PRESTON HOLLOW ADVOCATE
VOL. 26 NO. 4
10 Centrale Italia
FEATURES
16 Eddie Maestri’s Preston Hollow home
22 The restaurant galleries COLUMNS
8 35 years of the Advocate
37 Love at Love Field pt.4
SPECIAL SECTION
24 Top Realtor
Alexander Calder’s Carrefour (Crossroads) hangs at il Bracco. Read more on page 12. Photo courtesy of Western Addition Restaurant Group.
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By JEHADU ABSHIRO
Did you hear? The Advocate is 35 years old.
For 27 years, our founder Rick Wamre wrote a monthly letter from the publisher. Then in our July 2018 edition, in a very fitting manner, our then-publisher Lisa Kresl wrote a column for our women’s edition. And the next month, Rick decided not to write another letter. Ever.
After 326 columns, perhaps you run out of things to say.
It’s been a while since that last letter from the publisher. Since then we’ve become a nonprofit and added Plano Magazine as a fifth magazine to go along with our four Dallas neighborhood publications.
Five years ago, Rick stepped down as Advocate president, was a part-time chief financial officer for a couple of years and then, a few years ago, he completely retired. If you’re wondering where Rick is, so are we. He might be at the Texas Rangers spring training camp in Arizona, or he could be touring Southeast Asia or cruising the Mediterranean or on a safari through Africa. I’m not exaggerating — he’s done all of those things during the past year or so.
Since July 2021, I’ve been president and editor-in-chief of Advocate Media. And I sincerely believe I’m at a time in my life when I should probably do a whole lot more listening than talking, hence the lack of letters from me. We did move offices after 29 years — same building, only four floors lower and still in one of the neighborhoods we cover — but we’ve tried to keep our focus the same as it always has been.
We’re still dedicated to neighborhood news. Those of us who work at the Advocate have always thought that news about street closures, alley trash, neighborhood schools and students, the interesting neighbor living down the street, the local organization that helps a niche need, and tidbits about our community’s quirks matter quite a bit. The little things are the sum of the whole, and no one else covers them in our neighborhoods like we do.
Because we’re actually your neighbors, that pothole bothers us, too. Caring about our neighborhood is the biggest reason we converted into a nonprofit publication. Sustainability and operational resilience are tricky in any business, but even moreso in a business like publishing that people have been saying is going out of business for the past 25 years.
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Top: The salmon with grilled asparagus and citrus sauce has been changed to a grilled version recently. The restaurant uses Marcella Hazan’s tagliatelle alla bolognese recipe
Story by JEHADU ABSHIRO
Photography by KATHY TRAN
CENTRALE ITALIA, WITH ITS LIGHT, AIRY INTERIORS AND GREEN TONES , brings an Italian restaurant to Preston Hollow Village in a space that has seen several restaurant turnovers since the shopping center opened.
The farm-fresh concept from Patrick Colombo’s Restaurant Works taps Chef Matthew Antonovitch to lead the kitchen. Neapolitan pizzas with dough that’s been rested for 48hours, house-made pastas (except for one or two) and traditional crafted cocktails make up the menu.
It’s a very Dallas Italian restaurant, which makes sense since Colombo has spent the better part of his career making Italian food for Dallasites.
Long Island native Colombo, along with a few classmates who lived around the corner, started washing dishes at a family-owned nightclub, Jupiter’s, when he was 14 or 15 years old. His mom would pick them up after their shift ended in the wee hours of the morning. They’d hear Ray Charles, The Spinners, and Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes. And when there wasn’t a live act, it was disco music.
It was just the right taste of the hospitality business. Colombo completed a hotel degree at a community college before starting at Hilton hotels like Waldorf Astoria. Food and beverage at a hotel with several departments was a different beast.
“When it’s big properties like that, sometimes you’re insulated. You don’t even know if the guests had a good experience or a bad experience,” he says.
He ended up at the Washington Hilton Hotel in D.C. in 1981. It was his third day on the job when John Hinckley Jr. attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan, firing six shots and wounding Reagan and three others. A year and a half later, he was in Dallas opening the boutique hotel Mansion on Turtle Creek after Caroline Rose Hunt acquired and repurposed the historic mansion.
