earning extra income, she says.

By the time her two daughters finished high school, she was still paying off debt she incurred adopting them from China and had nothing saved for their college. The Airbnb helped her put one of them through school at Southwestern University. “I couldn’t have done that otherwise,” she says.

“We’re supporting a lot of businesses.”

Photo of AJ Vagabonds via Airbnb.

‘COME AND TASTE IT’

THIS LITTLE BURGER STAND IS BIG ON TEXAS PRIDE

IF YOU CALL THE LAST STAND during business hours, one of the owners will answer.

Michael White lives on Bishop Avenue with his wife and baby. His brother, Shawn White, crosses the river from East Dallas, where he lives with his wife and baby.

This is their second business venture together.

The first, a hospitality staffing company they started with their mother, is still operating.

But this is the thing they wanted to do, make burgers and tacos and pour cocktails and beer all day.

The Last Stand’s menu starts with “handhelds,” their sandwiches. The bacon cheeseburger comes out like a monument

to classic Dallas burger joints, with cheddar cheese melting off the sides, but with Bibb lettuce and pink pickled onions on a brioche bun.

“Frychos,” fries piled with queso, black beans, pico de gallo and guacamole, are perfect for sharing.

And then there are the tacos. “Pshaw!” you say. “Who needs more tacos in Oak Cliff?”

OK, but these are served on puffy flour or corn tortillas with steak, pulled pork, shredded chicken or fried avocado or yucca. They cost $4-$5 each, but they’re filled with cheese, guacamole or crema and are enough for a meal.

The Last Stand also serves burritos and

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The bacon cheeseburger is a monument to classic Dallas burger joints, but with Bibb lettuce and a brioche bun.

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The mosaic mural on the front of Last Stand and depicts the Grand Canyon. Michael and Brandon White had it outfitted with a clear acrylic sheet for protection.

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For instance, “you fry the tortilla to puff it up and make it magically delicious,” Shawn White says.

The portions are big, and the food is filling and pleasing to look at, he says.

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A third brother, Brandon White, owns Brass Tacks, the barbershop that opened in the adjacent Oak Cliff Mercantile building in 2014. Brandon’s wife, Katie Randle, opened a vintage clothing store next to the barbershop last year.

Safe to say it’s a family friendly corner. It’s also friendly to dogs, and the fenced-in outdoor area allowed The Last Stand to obtain a license for beer, wine and liquor.

Michael and Shawn White say they don’t have investors. They used their own money to open the restaurant, and they both work there every day.

“If you don’t know us, come and try it,” Shawn White says. “We want people to come and hang out all day.”

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FINDING THE PERFECT FIT

THIS UNIQUE KESSLER HOUSE WAS BORN IN HIGHLAND PARK

Story by RACHEL STONE | Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO

o Torrijos used a technique straight out of the “House Hunters” handbook when buying her Tudor revival home in Kessler Square.

Torrijos, a designer and furniture painter, had some cash from the sale of her house and Airbnb rental in Atlanta, purchased in 2008.

She was the first potential buyer to see the house on Edgefield Avenue when it hit the market in 2018, and she made an offer, one of about six that first day. She also wrote a letter to the homeowners explaining that she had renovated a similarly aged cottage in Atlanta and why she loved their house.

Maybe that’s what did it.

The house was built sometime before 1950 in Highland Park. The Bynum family bought it in 1963 and lived there until 1982, when they decided to build a bigger house, according to the real estate news site Candy’s Dirt. Buyers cut it in half and hauled it on two flatbed trucks to Oak Cliff, where they modified the front, adding bricks to the facade and ditching a porte cochère. A big kitchen/family room and a pool and two-car garage were added.

Torrijos loved the house’s details, a barrel-shaped hallway leading to the addition, eclectic antique doors added to the office, bathrooms and closets. Plus, the addition is perfect for Torrijos, her mother

and brothers, who love to cook and entertain. She relocated to be closer to them, and now her house is the family’s center.

The Edgefield house required very little before move-in, Torrijos says. She replaced well-used stainless steel countertops with greenish-black soapstone. And she had severe wall texturing sanded down.

After that, she moved in everything from the Atlanta cottage to see what to keep and what she needed to buy. That turned out to be a rough-hewn wooden table for the dining room, which she found at Lots of Furniture Antiques Warehouse in the Design District, and a sectional couch for the family

room, purchased at West Elm.

Placing furniture, artwork and her collections was the easy part. It’s what she does for a living as an interior stylist.

Her treasures include vintage classroom maps depicting India, Australia and Italy, among others, and her aunt’s original paintings, which are mixed in with posters and photos. She groups small vintage medicine bottles with vases and jars of the same color. And her painted furniture makes it all pop.

Currently Torrijos is insulating the garage and converting it to a furniturepainting studio. She has the dream of someday offering classes to neighbors who want to learn furniture painting and other craftworks.

LUCKY BUYER

The previous homeowners ordered a custom, six-burner Lacanche stove from Burgandy, France, which they did not intend to sell with the house. The stove, named CoCo, proved too much trouble to move, so it stayed with the new owner.

