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Posted 11 November 2015 - 09:00 AM
The $1 million dollar Westcliff Shopping Center was developed by J. E. Foster and Son. The first section was completed in 1949 and the first occupants were Mott's Variety Store, Worth Food Market, and the Moreland Drug Co.
Posted 11 November 2015 - 02:23 PM
There is a 1951 issue of the FWCoC magazine This Month in Fort Worth which has a picture of the theater that once stood at the north end. You can see it from above in 1952 on HistoricAerials.com. By 1956 it was gone.
Posted 20 December 2015 - 07:10 PM
That's a great picture of the Westcliff Shopping Center and the surrounding neighborhoods. My old house is visible in the picture as well as the vacant land where the old Fair Dept. Store was (now a private office bldg) and the land plot where the grocery store is now (back when I lived there the Wyatt Food store was just being built at that time in 1955). It looks like there was a house on the grocery store plot back before Wyatt's was built, but it was long gone when I arrived there in the area at the beginning of June in 1955.
The movie theatre was just in the process of being torn down at that time.
Do you know the date when this picture was taken?
Thanks,
Bill Sievers
Posted 20 December 2015 - 07:15 PM
Never mind on my earlier question about the date of the aerial photo. I see on the FaceBook page it was 1954.
Thanks,
Bill
Posted 20 December 2015 - 08:20 PM
I guess they needed the theater out of the way so Wyatt's could have a parking lot. Too bad they didn't plan better.
Posted 20 December 2015 - 09:19 PM
Since I wasn't around back then, I can't say for sure. Maybe they didn't own the property where the grocery store and department store were later constructed at the time they purchased and built the first parts of the center. That property could have been acquired later and then they built the western side, but needed to demolish the theater to provide parking for the expanded center.
Posted 21 December 2015 - 06:43 PM
It's ironic that after the theatre was torn down and the Wyatt's store finished, I never saw the parking lot totally full. In fact the area around where the theatre was located was always devoid of cars. There always seemed to be plenty of room for parking in front of the store and on the north and south sides.
As for the aerial picture, is there an actual photograph of that same scene that could be rescanned so the picture is less pixelated when zoomed in? I'd love to see more detail of many of the homes and other features of the area back then.
Bill
Posted 21 December 2015 - 07:14 PM
Ask Detail Larry. That's his Fb page.
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