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

Vacations - A Listing of Every Vacation We Took as a Family

My parents were very big on vacations.  My father’s mantra – “Use the equipment,” meant whatever’s available, use it, whether it be shuffleboard, miniature golf or lawn games.

What he really meant was expose yourself to all possibilities.  Another of his homilies was  “You’re down on it, because you’re not  up on it.”

My sister and I were very self-directed.  We could make our own fun with a minimum of adult or parent help.  We got the book “Hoyles Rules of Games,” and taught ourselves to play Whist, the predecessor of Bridge.

1948 – (July)  Niantic, Connecticut – 2 weeks (I was born in 1946)

1950 -- (August) Buckroe Beach, Virginia (we moved to Richmond, VA from October 1949
             until May 1951) – 2 weeks.

1951 -- (July)  Visited Grandmother Reitz for 2 weeks at 656 E. 226th St.  Bronx, NY.

1952 – Summer Camp outside Richmond run by Miss Dorothy Hanks, schoolteacher,
            Richmond Public Schools.

1952 – Spent a week at Hotel Virginia Beach, Virginia.

1953 – Spent 1 week with Grandma Reitz, 4156 Carpenter Ave, Bronx, NY.  July.

1954 – Spent vacation in San Antonio.  June.  Spent a day in Nuevo Laredo.

1956 – Spent 4 weeks at Boy Haven Summer Camp.  June.
            Spent vacation in Corpus Christi and Rockport.  August.
            Spent vacation to Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, Las Vegas, Los Angeles.              Stayed one week with Uncle Walter at 516 Coolidge Drive San Gabriel, CA.  July.

1957 – Spent vacation with Grandma Reitz, 656 E. 226th St, Bronx.  July.  Then toured New
            York State.  Spent the day at Niagra Fallas.  Palisades Amusement Park in New
            Jersey.

1958 – Went to Boy Scout Camp Texoma.  August.

1959 – Spent one week, June, in Austin and San Antonio visiting the State Capitol and the
            Alamo.
            Spent one week July 6-15 Palo Duro Canyon Boy Scout Camp.  Camp  Don
            Herrington.
            Boy Scout Camp Constantin, August 17-24.

1960 – Spent one week Camp Constantin, July 12-21st.
           Jubilee Camporee 50th anniversary of Boy Scouts at White Rock Lake.

1961 – Spent 4 weeks at Philmont Scout Ranch in northern New Mexico near Cimarron for
            National Junior Leader Training.  12 day course, 14 days on the trail.
            Spent one week June 24-30 at Camp Constantin.

1962 – Navy Cruise sponsored by the Navy League.  July 15- August 21, from San
            Francisco to Hawaii, Midway Island, Guam and the Phillipines.
            Spent one week Camp Constantin, June 24-30.
            Spent one week, July in San Antonio.

1963 – Camp Wisdom Staff, June-July.
            Spent one week Camp Constantin, July 17-22.
            Went to New York City to visit Grandma O’Keefe, 255 E. 188th St, Bronx.

1964 – Spent summer working at The Dallas Morning News in the Advertising Service    
            Department.

1965 – Started summer school at the University of Texas in Austin.

1966 – Camp staff, Camp Tom Wooten, Austin.
            Started work at The Dallas Morning News in August.


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