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Memories live over Camp Bowie bricks
Skilled bricklayers put down about one hundred bricks in the time it takes you to pickup your dry cleaning at Kite’s Custom Cleaners.

It may take longer, but Fort Worth residents, and especially TCU students, should understand the historical importance of Camp Bowie Boulevard.

These new bricks being laid on the boulevard from Arch Adams Street to about Uncle Julio’s restaurant aren’t just providing motorists a smoother ride on this city-defining throughway.

They’re improving our quality of life too.

TCU opened in Fort Worth seven years before the boulevard served as the main road for an Army training camp in 1917, during World War I.

As students at a historical Fort Worth landmark we should value the rest of them.

Most students don’t know why the Historic Camp Bowie Inc. group decided the street deserved a multimillion-dollar renovation, but truthfully, the antique street needed waterline, curb, gutter and brick replacements and beautification elements of new street lights, greenery and benches.

It's the group’s quest to allow the premier boulevard to become the greatest in Texas, if not the Southwest.

In 1933, Elliott Roosevelt, the third child of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and his wife moved to Fort Worth, became renowned socialites, and were believed to frequent a favorite restaurant in town, the Original Mexican Eats Café.

The Original, where FDR also ate when he was visiting, is still at 4713 Camp Bowie, and has the best refried beans in town. The boulevard also serves the people of Fort Worth with other unique tastes and 30 blocks of shops, businesses and restaurants.

We may be living in Fort Worth for only the next couple years, but take a break from learning for academic purposes and learn some history. Appreciate the revitalization now, because you’ll enjoy it during your many Homecomings.