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 - Wyatt's and Luby's, with Miss Inez on the Organ


Wyatt Cafeterias has acquired 17 Luby's Cafeteria locations in Dallas and elsewhere.  6 Luby's are in Dallas, but this does not include the Lochwood location.

Luby's Cafeteria was established in Dallas in 1929 by Harry Luby.

Company founder Bob Luby and Charles R. Johnston started the chain in a downtown basement near the Riverwalk in San Antonio.

Highland Park Cafeteria tried to expand in the 1980s but fizzled.  They closed 5 cafeterias, down to its original location on Knox Street and a second unit in Casa Linda.

More than 70 years ago, Harry Luby opened one of the nations first cafeterias in Springfield, MO in 1911.  In 1920 the Luby family patriarch brought his buffet-style restaurant to Texas, opening a cafeteria.

Robert M. Luby, Harry's son and Charles R. Johnston founded the present company in 1947.

"We always judges preachers by one important standard: A good one got you out in time to "beat the crowd" at Luby's."
--Steve Blow, Dallas Morning News.  9-23-06

"The ultimate homage to Luby's may be in the animated TV series "King of the Hill," a send up to all things Texas.  You know Hank's niece, Luanne?  Her full name is Luanne Platter."
--Steve Blow, Dallas Morning News.  9-27-06

The Killeen massacre occurred at Luby's in 1991.

The 1911 cafeteria started by Harry Luby was called New England Dairy Lunch.

House of Plenty - the Rise, Fall and Revival of Luby's Cafeterias.  Carol Dawn and Carol Johnston.  UT Press, 2006.


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