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, February 14, 2013

Cole's 1959 Directory - Gus Thomasson (June) and Ferguson Roads



2205   Wyatt's
2209   Colony
2211   Sears Roebuck Co./Allstate Insurance
2222   Dal East Pres. Pharmacy
2225   W.T. Grant Co.
2226   Dr. C.L. Ricks/Dr. Patrick Ricks
2232   Fishburn Cleaners
2239   Comini Picture Studio Picture Lane Studio
2240   U.S. Post Office
2243   Wilmark Appliance
2250   Abco TV & Appliance
2251   Tex State Optical
2257   Howell Furniture
2258   Willis Decorating Center
2262   Flowers by Showers
2263   Rowan Carpet & rape
2265   Crane Shoes
2266   Anchor Delicatessen
2267   Hall's Hobby House
2275   Goodyear Service Store
2290   Herod Service Station
2302   Green Service Station
2303   A&P Super Market
2305   Normalee Shops
2307   Casa View Sparkle Laundry
2309   Casa View Paint Store
2310   Wrigley's Super Market
2311   Nachman's Shop, Top to Teen Shop, Community Sewing
2315   Singer Sewing Machine
2319   Copeland's Shoes
2323   Glo Cleaning System
2325   East Dallas Bank
2327   Arcade Barber Shop
           Lone Star Arcade including 2357 Ben Tisinger and Lone Star Insurance (Life)
2355   Casa View Record Shop
2363   Casa Jewelers
2367   M.E. Moses
2403   Ethel Shipp Ladies Apparel
2405   Casa View Cycle Shop
2409   Casa View Bakery
2411   Casa View TV & Radio
2416   Top Value Redemption Center
2417   Benyden Furniture
2420   Stein Clothes
2425   C&S Hardware
2428   Thom McCann Shoe Store
2432   Morris Store #7
2447   Itasca Drapery Shop
2450   T. Pearce Service Station "Ted's" Service Station
2451   Western Auto Stores
2457   Fred's Barbecue
2506   Avery Mays o.
2508   Oak Cliff Savings & Loan
2512   Youngblood's Fried Chicken
2514   J.D. Ranch Store
2418   Hollywood Cleaners
2520   Andrea Young Fashion
2522   Casa View Village Barbers
2524   Casa View Beauty Salon
2526   Griddle System #17
2538   Casa View Camera Center
2540   Vic Maden Jewelers
2542   Mantle Paint enter
2544   Long's Men and Boys
2550   Skillerns
2558   Olan Mills Studio
2560   Amie's Maternity
2562   Ashwanders
2566   Worthington Stores
2572   Sandy's Shoe Store
2580   White Store
2588   Ellen's Shop
2590   Collier's Shoes
2596   J.C Penneys

10251 White Star Laundry & Cleaners
10255 Clement's Insurance Agency
10257 Tango Dairy Mart
10290 Stewart Service Station
10301 Casa View Pharmacy & Rugs
10305 Stanford Service Station
10306 Sinclair Service Station
10310 Seven Eleen
10315 Edgar Morton's Menswear
10318 Wyatt Food Store
10319 Goodman Gifts
10323 Bernard Cohen Real Estate
10327 Cash View Washette
10332 Bell Cleaning
10334 Casa View Barber Shop
10335 Burke TV & Radio
10336 Mademoiselle Beauty
10338 Continental Fidelity Life Ins.
10339 Terie Waterman School of Dance
10342 Williams WK Basket
10344 Brad Jewelers
10345 Walter's Shoe Repair
10349 Bob's Malt Shop
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