Insiders’ Guide® to Dallas & Fort Worth (Insiders’ Guide Series)

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1. Kristin Spicker says

   December 19, 2014 at 8:27 pm
   5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

   
   dallas/fw guide, January 27, 2011

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   Kristin Spicker –

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   This review is from: Insiders’ Guide® to Dallas & Fort Worth (Insiders’ Guide Series) (Paperback)

   I was taking a business trip to Dallas and wanted a tour book that included out of the way places. This book wasn’t that helpful for that. It contains a lot of restaurant reviews which is ok, hotel reviews which are ok too but then explains what it would be like to retire there etc. It is more like a book that you would buy if you were thinking of moving there. I didn’t find it helpful for my trip and really didn’t refer to it much. There are better resources.

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2. cary helms says

   December 19, 2014 at 8:33 pm
   4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

   
   Details ?????, January 13, 2011

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   cary helms (somonauk, IL, US) –

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   A bit disappointed since I have come to expect a little deeper review of topics. Both restaurants and hotel listings were sparse and not accompanied with map indicators. Really very little to offer on things to see and do in Dallas. You would think that Texas being so big there would be numerous places to visit. All in all OK info. for a short visit but nothing exceptional.

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3. Greg Hall MSSW says

   December 19, 2014 at 9:07 pm
   9 of 10 people found the following review helpful

   
   Adventures in Fort Worth history, January 18, 2001

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   Greg Hall MSSW (Woodville, Texas) –

   This review is from: Gamblers & Gangsters: Fort Worth’s Jacksboro Highway in the 1940s & 1950s (Paperback)

   Dr Arnold does an excellent job of taking hold of a sizable hunk of Fort Worth history and recording it in a very readable fashion. A number of pictures are also included to help visualize the antics of early Fort Worth residents (and visitors).

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4. ROBERT BAUCOM "Triumph Nut" says

   December 19, 2014 at 10:01 pm
   5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

   
   Some things I knew, some I didn’t., June 10, 2011

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   ROBERT BAUCOM “Triumph Nut” (ARLINGTON, TEXAS) –
   
     

   This review is from: Gamblers & Gangsters: Fort Worth’s Jacksboro Highway in the 1940s & 1950s (Paperback)

   Hard to put down. I knew most of the streets and address mentioned. Born in ’37, a lot of this took place during my formative years. There were big headlines when ever they found a gangster’s body in an old water well. Front page when the gambler and his pregnant wife were blown up in their car early one morn.
   Jacksboro Highway was rather notorious in my youth. My uncle had an auto repair shop on it. It got so bad, he sold out in the ’40’s and moved to Lubbock Texas. The west side of Fort Worth had numerous houses and buildings that were or had been gambling places.
   In 1957, I rented a home on Washburn St. a few blocks from Will Roger’s Colosseum. I asked the landlord why there were so many glass paned doors down both sides of the middle of the house. He said, during the 30’s it had been used for gambling. The doors were to let many of them get away during a raid.
   My late father had always suspected that the police and especially the sheriff were paid off in those days. He would have relished seeing it in print.
   Mentioned the book to a friend that had once managed a private club on Jacksburo highway. He got so interested, he got out his old copy of the book and reread it 🙂
   BTW, A lot of the beer joints and vending companies in Fort Worth are still owned (under the table) by organized crime.

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