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

Summer Camps



Camp is a special time in one's life where you can extend your abilities and try out any new activities.

For Boy Scout camp, I had enough money to buy a stitch-it-yourself moccasin kit, a camp tee shirt and a cold drink every day at the Trading Post.

Boyhaven Camp near Lewisville - 4 weeks - June, 1956
Felt patch was a half-circle with an owl and the Camp name.  Stripes below included: The Outdoor Club, Woodsman Tradesman

Camp Texoma 1958 - Black Jack, August 8-15 T742

Camp Constantin 1959 - Shady Point, August 17-24 T742

Camp Don Harrington 1959 - Canton, Texas, July 6-15, Bob and Dan

Camp Constantin - 1960 - Rocky Lodge, July 12-21

Camp Constantin - 1961 - June 24-30 (Navy cruise July 15-August 21)

Philmont Scout Ranch - 1961 - JLT 12 days, Trail 14 days

Camp Constantin - 1962 - Echo Valley, June 24-30 T543

Camp Wisdom Staff - 1963

Camp Constantin - 1963 - Crow Point with Cleburne Troop

Camp Tom Wooten - 1966 - Austin

1952 - when I was 6, I went to a summer camp sponsored by Mrs. Hanks in Richmond
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