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Gradually he started to buy and sell motorcycles, then parts. It was all automotive places car lots, upholstery shops, glass shops, warehouses. There were a few small restaurants. That all changed in the mids, Mr. Rent was cheap in this territory.

People started moving in and having art studios and galleries. Different restaurants started. Essential services used to be the lifeblood of the historic business district. Its early in the afternoon, and one of the Deep Ellum regulars, a formerly homeless man who has found employment in a nearby bar, is sitting on the other side of Mr. Merrills desk at Deep Ellum Auto Glass. The visitor is hungry for conversation and, between phone calls from people who need windshields and dispatching trucks to their assistance, Mr.

Merrill is being attentive and courteous. Out the window, across Main Street, his eyes take in the parking lot where his grandfather started the business in Commerce Street is nearly silent in the pre-dawn hours when work begins at Ed W.

Smith Machine Works in Deep Ellum. C O V E Rsort of stuff the market does all the time. He says hes been offered a galleries, and New Orleans Quarter. But he remembers traces of an considerable amount of money older Deep Ellum, even before the for the building and the parking automotive shops. In the s, lot next door, which he also owns.

This has been a good place for of cheap hotels, pawnshops and juke joints. And it was mostly Afri- me. When he was a boy living on For most of the survivors, Deep nearby Fletcher Street, he used to walk through with his dad. That Ellum is a family thing. John D. At what was company founded by his father then called the Central Tracks, af- and grandfather in McMurray Metal Co. I al- started over on Commerce Street, ways liked walking past there be- but moved to its Elm Street location within a year.

So Deep Ellums ups and was across the street, Mr. McMurdowns are no surprise. Its the ray says. There were a whole lot of little mom-and-pop stores, he says. But mostly, the automotive business held the neighborhood together. Almost any part you wanted for a car was down here. Now, you have to go all over Dallas. McMurray has had chances to move. Weve talked about it some, he says. A few years ago, the business needed more room. Then a building opened up just across the street. On the other hand, there have been problems.

A few weeks ago, a young man stepped into the building, pickled up a sheet of copper it must have weighed pounds, Mr. McMurray says and dashed out the door with it, holding it high above his head. He got half a block. Will McMurray Metal stay or go? Ill let my boys decide. Who knows whats going to happen when the light rail comes through?

I think Deep Ellum will go through many transitions. Smith Machine Works fabricates heavy equipment for the oil and gas industry, as it has since.

Workers here still punch an old-fashioned time clock and break for lunch at the toot of the factory whistle. Pneumatic tubes snake across the walls and ceilings, delivering paperwork from one room to another.