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

Sports

Baseball Games - Three most memorable events:

1.  Brooklyn Dodgers win World Series 1955
2.  Don Larson pitches a perfect game.
3.  Dodgers move to Los Angeles - give up my interest in baseball.

Football Games
1.  Navy plays UT.  Roger Staubach - Quarterback
2.  Ice Bowl - when Cowboys played the Green Bay Packers in Green Bay.  Drove up to Sherman with Oates to watch in the high school auditorium.  The days of the “Cowboy Antenna.”
3.  UT upsets Arkansas December 6, 1969.

Darrell Royal won his first National title in 1963 for the Cotton Bowl Showdown with Navy and Roger Staubach.  Royal noticed that Navy crowded the line, so he devised a play called “The Throwback” that put sophomore Phil Harris in the spotlight. After catching 6 passes all season, Harris caught 3 passes for 157 yards and 2 touchdowns in a 28-6 win.

Football Texas Quarterback James Street goes on to rally past Notre Dame 21-17 in the 1970 Cotton Bowl.
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