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, September 17, 2013

1960's Food Time Line




1960        The Granny Smith apple reaches the US shores from New Zealand, and Sprite makes its debut.

1961        The year brings the Teflon-covered frying pan, kiwi fruit and Life cereal.  Ninnie L. Baird, who  started baking Mrs. Baird's bread on a wood-fired stove in Fort Worth in 1908, dies at age 91.

1962        Canadian Edward A. Asselberg invents instant mashed potatoes and Taco Bell is founded in Downey, California.  The one-billionth McDonald's hamburger is served on the Art Linkletter Show.

1963        The self-cleaning oven saves time that can now be devoted to Weight Watchers.  Julia Child debuts her cooking show on PBS.  In 2001, her kitchen becomes a permanent display in the Smithsonian.  Aluminum beverage cans now come with convenient pull-tabs.

1964        The plastic milk container is introduced commercially.  French farmers found Yoplait yogurt as a cooperative, but kids prefer Pop-Tarts for breakfast.

1965        Cool Whip begins competing with whipping cream.  Gatorade is developed to quench the thirst of Florida football players.  The Pillsbury Doughboy appears in his first TV commercial.
1966        The compartmentalized aluminum TV tray is given a place of honor in the Smithsonian Museum.

1968        McDonald's introduces the Big Mac.  It costs 49 cents.  Pringles stacks chips in a can.

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

All foods and restaurants are still with us in 2012.
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