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.

Monday, December 31, 2012

Movie Theaters - Neighborhood: From Casa Linda to the Esquire

Lakewood - Lakewood Shopping Center, 1825 Abram TA-1-5706
Casa Linda - Casa Linda Plaza, Buckner and Garland Road DA-1-2141
Inwood - at Lover's Lane and Inwood, 5458 Inwood FL-2-6040

Ridgewood - on Garland Road in Garland
Preston Royal - Preston Royal Shopping Center EM-1-6520
Arcadia - on lower Greenville, 2005 Greenville TA-4-8017

Delman - Lemmon Avenue, 3319 Raleigh LA-8-1181
Granada - 3524 Greenville TA-1-2205
Esquire - at Oak Lawn and Lemmon, 3419 Oak Lawn LA-1-4759

The New Fine Arts - 6719 Snider Plaza EM-3-2943
Festival - 3104 Maple RI-2-3633 (1963 only)
Casa View Drive In - 5217 Gus Thomasson BR-9-2076 DYP63

Buckner Drive-In - Buckner Blvd. DA-4-4076
Iconic clowns face neon sign.  Fantastic play area in front of the screen.
  

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