Jay Simmons (right) carries a box of donuts as she opens the door for her father Gary Simmons at Lone Star Donuts on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Dallas. Lone Star Donuts has been open since 1950 and ...

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – People in Oak Cliff are excited about the return of a popular donut shop reopening. Lone Star Donuts has been open for more than 70 years but it closed last summer.

Lone Star Donuts is one of Dallas’ longest-running bakeries ... and contracted its retail doughnut shops all over North Texas. It had a dozen or so bakeries in the 1960s and 1970s, Russell ...