People, places,and things that mean different things to different people
For those who grew up in the fifties and sixties in East Dallas here are a few treasured memories.
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SCHOOL MEMORIES
Hattie Fowler, Sarah Carmichael, Mr. Withrow, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Hill, Mr. Blair, Mr. Pitts, and a principal nicknamed "Chrome Dome". 15-cent parking in the BA parking lot.
"Officer Friendly" the BA neighborhood cop. Film room, gym lockers and green hamburgers. Chasing Martha Daniel around in her Biscayne, Vicki Vance in her dad's Thunderbird or Linda Sharpe in her red '64 Impala. Driver's Ed, pep rallys, detention hall, both high school and jr high football games, Mrs. Wilbanks. Cougars, Wildcats, Highlanders and Warriors. Sweet Dreams of the Drill Teams: The Belles, The Lassies and Gaston's Drill team The Shy Annes
Study Hall -- Did ya know that Ms. Weaver and and Ms. Crossno were sisters?
Elementary schools: Reinhardt, Hexter, Casa View, Gill, Reilly, Conner, and probably a few others.
I got this idea to list the teachers when talking with Johnny Peeler the other day. So just for you special Hexter people here are a few special names
Mrs. Pots 1st grade
Mrs. Andres 2nd grade
Mrs. Camp 3rd grade
Mrs. Addington 4th grade
Mrs. Baker 5th grade
Mr. Collins 6th grade
Mrs Banks 7th grade
Mrs. Seal PE teacher
Mr. Redd gym teacher
PLACES WE'LL NEVER FORGET:
Bob-O-Links, Jupiter Bowl, Cabell's Convenience Stores.
Southern Maid Donuts in Casa Linda vs Lone Star Donuts in Casa View.
Rexall Drugs in Casa View vs Skillern's in Casa Linda for school supplies.
The Rack and Cue, Flag Pole Hill, Forest Hollow Country Club, The Big
Thicket, The Dreyfus Club, Winfrey Point, Vickery Park, McCree Pool, The
Harry Stone Pool, The White Rock Bath House.
Ashburn's ice cream (where we'd go after the movie at Casa Linda Theater for 5 cent cones).
The Casa View Country Club (with a big pool and a 9-hole goat pasture of a
golf course where you could play all day for a $1 - it's now Eastfield College Campus).
The Devil's Bowl, Green Valley Raceway,Caddo Mills and Circle Drag.
Neighborhood shopping centers: Oates Plaza, Lochwood, Casa View, Casa Linda, Lake Highlands,
Nearby shopping centers: Big Town, Medallion Center and Lakewood.
Stores: Gibson's Discount Center, Spartan-Atlantic, Fed Mart, Dads and Lads, The Varsity Shop, Atlantic Mills, The Melody Shop, McShan's Florist, Cabel's Dairy, Titches in Lochwood, The Cinderella Shop, Poise N Ivy, Bobbie Brooks coordinates for girls, A&P Grocery in Casa View, John Cobb Pharmacy Soda Fountain M.E.Moses, Mott's, Wyatt's Grocery, A&P, A&A Liqueur HI-FI Records at Mockingbird and Abrams, Sterlings, Cooks Discount Store, Piggley Wiggley, White's Grocery and The Casa Linda Record Shop with private listening booths where you could hear the latest tunes.
At The Movies: The Casa Linda Theater ( remember the cry room ), The Lakewood, The Wilshire, The Majestic, The Palace, The Tower, The Arcadia, The Granada, The Esquire.
Drive In Theaters: The Buckner, Casa View, Garland Road, Town and Country,
Lone Star and The Gemini. And remember driving across town to the notorious Twin East Drive In?
The Cellar, The Blue Top Motel, Vavra's Bakery, The Lang Motel, Harry Stone
Recreation Center, Cox Cemetery.
