1970-1990

After decades of arguing, by December 1968 Dallas and Fort Worth city leaders reached an agreement and ground was broken for the DFW Regional Airport. Work got underway in January 1969. Courtesy of DFW Airport

Seventeen thousand acres of prairie were purchased to build the airport. The unique terminal system is taking shape here. Courtesy of DFW Airport

The land cost $68 million. DFW Airport would ultimately cover more than 29.8 square miles. Courtesy of DFW Airport

When Lake Grapevine was created, a number of families moved their houses from the Denton Creek bottomlands to the Grapevine Prairie. In the 1960s, those families were displaced by the construction of DFW Airport. Courtesy of DFW Airport

This plesiosaur skeleton, dated at 70 million years old, was excavated during the early earthmoving for the airport and restored by graduate students at SMU. Courtesy of Tarrant County College District Archives, Fort Worth, Texas

DFW Airport was built on the Grapevine prairie, some of the richest farm land in the state. The airport opened in 1974. Courtesy of DFW Airport

White's Chapel UMC is visible in this aerial photo of the intersection of FM 1709 at White Chapel Blvd. The circa 1970s image shows the church in a grove of trees at the top of the photo. Courtesy WCUMC

Southlake police accident photo taken at Hwy. 114 and Short Street in the 1970s. Oldtimers remember Short Street as a "short" street that joined Hwy. 114 and FM1709 and, more importantly, where the Dairy Queen was located. Courtesy Bob Steele

Carroll Dragon football tradition began in 1959 with a team fielded by ninth-graders. Pictured here is a player from the 1972 Carroll Dragons. Courtesy CISD

Claude Shivers on the right and Alno Bailey Shivers across from him on the left attending a Carroll School reunion, circa 1980s. Alno and Claude met at the 1919 Carroll School close to 60 years earlier. Courtesy Shivers family

Southlake city hall was built in the 1980s and razed in 2006 to make room for a new DPS facility. Courtesy City of Southlake

U. S. Post Office Southlake branch located on Carroll Avenue. The building still stands and used for a private business. Courtesy of City of Southlake