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

Downtown Stores

Whittle Music Company - 1108 Elm Street  R1-2-5191.

Tandy Leather - Texas Bank Building.  1601 Main.  R1-7-0971.

Baker Hotel - 1400 Commerce. 

Sheraton Hotel - Southland Center.  R1-8-6211.

Brook Mays - 1005 Elm Street. R1-2-6214.
Band instruments, repairs and teaching.

 Commerce Street News Stand - 1610 Commerce.  R1-1-0062.

Magicland - 409 N. Ervay.  R1-7-0789.
Everything for fun, trick, gags, gifts, costumes and disguises.

Crabtree's Electronics - 2606 Ross Ave.  R1-8-1812.

Cabana Motor Hotel of Dallas - 899 Stemmons Freeway.  R1-8-8161.
Bon Vivant Club - elegant dining and dancing.
Nero's Nook - cocktails and entertainment.
Have a Java Coffee Shop

Palace Recreation Club - R1-8-3129
Major pool hall where people played for money.  You had to walk up to the second floor.

Whitehurst Stamp and Coin Company - 1628 Bryan.  R1-8-3871.

 Rex O McGee - 5009 W. Lover's Lane. 
I thought I bought stamps from Rex in Downtown Dallas.

H.L. Greene and Company - 1623 Main Street.  R1-8-4438.

Neiman Marcus - 1618 Main Street.  741-6911.
Bought a pop-up dress in a can for Brenda while working at the Dallas Morning News.  My neighbor in Casa View got fired after working for 20 plus years because she wanted to take off Christmas Eve for her daughter's wedding.  The store wanted her to work.
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  1. UnknownFebruary 7, 2016 at 8:09 PM

    My name is Michael McGee, my father was Rex. Dad's first stamp and coin store was in downtown Dallas at the Baker Hotel. I don't remember when he moved to Lover's Lane. It is possible he only had stamps at the Baker location as they were his first interest.

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