“I figured it would be something that would help round out my career,” he says. “That’s what got me to Dallas, and I thought I’d get here, and then I would go to California and go back home to New York. But I never left.”
If you use his stint at Jupiter’s as the starting point of his career, Colombo has spent five decades in the hospitality business, most
of it in Dallas. In the mid-’80s, Colombo, along with his brother Robert and two other partners, started Sfuzzi’s on McKinney Avenue, where Trader Joe’s currently sits.
“The success of it was about timing,” he says. “It was kind of the first time in Dallas where high-energy restaurants started to get popular.”
After a 20-location, 10-year run ended in the mid-’90s (there have been several short revivals since then), Colombo went back to hotels to manage food and beverage across the country for Paul Nussbaum’s Patriot American Hospitality, which rebranded as Wyndham International in the late ’90s.
Then the hum of a restaurant came calling. Phil Romano, of Eatzi’s, Fuddruckers and Romano’s Macaroni Grill, wanted to launch a steakhouse in Uptown. Nick & Sam’s – Nick is Colombo’s oldest son –opened in April 1999.
Colombo sold his interest to Romano, left the steakhouse and went back to the hotel industry long before opening the CRÚ Wine Bar & Bistro in the West Village in 2002. One of the first concepts of its kind, CRÚ was recently acquired and is planning to rapidly expand its 10-location portfolio.
In 2011, Tuscan-inspired Princi Italia opened on Royal Lane. Later, another location opened in Legacy West.
“We’re going to start our 15th year in September, you know. So we feel really fortunate that the consumer and the community has accepted us,” Patrick Colombo says. “It’s unbelievable how many regulars come in and out of there, multiple times a week.”
That’s the hope for the newest concept, Centrale Italia, located in Preston Hollow Village.
This time it’s a little different. It’s a family affair.
“If something’s not right with a guest experience, it hurts more as a family versus before. It probably hurts me more,” Patrick says.
Julian Colombo, his youngest, joined Restaurant Works two and a half years ago after spending a little time in finance post-graduation from the University of Utah. Finance didn’t seem like it was the path for him.
“I just wasn’t loving it,” Julian says. “I find that I’m very creative and have an entrepreneurial mindset, so I think I wanted to try something where I could have more impact.”
He assisted in the food and cocktail menu development of Centrale Italia with Patrick
and Antonovitch, who went to Johnson & Wales University with Emeril Lagasse.
“It’s a lot of fun,” Julian says. “We get to collaborate on things. Always have something to talk about, bounce ideas off each other. Obviously, there’s a couple of ups and downs, but overall I’d say we make it work really well.”
Antonovitch also got his start in hotel food and beverage and cooked in Los Angeles at the Century Plaza Hotel. His hotel and Ronald Reagan experience was cooking for the President’s inaugural dinners. He did a stint at the Mansion on Turtle Creek, worked with Wolfgang Puck and owned Spango on Knox Henderson.
“When I came here in ’94 I was competing against him [Colombo] and his corporate chef for the last 20 years,” Antonovitch says. “So then I said, if you can’t beat him, join him. So I joined him this year.”
Catherine, Patrick’s wife, whom he met at a Sfuzzi’s in Colorado more than 30 years ago, designed the interior of the restaurant with Julian. Restaurant Works keeps project management in-house for
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its concepts, so Patrick focused on the flow and structure of the restaurant, while Catherine and Julian focused on the finer points like the color, fabric and lighting. The split-level restaurant only has one TV for the just-in-case, must-watch events. The bar is not the focal point in the room, a step away from restaurant interior trends in the city.
There have been a few changes since the opening in December 2025. The difficult-to-prep Chicken Spiedini was removed from the menu. But then they made several additions – a roasted beet and burrata salad with a sherry thyme vinaigrette ($16), a rock shrimp scampi toast with Calabrian chili butter ($18) and a regularly requested, despite not being on the menu, chicken parm ($25). Then there were the dish adjustments – the salmon is now grilled ($30), not pan-seared. The cooking techniques on the chicken piccata ($24) were adjusted so the dish presented golden brown.
It’s all par for the course. Some of the adjustments are to remove obstacles for the kitchen to execute better, and some of the changes are to better guest experience, says Patrick.
