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

Events and Activities - Where I Can't Figure Out Where to Put it



Steele's Free Circus
Coming to Casa View June 14-17, 1961 - sponsored by the merchants of Casa View, featuring Stormy the baby elephant, many cages of small jungle animals, authentic circus wagons pulled by beautiful circus horses.  6/8/61

Deric Edgar Men's Wear 10315 Ferguson Road
Casa View Village.  11/9/61

Gary Bradley's Chicken Coop

Order of DeMolay of the Edwin J. Kiest Lodge 4/27/61

1957 Sputnik

The Tornado in Oak Cliff 1957

Anxiously awaiting the arrival of Christmas Catalogs from Sears, J.C. Penney and Montgomery Ward.

Playing cards clipped to your bicycle

Mad Magazine started in 1952.  Seemed to be the perfect reading material for boys 9 to 11.

Lynn Lowden NBLE 1961 Military Princess WR 2/2/61, 1963 Military Queen, BA 1963 annual

Domino Sugar people have a habit of sending loads of small cubes for use in hospitals and other public places.  Written on the back of each individually wrapped cube is the name of the recipient establishment.  At Baptist Hospital, some careful worker looked at the cubes before they were distributed.  Printed neatly on the back of each cube were these words "Theater Lounge, Burlesque at its Best."  WR 3/23/63

Lakeview Christian will dedicate a chapel in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Carver . Peavy WR 3/1/62

Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike opened 1957

Presto Charge - Rainbow Tickets Preston State Bank

Saint Marks Presbyterian Church 9999 Ferguson Road DA-4-4741

The Santa Fe Railroad line was the demarcation between zip codes 18 and 28, hy 1963 ib 752 +_

Lingo Lumber Company 5116 Harry Hines Boulevard ME-1-6730, since 1905


Ice Cream Truck
Popsicles you had to split because they melted too fast.  Oh the choices - Drumsticks, Fudgesicles or Eskimo Pies.

School Crossing Guards
Their white belts were the coolest.

The Lunchroom at Reinhardt
Boys sat at one table, girls at another.  You would pile up your school.  Most guys had a World War II military field pack.  Most of the time I took my lunch, but always bought the mashed potatoes or chocolate chip cookies which came in small bowls.

Birthday Parties

Magic and the Magician's Stage
My sister became my assistant.  Ching Ling Foo and Wan - the name was a take-off on Chung Ling Joo - "The Chinese Conjurer"

Valentine's Day Cards
Had a white paper bag which you decorate along with your name taped to the wall


In the summertime you could hear the sounds of the cars running at The Devil's Bowl on Jim Miller Road.
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