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

White Rock Community

White Rock Chamber of Commerce had its beginning in 1952 with a real estate dealer J.T. Parker.  Bruce Alger was the first president.  The White Rock area consisted of only 7.500 residents with the need for better streets, better schools, more churches, a library and other services for the community.

John Maxwell, local retailer, was president of the Community Council when it merged with the Chamber in 1952.  He later became its president in 1959.

The White Rocker has a paid subscription of 20,000.  5/18/62

Mrs. Rozanne Kugler, a 1958 journalism graduate (SMU) is named Assistant Editor for The White Rocker.  6/8/62

Elston Miller, Editorand Publisher of The White Rocker since 1945, retired in February 1962.

William E. Folsom Jr. becomes the new Editor and Publisher of The White Rocker.  3/16/62.

The White Rocker to now move into newly reconstructed offices at 231 Lake Park Shopping Village in Casa Linda at Garland and Buckner Blvd.  The new location is in the J.A. Crow building next door to Tom Thumb Supermarket.

Ground-breaking for the new Edwin K. Kiest Masonic Lodge  WR 9-6-58

Congregation Beth Israel – Will hold regular services October 10 at 8:30 pm at the Wee 

Folks Nursery 1207 Moran at Garland Rd.   WR 10-9-58

Dr. Ben W. Bowden.  10809 Garland Rd.  – My family doctor.

Several stores claim to be the oldest in the White Rock Community:

Oldest business in White Rock is Smith Cleaners.  WR 4/13/61 
   

White Rock Lumber Co. -  9006 San Benito Way.  Oldest White Rock business under original ownership, the Kemps.  Celebrating the beginning of out 20th year.  (1938).  WR 10-9-58

     Sponsel’s Radio and TV Service – 9016 Garland Ave.  Serving White Rock radios and TVs since 1945.  WR 7-17-58

.       McShan Florist – 10311 Garland Rd.  Started in 1948.

In 1938 the first business district was a small grocery store, cleaning and pressing shop in the center of the area.  The following year, 1939, shops began to open in the 9000 block of Garland Road.

Roman Faltejsek, Garland Rd., advertised in The White Rocker.  Feb 8, 1945.

The oldest store winner is of course… Ueckert’s Store, which opened in 1886 after the Santa Fe Railroad built a train station at Reinhardt.  It was the only store between Dallas and Garland.
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