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

White Rock Shopping Center - The First East of White Rock Creek


I knew there was a store serving the Reinhardt community when the railroad came through in 1885, but I had always thought Casa Linda was the earliest shopping center.

According to the July 31, 1947 article in The White Rocker, White Rock Shopping Center opened in 1946 to serve “the fastest growing section of Dallas.”  It is located on Garland Road from Old Gate Lane to Ocala, which is soon be cut through by the City of Dallas.
All addresses are on Garland Road.  In 1946 all the phone exchanges were “F2,” which didn’t change until the early 1950s, when they changed to “DA” for Davis.  For example, Casa Linda movie theater was F2-2142.

The shopping center had two service stations.  Ussery (9034) and Manning.

Broadvu Florist F2-1244
Smith’s Cleaners 9014
C+J Hardware and Variety 9004 F2-0107
Clover Farm Store (a grocery store, formerly S.P. Wilson) 9016
Casa Linda Cleaners 9026 F2-1044
Catlett Engineers (heating and air condition) 9020 F2-2683
Youth Center 9018
Casa Lake Wash-O-Matic 9024
Nickie’s Beauty Shop 9018 ½ Garland Rd F2-0016
Gene’s Cafe 9008 F2-1041
C.J. Glenn Company 9022 F2-2649 (realtor)
Warehouse Grocery and Market 9010 (1948).  “Come in and serve yourself.”  
Eggs $0.65 a dozen, bacon $0.57/lb, Folgers, Maxwell House and Chase and Sanburn $0.53/lb.

Eledge Real Estate Co. 9026 F2-0457 replaces Casa Linda Cleaners WR 5-8-48
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