The Garland Landmark Society

	Malmedy, Belgium residents are shown with relief supplies collected and sent by Garland residents, who adopted the town in 1946 for war relief. Malmedy had been the northern- most point of the "Bulge" in the German Ardennes Offensive of 1944.
	The Pleasant Valley Store, built in 1927 by T.J. McClain at the northwest corner of Pleasant Valley and Merritt Roads, is the third mercantile structure to occupy the site since 1870. The previous store building housed fraternal lodges and the post office for the Pleasant Valley community, but this one now hosts domino games year-round.
	Dallas Garland Airport was one of several names applied to an airfield located in the northeast quadrant of Northwest Hwy. and Jupiter Rd. from the 1930's to the 1970's, when construction of the LBJ Freeway squeezed it out. Shown ca. 1962 beside a Cessna 182 is airport operator John Huett greeting Congressman Bruce Alger.
	The Centerville Store stood on the southwest side of the Centerville community with groceries, sundries and gasoline, which was being delivered by a distributor when this photo was snapped ca. 1940. Nearby stood the Centerville School, later consolidated into the Garland ISD.
	The Texas State Capitol building is shown in this promotion photo marked 1889, the year of it's completion. Unscreened by the trees that mask it today, the building's distinctive architecture creates a very different image than that familiar one in modern views.
	The Anderson store, once located at the intersection of Rose Hill and Rowlett Roads, served in the 1890's as the post office for the Housley Community, later renamed Rose Hill. Legend has it that the new name originated with Mrs. Elias T. Myers, an early resident and presumably a rose fancier. The store building was demolished in 1974.
	A Social Meeting produced this photo. Present were a host of Garland ladies who arrived at this scenic local spot in two touring cars with several out-of-town guests. An enlargement of the photo with most of the ladies identified is currently on display in The Garland Landmark Museum.
	The Bonnie Barge was a pleasure boat operated on White Rock Lake by Garland native John H. Williams, Sr. from 1946 to 1956. Shown here are enthusiastic passengers from the Garland High School classes of 1946 and 1947.
	The Flying Car, seen around the Southern Aircraft Plant in Garland immediately after WWII, was a prototype called the Southern Roadable. With attached wings, tail and propeller, the 1800-pound vehicle could fly at up to 128 mph. The rudder control activated its clutch and brakes for highway driving, SAC was unable to meet development schedules, and the unit was returned to its designer in California.
	The Silvaire, an all medal "personal plane," was manufactured by Luscombe Airplane Corporation, which moved its facilities from Trenton, NJ to a 500-acre tract west of Garland in 1945. Shown on a Silvaire's wing in the late 1940's are 28 plant employees weighing a combined weight of 3,500 pounds. The Luscombe installation formed the genesis of the current Raytheon,E-Systems plant here.
	The White Rock dam and spillway might as well have been inside Garland’s city limits, because locals considered the lake part of their own recreational territory. Shown here ca. 1914, the new structure reportedly cost $260,000. Several Garland families once leased lots around the lake for cabins.
	Big Springs Cemetery, lies north of Big Springs Baptist Church at present Jupiter and Campbell Rds. This 1978 gate photo indicates that the cemetery was established in 1871, but the gate numbers now claim an inception date of 1868. No witnesses survive to settle the issue.
	The Lyles Gin, operating at the turn of the century near the present intersection of Jupiter and Belt Line Roads, was one of the several serving local farmers at the time. The ginning process mechanically brushed out seeds and other debris from cotton balls, leaving lint, which could be spun into thread. Many gins included equipment for compressing the lint into bales of cotton, and some contained grist mills as well.
	A Cadillac touring car provided stylish locomotion when W. C. Kingsley demonstrated mechanical planting methods for his ranch hands ca. 1913. This image was probably shot across fields located south of present sent Kingsley Rd. between Duck Creek and Saturn Rd.