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

Time Line 1960-1966

1960
An American U2 spy plane is shot down over Russia in May and pilot Gary Powers imprisoned.  He is released in February of the next year, exchanged for a Soviet spy.

Alfred Hitchcock sets his low-budget movie "Psycho" in a lonely motel owned by psychopath Norman Bates.

 1961
The Twist is the latest dance craze popularized by Chubby Checker.

Bob Dylan debuts in New York folk clubs and is signed to Columbia Records.
 
Catch-22 is Joseph Heller's comic surreal novel about American Airmen in World War II stationed in the Mediterranean.

Yuri Gagarin is the first man in space, followed a month later by Alan Shepherd.

The Berlin Wall is erected to prevent East Berliners reaching the West.

The contraceptive pill goes on the market.

1962
Nelson Mandela is jailed in South Africa and is not released until 1990.

Cuban Missile Crisis starts as Russia plants rockets in Cuba.  An American blockade of Cuba is lifted when the Soviets agree to remove the missiles.

Andy Warhol is among the pop artists in the New Realists exhibition "In the Future."  He says "everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."

1963
Martin Luther King speaks in Washington D.C.  "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

1964
The Beatles plan on Ed Sullivan's TV show while on their first U.S. visit.

The Civil Rights Act is passed to "end" racial discrimination in the United States.

President Johnson orders retaliating retaliatory air strikes in Vietnam.  Congress' Gulf of Tonkin resolution authorizes the President to take necessary measures to maintain the peace.

Cassius Clay becomes the new heavyweight Champion of the World.  Later, as Muhammad Ali, he refuses the Vietnam draft, explaining "No Viet Cong ever called me nigger."

1965
American troops go on their first offensive against the Viet Cong.  By July, there are 125,000 troops in Vietnam.

1966
Federal laws declare the Poll Tax unconstitutional.
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