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

Comic Strips in Dallas Newspapers - 1963




Looking again at the comic strips I grew up with, I'm touched that part of the attraction was they seemed to be a step back in time.  Just reading their names transport you to another era - Mickey Finn, Steve Canyon, Li'l Abner, Prince Valiant, Nancy, Terry and the Pirates, Gasoline Alley, Orphan Annie and Snuffy Smith.

I also think their small size made them very intimate, transforming you to another world with stories and characters each very different from each other.

B.C., Peanuts, Dennis the Menace, Judge Parker and Blondie still appear daily in the Dallas Morning News.  The heroic Prince Valiant still continues his journeys in the Sunday edition.

Comics - Dallas Morning News - November 22, 1963

BC by Johhny Hart
Judge Parker by Paul Nichols
Steve Roper by Saunders and Overgard
Peanuts by Schultz
Six Baghy by RB Hackney
Mickey Finn by Lank Leonard
Steve Canyon by Milton Caniff
Kerry Drake by Alfred Andriola
Mary Worth by Saunders and Ernst
Buenos Dios by Edwardo Y Hutchison
Li'l Abner by Al Capp
Penny by Harry Haenigsen
Rex Morgan MD by Dal Curtis
Apartment 3-G by Alex Kotzky
Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller
Pogo by Walt Kelly
Mark Trail by Ed Dodd
David Crane by Creig Flessel

Single panel - Strictly Business by McFeather, Dennis the Menace by Hank Ketchum

Sunday Comics - Dallas Morning News - November 24, 1963

Peanuts by Schultz
Our New Age by Athelstan Spilhaus
Rex Morgan MD by Dal Curtis
Mary Worth by Saunders and Ernst
Judge Parker by Paul Nichols
Mickey Finn by Lank Leonard
Steve Roper by Saunders and Overgard
Kerry Drake by Alfred Andriola
Apartment 3-G by Alex Kotzky
Steve Canyon by Milton Caniff
Li'l Abner by Al Capp
BC by Johhny Hart
Prince Valiant by Harold r. Foster
Tales from the Great Book Bible Stories
Pogo by Walt Kelly
Dennis the Menace by Hank Ketchum
Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller
Doctor Funshine by Bill Weber - Science Experiments
Grin and Bear It by Curtis
Penny by Harry Haenigsen

Comics in the Dallas Times Herald - November 21, 1963

Flintstones
Smidgens
Dohdi
Terry and the Pirates
Andy Capp by Smythe
Dick Tracy by Chester Gould
Archie by Bob Montana
Miss Peach by Mel Lazarus
On Stage by Leaonard Starr
Rip Kirby by John Prentig
The Ryatts
Dan Flagg by Don Sherwood
Mutt and Jeff by Al Smith
Snuffy Smith by Fred Lassweh
Juliet Jones by Stan Drake
Gasoline Alley
Orphan Annie by Harold Grey
Blondie by Chic Young

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