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

Restaurants - Neighborhood: 15 Listings

Rexall's Drugs - 10301 Gus Thomasson Rd.  DA-8-4391.
Probably the first place I ever ordered food was at the soda counter at Rxall's Drugs at the corner of Ferguson Road and Gus Thomasson Road.

We could get grilled cheese sandwiches with two circular pickle slices for 25 cents and a cherry lime for a dime.

Fred's Barbecue - 2457 Gus Thomasson Rd.  DA-7-5083
Next door to Rexall's in the Casa View Shopping Center.  It met my definition of "OK Barbecue," not terribly bad but not terribly good either.  Food was served cafeteria-style.

I always tried to order a Po' Boy sandwich with lots of "ends," or the dark parts of the beef, with a side ramekin of sauce.

The Po' By came with a french roll and not a bun.  I still like barbecue today with a french roll and sauce for dipping.  "A little more of the ends, please."

Casa Linda Lodge Charcoal Steak - 10800 Garland Rd.  DA-7-2900

Wyatt's Cafeteria - 2205 Gus Thomasson DA-7-7414
By 1964 Wyatt;s had 5 locations including Casa View.  When Wyatts was bought out by Luby's, the Casa View location became called Pat Luby's Cafeteria, not affiliated with the larger Luby's chain.

"Miss Inez" Teddlie played the organ at dinner time for many years at Pat Luby's.

Orlie's - 10349 Ferguson Road.
Located at the end of the Casa View Shopping Center, soon to be across the alley from the Casa View library, which opened in 1964.  In 1959 this location was called Bob's Malt Shop.

Orlie's was Greek-owned.  I loved the hamburgers here with their finely-sliced onions grilled with Green seasoning.

I never really ate that many hamburgers growing up.  I was always on the brink of a major acne break-out.  I thought the grease in the burgers and french fried encouraged the acne, so most of the time I ate ham and cheese.

The Dairyette - 978 Ferguson Road.  DA-7-9903.
Opened in 1955 in Oates Plaza.  Has been the site of a movie shooting.

Still the same style vinyl seats inside with cold frosted root beer bugs and metal trays for car hop service.

Charco's #2 - 10218 Garland Rd. DA-1-2903.
On Garland Road right next to Prince of Hamburgers.

#1 6375 E. Mockingbird Ln TA-1-5066
#3 5300 Lemmon Ave. LA-8-0888

Jane Parrish Voight remembers the hot apricot fried pies with powdered sugar.  You were either a Charco's fan or a Prince fan.  You couldn't be both.

I was in the Charco's group, mostly because Marvin Patterson's older brother worked there and would give us free cokes after Friday or Saturday night football games.  Mavin and I were in the school band together.

Prince of Hamburgers - 10226 Garlabd Rd. DA-7-9906
Next door to Charco's.  Felt more like a franchise, but their hamburgers tasted better.  Always the more popular place.

Doug Prince opened Prince of Hamburgers in 1927.  Only one location remains at 5200 Lemmon Ave.  214-526-9081.

Evans Circle Grill - 3701 Buckner Blvd.  214-324-4140.
When it opened, there really was a circle at the intersection of BUckner Blvd and old Hwy 80.

It was the kid of place your parents went to.  Now we've become older than our parents were when we were young.

Hong Kong Restaurant - 9055 Garland Rd. 214-328-2320
Opened in 1958.  These days open 7 days 11am - 9:15 pm  That 9:00 to :15 must be the rush hour. Good choices, best homemade egg rolls in town, Sesame Chicken and Hong Kong Cantonese Chow Mein.

My mother's favorite Chinese restaurant.

Anchor Delicatessen - 2266 Gus thomasson
Hot Corned Beef, Kosher Zion Products of Chicago.  White Rocker 10/2/58.

Hy + Stan Delicatessen - 11206 Garland Rd. Da-7-5252
Serving the Ranger - a double-decker sandwich of chopped liver, pastrami, corned beef, lettuce and Russian dressing.  Dallas Yellow Pages, 1963.

El Fenix Restaurant - 255 Casa Linda Plaza, DA-7-6173
El Fenix started in Dallas in 1918.  The flagship restaurant is still located at 1601 McKinney.  214-747-6643.

 Keller's Drive In - 1150 S. Buckner Blvd.  EX-8-7321.
Jack Keller opened the original Keller's Drive-In on Samuells Blvd in 1950.  He lost his lease in 2000.

He opened the Harry Hines drive-in in 1959.  It's still serving food and drink at 10554 Harry Hines.  214-357-3572.

He opened the East Northwest Hwy location in 1965, which is still going strong today (2012) serving motorcycle groups and numerous car clubs.  6537 E. Northwest Hwy.  214-368-1209.

His son ran Keller's Cactus Jacks on Lemmon Ave for 20 years until he recently retired. 

Another sit-down Keller's is located at 10226 Garland Road.  214-319-6060.

 Youngblood's Fried Chicken #11 - 2512 Gus Thomasson DA-7-0360.
Famous for its rolls and honey dispensers on the table, rumor has that its chicken recipe was used to start Church's Fried Chicken.  For many years had a restaurant at the Old Mill Inn at the State Fair.

The franchises arrive!

 Kentucky Fried Chicken - 10806 Garland Rd.  DA-7-4435
Advertises a 9-piece "thrift box," (this was before the bucket) for $1.69.  The White Rocker. Nov. 1964.

My only Pleasant Grove listing:

Griff's Hamburgers - 1050 S. Buckner Blvd.  214-398-7321.
On our long trips from Casa View to Camp Wisdom on Buckner Blvd, we always stopped at Griff's to buy a hamburger for 15 cents and a bag of fries to fortify ourselves on the hour-long journey.  Today, with the new highways and interstates, the trip takes about 20 minutes.

Luby's Cafeteria - 106 Lochwood Village.  DA-7-6176.
In Lochwood Shopping Center, at the corner of Garland and Jupiter.


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