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is now a Dollar Tree

Now is an El Rancho grocery store

I lived about a mile from this grass airfield. We used to ride our bicycles to it to watch a bright yellow Piper Cub fly from there. Once a year we rode over to see the blimp that came and flew around Fort Worth. Now Alcon sits there and traffic is horrible. There was a little pond down the hill and we kids used to catch catfish there. I am now 67 yrs. old.

Golf course closed

Hi Scott, I wanted to let you know your paternal grandfather James E. (Jim) Hunt passed away July 23 2018. A memorial will be tomorrow 8/12/18 from 2 to 5 PM at Colonial Country Club's Westview Room. I wanted you to know and hope you are well. Carter

I literally grew up in the mansion, I was best friends with Trey Masters, now Davis. I'd spend up to a month there in the summers. I've been through the tunnels, played hide and seek as a kid, shot a ton of pool with Cullen, Trey and Chesley. If Cullen did this, he has been forgiven by God. He has turned his life around, I know him personally. His late wife Karen was a wonderful, wonderful, beautiful God loving woman...I cannot say enough nice things about her. Cullen is truly a God loving religious man. It's not a front as some have mentioned. He's in his 80's now and will meet his maker sooner than later. All I can say is what I observed when I was about 9-16 years old. Cullen was very generous, considerate and fun when we were all together. We went to church every Sunday, played pool, went to Colonial etc. He used to drive us around the property in his White Cadillac. I only saw him upset one time, X-Mas day when Trey wrecked his XR-80 motorcycle and broke his arm. That was it. in MY opinion, he is now a good man, forgiven by God for his actions.

I graduated with the class of '60. The sentence from the paragraph above is slightly incorrect. "At that time, the technical high school moved from the North Side to this location and was renamed for one of its former principals, Green B. Trimble." The school principal when I graduated was Mr. Green B. Trimble so it had to be later after his retirement before Tech was named after him. On another note, my father graduated from Tech around 1938-39.

modeled to foundation

I live on the trashy North side section of ridglea, wish we had a lake with such comparison (we get a park instead :/ )

I live a stones throw east of Oak Grove Airport. Have lived here since 1976. We always loved to watch the aerobatics. Does anyone happen to remember when Pappy allowed the Iranian, helicopter pilots to come to the USA and be trained at Oak Grove? Bell Helicopter had sold helicopters to Iran. There were protestors along FM1187 all hours of the day and night. If I remember correctly, Iran had been banned from entering the USA. Thinking, Jimmy Carter was president back then.

It no longer exists. It has been bull dozed and sold off.

Hello, I am Scott Spinks i am one of Pappy's two sons. I would like to thank everyone who posted such wonderful memories of him and oak grove airport. I remember some of the people you mentioned in the posts such as Jim hill , Fred Gordon , buddy head and several others . I was born in 1972 and adopted by pappy and his wife Fairy right after my birth she was known to most as billy. I grew up at the south end of the airport and i spent many of hours running around the airport as well. It makes me sad today to see what is left of such a wonderful airport and to remember what once was a meeting place for so many aviation greats . I miss my days of running around the airport and watching the aerobatics and watching the national guard Huey fly around before they moved. My first plane ride was in the cub and i still remember it today. Some of you may remember the Spinks Acromaster which now is in a museum in Texas. We have lost many of the people you all have mentioned above such as Buddy head ,Fred Gordon, and many others. Mom passed away in 2001 at the wonderful age of 96. I will post her obituary as well on here at the end. Again thank you everyone for reminding me of the wonderful memories and the very special people that graced such a historic aviation airport . FAIRY "BILL" SPINKS 1904-2001 Funeral services for Fairy "Bill" Spinks, 96, of Burleson will be held at 2:00 p.m., Thursday, March 8 at Laurel Land Memorial Chapel in Fort Worth. Burial will follow at Laurel Land Memorial Park in Fort Worth. Visitation will be from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Mrs. Spinks died Monday, March 5, 2001, at her home. She was a homemaker. She was born December 2, 1904, in Snyder, Texas. Mrs. Spinks was preceded in death by her husband, M.H. "Pappy" Spinks, Sr.; daughter, Patsy Jean Hunt; and son, M. Hunter Spinks, Jr. She is survived by son, Scott Spinks of San Diego, California; grandson, Carter Hunt and wife, Dorothy, of Burleson; granddaughter, Shelley Hunt Blain of Burleson; six great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren. The family has requested that memorials be made to the American Heart Association. Laurel Land Funeral Home of Fort Worth is in charge of arrangements.

This is, or at least used to be, a place for hobos to take a bath.

Around 2011, the corpse of a homeless man was found floating in this fountain.

Restaurant got it's start 7/7/1935

Hi Gina, the lake is privately owned. Only lake access is from individual homesites. There is a dam, Clayton Rd. E, allows for a nice view of the lake and interaction with the ducks and geese.

Gary W.Green, Oak Grove was in operation and had significant development at least as early as 1962. I learned to fly at Russell Field, directly north about 5 or 6 miles, and landed many times at Oak Grove. It was paved with a light layer of asphalt by the summer of 1963. Pappy was around most of the time and had developed the "Spinks Special" a competitive areobatic there in '63--'64. Don't remember the exact year but a Cher 140 landed on top of a Ces 150 while they were both still in the air on a short final to OG. They landed and two instructors and two students walked away. Those were still the good ol' days.

I learnt to fly the Bell G3 Helicopter at Oak Grove, in 1983, I was taught in part by an ex Korean pilot, who showed me a one foot 360 turn. Amazing pilot, learnt a lot. Jon Mander-Jones

This building has been sold to Hines management group with Pier 1 Imports as the primary resident.