Arlington Through the Decades

Arlington Garden Club representative Barbara Lane receiving $500 check from Sears for improvement of Randol Mill Park, 06/09/1970.

University of Texas at Arlington spirit team Maverick Marauders, ca. 1970s.

Aerial view during construction of Seven Seas Marine Life Park in Arlington, ca. 1972.

Demolition of buildings, April 1970

Six Flags Over Texas and Turnpike Stadium, Arlington, ca. 1970.

Reby Cary posed in front of a map [ca. 1970-1978]

City and Town Hall of Arlington, at 201 W. Main St.

Linda Garza, first UTA female electrical engineering student, 1970.

Arlington Mayor Tom J. Vandergriff, left, and Mike Jenkins, vice president of Six Flags Inc., discuss model of Seven Seas, 04/19/1970.

Abram and Center streets, ca. 1970s.

Martha Elliott Wilbanks, 12/17-19/1972.

A small puppy is seen standing on a rotary telephone on an office desk at the Arlington Citizen Journal office.

John David McPherson at empty Arlington Stadium during baseball strike, 04-05-1972.

Parking entrance to Arlington Stadium, April 1972.

First Texas Rangers' game, 04-21-1972

Arlington Mayor Tom Vandergriff first pitch, 04-21-1972

Texas Rangers, opening game in Arlington, Texas, 04/20/1972

Young Rangers' Fan, 04-21-1972

Aerial of Arlington Stadium on David Clyde Night (35,670 spectators), 06/27/1973

Opening of Seven Seas, 03/18/1972

Stephen Campbell, 9 years old, next to sea life park orphan, 03/18/1972.

Portrait of Royce West, ca. 1974.

Arlington's Seven Seas amusement park, 03/1972

Seven Seas Marine Life Park, 03/18/1972. was a marine mammal park, and animal theme park built and owned by the city of Arlington, Texas, United States. The park opened on March 18, 1972. The 35-acre site was located in north Arlington off Interstate 30 near Six Flags Over Texas and adjacent to Arlington Stadium. Courtesy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, University of Texas at Arlington Special Collections.

Aerial of east Arlington in 1972.

Mrs. Martha Walker, 01/01/1973

Arlington Public Library, exterior of new downtown facility, 01/20/1973.

Miss Arlington in ceremonies, June 2, 1973.

Scenes from Graduation Day at the University of Texas at Arlington, undated [ca. 1970s].

Temporary school saved, 05/18/1976

Arista Joyner, 06/22/1976

"Three Historical Sites in Relation to Arlington"

Tom Vandergriff, January 1977

Lamar High School Vikings football, 10/14/1977

Six Flags Over Texas, Arlington, 04/23/1978

Richard Simpson, 11/08/1978

Ella Day, school teacher and first female bank employee in Arlington, Texas at the First State Bank of Arlington.

Women working in General Motors' Arlington assembly plant, 06-07-1978.

Sammie L. Provence, 1979.