We
didn’t have bus service in Dallas like they do back East. The 60 White Rock Express ran only once an
hour to Downtown. I used the 60 South
which I picked up at the corner of Lingo Lane and Crest Ridge, one block from
my house.
Growing
up students could buy a bus ticket which the driver would punch each time you
used it. The bust would cost only ten
cents. I knew the lost and found
department at the bus headquarters near Downtown well. Twice I left my trumpet on the bus, and once
my glasses. They were always retrieved.
On Saturdays
I would take the White Rock 60 South to Downtown, getting off on Main St at the
beginning of Deep Ellum and window shop the stores, bars and pawn shops and
always spend a couple of hours at Harper’s Used Book Store (see separate
article).
I would return
in the late afternoon, catching the bus in front of the Dallas Public Library
at the corner of Commerce and Harwood, sometimes going across the street to
Deluxe Diner #3 to get a bag of French fries to eat for the 45 minute trip back
home.
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