Rufe Snow Construction
description: Rufe Snow Construction just North of 820

Sanger Harris Department Store at North Hills Mall
subject: Malls Businesses
date: 1979

North Hills Mall Construction
subject: Malls Businesses
date: 1979

North Hills Mall Grand Opening 1979
subject: Malls Businesses
date: 1979

Christmas at North Hills Mall
subject: Malls Businesses Holidays
date: 1996-12-07

North Hills Mall Entrance
subject: Malls Businesses
date: 1993-04-12

North Hills Mall Interior
subject: Malls Businesses
date: 1993-04-12

Lacy Stewart
subject: Families Genealogy
description: Nathan Lacy Stewart was born in Olney, Texas, on June 22, 1925. He went to school in Jal, N.M. through the third grade. After his father died, the family moved to Smithfield, Texas, where he began the fourth grade. Lydia Lois Green Cook was born in Brownfield, Texas, on March 2, 1928. Her father worked for Gifford Hill Pipe Company, and the family moved frequently. Both Lacy and Lois worked at Convair (now Lockheed) for two years until their marriage on March 21, 1953, in Weatherford, Texas. Lacy went into the insurance business and later worked for American Manufacturing Company. He retired in 1984. In 1958, the Stewarts began building a house in the Smithfield area. They had been living with family members, and when the house was just a shell, they moved into it. It was raining on moving day and needless to say, the road wasn't paved. Mr. Gil Bridges used a wagon and team to haul furniture and boxes from Amundson Road to the house. Lois had saved some of her grocery money from week to week and bought new linens for her new home. When the wagon hit a stump, the chest of drawers filled with new linens was dumped in the mud. Lois made a trip to the laundromat that night. Grandpa Green made an L-shaped road south off Amundson and east to the house, and it was named Stewart Drive. Lois's children are Janiece Cook, born in Grand Prairie Dec. 5, 1945; Ted Cook, born in Weatherford Jan. 22, 1950; Mike Cook, born in Weatherford Jan. 26, 1951. The next five children were all born in Fort Worth. They are Liz Stewart, Sept. 6, 1953; Ray Stewart, Aug. 10, 1954, deceased; Nathan Stewart, March 14, 1956; Patricia Stewart, March 31, 1960; and Becky Stewart, April 2, 1961. There are nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. All of the children went to Smithfield Elementary School where Mr. W.E. Walts was their principal, and each graduated from Richland High School. The Stewart family had an old Studebaker car they were very proud of. Once Lacy went to an auction and retur…
date: 1997

W. W. White Family
subject: Families Genealogy
description: The Wayne W. White Family moved from Fort Worth to the present address on Harmonson Road in March of 1949. We have remodeled and rebuilt twice since then. When we came here. We had a county paved two-lane street. We had bus service on the hour during the day. We had water and gas service furnished by Ben Harmonson. The water came from two wells. One was where Rufe Snow Drive water tower is now and the other was north of the new park between Glenview, Dawn Drive and Harmonson Road. We had inside plumbing. Most of our neighbors had out-houses. We had a septic tank with lateral lines running in the back patch. All these lots were 1.25 acres. We had no police or fire departments, County and school tax only. The only school was on Carson Street and Texas 121. We had two children: Betty Ann, 2, and Jimmy Wayne, 2 months, when we moved and three more since then. Their names are Rodney William Joseph, Patrick Tommy and Albert. There was a little store in front of McGee’s garage, run by the Wallers. At the corner of Pipeline Road (now Glenview) and the Grapevine Highway, there was a service station and Red Shack Café, both were run by Marvin Richardson families. Guynn’s Grocery at Carson and 121 was where people shopped, except for Leonard Brothers in downtown Fort Worth. Then in 1950 Wehrings Grocery was built at the corner of 183 and Rufe Snow, and then later the Buddies opened in Greater Richland Shopping Center at Blaney and 121. We used to hunt rabbits and quail in and around old Broadway Road, below Birdville Hill, from the end of Dawn Drive all through the woods to Fossil Creek. The bridge washed out on old Broadway Road and the road was closed. There was a wrecking yard for cars where the big pecan trees and picnic tables are now. On the opposite side there was a county dump ground. There was a man killed by another man at the dump. Also, there were two World War II airplanes that crashed in midair. Parts were scattered all over the area. I was told by a neighbor tha…

The Redding Family
subject: Families Genealogy
description: Vera Abbott worked her way through college during the Great Depression. She was studying to be a teacher at Commerce State College in Commerce, Texas. After she earned her teaching certificate, Vera moved to Smithfield, Texas, to live with her brother, E. Foy Abbott and his family. At the time, Smithfield was a small town surrounded by a large rural area. There were no conveniences. Five-to-10 people used the same telephone party line. The streets were just dirt, with the exception of Smithfield Road, which was hot-topped. It still had plenty of chug holes, however. Water from a well at the schoolhouse was piped through very small pipes into the homes. When someone on the north side of the school took a bath, the people on the south side had no drinking water. There was no form of transportation or fire protection, except for the “tow-sack brigade.” There was a post office, a grocery store, a barber shop and a telephone office. The fire that ravaged the city earlier, burned the rest of it. The city of North Richland Hills had not yet been born. Vera’s first teaching position was at Glade Elementary. Her $70-a-month salary added to the family income. Ruth Walker was her assistant. Ruth taught the lower grades, and Vera was principal. Ruth, from another pioneer family, was the daughter of Edd Walker. Teaching at the Glade school was difficult for both Vera and Ruth. They roomed and boarded with Sidney and Lottie Gilbert. Sidney was on a special vegetable, no-salt and no-seasoning diet. Vera and Ruth went on the same diet - unwillingly. Ruth had a car. When they didn’t walk the four miles home, they used her car. Every Friday they went to Fort Worth and ate a chicken-fried steak dinner after school. That luxury was expensive and left a hole in their paychecks. But the treat was worth every penny of the 25 cents it cost. In 1934, A. D. Roach, the county school superintendent, got Vera a place in Bedford to teach. It was there Vera fell in love with teaching. The Bedford…