Info from Dorothy Cox

[Isaiah Swanson]

Per local residents who grew up in Hyde Park these are the boundaries
for both neighborhoods

Hyde Park neighborhood boundaries

North to the Wolf River

South to Cypress Creek

West to North McLean

East to Hollywood



Back in the day Hyde Park was and still is the residential, faith-base
community, and some businesses.

Schools: Shannon Elementary and Hyde Park Elementary. The Hyde Park
site is now the Hollywood and Binghampton Post Office. The post office
originally was located in Hollywood at Chelsea and Bryan street.

One theater: Hyde Park Theater on Chelsea at University. Hyde Park had
the only public park with a pool…Gooch Park (donated by Mr. Gooch.)

Industries:

Beckman Labs

Cox Corp

Layne Bowler

Funeral Home…J O Patterson

Galloway Kindergarten and Nursery (late 40’s through the 50s)

One black cab stand…Friendly Cab at Springdale and Hyde Park.

Stogies Drug Store

Dentist, Dr. Jordan



Hollywood neighborhood boundaries

North to the Wolf River

South to Cypress Creek

East of Boxwood

West of Fairfax

Back in the day Hollywood was predominately white. It was and still is
a commercial, agricultural and highway industrial district with some
homes.

One school: Hollywood School (now a charter school)

One theater: The Hollywood Theater

Hollywood Community Center

Many shops on Chelsea and Hollywood

2 Hardware stores (Hubbard and Hollywood)

Bank (National Bank of Commerce)

Few churches (all white) (Back in the day)

Populated by poor whites and poor Jews (They were not wealthy.)

Please before the end of this Crossroads Project year interview Harold
Buehler. Consider interviewing the whites (Germans and Jews) who used
live in the area.

Trolley ran up and down Chelsea. The turnaround was Short Chelsea at
Hollywood and Chelsea.

Rexall Drugstore



Dorothy



Dorothy Cox

Community Liaison

Learning Corridor

Rhodes College

103 East Annex

901-843-3073 (office)

901-233-0563 (cell)

co...@rhodes.edu