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

Record Stores in Dallas circa 1963



 I never bought 45 rpm records for myself while growing up.  I bought my sister a couple of 45's in the close-out bin at Mott's in Casa View Shopping Center for a dime a piece.

The record albums I bought came from the Doubleday Book and Record Shop and The Melody Shop when it opened a branch in NorthPark Shopping Center.

Dallasan Shop 362 Casa Linda Plaza DA-4-4546
with small sound booths for private listening.

Doubleday Book and Record Shop 1411 Commerce RI-8-2291

The Melody Shop
#1 210 N. Ervay RI-7-7989
#2 1506 Main RI-7-9640
#3 1419 Commerce RI-8-8208
I don't know which of these stores I shopped at.

Casa View Record Shop 2355 Gus Thomasson DA-7-4482
with small sound booths for private listening.

King Record Market 2202 Elm RI-1-0223
largest selection of blues and jazz in Dallas.

Stamps Baxter Music and Printing 201 S. Tyler
fabled gospel music publishing company WH-1-1155
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