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.

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Brother Dave Gardener



Baby and the Motorcycle, Rejoice Dear Hearts Side 1, Are You Going to be Here When John Gets Here?  Kick Thy Own Self Side 1, James Lewis, you get away from that wheelbarrow.

Rejoice Dear Hearts
Papa, you ain’t going to shoot Bambi.
We can think about a whole lot more than you can get
“Some people fear the darkness and others run from the light.
It is the thing that sustains the two concepts that we are searching for.

Albums

Rejoice Dear Hearts
Kick Thy Own Self
Ain’t That Weird.  Starting to get political.
Did You Ever?
All Seriousness Aside
It must have bugged Norman Vincent Peale something terrible that the 10 Commandments are all negative.  Thou Shalt Not, before you even think about doing it.
Pi are square.  No you got that wrong.  Pie is round, cornbread is square.



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  1. Craig WeeksJuly 10, 2013 at 11:24 AM

    In Dave Gardener's David and Goliath routine his brothers brought little David some "after sippin', dippin', and flippin' snuff". Do you have any idea what that was?

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