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

Medicines - What's in Your Medicine Chest? Here's Mine....



Smith Brothers Cough Drops

The two Smith brothers shown on the package were often called Trade and Mark, but their real names were William and Andrew.  Andrew’s picture was above the word “Mark “ and William’s picture was above the word “Trade.”  The two brothers helped found the Smith Brothers in Poughkeepsie New York in 1817.

Luden’s Wild Cherry Cough Drops

William H. Luden incorporated his cough drop and confectionary company in 1881.  He made his fame as the developer of the menthol cough drop.

Mentholatum Deep Heat Rub

Alka Seltzer – “Plop, plop, fizz, fix…Oh what a relief it is.”

Dr. West toothbrushes

Colgate Toothpaste

Menin – Right Guard Deodorant

Inhaler

Cough Syrup

Bayer Aspirin


When you got sick, you were given chicken soup.  For upset stomachs, saltine crackers and ginger ale.
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