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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

Trick Brothers Accordian Studio



I never knew anyone who played an accordion or was it even mentioned in school music from elementary school through high school.
Dallas must have been full of accordion players judging by the ads in the 1959 Dallas Yellow Pages.

In Oak Cliff you could study at the Jacob School of Accordion - "A World of Music in Their Arms" - at 204-A S. Tyler.  They were also the exclusive dealer for Accordiana, Excerlsior - Excelsiola.

You could learn to play at the Casa View Music School.  Zelma Lee Taylor, owner, apparently worked out of her house at 2344 Lockhart DA-7-7400.  She also had studios in Farmers Branch and Grand Prairie.

And you could also study at Charlie Goodwin Accordion Studios at 1418 S. Buckner EX-1-7665 (Pleasant Grove) or at 1408 Ferndale WH-6-3042 (Oak Cliff again).
Maybe in 1959 it was easier to list who wasn't playing the accordion.
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  1. UnknownMarch 29, 2020 at 11:50 AM

    Hey Bob I grew in Big D the same time period. My father was partner with Al Trick. My dad had the Oak Cliff stores. I grew up in Oak Cliff and Duncanville areas. I recall as a youth naturally being in the Jefferson Blvd stores. Also accordion players on the sidewalk by the Texas theater of Lee Harvey fame. I was also in the Casa Linda store. Al had a big sailfish on his wall. This was before 1959 as I recall.

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  2. UnknownNovember 5, 2020 at 10:41 AM

    I took accordion lesson from Mr.Trick from 1966 to about later 1971 from the store on Garland Road, played in his student band. Yep, remember the sailfish. Still have my accordions.

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  3. UnknownAugust 21, 2021 at 10:45 AM

    I took lessons with Trickbrothes Institude in 1940 and played on WSPD Radio in Toledo, Ohio about that same time. AND I still have that accordian Bonnie

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