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

Dallas Radio Stations - Early 1960's



When radio stations started in the teens, station call letters were three letters, starting with the letter "W."  WRR was one of the earliest stations west of the Mississippi River.  it lives on as the city-owned classical music station on 101.1 FM, with studios at Fair Park.

Dallas had a strong tradition of DJs.  Hugh Lampman had a show I believe on KIXL.  I forget the DJ with the "dulcet tones" who broadcasted the American Airlines Music 'Til Dawn program.

I probably listened to WRR most of the time, especially Jim Lowe, mentioned later in the blog.  Kenny Sargent was the morning DJ (WR 12/4/58).

The DJs with the most energy were the rock n roll DJs in KBOX 1480 and KLIF 1190.  On August 27, 1970 KLIF had a day-long "family portrait" of the swinging 60s bringing back the on-the-air personalities.

Ken Dow, now the National Director of Operations for McLendon Properties, said the disc jockeys will play period music, commercial jingles, station promotions, and news introductions.

From 6 to 9 am, Charlie Brown and Irving Harrigan will be reunited.  The original Charlie was Jack Woods and Irving was the "nom de radio" of Ron Chapman.

Johnny Dark, aka Johnny Borders, will be heard from 9-12 noon.

The Jim O'Brien, in reality Jim Oldman, will be on from  12 until 3 PM.

Deano Day, who also goes by Ordean Moen, will be heard from 3 until 6PM.

Russ Knight, the Weird Beard, returns from 6 to 9 PM.  Behind the beard is Russ Moore.

Dale Payne, known as Jimmy Rabbit, will be on from 9 until 12 midnight.

Dallas Radio Stations in the Early 1960s

AM Stations

WFAA - WBAP 570 ABC News
KSKY - 660
KPCN- 730 Dawn to Dusk
WFAA - WBAP 820 NBC and Southwest Central News
KNOK - 970
KIXL - 1040 Sunup - Sunset
KRLD - 1080
KVIL - 1150 4 am to Sunset
KLIF - 1190 rock N Roll
KFJZ - 1270
WRR - 1310
KBOX - 1480 Rock N Roll

FM Stations

KSKY - 91.3
KRLD - 92.5
WBAP - 96.3
KFJZ - 97.1
WFAA - 97.9
WRR - 101.1
KVIL - 103.7
KIXL - 104.5
KMAP - 105.3


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  1. DenisMarch 8, 2019 at 7:57 PM

    I'm looking for these Dallas/FW radio transmissions. Do you have any of these? Thanks.

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  2. DenisMarch 8, 2019 at 7:58 PM

    Look for the post starting with "Would be interesting to get those from NARA. All on big audio reels. I think these were provided to Warren Commission."

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  3. UnknownOctober 23, 2020 at 8:54 AM

    Twuz really cool -we thoght,to drive arond by KLIF east of downown back then and see or favorite DJ . earlysixtys

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