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  1. 2-1010 - 5 young ladies on "Fire Chief" sign

    Back of photo says, "Minnie O., Hazel, Dorothy, Corene, Benita." (P. Wilson, resident, 12/22/11) Minnie Ola,, Corene & Dorothy were daughters of Luther Gentry. Hazel's dad was Clifford Gentry. Benita was Clyde Parker's daughter. (Barbara Lee, resident, 12/31/11)

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    5 young ladies on "Fire Chief" sign
  2. 2-1017 - 4 young women in front of brick arched entrance

    In front of south entrance to Coppell School (now Pinkerton Elementary School) (See photo #409.) (P. Wilson, resident, 12/22/11) Katherine Ledbetter (2nd from L.) Bernice Gentry (3rd from L). (Barbara Lee resident, 2/22/12)

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    4 young women in front of brick arched entrance
  3. 2-1025 - 2 women, 2 men in group on bridge, wooden rails

    This is probably the bridge over Denton Creek, north of town, possibly at the end of Hertz Rd., not Denton Tap Rd. (P Wilson, resident, 12/25/11) 2 girls are cousins: Charlotte Gentry & Corene Gentry. (Barbara Lee, resident, 2/22/12)

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    "2 women, 2 men in group on bridge, woodenrails"
  4. 2-1060 - 2 men, 2 women sitting on well, roof overhead

    Photo from Martha Jo Moore Cozby, Grapevine Springs Park, 1942. (P. Wilson, resident, 2/23/13)

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    2 men, 2 women sitting on well, roof overhead
  5. 2-1128 - 3 young men, all wearing vests, standing on plank

    On back of photo: Charley Purnell, Bob Waldrup, Harvey Brooks. Harvey Brooks was the husband of Sallie Kirkland.

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    "3 young men, all wearing vests, standing onplank"
  6. 2-1145 - 2 young women, soldier in front of rocks

    Back of photo: Mayme Harrison Perry, Jeff Woosley, Tom Evelyn Standifer Woosley. 1941 in Arkansas. (P. Wilson, resident, 4/17/13)

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    2 young women, soldier in front of rocks
  7. 2-1152 - 8 young girls lying on ground

    Standifer house behind. (P. Wilson, resident, 4/17/13)

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    8 young girls lying on ground
  8. 2-120 - 4 young women on ground; wash on line behind.

    See comments on photo #139. Note wash on clothesline & various houses and shacks in background. (Pete Wilson, resident, 12/14/01) One of these is Jewel Kirkland. She gave me the photo (Jean Murph, member, 2/16/02) The three girls on the left are the same as in photo #139 which was taken at 1st Baptist Church. (Phil LaBerge, resident, 8/10/20)

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    4 young women on ground; wash on line behind
  9. 2-121 - 4 young women posed in front of car.

    Some of my mother's friends, the Hood girls. (D. Parrish Hawley, Resident, 7/22/02) Ruby McDowell, Thel, Ada Bell Wright, Ora Lee Hood. (Selma Plumlee, 10/24/02)

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    4 young women posed in front of car.
  10. 2-1246 - 2 men, 2 women sitting on steps

    WFAA Broadcasting building on 114. Edward Thompson, R.F. Dearing, Hattie Tucker Colley, Bernice Gentry Melton. (P. Wilson, resident 3/9/14)

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    2 men, 2 women sitting on steps
  11. 2-139 - 3 young women; church behind

    Church in background is 1st Baptist Church. Small house on right is Arnett house. These girls would have been standing in a field south of the old Stringfellow house, just southeast of the intersection of Bethel & Coppell Roads. (Pete Wilson, resident, 12/14/01) One is Jewell Kirkland, I believe. She gave this photo. (J. Murph) See photo #120 with the same 3 girls plus one other. (Phil LaBerge, resident, 8/10/20)

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    3 young women; church behind.
  12. 2-1395 - 5 women; 2 stone pillars

    Corine Gentry, Minnie Ola Gentry, Mildred Cox, Benita Parker, Hazel Gentry. (Barbara Lee, resident, 4/27/14)

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    5 women; 2 stone pillars
  13. 2-1396 - 7 women on bridge

    Grapevine Springs Park, July 10, 1938. Mildred Cox, Viola Barfknecht, Charlotte Gentry, Nell Gentry, Pauline Dearing, Minnie Ola Gentry Louise Gentry. (P. Wilson, resident, 4/26/14)

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    7 women on bridge
  14. 2-1397 - 3 women, 2 men; cactus

    1938. "Viola, Pauline, Lloyd, Eugene, & I (Corine Gentry)." (P. Wilson, resident, 4/26/14)

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    3 women, 2 men; cactus
  15. 2-141 - 8 girls on railing of wooden bridge

    This bridge could be either over Denton Creek or an early bridge on what is now Southwestern Blvd. (Pete Wilson, resident, 12/14/01) Denton Creek, Ruby McDowell. (Jean Murph, member, 2/16/2002) My mother (3rd from right) & friends Ada Belle & Ethel Hood, possibly Ruby. Also, not sure of the rest. She usually had Esther Thompson (Gentry) & Esther Sisk along, too. I thought mom said it was at Carrollton Dam, not Denton Creek, but Ruby should k...

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    8 girls on railing of wooden bridge
  16. 2-202 - 5 men playing dominoes.

    "The domino table." Back of photo said, "Clyde Parker, postmaster, C.L. Plumlee, Sr., Floyd Harwell, Grandpa Wood, Abe Miller. These men would almost daily play dominoes in front of the post office, in front of the grocery store next door, or behind the post office under a tree as late as the 1960s. This was on the north side of Bethel Rd. (P. Wilson, resident, 12/13/01) Later, in 1979, they (the men) played in a little frame bulding on the so...

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    5 men playing dominoes.
  17. 2-244 - Three men on bench

    Photo back said, "Elzie Parr, John Arnett, Grandpa Wood." As late as the 1960s, a number of retired men often sat in ront of the grocery store on the north side of Bethel Rd. They also played dominoes. Note broken window. (P. Wilson, resident, 12/12/01) I remember all three. I often shopped for Mr. Parr on Saturday mornings. We would have hot cocoa & donuts as we watched cartoons on his old console T.V. (6 inch black and white). I visited with...

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    Three men on bench
  18. 2-262 - 6 men posed formally; wicker chair

    Good friends possibly. Photo says: Guss Thweatt, possibly Arthur Cozby, Olie Arnett, Alfonzo Arnett, Chas Howell, Ben Bullock.

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    6 men posed formally; wicker chair
  19. 2-311 - 3 men in suits, two holding hats

    The November, 1982, Elm Fork Echoes says, "Alfonso Arnett, Bob Cozby, and Oscar Arnett, Coppell, 1918." (P. Wilson, resident, 12/17/02)

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    3 men in suits, two holding hats
  20. 2-366 - 2 women, man in uniform in front of stone wall & tree.

    Grapevine Springs Park, because of stonework. (P. Wilson, resident, 6/13/06) Martha Jo Moore (Cozby) and friends in Coppell Park, 1942. (P. Wilson, resident)

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    2 women, man in uniform in front of stone wall & tree.

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