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

Comic Books - What we all Read



Comic books were part of growing up, but I never had a stack of them.  I would go up to Wrigley's Super Market and read two or three of them every couple of days.

If you stayed too long at the magazine stand, the Manager would chase you out.  At ten cents, I thought they weren't worth the money.  For ten cents, you could buy two day-old donuts at Lone Star or a cooling cherry at Rexall's.

I liked Superman and Batman, but also Aquaman and Green Lantern, the guy who could stretch his arms and legs, Stretch Armstrong,  Mandrake the Magician, Blackhawk, Little Lulu and Donald Duck.

The opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark comes from a Scrooge McDuck comic book "The Seven Cities of Cibola."

As an adult I started collecting "The Phantom" comic books - now becoming a large collection.  My son Adam got me started on The Phantom and I just continued.

From Donald Duck:
Scrooge McDuck, his rich uncle
Gladstone Gander, Donald's worthless cousin
Cyro Gearloose, his tireless inventor
Huey, Dewey and Louie - his nephews who were also members of the Junior Woodchucks
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