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title: "Gamblers & Gangsters: Fort Worth's Jacksboro Highway in the 1940s & 1950s"
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# Gamblers & Gangsters: Fort Worth's Jacksboro Highway in the 1940s & 1950s

**Brand:** ann arnold
**Price:** € 26.24
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- **What is this?** Gamblers & Gangsters: Fort Worth's Jacksboro Highway in the 1940s & 1950s by ann arnold
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Gamblers & Gangsters: Fort Worth's Jacksboro Highway in the 1940s & 1950s

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## Customer Reviews

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    The last remnants of the Wild, Wild West...
  

*by R***T on Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2014*

Ann Arnold does a good job of preserving some of the rapidly disappearing history of the threshold that lies to the west of the "Gateway to the West."  Gamblers and Gangsters presents a broad, topical history of the route known as the Jacksboro Highway which links downtown Ft Worth to the unique land and history that spans the western section of North Texas.  With origins spanning back to the much storied, and much more celebrated, "Hell's Half Acre" Gamblers and Gangsters picks up the story of Fort Worth where the gamblers, gamers, shiners, sinners, hookers and hot-pillow joints were pushed out of view from down town Ft Worth and left to congregate around a strip of black top leading through the edges of what had been Comanche territory just over a century previous.Just like the grand jury that turned the tide against corruption in City Hall and undercut the powerful forces that made the "wild, West side" stay so viable for so many years, time has done its own handiwork to eliminate any trace of the illegal card games, the car bombings and the other sundry crimes of vice that once ruled supreme here.  With the exception of a few rusted signs, a few disguised buildings, and the fading memories of an aged population there is precious little left to mark this colorful chapter in Ft Worth's history.

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    Great If One Has Fort Worth Connection
  

*by J***E on Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2019*

Great, if one has a Fort Worth connection as I do, having been born there in 1936 and and having lived there until 1948. If the reader has no such connection, it will likely be of marginal interest as it chronicles all the murders and crime along the Jacksboro Highway on the north side of town. As a kid, I grew up in River Oaks near Lake Worth and recognized many of the beer joints as well as some of the politicians I had heard of as a grade school child.Bottom line: If you have a Forth Worth connection, preferably in the 1940s and 1950s, then you'll like it, otherwise it's not a particularly riveting literary work.

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    More, please...
  

*by B***2 on Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2021*

I think this book is amazing!  It is very well put together. I would love to see the author do a book about Top o’the Hill.Crossing my fingers!

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