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

Magazines – Family Magazines from Life to National Geographic


We subscribed to the weekly Life Magazine from the time we arrived in Texas in 1954.  The family subscribed to Reader’s Digest which we all read and Kiplinger’s Changing Times, which my Dad read.  It offered financial and investment advice.

When I turned eleven, my parents bought me a subscription to National Geographic.  In those days you had to be recommended by someone to become a member of National Geographic.  Your membership dues were the cost of your subscription.

At eleven I also started getting Boy’s Life Magazine through the Boy Scouts, which I read cover to cover.  

Starting with Pedro Says – a somewhat advice column given by Pedro, the magazine’s “spokes-burro.”  I read all the stories, especially looking forward to the graphics section in the middle.


Mother also received Reader’s Digest Condensed Books, which featured five novels in an abridged format and came quarterly.
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