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

Night Clubs and Bars - We Couldn't Go in, at Least for a While...

1963 Yellow Pages

Abe's Colony Club - 1322 1/2 Commerce.  R1-2-4247.  3 shows every night, directly across from the Adolphus Hotel.

Brand's Log Tavern - 3710 Samuel Blvd.  EV-1-9064

The Carousel - 1312 1/2 Commerce.  R1-7-2362.  Dallas' only Burlesque with continuous entertainment non-stop until 2am.  Lucky Turkey Night.  Fri - Ladies Free.  Auditions Saturday for Exotic Dancers.

It'll Do Club - 4322 Elm.  TA-7-0262.  "Dallas Most Modern Club."  Afternoon and nights.

The Levee - 5616 E. Mockingbird.  TA-7-7777.  Across from Dr. Pepper Plant.  Ed Bernet and the Dixieland Seven.  Fri and Sat.  Sing along with banjo, Sun-Thurs.

Hi Ho Western Club - 2315 W. Jefferson, Grand Prairie.  AN-2-6446.  "On the Grand Prairie Strip."  1200 person capacity, open daily.

Palms Danceland - 4906 Military Parkway.  EV8-1922.  Seven days a week, matinees and evenings.

Longhorn Ranch - 216 Corinth.  HA-8-3129.  Largest and most decorated Western Ballroom in the Southwest.

Ole Top Rail - 3133 McKinney.  R1-1-0656.

Theater Lounge - 1326 Jackson.  R1-2-2677.

Rainbow Ballroom (Colored) - 816 Montgomery.  HA-8-9200.
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