The fig and rosemary old-fashioned and the espresso martini are popular items. The new Centrale Gardener, which is a cilantro, ginger, lime and serrano mezcal or tequila cocktail, tastes exactly how you imagine and not at the same time. Patrick’s favorite is the fedelini pomodoro ($21), which features burrata and thinner noodles. Julian likes the Romano chicken breast with the rigatoni à la vodka ($25).
Centrale Italia doesn’t exactly have a seasonal menu, but Antonovichto believes in cooking with the season.
“Tomatoes have been sitting there for almost 10 days before we even use them,” he says. “So they’re super ripe … We think about every little thing that we could do that’s authentic. And it’s not like we’re copying someone. We’re learning from the masters of Italy and we’re learning from our local market. And then we create a menu that we hope is fun.”
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Maestri’s yard is inspired by Palm Springs, where the family often visits.
Eddie Maestri’s home stays true to its ’70s roots while implementing personal touches
dining room features Asian influences juxtaposed with the home’s ’70s roots alongside two paintings that were commissioned by
Tear down and rebuild seems to be a theme for many designers and architects in Preston Hollow, but not Eddie Maestri. When moving from his Lakewood home, he sought a house with character that could be preserved, while adding his own style and personal touches.
The waterfront property was built in the 1970s, and much of its charm has been maintained today with preserved wood paneling and a conversation pit-style living room.
“We really tried to keep the house true to the original intent,” Maestri says.
Maestri maintains a mindset of “borrowing” the home, preserving as much character as possible and staying true to the home’s original style.
The home’s original materials tell much of its story. Terrazzo floors, still intact decades later, were polished rather than replaced. Black walnut cabinetry in the kitchen remains, subtly updated with brass upper cabinets to bridge eras rather than erase them.
Even the home’s rock wall, original
railings and built-in bar were carefully retained.
“There are details you just can’t replicate now,” Maestri says.
Still, updates to the home have modernized and brightened the space. Windows were dramatically enlarged, raising sightlines and flooding the interiors with natural light.
And the home is full of influences from Maestri’s inspiration and travels. Ceramics collected from trips to Kyoto with his husband.
An outdoor entry inspired by the family’s times in the Palm Springs area. A lamp from a shop in Seoul. A clock from Germany.
“We wanted it to feel very SoCal,” Maestri says.
With twin tween boys, performance fabrics and functionality are key. Former Kips Bay showroom pieces now serve as a music room for their children. The dining room doubles as a homework hub. Outdoor spaces — reimagined with new tile, turf and a large communal table — become the primary gathering place for entertaining.
“I love things that feel found,” Maestri says.
The living room is full of pieces carefully curated over the years. Little cups from a family trip to Kyoto. A portrait from a trip to Paris. A stone piece, remnant of architecture, from a work trip to Palm Springs.
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Neighbors Robert and Mary Lucille Quick feature a robust art collection in their restaurants
Story by ALYSSA HIGH
For restaurateurs Robert and Mary Lucille Quick, the il Bracco and Bobbie’s Airway Grill walls aren’t a design afterthought — they serve as a nearly half-million-dollar extension of the couple’s own art collection.
Original works and limited-edition prints by artists like Alexander Calder, Roy Lichtenstein, Agnes Martin, Wayne Thiebaud and Robert Rauschenberg hang on each of their restaurant walls.
We sat down with the Quicks to hear about the collection and their favorite pieces.
DO YOU REMEMBER YOUR
MARY LUCILLE: Absolutely. My love of art really began growing up in my grandmother’s home. My grandmother, Lupe Murchison, was an avid collector and passionate supporter of contemporary art in Dallas, so I was surrounded by great work from an early age. That exposure really shaped the way I look at art today. I later went to study fine art at Texas Christian University, which deepened that interest even more.
ROBERT: Mary Lu is the one who taught me about art. Her knowledge and passion for it are contagious. As soon as we were in a position to start collecting art together, we did. Our first major piece was Numbered Legs by John Baldessari, which we purchased from Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco. It now hangs in the women’s restroom at il Bracco in Highland Park.
MARY LUCILLE: It always makes me smile when I see it. It was the first meaningful piece we bought together and really marked the beginning of our collection.
