I recall just getting home from school on April 2,1957 when I heard that a tornado had touched down.
We lived west of Love Field, near Our Lady of Perpetual Help church and school, where I was in the 6th grade. I guess most of us were 6th graders at the time. The tornado passed about 4 blocks northwest of our house not far from Grauweyler Park at Harry Hines Blvd. When I looked out the window after hearing the warning, this is more or less what it looked like.
In this photo, it was over Arlington Park, near where St. Paul Hospital is today. Probably about a mile from our house.
My mom, brothers and sisters, and I huddled under the dining room table for awhile, and then I, possibly foolishly, and saw the funnel passing to the northwest heading for Bachman Lake. It passed through what was then called the Mill Block near where Southwest Airlines HQ is now located, destroyed of the houses there, and then dissipated over the Lake.
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Nineteen years later, in May or June 1977, another twister cut a swath through North Dallas in the Royal Lane - Northhaven area.
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