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Save the Braniff Operations and Maintenance Base

Save the Braniff Operations and Maintenance Base

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Started by Anonymous 13 years, 9 months ago
Strategically located on Lemmon Avenue, the former Braniff Operations and Maintenance Base was completed in October, 1958. Designed by famed architects William Pereira and Charles Luckman, the unique structure is a testimony to mid-century modernism. Having not invested any maintenance into the building since the last tenants hastily departed, the City of Dallas Department of Aviation is attempting to tear down a viable piece of aviation history. Eliminating this last piece of Braniff history is an affront to the hard working people that made aviation a fundamental industry at Dallas Love Field and the region. Please sign the petition to demand the City of Dallas cease demolition activity and allow existing bids to restore the building.

Updates

Reached 1,000 supporters

January 26, 2024

January 25, 2024

My father spent thirty years walking those halls and seeing this building crumble breaks my heart. We are almost at one thousand signatures so please send this link to your contacts right now to help us stop the demolition crews.

Reached 100 supporters

October 17, 2012

October 16, 2012

My father spent thirty years walking those floors and he deserves to see that legacy preserved rather than reduced to rubble. We are just a few signatures away from hitting our first hundred so please help me push this over the line right now.

38 Comments

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Bruce KLucking
10 years ago Featured

Tearing this down when you have financialy viable alternatives that would allow this valuable piece of history to be restored would be criminal. Save and restore this magnificent structure!

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Terry Morgan
10 years ago Featured

As a 2nd generation Braniff pilot (Dad 1947-1982) and myself (1967-1982), I have many fond memories coming and going through this facility both as a lad eager to follow in my father's footsteps and later having lived the dream. After surviving for so long after our beloved company's demise, it would be a shame to see it go now. Save 7701!!!

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Patrick Armstrong
10 years ago Featured

MY Mother worked in RES there. I used to ride the crew bus to the terminal and back. I commuted between SAT and DAL for several years and kind of grew up there. I love that place, Save it.

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Glenda Wolff
10 years ago Featured

This facility was my Braniff 'home' from 1967 until August of 1981, at which time I was transferred to DFW til bankruptcy in May 1982. The "Maintenance Base," as we called it, holds more memories than I can count.

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Don Abbott
10 years ago Featured

As a former crew member based at Love Field (Muse Air 1981-84) and a life-long Dallas resident, I want the building saved and restored. We have enough apartments.

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Bob Horton
11 years ago Featured

I working in that building in the late 1970's, walking its halls endlessly while working for Buford "Boo" Minter and then helping to computerize check maintenance workflow. I would like at the very least to have the chance to walk fhrough the building one last time.

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Shawn Sudden
8 years ago

Keep it. Don't tear down history honor it!!

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Paul Harper
9 years ago

Braniff was one of the reasons I wanted to work for the airlines!

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