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The Poly Heights Chronicles
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- Author: Terry Gatewood
- Listed in: Humor Personal
- Tags: poly fort worth
- Added on: Jan 13th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
One Boy. One Town. Much Mayhem!
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Hmmm…Life!
Over the course of my short blogging adventure, I have found that inspiration to write comes in waves. A lot of what I write about is what I know best: Intelligence, counter-terrorism (CT) and security. These are all fields that I am knowledgable in ...
Part 4: The Crooked Man
Thrall Court had an interesting mix of people. If you wanted multi-cultural, that was the place to be. Next door to us on one side we had the Ricardo’s. They were a second generation Mexican family who came to Fort Worth via Del Rio, Texas. The...
Part 3: Jumping Into History!
Back in the early seventies, Evel Knievel ruled. He was the ultimate testosterone rush before I even knew what the hell testosterone was. Of course, everyone wanted to mimic the crazy sonofabitch, including some adults. We heard a story of a guy some...
Part 2: Perma-Press One
In the early seventies, my family moved from Rosedale Street in Stop Six to Thrall Court in Polytechnic Heights, or Poly as everyone called it. When we lived on Rosedale we didn’t have neighbors, so my brother and I never really played with any...
Part 1: The Grasshopper And The Piss-Ant
The earliest time of my life I can remember is when we lived on Rosedale Street, out in the far east side of Fort Worth. This area of town was known as Stop Six. The name of the area came about from it being stop number 6 on the old Fort Worth to Dal...
