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

Local Addresses - If I Found an Address, I Wrote it Down



Lakewood Hotel, 1818 Abrams TA-4-1601

Glen Falls Insurance Company, 1812 Young Street RI-8-1293

Jack Ruby Office, 3508 Oak Lawn Avenue LA-8-4775

Statler Hilton, Commerce RI-7-2011

Wi? Lounge, 1105 S. Beacon 214-823-1221 DYP79
The Log Tavern, 3710 Samuell 214-381-9037 DYP79
both found under the heading "Cocktail Lounges"

Lipton Staple Company, 2619 McKinney TA-4-6354

John Poe, 10458 Ferguson Road DA-7-4300

Stamps Baxter Music and Publishing Company, 209 S. Tyler WH-2-1158

C.L. "Lum" Lewis, 2115 Gus Thomasson Road DA-7-2272

Dmitri Vail, 4245 Armstrong Parkway LA-1-0851

Lingo Lumber Company, 5116 Harry Hines Boulevard ME-1-6770
across from the City Council Hospital

Warren Angus Ferris Cemetery, caddy corner from St. Francis Avenue and Alex Sanger Elementary School

Casa Linda Animal Clinic, 11434 Garland Road DA-1-0567

S&H Green Stamp Redemption Store, 10926 Garland Road DA-1-1313
S&H stood for Sperry and Hutchins
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