I love photographing this place. Someone suggested I post here.
First two shot on Cinestill 800T using an RB67.
Third using an xpan, also on 800T
Last two on instax square using an SQ6

A restaurant, a shop, somewhere you used to hang out. What was it, and what do you miss about it?

If you’ve got an old photo, I’d love to see it.

For me it's Trompo Taco when they had that location by Ray's Sporting Goods. They had a campechano taco that I still think about.

Found these on flashbackdallas.com. Very cool.

Hey neighbors!

My husband, daughter, and I moved to Oak Cliff a few months ago, and we've really loved making this neighborhood home!

I'm a certified Pilates instructor and recently opened Flo Pilates, a little private Reformer Pilates studio out of our garage in Elmwood. It's been a dream of mine for a while, and I'm so excited to finally be doing it!

One of my favorite things about Pilates is that it's truly for everybody. I love working with people who are brand new to movement just as much as those who have been doing Pilates for years. My hope is to create a welcoming, laid-back space where people can move, build confidence, and feel good in their bodies.

Anyway, just wanted to introduce myself and share what I've been working on. I'd love to connect with more people in the neighborhood!

If you're curious, my website is www.flopilatestx.com 💛

For the past year or so I've been a listener of Hidden City, a podcast devoted to Oak Cliff. It has a few different flavors of episodes: local history, interviews with Oak Cliff thinkers and business owners, and the occasional book review or live event.

My favorite so far is this episode about La Réunion, the French utopian colony established along the Trinity River and the origin of the Reunion Tower name.

The hosts are brothers Doug and Grant Klembara, local business owners who live and work in Elmwood. They record the show from a studio they built inside Wax Space.

Definitely worth a listen if you enjoy Oak Cliff history and hearing from interesting people around the neighborhood.

Anyone else listening? (I have no affiliation with this podcast, Wax Space, etc.)

Event image source · Flyer from Oak Cliff Art Walk.

This week's pick is the Oak Cliff Art Walk, Saturday, October 24, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at East Dock, 900 E. Clarendon Drive. It's free and all ages. You can browse local art, meet the people who made it, and buy directly from the artists if something catches your eye. I picked it because it brings local artists, students and neighbors together without an admission charge.

Proxy Properties is hosting, and the 2026 lineup includes more than 275 local artists, plus work from over 1,200 students at six Dallas schools. Expect art throughout the property, food and drinks available to buy, DJ Diva Summer, and local community groups. It's a good option for families, art fans, or anyone who wants to spend part of Saturday looking around and meeting neighbors.

The setting is part of the draw. The organizers describe East Dock as a 1915 ice house that later became an airplane manufacturing facility and a book factory. For the Art Walk, that old industrial space becomes a gallery and gathering place. The event also gives artists exhibition space without charging them a gallery fee.

There's a good backstory, too. Hidden City's interview with organizer Haley Leavitt gets into how salvaged church pews helped spark the first Art Walk, and how art fits into the reuse of places like East Dock and the Oak Cliff Assembly. The episode is worth a listen if you're curious how this all came together; the link is below.

If Friday works better, there's also an opening reception October 23, from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday is a quieter preview; Saturday is the full community showcase. RSVP below; parking is free. Food, drinks and art purchases are separate from admission.

2026 event details and RSVP

Oak Cliff Art Walk official site

Listen: Hidden City with organizer Haley Leavitt

I used WikiShootMe to find Wikipedia articles about places around Oak Cliff. Here's my top ten, mostly local history:

1. Lake Cliff: There used to be an amusement park here with a roller coaster, a 2,500-seat theater and an enormous skating rink. Its founders claimed it outdid Coney Island.

2. La Réunion: The experimental colony founded here in 1855. The whole thing lasted about 18 months.

3. Briggs Sanitorium: Oak Cliff's first hospital was a tuberculosis sanitorium at Jefferson and Tyler. Built in 1896, it had 52 rooms.

4. Burnett Field: A 10,500-seat baseball park near the Trinity that hosted Dallas minor-league teams from 1924 to 1964.

5. Riverside Park: Another former ballpark near the river, home to Black baseball teams during segregation, including the Dallas Black Giants.

6. Everard Sharrock Jr. Farm: Also called the Sharrock-Niblo Farmstead. Its log cabin, barn, well and root cellar date to 1847, possibly making them the oldest surviving buildings in Dallas.

7. Cedar Crest Golf Course: Hosted the 1927 PGA Championship, where Walter Hagen won his fourth consecutive PGA title.

8. Bishop College: The historically Black college that moved from Marshall to Dallas in 1961 and closed in 1988.

9. Elmwood: The business district on Edgefield was used for the Main Street scenes in Born on the Fourth of July. The article also gets into the neighborhood's history and parkway.

10. Kiest Park: Several of the park's stone structures were WPA projects. The garden's pergola was rebuilt in 2014 using the original plans.

What would you add? I'd especially like to read more about places that aren't around anymore.

Man, Winnetka Heights sure knows how to do Halloween right. The houses, the candy, the people... great time every year there.

What's your favorite intersection? Why do you enjoy it?

What's your oddly specific Oak Cliff recommendation?

I'll start. Mine is: working from Twelve Hills Nature Preserve when the weather is nice.

I work from home, and sometimes I just don’t want to be in the house all day. So I take my laptop and a tumbler of coffee to the picnic table a few dozen yards down the trail at Twelve Hills. I’m always the only one there, and it’s super peaceful.

There’s only one table, so I may regret posting this.

What’s yours? A particular thing to order somewhere, a good spot to sit, someone who can fix that one weird thing nobody else will touch. The more specific, the better.

Anyone know affordable rentals in oak cliff staying semi close to bishop arts and downtown Dallas?

Hey fellow cliff dwellers! I recently took over as a mod after this sub went pretty quiet, and I’d love to get it moving again. (A little about me: I've lived in a few places here in Oak Cliff including the 12th street area and most recently Kessler. I'm a HUGE fan of the Texas Theatre, and I used to have a storm shelter when I lived on S. Winnetka.)

What’s going on around Oak Cliff this weekend? Drop any events, live music, pop-ups, volunteer opportunities, garage sales, neighborhood gatherings, or just something local worth checking out. Self-promotion is totally fine, just mention how you’re connected to it.

One happening today: the Right 2 Write Poetry Slam Festival, with daytime events at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center and the main slam at the Texas Theatre tonight.

What else is happening? Extra points for anything outside Bishop Arts as I’d love for this sub to represent all of Oak Cliff.

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 6 posts:

• "Great story about the owner of a new vegan food truck at Tyler Station" by u/drewc34

• "13th annual Oak Cliff Earth Day is this Sunday, Apr. 3, from noon to 5pm at Lake Cliff Park. Lots of food, non-profits, and eco-friendly merchandise." by u/drewc34

• "Has anyone in OC started a donation for aid in Ukraine?" by u/mama_emily

• "West Oak Cliff long-term plan released by the city this week" by u/drewc34

• "Happy Cakeday, r/OakCliff! Today you're 10" by u/AutoModerator

• "Mardi Gras parade returned to Oak Cliff this year" by u/drewc34