OK Dallas area MDer's You are invited...........UPDATED

[Tin Nugget]

to hunt a large area that was a full neighborhood in the 50's. I counted 82 homes and there is only one left. All but a few lots belong to the city so no problem there. Once I get all the people that are interested in going I will send everyone the details of the location. We are going on January 30th and will meet about 10AM at the site. There are about 10 people interested so far. This is a big area, short grass but there is allot of junk. 7 of us went this Saturday for only 2 hours and thats not even putting a dent in it. One merc and some wheaties were found along with and old matchbox truck (made in England). If you are intersted please respond or send a PM. Hard to believe homes once lined these streets and now nothing. This place is south of Dallas but not near any homes or businesses. Not the best part of town but we had no problems. Texan Connection, up for a trip north? Here are some photos of the place.

http://s997.photobucket.com/albums/a...view=slideshow

This is the place we had our club hunt Saturday. Place looks awesome to me. Tough to hunt, the ground is loaded but I am sure there are goodies out there! Allot of space to cover and we barely put a dent in it. Not in a great location but we were not bothered by anybody, except RWJR, a cop stopped by and asked him if everything was alright. Let me know if you can make it. I am going to send everyone the site info at the same time so I am going to wait till I get a list together.

OK, you can see the hunt site here. Hard to believe these streets were lined with houses in the 50's.
http://s997.photobucket.com/albums/a...view=slideshow

Click on this link to view the area on old aerial photographs.
http://www.historicaerials.com/
For those not familiar with this site, once there, in the upper left corner, type in Tune Ave in the address field, Dallas for the city and of course Tx, click on "find point". This will take to the hunt site. On the left, click on "all roads".
It will automaticaly take you to 2004. I recommend changing it to 2001 as the pics are clearer. Zoom in and out to where you want it. Now, on the left side, click on the "swipe" button. This will split the screen, then click on 1958 as the pics are clearer than 1956. Put your mouse at the marker located at the top center of the split and drag it left to right so you can see exactly where the houses were in relation to what it is now. You can not "PAN" in the split mode. Tune Ave is the center street of the three streets that made up this neighborhood. The hunt site is up and down all three except of course for the one remaining house that is lived in. Since none of the pics are real clear on historicaerials, I like to bring up another screen to see the same area clearly. I use maps.live

http://www.bing.com/maps/
Under "get directions" type in the same info, all in box"A"
Tune Ave Dallas TX
Once there, put you cursor over the aerial tab at the top and click aerial from the drop down box, zoom in, pan to the spot you want, put your cursor back on the aerials tab and from the drop down box, click on "Birds Eye View"

Here is a link for a Topo Map you may want to print and bring along. I see two churches and one school shown as well as the houses.
http://terraserver-usa.com/Image.asp...Lat=32.7493910

Now have some fun with it. Look at the neighborhood above Bruton RD and the one below RT. 175. I believe the hog farm 2Xplorations mentioned is a little north of the upper neighborhood above bruton road but not really sure.

See if you can find when these neighborhoods were actually started. I have not been able to.

OK, hunt date is Jan 30th 10AM till your am falls off.

INTENDED HUNTERS
Tin Nugget
Tin Nuggets Grandson (he's 11)
RWJR13
Baggins
PyleDriver
Monkeywrangler2
CanDigger
TXMike
TxMike's Dad
grumpymedic
drsmithtft
charlesintexas
miningtownTN
DallasArea
Vecuronium
Diggler
Tarvin21
Irishrover
Ted W

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[Baggins]

I'm in....looking forward to getting out....
Baggins

[Vecuronium]

I am in too, should be fun

[Tin Nugget]

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[texan connection]

Hope to see the pics

[sniffer]

I want to see the finds too

[Baggins]

Did the hunt even happen? I was called into work...
Baggins

[Tin Nugget]

The hunt did go on. I think there was eight of us there out of 20 that wanted to go. I don't blame anybody for not going because it was COLD!!!! I only lasted for an hour and a half, didn't find much and tossed allot of junk. I want to go back with all 20 if possible in a couple of weeks if the weathers better.

[Tin Nugget]

I copied these from another forum, hope thats ok.

Pyledriver found silver!
01-30-10 02:34 PMpyledriver
Yes, cold indeed! Thanks to Tin Nugget for the invite! I didn't find anything noteworthy...but I DID find SILVER! A sterling silver spoon...LOL!


DallasArea's finds

[Tin Nugget]

Some got there late and some were still detecting when I left. No one else has posted finds yet but I hope someone pulled some good stuff. This place is so big we have only put a dent in it. It was nice to be able to use the shovel instead of the Lesche. Had a few swampy areas but most of it was in pretty good shape.

[Mental Granny]

Post more pics when you go again ! We have a buy out area hear hundreds of homes, and they are buying more it will be hugh when they are done! i was sharing Jeffs detector when it started and eye balling found a lot of neat stuff too! Like Marbles and such! And when I went with a machine I found my 1st cache.... it was a cache of Hot Wheels

[chukers]

I know this is 6 months old but.. I find this interesting... Here is an over head view

Chukers

[Tin Nugget]

Chukers, the area on your aerial is the lower portion of the old neighborhood. The old roads are blocked but you could park and walk in. The same thing goes for the upper part of the old neighborhood above Bruton Rd. The portion between Bruton Rd and RT 175 is open and you can drive the original roads. A Topo map shows two churches and a school in the center section. What really gets you is looking at this area on historicaerials.com.com. Sent you a PM.

[baylorhall]

If anyone wants to try this spot again in the cooler fall, I am in. I'd prefer to avoid the heat and the potential snakes.

[chukers]

Check this out... I just threw something together... it has a 5 second delay...

[Tin Nugget]

Awesome job chukers. How where you able to save the pics. I thought historicaerials had some kind of block because it wouldn't let me save them to my computer. Now you see what I am talking about. Did you also look above Bruton road for the rest of the neighborhood?

[texan connection]

Whyed the niegboorhood go down I wonder.

[chukers]

Awesome job chukers. How where you able to save the pics. I thought historicaerials had some kind of block because it wouldn't let me save them to my computer. Now you see what I am talking about. Did you also look above Bruton road for the rest of the neighborhood?

Windows Vista and Windows 7 has a little utility called snipping tool.... and you can save anything on the screen by using it.

[chukers]

Whyed the niegboorhood go down I wonder.

I was wondering the same thing.... its just not that neighborhood that whole area is not developed...

[chukers]

its like its a fallout area.... nothing grows there! well no one lives there!