MARY LUCILLE: It’s hard to choose because there are so many special pieces I love, but right now, I would say the Elizabeth Murray at Balboa feels especially special. It has such an incredible presence in the space. I’m also very partial to the David Shrigley works at Bobbie’s. In general, I gravitate toward contemporary art and tend to lean more abstract in my personal taste.
ROBERT: My favorite piece isn’t hanging
Alexander Girard’s Environmental Enrichment Panel and Alex Katz’ Ada in Hat hangs in Balboa Surf Club and il Bracco, respectively.
in one of our restaurants, but it inspired one of our dishes. In our home, we have a piece by Wayne Thiebaud called Lemon Meringue . When our team was discussing adding a lemon meringue pie to our dessert rotation, I brought in the piece and said — let’s do this! It took a lot of effort from our bakers and culinary team, but we were able to replicate the painting almost exactly — and it tastes the way I imagined when I look at it.
DO THE TWO OF YOU HAVE SIMILAR ARTISTIC INTERESTS?
MARY LUCILLE: We do, but we have slightly different instincts. I tend to gravitate toward more abstract work, while Robert strongly prefers pieces that are a bit more literal.
ROBERT: Luckily, there’s a lot of trust and respect between us when it comes to each other’s eye and style, so the collection ends up feeling balanced.
ARE THE COLLECTIONS AT EACH RESTAURANT MORE REFLECTIVE OF PERSONAL INTEREST OR THE RESTAURANT’S STYLE?
MARY LUCILLE: I would say they are definitely rooted in personal interest first. The art reflects what we love and what we’re excited to live with. That said, when we’re placing
pieces, we do try and be thoughtful about how they relate to the overall style and personality of each space. I also love the idea of art living in spaces where people gather, and restaurants are such a fun place for that.
ARE THERE ANY PIECES IN EITHER IL BRACCO OR BOBBIE’S THAT ELICIT A MEMORY OR STORY THAT YOU COULD SHARE?
ROBERT : The Baldessari we mentioned earlier definitely carries a lot of meaning for us. It was the first significant piece we purchased together, and it also started our relationship with John Berggruen and his gallery. It feels fitting that it still hangs at il Bracco, our first restaurant.
ARE THERE ANY “MUST-HAVES” (EITHER ARTIST, STYLE OR SPECIFIC PIECE) THAT YOU’RE STILL LOOKING FOR?
MARY LUCILLE: There are always artists I’m dreaming about adding to the collection. One of my favorites right now is Chris Wolston. His sculptural work is incredible, and finding the right place for one of his pieces, either in a restaurant or in our personal collection, would be really special.
This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
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TUCKED INTO AN ENCLAVE BORDERED BY INWOOD AND NORTHAVEN ROADS, ROYAL LANE, AND THE DALLAS NORTH TOLLWAY, Russwood Acres epitomizes Preston Hollow. Family homes line streets studded with shade trees, perfect for jogging or biking or walking the family dog. Generous lots and manicured lawns whisper “quiet luxury,” even as the neighborhood echoes with the sounds of children playing outside. For these reasons, and more, the owners of the mid-century ranch pictured here planted their roots in Russwood Acres in 2019. After living in the home for several years, however, the young family identified several challenges presented by its 1964-era layout and features.
Story by LISA PETTY
Enter Dallas-based Kitchen Design Concepts. The award-winning firm stepped in to execute a clever renovation that would allow the home to meet the family’s needs while staying true to its original character.
“Our job is to make the lives of our clients so much easier,” says Rebecca Sutton, a residential designer with over a decade of experience at Kitchen Design Concepts. “This family wanted to make the home cleaner and brighter, and they wanted to be able to add personal touches throughout the years as they grow into the space.”
A specialist in spatial planning and cabinetry design, Sutton’s role in this Russwood Acres renovation focused on the kitchen and primary bath.
Sutton partnered closely with her clients to update the hardest-working room in the home. She began by asking several key questions that she believes must be answered before any kitchen renovation: Where am I going to be cooking? Where am I going to store my equipment and dishes? And, where is my dedicated prep space?
