Why The Last Private Subway in America was Abandoned | Leonard’s Underground Transit

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  @ITSHISTORY · 1 year ago · pinned

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  @robertwalls5794 · 1 year ago

  Life long 55 year old Ft. Worth residential here and greatly appreciate you sharing a part of our forgotten to many history. I have many memories on that subway.

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  @jiggsb12 · 1 year ago

  In the mid to late 1970s, my parents would drive us the 2 hours into Ft Worth to ride the subway and do some back to school shopping (2 shirts, 1 pair of jeans each...everything else would be hand me downs). To me, it was the most mind blowing, glamorous thing a boy could ever hope to do. A great memory.

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  @jimmypockrus7725 · 1 year ago

  As a teenager in the 1980s I would drive from Dallas to Fort Worth to ride the subway into the Tandy Center. &nbsp;A dying mall in downtown Fort Worth long after Leonards Department Store had closed. &nbsp;It was great.

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  @DanT271 · 1 year ago

  I remember around 1999 I would take my son downtown just to get out of the house and I was fascinated to find this train system and we took rides on it. Pretty cool

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  @eyeofthescar6890 · 1 year ago

  The irony that almost every Mall in this country has been abandoned

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  @robertfrick · 1 year ago

  Nice content from a real person. As someone who rode the subway as a kid in the 60s &amp; 70s as the original Leonard’s and then as Tandy Center until it was retired I can say that the subway was centric to millions of people. One aspect was that not only was it free to shoppers, it was free to anyone that wanted to use it. That means that there were hundreds of downtown workers who had free parking and could easily navigate to their offices. After the the massive renovation to Tandy Center, the underground access around downtown was increased through and you could go to the central library and on to Tandy Tower 2 underground. Another thing is how the city and county governments also were able to utilize the system, and it was free parking for any government business. My wife’s family had a restaurant in Tandy Center across from the skating rink and all my kids rode it grew up there and lived in that mall and library until it finally closed.

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  @backdraft916 · 1 year ago

  I remember raiding that as a Radio Shack store manager during my trip to corporate headquarters in the late 90’s. For a trip of just a few minutes, it holds at lot of memories.

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  @SpartanIV · 1 year ago

  One slight correction to the end. Part of the original parking lot is still there, including 2 stations and the train house (which is now a music venue I believe). You can see the lot at at 1048 W Peach St, Fort Worth, TX 76102 on Google Maps and make out where they paved over the rail lines.

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  @davidrobertbrimat · 11 months ago

  Sad, a service like this should never become obsolete. It should expand!

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  @jonsingle1614 · 1 year ago

  Life long FW resident....riding the subway trams to shop at Leonard&apos;s as a kid in the 60s n 70s for a kid was the most fun you could have....when you got off the tram and thru the doors Into Leonard&apos;s the first thing on the right was the pet department...one yr I remember seeing a display of baby alligators for sale ! ....yes the subway was repurposed when it became Tandy Shopping Center....but it was not the same as it once was. You can visit the the Leonard&apos;s museum ....its by another old dinosaur....the Old Montgomery Wards building on 7th street

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  @robertoswalt319 · 1 year ago

  My wife worked for Tandy in their corporate office for a number of years. I enjoyed taking the subway many times to visit her as well for jury duty. It was wonderful to be able to park away from the downtown parking mess and know that I could find a spot to park and then take the subway to get where I needed to go. One thing that wasn’t mentioned was that there was a child care place in the parking lot so downtown workers would have convenient childcare.

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