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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, September 17, 2013

1950's Food Time Line



1950       Dunkin' Donuts and Sugar Pops sweetened breakfast.  Whataburger is founded in Corpus Christi.

1951       If you know how to turn on an oven, you can bake Swanson beef, chicken and turkey pot pies.


1952        Life is getting easier with the automatic coffee pot, Saran Wrap, frozen fish sticks, Lipton onion soup mix and Kellogg's Frosted Flakes.  Colonel Sanders starts franchising his secret recipe for fried chicken.

1953        C.S. Swanson and Sons produces too many turkeys and puts some of them into single-compartment aluminum along with dressing.  The march of progress continues with Cheez Whiz and Lawry's Spaghetti Sauce.  But there's no reason to cook at all if you can go out to one of the first McDonald's franchises.

1954        More than 25 million TV dinners are eaten in front of 33 million TV sets in American living rooms.  There's no reason to frequently open your color-coordinated oven to check on the self-baking turkey.

1955        Campbell's develops the indispensable Green Bean Casserole Bake recipe.

1956        Kaiser Aluminum introduces the first aluminum can to compete with tinned steel cans.


1957       Tang, the orange breakfast beverage crystals, are introduced (eventually to quench the thirsts of astronauts in outer space).  If Sweet n' Low sugar substitute doesn't take off all the pounds you want, use Pam Cooking Oil Spray.

1958        Rice-A-Roni, tator tots and Lipton instant tea hit the grocery store.  International House of Pancakes makes its debut.

Source:  50 Years of Home Cooking.  Texas Co-Op Power, 2006.

All foods and restaurants are still with us in 2006.
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