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

Television – Classic Westerns from the 1950s



Hopalong Cassidy                                            1949-1951
Gene Autrey                                                    1950-1956
Roy Rogers                                                      1951-1957
Wild Bill Hickok                                                          1951-1958
Death Valley Days                                           1952-1970
Rin Tin Tin                                                      1954-1959
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp                1955-1961
Tales of the Texas Rangers                              1955-1957
Wagon Train                                                    1957-1965
Have Gun Will Travel                                      1957-1963
Maverick                                                         1957-1962
Tales of Wells Fargo                                        1957-1962
Colt 45                                                             1957-1960
Tombstone Territory                                        1957-1958
Restless Gun                                                    1957-1959
Man Without a Gun                                         1957-1959
The Cisco Kid                                                  1950-1956
The Rifleman                                                   1958-1963
Bonanza                                                          1959-1973

Sky King                                                          1951-1966
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