July 16, 2008


City folk come in droves (to be where the action is)

“City folk come in droves to once-isolated White Rock Lake [in Dallas, Texas]. Some come to picnic, sail or fish, some just to be where the action is.” (April 1972)


Item from [NARA] Record Group 412: Records of the Environmental Protection Agency, 1944 - 2000.

posted by Sheila Ryan in archives, environment, history, society, vehicles 

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3 Responses to “City folk come in droves (to be where the action is)”

  1. Deron Bauman on July 16th, 2008 at 11:25 pm

    He sold all his fishing gear at a terrible loss, and they moved to Dallas, address unknown.

    Then Roger Laird made an old-fashioned two-by-four pair of stilts eight feet high. It made him stand about twelve feet in the air. He would mount the stilts and walk into the big lake around which the rich people lived. The sailing boats would come around near him, big opulent three-riggers sleeping two families belowdecks, and Roger Laird would yell:

    “Fuck you! Fuck you!”

    – Barry Hannah, Getting Ready

  2. Rick Neece on July 17th, 2008 at 3:58 am

    Fabulous.

  3. Amy Mabli on July 17th, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    Fabulous photo and words.

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