THINGS WE DID (BUT PROBABLY SHOULDN'T HAVE):
Drag racing on LBJ (where you could not get a ticket). Parking at White Rock
Lake. "Rat racing". Watching "the submarine races". Gluing Mr. Phillips Volkswagen to the school
parking lot. Taking trips to "boys town" in Mexico. Climbing the White Rock
Lake Smokestack. Leaving our keys in our cars at the BA parking lot. Making
out at the drive-in. Racing on the "3M Drag". Using carefully forged ID
cards. Sneaking our buddies in the drive-in in the trunk of the car. Smoking
behind the lunchroom. Sneaking booze in the Studio Club and LouAnn's. Drag
races in front of BA. Illegal swimming below the spillway. Laying on our
backs on the runway at Love Field while the jets were landing (before they
put the fences up). Cutting class. Skipping school. Ditching detention hall. Show time at the Studio Club
EATING AND DRINKING:
Bob White's Barbecue. The Hi De Ho Root Beer Stand. Fred's Barbecue and
DeGeorge's Barbecue both in Casa Linda. The Orange Inn. The Dairyette. Kip's (Home of The Big Boy).
Hamburger Hangouts:
Charco's, The Prince of Hamburgers, The Pig Stand, Krystal, Hardee's,
Griff's, The Casa View Jack In The Box, The Ferguson Road Dairy Queen. The
Lake Highlands Dairy Queen. Goffs in Lochwood.
Some other restaurants we went to:
Bedford's Steak House, Brockles (home of the "special dressing"), Here 'Tis Hamburgers, Joe Moseley's Barbecue, Brownies on East Grand, Shakeys Pizza, Pancake House in Northlake Shopping Center, The Circle Inn, Lucas B&B, Dobbs House, Youngblood's Fried Chicken in Casa View, El Fenix, J's Cafeteria, Wyatt's Cafeteria in Casa Linda, Luby's in Lochwood, Pops Snack Stand at White Rock Lake, Poco Taco, Jamie's Hamburgers, The Zuider Zee.----
REMEMBER WHEN?
Jack Nicklaus won the PGA at DAC country club, 1963.
Jimmy Reed performed at Teen Timers for a 25 cent admission.
Telephone numbers had a word prefix (like Davis 3933, Broadway 9-4738, etc.)
The State Fair featured: Elsie The Cow, The Cotton Club Revue, Fletcher's
Corny Dogs, Jack's French Fries, The Ride-N-Laff, The Comet Coaster, The
Cuddle Up, The Bubble Bounce and The Wild Mouse.
Trying to decide if your fake ID was good enough to get you into either The
Colony Club or The Theater Lounge.
Beatles invade Dallas
Remembered names: Boo Allen (his legal name), Tommy Nichols, Larry Smith and his Corvair Spyder, David Rash and the Rash Spirits, Miss Nap in the school office.
Essential equipment (grade school): Peashooters, PF Fliers, Cherry Bombs,
M-80 firecrackers. Lee jeans. "Big Mo" pencils and "We Draw To Write" writing tablets. A bike.
Essential equipment (high school): Jade East and English Leather. Bass
Weejuns, madras shirts and wheat jeans. Cartridge pens. A car.---
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO:
Green Stamps, Hi-Fi's, metal ice cubes trays with levers, mimeograph paper, Beanie and Cecil, roller-skate keys, cork pop guns, cap guns, Studebakers, Hudsons, washtub wringers, The Fuller Brush Man, reel-to-reel tape recorders, Howdy Dowdy, 45 RPM records, candy cigarettes, wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside, soda machines that dispensed glass bottles, aluminum drinking glasses, coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes, Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum, home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers, telephone party lines, newsreels and cartoons before the movie.
STUFF WE TREASURED:
Tinkertoys, Erector Sets, The Fort Apache Play Set, Lincoln Logs, 5 cent
packs of baseball cards with that awful pink slab of bubble gum, penny
candy, Jiffy Pop Popcorn. Grape-ette and Nehi sodas, Christmas Tree Forts.
Fizzies and Lik-M-Aid, Metal taps on your shoes,
Cherry mash, cherry sloe gin, cherry cokes, cherry-red '32 Deuce Coupes.
