A bond election was held in 1927 and $23.9 million was approved by Dallas voters for the project. Construction began in the following year and the Trinity River was moved 0.5 miles west and contained between two new levees. Four viaducts were erected across the Trinity by 1930, connecting West Dallas and Oak Cliff with the Central Business District.
Courtesy of Southwestern Writers Collection, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcus
Dallas Magazine, February 1927, October 1928
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