 | | This 1976 telephoto and overhead view by Phil Hom shows rebuilt
"brown" car just leaving station 4. |
The Tandy Center in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, consists
of a set of two 20-story office towers, the headquarters of Radio
Shack (Tandy Corporation); an indoor shopping mall, and an indoor ice
skating rink. The site was the former location of Leonard's Department
Store, which opened on Feb. 12, 1963 a private subway line leading
from the store out to parking lots on the banks of the Trinity
River. By the time the mall was built, Leonard's had been bought by
Dillard's (a mostly Southern department store chain). Dillard's became
a main tenant in the mall, which opened around 1978, but the mall was
not successful and Dillard's moved out in 1995. In 1996 the mall
portion of the complex was turned into an outlet store center. The
subway line operated until 2002, serving the single underground station at
the Tandy Center office complex and three stations in the parking
lots, and was apparently the only privately owned subway system in the
United States.
View a 800K MPG Video of a
Tandy PCC entereing the underground station. Thanks to Michael Pierson
for the video.
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