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

Men's Clothing - From Shoes to Madras Shorts

Dad and Lads – 6324 Gaston, Lakewood. TA-7-5218 Edgar Men’s and Boy’s Wear - Casa View Village Drefus & Jon, 1701 Main. RI-7-8811 Irby Mayes Man’s Shop, 1701 Commerce. N-1-1434 Justice Men’s Shop – 356 Hillside Village, TA-4-6806 E.M. Kahn’s Men’s Wear, Main and Lamar, RI-7-3161. 228 Lochwood Village. DA-8-3561 Reynolds-Penland Co. 1526 Main. RI-2-6543. 294 Casa Linda Plaza, DA-1-6411 Varsity Shop, 223 Lake Park, DA-7-4543, also 6319 Hillcrest, by SMU. Jas K. Wilson, 1515 Main St. RI-2-4323 Skeffington’s, Preston Center, EM-1-6811. Rented a tuxedo for the senior Prom. Robert Hill’s – First of the discount men’s stores. A seersucker suit from Cox’s. Cinderella Shoppe ad from The Cougar Chronicle, May 1965 Volks, with large goldfish pond and aviary. Hush Puppies “in breathing pigskin.” Gunsmoke Grey and Hound Dog Tan. Frederick’s of Hollywood. What was the first discount store? Fed Mart on Northwest Highway and Jupiter? Or Gibsons on Gus Thomasson, next door to the Casa View Drive-In? A well-dressed guy would wear grey flannel trousers, navy blue blazer or tweed jacket and a regimental striped tie.

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