Some friends and I, plus one guy I dated, had nights where we went out and laid down on the end of the runway at Love Field or over the fence by Bachman Lake, to see and feel the planes taking off right over us! But I *never* lived in those apts.
We used to roller skate on the sidewalk around Bachman lake. Thing was, a long portion of the sidewalk not only curved around the west end of the lake, but made a Y in which the other branch took you right to a busy traffic intersection.
To make matters worse, that portion of the sidewalk was pretty sharply downhill. If you did not make a graceful left at the Y, you either fell on your butt, or glided out into traffic and an indeterminate future.
And it was legal!!! Can't imagine you can have that kind of fun today.