The answers in this case involved two hungry kids, outdated storage, and plenty of underutilized, if irregularly shaped, extra space. Though the list was long, Sutton and the family ultimately decided that “less is more.”
“We had a lot of conversations about how they’d be using the kitchen,” she says. “It turned out that they didn’t need to invest in taking down walls.”
Instead, emphasizing “ease of use,” the designer started by swapping the kitchen’s decades-old cabinetry for
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In the primary bath, topaz-veined wall tiles set a stylish backdrop for BaineUltra’s soaking tub, while an original picture window provides a soothing view. Photography courtesy of Kitchen Design Concepts.
European-style frameless cabinets and deep-box storage drawers. In alabaster white, they complement the Mediterranean-style ceramic backsplash tiles and subtly veined quartz countertops.
The gas cooktop was relocated to a new island, and set in brushed stainless steel. Additional storage was added beneath the range, along with a perpendicular quartz-topped seating area. The unique T-shape of the new island maximizes the kitchen’s existing available space, while drawing the eye to a fresh central detail.
“We used the island’s waterfall edge as a main visual feature,” Sutton says. “When you’re looking into the kitchen from the living room, that’s your focal point.”
The home’s neutral palette extends to the primary bath. As in the kitchen, Sutton and the homeowners selected frameless cabinetry and white quartz countertops. Oversized porcelain wall tiles in a warm topaz grain create a striking contrast; each was painstakingly seam-matched by the designer.
“We wanted to ensure that we got that nice seam to flow across the wall, then wrap around the shower,” says Sutton. “We then picked up some of the undertones from the walls and utilized them in the darker tone in the floor tile.”
The centerpiece of the room is undoubtedly the Japanese freestanding soaking tub. It represents another smart and stylish solution to a unique challenge.
“The window on the exterior wall in the primary bath was still in great condition,” Sutton says. “We pivoted to the soaking tub so that you still get a full soak, but it takes up significantly less floor space and provides that spa-like look and feel.”
Indeed, as afternoon sunlight streams through the carefully-preserved picture window, it’s easy to imagine relaxing in this sanctuary at the end of a long day.
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Story by JACK DRAKE
While Legend Airlines did not make the progress they had wished regarding the service to Dallas’ business traveler market, their story started a conversation. Signs stating “Wright is wrong” were hung throughout the airport by Southwest Airlines. The Wright Amendment had been created in the 1970s to protect the financially vulnerable Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Airport (now known as Dallas Fort Worth International Airport) and the carriers that moved there. In November 2004, DFW was booming, and American Airlines had not declared bankruptcy, something many of its legacy carrier competitors had faced. Southwest believed the Wright Amendment was obsolete. First, an exemption was made in 2005 to allow flights to Missouri (Kansas City and St. Louis) by Sen. Kit Bond. Southwest and American both began service to those cities from Love Field. The work of Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison at the federal level and Rep. Kay Granger at the state level led to the death of the Wright Amendment when President George W. Bush signed a law on Oct. 13, 2006. The service restrictions would remain until 2014, and Love Field’s gate capacity was set to 20.
Delta and Continental had both begun service to Love Field during this time period. Most of Braniff’s old “Terminal of the Future” and the former Texas International stinger concourse were demolished in the early 2000s. To follow the new law, Legend’s
Lemmon Avenue Terminal was demolished, to the dismay of many in the community. The original central concourse had been closed for many years, but the building still stood. Southwest used the west concourse (originally American’s), and the other carriers used the original east concourse and a small section of The Terminal of the Future. These 1950s facilities were severely out of date, and Love Field’s future looked bright. A 2009 master plan costing $519 million would deliver a new 20-gate concourse that was built in stages with new ticketing and baggage claim areas, and a heavily renovated landside facility. This terminal has won many awards and consistently ranks high in customer satisfaction. American, though it had ended service to Love Field, still had the rights to two gates in the new terminal. As a result of the merger with US Airways, they were forced to give them up. These gates ended up in the hands of Virgin America, a flashy West Coast carrier with great aspirations in Dallas. Their service history from Love Field included New York, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Chicago (planned but never launched) and Austin. The airline was acquired by Alaska Airlines in April 2016, and Alaska scaled back Virgin’s service to just San Francisco and added Seattle (their primary hub). Alaska’s service to Love Field ended entirely in 2025. In the 2010s, DAL also saw service from two smaller carriers. SeaPort operated nine seat aircrafts to cities
like El Dorado, Arkansas, and Hot Springs, Arkansas, until 2015, and Taos Air operated the elusive Dornier 328JET from Love to Taos, New Mexico, on and off between 2018 and 2022.