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN:
19-cent-a-gallon gasoline at the TexGas on Ferguson road or The Hudson on Garland Road by White Rock Lake
Miniature golf at The Spillway and at Lovers Lane & Greenville Avenue.
The "Old Store" near Reinhardt School.
RANDOM MEMORIES:
Dancing "The Low Life", "The Dog" and "The Gator".
Going over to that special persons house after school.
Signs reading: "Thanks for helping O.L. Nelms make another million dollars."
"The Lakewood Rats".
Goss on Ross ("The Tradin' Hoss") Brunson Motors
The KLIF flag pole sitter - Buddy McGregor.
US Kids racing team.
Mike Motley's '32 deuce coupe.
Dick Chaplin's Dance Studio
Studio club drink chips.The Lady of the Lake. Poodle Skirts. Quija Boards. Hoola Hoop. YMCA Day Camp, Flickling Schools, Madame Alexander Dolls, White Rock Airport, Tenison Golf Course, Crawford School of Dance, Touring Mrs Baird's Bread Plant and Dr Pepper on Mockingbird
Mr. Cats.
Cat's Caravan on WRR playing lots of Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin
Hopkins, Bo Diddley, etc.
Orange Julius.
The Lang Motel on Garland Road.
Rusty Everett's 56 Chevy.
Hatfield's 426 Plymouth.
Gerry Grey doing burnouts in front of BA.
Larry Olsen popping his leg with his cupped right hand while swinging his arm and
carrying his books under his left armpit with his other hand (very cool).
A once-a-year game between the Hill Highlanders and the Gaston Warriors for
neighborhood junior high bragging rights.
The soda fountains in Mott's Five and Dime and Skillern's Drugs in Casa Linda.
Sunset Bay at White Rock Lake.
Y.Y. Wickie on 7-Eleven commercials.
Saturday kid shows (matinees) at the Casa Linda theatre with 20 cartoons and
a double feature for 25 cents.
The 65-cent Wednesday dinner special at El Fenix in Casa Linda (1965).
Watching Kenny and the Kasuals practice on the second floor of Kenny's
house.
Drinking a "Big Shake" at Skillerns in Casa Linda.
Fair Day
Six Flags
Circle Drag
Yucca run
Cruising around White Rock Lake in your Car
The John B Mustangs
MUSICAL MEMORIES:
The Studio Club.
The juke box in the BA girls gym.
We remember dances at Dream Aires, Teen Timers, Twilighters, Katz and
Jammers and The Hullabaloo club. Saturday night at Broadway Skateland - a dance called "Broadway Skateland and Sock Hop A-Go-Go".
Friday night dances in the girl's gym were called "Victory Dances" whether
the team won or lost.
Denny Freeman. Scotty McKay. Jimmy Velvit. Jimmie Vaughan's band The
Pendulums playing a before-school dance in the BA girls gym (1965).
Other clubs and dance venues in Dallas included: LouAnns, Surfer's A Go Go,
The Pirates Nook, The Lamplighter Club, The Players Club.
TV MEMORIES:
Watching the "Indian Chief" test pattern on TV until cartoons finally came on.
Art Grindel's Used Cars ("I Want To Sell YOU A Car!").
Local kid shows starring Cap'n Swabby, Mickey and Amanda, Icky Twerp and
Uncle Tiny.
Mickey Mouse Club
"Sump'n Else" starring Ron Chapman.
Dialing for Dollars.
National Saturday morning shows like: Flash Gordon, Sky King, Fury ("The Story of A Horse and the Boy Who Loved Him") and Johnny Jupiter.
Radio Guys: Russ "The Weird Beard" Knight, Jimmy Rabbit, Charlie and
Harrigan, Ken and Granny. They were heard on KLIF "The Mighty 1190" and KBOX 1480. Plus "Old Jim Lowe" on WRR, and of course, Wolf Man Jack blasting out at 50,000 watts on "XERF, Ciudad Acuna, Coahilla Mexico." Brother AL