HERE ARE JO TORRIJOS’ HOME-STYLING TIPS:

n If you’re at all unsure about colors, start with white walls and work from there. You can always add wall color later.

n Put one thing on the wall and pull colors and textures from that. For example, she drew hues of blue and textures of wood and burlap from the map of Australia in her dining room.

n If you don’t have a lot of art or collections, start with books. Arrange your books in color order to come up with a scheme or find inspiration in a book jacket you love.

n Hit up thrift stores, Lula B’s, Dolly Python and Riverfront Boulevard for objects that inspire you.

n Not all furniture should be painted. Torrijos is a professional furniture painter, but she also has a mid-century modern desk from which she sanded layer after layer of white paint until, over time, she restored it to the blonde wood.

n How do you know when to paint wood? Torrijos’ favorites are the cheapest, such as a $5 coffee table from First Monday Trade Days in Canton or a wood veneer bookshelf she pulled from bulk trash. She also repurposed a buffet, which she painted black and uses as a cocktail station in the dining room. When painting wood, use chalk-based paint and finish it with a coat of wax.

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By RACHEL STONE

Worship in the time of solitude

Pastors’ guidance from 1918

When the flu pandemic hit Dallas in the fall of 1918 (see page 38), almost every person living in Dallas was a churchgoer.

Closing churches caused people’s social and spiritual lives to go cold, and on Sunday, Oct. 20, 1918, when the City’s churches and schools had been closed for one week, Oak Cliff pastors sent this message to our neighborhood.

WORSHIP

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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

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

It was published in the Dallas Morning News and signed by Wallace Bassett, G.M. Gibson, L.D. Haskins, C.C. Young and Glenn L. Sneed.

“First, we wish to say that we are in thorough sympathy with the health authorities and the mayor in their efforts to combat the influenza epidemic and will lend them all the assistance possible.

“While there may be some services held on the church lawns today, yet for the benefit of those who remain in their homes, we suggest the following program: 11 a.m., observe the siren call to prayer and read the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew chapters 5-7, inclusive. For sunset vesper, read Psalms 1, 8, 23; silent prayer.

“While we may not be permitted to assemble in our accustomed places of worship, let us remember that in our homes or anywhere people lift up their hearts in reverence and devotion, that God hears and honors that prayer.

“Let us pray for the allied cause and for the freedom of humanity, for our boys in the homeland and those ‘over there,’ for the early passing of the influenza epidemic, for the dying, sorrowing and suffering ones of the earth; for the individual, state and national cleansing from sin and for divine inspiration, and guidance in the hour of the world’s supreme trial.”

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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Pandemic 1918

How Dallas handled the ‘Spanish flu’

The last time a pandemic put Dallas on lockdown, it was Oct. 10, 1918, and the City’s public health officer downplayed it.

Dallas Health Officer Dr. A.W. Carnes warned that influenza was coming, but said it was “only slightly more severe than common grippe.”

The “Spanish flu,” so-called because the pandemic spread among men returning from Europe after World War I, killed 50 million people worldwide between 1918 and 1920.

At least 9,000 people in Dallas contracted the disease, and 250 died, between Sept. 24 and Nov. 2, 1918, according to influenzaarchive.org, which contains well-researched essays on the 1918 flu epidemic, courtesy of the University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine.

The essay about Dallas says the health officer resisted shutting down commerce and shamed Dallasites for being unhygienic: “Your failure to clean up might be the cause of your wife or your child becoming infected with this new plague which is daily claiming a toll of lives. Let us make Dallas the cleanest city in the country as a preventive measure.”

Meanwhile, hospitals were overwhelmed with flu patients, who had to be quarantined. There weren’t enough nurses, and every nursing student, retired nurse and anyone with any kind of medical training, were being asked to work in the hospitals. An outbreak of whooping cough among babies in South Dallas added to the nursing shortage.

Imagine this scene: “At the Buckner Orphans’ Home, 200 of the 500 children and two nurses were sick with influenza; the nine teachers there cared for the ill.”

From the Influenza Archive:

“Dr. V. P. Armstrong, Assistant Health Officer, believed that Dallas’s epidemic was

already far worse than being reported, and that the only way to bring it to a quick halt was to close all public places immediately. ‘This disease is spread through the breathing apparatus, and the thing to do is to close all of the schools, the moving picture shows, the churches — wherever people congregate, whether it be a dog fight or a prayer meeting,’”

On Saturday, Oct. 12, Dallas Mayor Joseph E. Lawther went against the majority of the board of health and ordered the closing of all public and private schools, churches and other public gatherings, two days after closing theaters, playhouses and all other places of public amusement.

“I am taking this action not because the situation in our city is alarming,” he told residents. “But as a measure of safety and precaution and because it seems to be the desire of our citizenship.”

By that time, there were already more than 1,000 cases of flu in Dallas. The flu was not eliminated during the citywide shutdown, but the number of cases started to decrease.

Churches and schools were getting restless, and on Oct. 31, Lawther and Carnes agreed to reopen schools, churches and commerce in time for Catholic and Episcopal churches to observe All Saints

Day. On Nov. 2, the downtown theaters and shops reopened. Cases of the flu continued to decrease, although there was a resurgence in December that killed an additional 80 people.

From the Influenza Archive:

“It is difficult to ascertain the severity of Dallas’s epidemic. Beginning on Sept. 27, Carnes requested that physicians report influenza cases, but the ensuing ordinance did not become law until Oct. 12, leaving a significant gap for which case reporting was not mandatory. We will never know how many cases slipped through the cracks during this lag. In addition, most health departments devoted significant space to the influenza epidemic in their 1918 annual reports, providing detailed analyses of the timeline of the epidemic, the number of cases each month, or even each week, for some cities. Dallas’s, however, has nary a word on the epidemic. In fact, health officers were immensely more interested in smallpox, malaria, typhoid fever, and impure food and milk than they were with influenza and the destruction it wrought. The only information provided is the total number of lobar pneumonia and influenza deaths for the period between May 1918 and May 1919: 813 in all, equaling a death rate for those diseases of 511 per 100,000.”

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