Highland Park Fountain Demolished

Posted on January 31st, 2008 10:11am by Tim Rogers
Filed under Local News

For the past couple days, on the way to work, I’ve been watching workmen tinker with the fountain in the middle of the road, where Oak Lawn turns into Preston. I figured they were just sprucing the thing up. But no. This morning they were jackhammering the fountain. WTF, mate? Surely that’s some sort of historical landmark.

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17 comments

  1. One can only hope they are putting in a much grander fountain with the likeness of one Marty Cortland. I know I’d pitch a few pennies into the fountain to help defray the cost of his wife’s spending habits.

    @ 10:15 am on January 31, 2008

  2. Ahem….

    http://blog.peoplenewspapers.com/2008/01/30/re-what-is-up-with-the-fountain/

    @ 10:22 am on January 31, 2008

  3. According to Trey, the sounds you hear emanating from those jackhammers would be called “progress”. Isn’t the fountain just taking up space, requiring maintenance which is funded by WE the Taxpayers! now if you put a Starbucks there, then, hell yeah, you’d have the American dream.

    @ 10:27 am on January 31, 2008

  4. This fountain is only ‘historical’ if the mid-late 1980s (when it was built) qualify. It is-was called the Priddy Fountain, a gift from a family named Priddy. There were terrible problems with the workings of this fountain from day one, construction horror stories galore. So all I can guess is that the maintenance on this was not covered in the family gift (?) and that the issue was all about high-maintenance upkeep appearances and money. As is, now that I think of it, the case with many of the trophy wife/ man-child golf-a-holic households nearby.

    @ 10:28 am on January 31, 2008

  5. Thanks, Bethany. And huzzah to the People people. Glad they’re not planning to remove it.

    @ 10:34 am on January 31, 2008

  6. I’m surprised the jackhammers haven’t been fined for some sort of noise violation.

    @ 10:38 am on January 31, 2008

  7. I suppose its partly my fault as my fellow students and I at HP once drove by and threw detergent in the fountain to make it bubble over. I guess it finaly blew out the motor or something.

    @ 10:39 am on January 31, 2008

  8. who hasn’t put tide in that thing…or snider plaza…or smu? good times…

    @ 10:41 am on January 31, 2008

  9. “Historical landmark” and “Highland Park” don’t belong together in the same sentence unless in opposition to one another. There’s not a thing in HP that wouldn’t be bulldozed in the name of something greater and/or more opulent. I’m continually amazed that HP Village, despite its historical context, hasn’t been razed.

    @ 10:58 am on January 31, 2008

  10. “According to Trey, the sounds you hear emanating from those jackhammers would be called “progress”.”

    And I would be right. Thank you for the vote of confidence.

    @ 11:46 am on January 31, 2008

  11. Ever put Tide in the hole @ Turtle Creek and Fitzhugh? Awesome!!

    @ 12:08 pm on January 31, 2008

  12. No, but when I was a kid climbing into those tunnels… and we played ‘Doctor and Nurse’, we did ‘that’ there. Read between THOSE lines. Ah, youth.

    @ 1:27 pm on January 31, 2008

  13. Williams Square in Las Colinas, makes it look like the horses are in snow :)

    @ 1:54 pm on January 31, 2008

  14. i am bulldozing the fountain for my new 9000 sq ft house. we’re going up!

    @ 2:22 pm on January 31, 2008

  15. kt — Yay! Please please please tell me your new home will have a turret.

    @ 2:29 pm on January 31, 2008

  16. Did the photo remind anyone else of this classic album cover?
    http://www.themadpigeon.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/03/24/whosnext.jpg

    @ 4:10 pm on January 31, 2008

  17. wonder if the jackhammer operator and the workers can use their cell phones while demolishing this fountain? guess one could stop this “demo” by calling out IMMIGRATION

    @ 7:20 pm on February 1, 2008