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

Lake Highlands Shopping Village - The Second Shopping Center

Lake Highlands Shopping Village opens in December of 1948.  It’s located in the 700 block of North Buckner Blvd.  The shopping center has a large sign along with seven businesses.

Hogue Food Store No. 1
Village Cleaners No. 3
Iva + Kay Beauty and Lingerie Shop No. 4
J.M. Tuttle (realtor) No. 6
Hale’s Variety Store No. 7
Lake Highlands Pharmacy No. 9
Lake Highlands Service Stations - 710 Buckner
Humber - Esso Extra

The White Rocker 12/2/48

L.A. Spears and H.M. Curtis are the owners of the Lake HIghlands Pharmacy.  Spears operated his first business, Spears Pharmacy, in 1937.  They both opened Wilshire Pharmacy in 1946 and sold it recently.  They are also the present owners of Pleasant Grove Pharmacy.

The White Rocker 12/9/48

A new subdivision, Lake Park Estates, are offering homes from $18, 500 to $25,000 on a rolling 100 acre plot to feature 209 lots, with frontages ranging from 100 to 150 feet and depths from 150 to 200 feet.  It’s located at the intersection of Buckner Blvd. and Garland Road, and is bounded by Peavy Rd and Dixon Branch.
The White Rocker. 12/9/48
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  1. UnknownDecember 18, 2013 at 12:38 PM

    Lake Highlands Phamacy was owned by Ogle Maynard for many years in the 50s and 60s. It was on the corner in the original strip and later moved to new portion of the center.

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