Arlington Through the Decades

Arlington City Council PTA President Dorothy Rencurrel, 08/06/1980.

UTA football stadium; workmen laying turf 05/22/1980.

City Municipal Building, August 1981

Al Matthews cooks and prepares burgers at his restaurant, Al's Drive-In, 1983-10-05.

University of Texas at Arlington faculty portrait of Allan Saxe.

Arlington Mayor Harrold Patterson, 04/14/1987

First Arlington Brick Post Office at Main Street, 1987

U. S. Rep. Tom Vandergriff with former Arlington Mayor S. J. Stovall, 08/14/1983.

Roderick Ford, systems analysis junior at the University of Texas at Arlington, participates in the gathering for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on UTA's campus, 01/19/1987.

UTA's Jim Hayes practices for 205-mile wheelchair run from Austin to Arlington to raise money for Arlington Handicapped Association, 06/17/1986.

Jane Yang of Arlington, Texas demonstrates a Taiwanese dance during the annual International Fall Festival held at First Baptist Church in Arlington, 10-30-1983.

Arlington Mayor Harold Patterson presents E.J. Wells flowers for being 100,000th passenger on the city's Handitran designed for the transportation needs of the handicapped and seniors, 11/01/1984.

Airview of Arlington Stadium with big crowd in their seats, 7/1/1986.

Wet 'n Wild, 06/22/1986.

University of Texas at Arlington Homecoming football game against Arkansas State University at Maverick Stadium, Arlington, Texas, 10-31-1981.

Arlington Inter-Church Ministerial Fellowship, April 12, 1987

Arlington General Motors plant employees looking over a line of Oldsmobile Cutlass automobiles.

Decorative Christmas light display on Westwood Street reading "Merry Christmas" strung along a fence in the Interlochen neighborhood in Arlington, Texas.

Street-widening and lowering project through University of Texas at Arlington campus, 12/15/1989

Caelum Moore Park in Arlington on Johnson Creek near I-20, 08/01/1988. In 2009, Caelum Moor was reinstalled in Richard Greene Linear Park in Arlington.

The Green Family, 04/15/1987

Dottie Lynn at Arlington construction site (location not identified), 02/1987.

Candlelite Inn in Arlington, 05/01/1987

Texas Rangers manager Bobby Valentine, left, and pitcher Nolan Ryan hold up Ryan's new Rangers jersey as they met the media at Arlington Stadium; 1988-12-14.

Arlington Steak House - Martha Carpenter, 02/19/1988

Nolan Ryan 5,000th Strikeout, 08-22, 1989