A new player in the U.S. Aviation industry began in 2016 with a flight from Burbank to Concord, California. JetSuiteX, later rebranded to JSX, prides itself on being different from the rest. Its mission was to provide a “Joyful, Simple, Xperience” to its customers by offering efficient service between convenient airports with its spacious 30-seat aircraft and award-winning hospitality. Additionally, passengers arrive at privately operated terminals just 20 minutes prior to departure and have their bags waiting for them outside the aircraft when they deplane. While JSX takes pride in its premium onboard service, they take most pride in the time savings they provide for its customers. An inner-city airport like Love Field was exactly the type of place JSX had in mind. While they were still exclusively a West Coast carrier, JSX moved its headquarters to Dallas in 2018 with the intent of building up a base in our city. In November 2020, JSX launched its first route out of Dallas, which was to Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport (HOU), with more destinations to follow. In just five short years, Dallas has become their fourth largest city (behind Las Vegas, Burbank and Scottsdale), with domestic flights from Dallas to Denver, Destin, Gunnison/Crested Butte, Hobbs (New Mexico), Houston Hobby, Lajitas (Texas), Las Vegas, Miami, Santa Fe, Scottsdale and Taos. It also operates the only international route from Love Field: Cabo San Lucas. In 2023, they opened their massive facility adjacent to the Frontiers of Flight Museum. It serves as their corporate headquarters, operation center, maintenance base and passenger terminal. The building was originally Delta Air Lines’ Dallas base that opened in the 1950s. What’s next for Love Field? Both carriers based there seem to be excelling. JSX, for the second year in a row, was named The Best U.S. Carrier by Travel + Leisure primarily based on passenger surveys, and Southwest was ranked the Best U.S. Airline by The Wall Street Journal based on operational metrics. Both carriers take pride in calling Love Field their home. The general aviation market is also thriving. Fixed-base operators like Business Jet have continued expanding over recent years. But what about the airport itself? They didn’t stop once the new terminal opened in 2016. They have been improving
taxiways, roadways and runways, and are currently constructing a new fire station with state-of-the-art technology. Since passenger traffic is rapidly rising, DAL has created a master plan called “Love What’s Next” and a capital program called LEAP (Love Field Expansion Program). A major theme of this series of articles has been Dallas’ aviation leaders looking toward the future and being forward-minded. This project is no exception. Even though the terminal is just 10 years old, many renovations and improvements are planned. Fourteen projects are set to take place to improve the passenger experience, including a wider concourse, a new parking garage, more space for security screening, and better curbside and passenger drop-off zones.
It is pretty clear that Dallas loves Love. In its over 100-year history, the city and the companies have been a part of DAL’s fabric. One frequent flyer sums it up perfectly. He says, “This is corny for me to even say, but I’m grateful you guys are my home airport as a very frequent flyer. I can’t really think of any other airport around the country that reaches the sum of form and function, certainly not of your volume.”
As someone who grew up about 10 minutes away from the airport and has always been interested in aviation, I have appreciated Love Field and the way it is an integral part of the city. Many key memories on my aviation journey have taken place at Love Field, including playing with my brother in the playscape at the Frontiers of Flight Museum, my mother taking me to Bachman Lake to watch planes, the excitement felt when I landed at DAL myself during my flight training, flying in the simulator at Southwest’s headquarters and spending two summers working for companies at the airport. Countless Dallasites also have their special moments at the airport, and some of the most notable aviation history in the world has taken place here. I am excited to watch Love Field continue to grow and see what its future holds.
This is the final part of a series on Love Field.
JACK DRAKE is a student at The Ohio State University studying aviation management. The Preston Hollow-resident is known for publishing Preston Hollow: A Brief History. Drake is a member of Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church, a volunteer at Vickery Meadow Food Pantry and creator of Facebook group Preston Hollow History.
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