About This Blog

This blog features: neighborhood restaurants, nearby restaurants, downtown restaurants, Casa View Shopping Center, nearby shopping, Downtown shops.

I will first list places and my connections with them. For the spirit of completeness, I will then list other places, known to me but not visited. I choose not to list the unknown.

I like the section entitled Places I Wish I Had Visited.

My focus is places and locations which existed from 1953, when I moved to Dallas, until 1965, when I graduated from high school. This list will continue with my college years, until I turned 21. I left Dallas in 1969 and, as I did not return except to visit my parents until 1973, my memory of East Dallas ends at that time.

Some categories were easy to separate – restaurants and shopping. Some experiences are not so easy to categorize, but are still meaningful. They may be all lumped in together, and then teased out as other connections are made.

Music wise, we may have thought we were born of the “wrong generation.” I always thought the older generation (i.e. 3 to 4 years older than me) had a richer and deeper experience.

But we, the beginning of the Baby Boomer generation, had it best – stable family life, rising expectations for the middle class and parents who wanted to give so much to their children, which most did not have in their childhood. We were left to play and roam outdoors to make our own fun. We had the best toys and the best music.

And yet we lived in tumultuous times – the Cold War, Civil Rights, Integration and the Kennedy Assassination through the killings of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King.

Hopefully we came out as loving, caring, sharing adults whose experiences made us better people and gave us the ability to show appreciation and gratitude for the neighborhood and experiences which enriched us and our loved ones.

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Oates Plaza Shopping Center and Ferguson Village

Ferguson Village was at the intersection of Oates Drive and Ferguson Road. The Forbes School of Dance - Tap, Ballet, Acrobatics, directed by John Forbes. 150 Ferguson Village, DA-1-6061. Fashions in Fabric - 209 Ferguson Village, DA-7-9293. Dixie Bell’s Children Shop - 207 Ferguson Village. Jondee’s Restaurant - 214 Ferguson Village, DA-7-9988. Mathis Air Conditioners - 153 Ferguson Village, DA-1-3921. Arnold and Morgan Piano #2 - DA-1-2954. Graves Fashion Love’s Fashions - 2332 Oates, DA-7-8721. Babcock Bros. Auto Supply Ferguson Village TV and Appliance Myett’s Village Pharmacy / Adam’s Oates Plaza Pharmacy - 2308 Oates Drive, DA-7-7351. Safeway - WR 7/13/62 Rack and Cue Club - 140 Ferguson Village, DA-7-9616. The last local pool hall. Elois Hair Salon Chicken Delight - #486 165 Ferguson Village. Uniform pieces, chicken cooked in 14 minutes, no pre-cooking. 3-piece dinner $1.39. Glo Cleaners Martin’s Beauty Supply Norgeville Kinard Furniture - 2320 Oates at Ferguson, DA-1-6386. BA Annual, 1964. Gasset Cycle Shop - 144 Ferguson Village. Ferguson Village Barber Shop - 136 Ferguson Village, DA-7-9993 Ferguson Village Laundry and Dry Cleaning - 201 Ferguson Village. Casa View Public Golf Links - 9400 Michael Lane (off Oates, near La Prada). All day $1.00, clubs for rent. Art Corbin – Pro. Oates Plaza - opened 1956 Sam Snead School of Golf - 140 Peavy Road, opposite Oates Plaza. Oates Hardware - 2344 Oates Drive, DA-7-8711. Wonderland Toy Shop - 2338 Oates Drive, DA-7-0461.
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  1. Ada AllenMarch 19, 2014 at 11:45 AM

    I am looking for pictures, commentary, lists of buildings, or any information I cam find about the north side of Oates drive at Ferguson Rd in the 50's.

    Please Contact me at adakallen@gmail.com.

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