Lewisville in 1965. Scanned from 1965 LHS Yearbook. Looking north on I-35… Lake City USA is the subdivision on the west side of the highway, directly across the highway is Huffines Shopping Center. Fox Avenue is just a dirt trail through the fields on the west side.
Lewisville Center was one of the city’s first strip retail centers, located at the southwest corner of Mill and Elm streets. Long-time residents referred to it by its most prominent tenant, King’s Drugs, even decades after the drugstore closed. Seen in this photo are the Ben Franklin dime store, an appliance store, and a shoe store. This center was purchased and demolished in the late 2010s to make way for the South Village residential development.
Photo taken April 1, 1976. Caption: Paul Rice, who was a football sensation at Lewisville High School and went to the University of Southern California only to spend the 1975 season sitting on the bench, says he’ll play football this fall if not at USC, some other school. (AP Wire Photo)
Paul Rice played on the 1972 LHS football team that was the first in school history to reach the state championship game.
The city’s first strip shopping center was built on the southwest corner of Mill and Elm streets. Long-time locals called it the King Drug Center years after the drugstore closed. The shopping center was later replaced by the South Village neighborhood.
The grandstands and parking lot were full for this 1973 race at Dallas International Motor Speedway. The track closed later the same year and the land was sold for commercial development.
The grandstands were full for this 1973 race at Dallas International Motor Speedway. The track closed later the same year and the land was sold for commercial development.