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

Lochwood Shopping Center - From Goff's Hamburgers to a Circular Bank

Opened in 1957. Original stores included: Alberts of Dallas Bakers Shoes Candy Town Cranford House School of Dance E.M. Kahn El Chico The Book Stall – “A fine selection of statuary, book and cards.” 354 Lochwood Village DA-8-2139 The Fair Dept. Store Groff’s Charcoal Broiled Hamburgers – 201 Lochwood Village, also 5702 W. Lover’s Lane DA-7-5774 Gold Bond Stamps Gordon’s Jewelers Holiday Cleaners Home Beautiful Lochwood Paint Center Luby’s Cafeteria Merle Norman Stylish Stout Shop Thom McAnn Shoes Tom Thumb W.T. Grant Walgreens Drugs Woolworth Store Luby’s Cafeteria – Lochwood Village. Deep carpeting, walnut paneled walls and crystal chandeliers combine to give a feeling of great pleasure to the diner. WR 5/8/58 El Chico #12 – 100 Lochwood Village DA-4-4341
Cole Directory 1964 North of 11200 Garland Rd. El Chico 101 Holiday Cleaning and Laundry 101 Luby’s Cafeteria 106 Goff’s Hamburgers 201 Merle Normal Cosmetic Studio 205 Lochwood Barber Shop 208 Walgreens Drugs 215 Mangelli 221 Gordon Jewelers 226 E.M. Kahn &Co. 228 Gray Specialty Shop 235 Lochwood Beaut Supply 257 The Fair Department Store Titche-Goettinger 300 Watts Optician 424 Tom Thumb Supermarket 615 The Play Yards 701 Stylish Stout Shop 702 Zinkes Shoe Co. 705 Gold Bond Stamp 710 Lochwood Paint Center 721 National Shirt Shop 801 Candy Town 804 Alberts of Dallas 806 Bakers Shoe Store 808 F.W. Woolworth & Co. 817 Thom McCann Shoe Store 821 Cranfield House for Dancers 844 Pink Poodle Pet Shop 844 W.T. Grant Co. 906 First Citizens Bank 926
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  1. UnknownJune 14, 2015 at 2:00 PM

    Citizens Bank had a time capsule buried in front. Don't remember the date it was to be opened. Anybody know about this?

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    1. UnknownJune 20, 2021 at 9:36 PM

      I read on another forum that it's supposed to be opened in 2059.

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  2. UnknownJanuary 31, 2016 at 4:10 PM

    I was born in Dallas, and raised in Garland. I currently live in Virginia. I used to shop at Lochwood Shopping Center in the late '60's and early '70's. I used to shop at a clothing store in that shopping centerthat catered to teenage girls and younger children. The storefront faced Garland Rd. Can anyone help in remembering what that store's name was? Thank you. My email is crobison@vt.edu.

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  3. UnknownJanuary 31, 2016 at 4:10 PM

    I was born in Dallas, and raised in Garland. I currently live in Virginia. I used to shop at Lochwood Shopping Center in the late '60's and early '70's. I used to shop at a clothing store in that shopping centerthat catered to teenage girls and younger children. The storefront faced Garland Rd. Can anyone help in remembering what that store's name was? Thank you. My email is crobison@vt.edu.

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  4. AnonymousNovember 26, 2018 at 6:03 PM

    My father owned a music store there called Everybody's Music Store, in the mid 60's. He sold it and became a studio musician.

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