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Re: 80's Flashback: Was this the "Automobile Road" from Dallas to Tyler? - 8 years ago
jim you are correct it woud not fly today, nathan bedford forrest was a confederiate general and still has a large folloing i memphis tnby rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: Tom Thumb locations over the years? - 8 years ago
store #50 was located in a center called pepper square in richardson i believe its opening sealed the fate of #39 at spring valley and coitby rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: Tom Thumb locations over the years? - 8 years ago
you probably already know that the tom thumb super mkt chain originated from some toro grocers, that owed a. w. cullum a grocer wholesaler a lot of money. the store numbers came from when the brothers purchased the land where the stores were to be built, some were never built, like midway and northwest highway i cannot place #6, #18 is now a minyards and tom thumb built a new store futher east oby rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: Goss On Ross - 8 years ago
WAS THE PENNY ARCADE CALLED THE FUNHOUSE I LOVED THAT PLACEby rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: Goss On Ross - 8 years ago
no that was art grindle "I WANT TO SELL YOU A CAR "GENE GOSS WAS A FAMOUS NOTE LOT DEALER ON ROSS AVENUE AND EVERYBODY LIKED HIM HE WAS A DALLAS ICONby rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: Rockyfeller Hamburger Stands - 9 years ago
tthere was one in the walnut hill shopping center sitting almost on the corner of northwest highway and webb chapel but still in the shopping center another was on the west side of maple ave a few blocks past inwood road. i ate at the one in the shopping center often loved rocky sauce a very large man called tiny ran the one at walnut hill shopping centerby rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: downtown car dealers - 9 years ago
van winkle pontiac was on preston rd in the park citiesby rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: downtown car dealers - 9 years ago
were waiting for you at herschel bradys downtown lincoln mercury. i think it was on the southwest corner of industrial blvd/now riverfront dr, and commerce streetby rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: Photo of Oak Cliff Streetcar Stop, Addison & Jefferson, 1946 - 9 years ago
i did not move to dallas until 1955,and it apears tio me that dalllas gave up on the street cars a tad early,the dart rail has brought us almost full circleby rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: Bowley and Wilson Comedy Team - 9 years ago
wow wstewart that is a great bunch of pictures you shared there has been a lot of discussion on the phorum about the neoma bridge of late thanks for sharingby rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: Zoo Bar - 9 years ago
j goodman were you talking about a bar called the bent elbow that was owned by a lady named mae?by rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: Anybody remember Delmar Grocery? - 9 years ago
[b]since this thread is about greenville ave was ray woods tire store somewhere around the sears store on ross at greenville also i moved to dalas in 1955 and it seems the greenville avenue patrol was everywhere whose business was this and did it become smith detective agenct?by rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: EDWARDS FORD IN LANCASTER - 9 years ago
i believe it was the late sixties edwards ford restored a 1957 ford fairlane and gave it away i drove all the way from the love field neighborhood to buy a ticket my first time in lancaster i did not win itby rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: EDWARDS FORD IN LANCASTER - 9 years ago
ok thanksi was just wondering if it move to desoto and became doug stanley ford which is now mack haight fordby rojinks - DHS Archives
EDWARDS FORD IN LANCASTER - 9 years ago
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE FORD DEALERSHIP IN LANCASTER CALLED EDWARDS FORD?by rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: Cabell's vs. 7-Eleven - 9 years ago
i moved to dallas in 1955 there was a southern ice store on denton drive and danford right across from where anson road dead ended into denton drive we bought sodas there and old andy would let us take them around to the backand retun the bottles to him after we were finished i am pretty sure the southern ice store was in inwood shopping center up until the mid sixties it was just north of the tby rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: Dallas Record Stores 1960s-1970s - 9 years ago
the sound warehouse at polk and 67 existed into the eighties,then became primaryally a video rental store.by rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: Auto Nostalgia: Right Now - 9 years ago
bill remember mike burkharts car as a 1957 chevy red with a tabasco label painted on the door going through the quarter mile burkhart shited so smoooth and fast you would have sworn he was driving an automatic burkhart won so many races at the drag strip because his speedshifting was so much better.by rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: Coit Road Airport - 9 years ago
was the original water system for addison a well?by rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: Coit Road Airport - 9 years ago
was the original lambert landscaping at the corner of northwest highway and marsh? it would have been the northeast corner.by rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: Remember when there was only 2 mexican restaurants in Dallas. - 9 years ago
THE EL FENIX ON NORTHWEST HIGWAY, WAS IN A STRIP THAT HAD A TOM THUMB, AND A KIPS AT ONE TIME. LOTS OF APARTMENTS AROUND THAT STRIP THEY WERE ALWAYS FULL OF THE GROCERY CARTS FROM TOM THUMBby rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: Name the stores in Walnut Hill Village shopping center - 9 years ago
50dallas gal the clinic was the launey altick clinic, north of the village facing webb chapel dr launey had about quit practicing by the late fifties, lomo alto ran into lemmon ave at about whre the toll road entrance is/was lomo alto at lemmon north side the tabu room,wyatts/kroger grocery. on the south side wyatts cafeteria some smaller businesses and a tom thumb store.by rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: Love Field Drive, Denton Drive - 9 years ago
it was a small theater that had the cheap priced shows on saturday admission a dime it was just south of the a&p and past jacks auto parts going south on denton dr at one point close to bombay there was an safeway grocery it closed around layte 1955 i went to the circle theater often and courted my late wife carol fry there. the circle bowl had a nice little resturant inside that would notby rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: Love Field Drive, Denton Drive - 9 years ago
sibert i have been forever trying to remember the name of the other yo yo besides duncan. i just could not remember cheerio's they were brightly colored much prettier than the duncan flat red and black i bought my yo yo's at e l burks i also bought what they now call silly putty at burks,it was called nutty putty then, it came out around 1956 or 1957. i also got one of the nichols chrome platedby rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: Continental Bridge Park and the Trinity Skyline Trail - 9 years ago
i am scared nowby rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: Old Vickery - Park Lane and Greenville - 9 years ago
ralph blackoh where havreyou been you are sorely missedby rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: Love Field Drive, Denton Drive - 9 years ago
sibert i do remember donnie cates. he had a brother robert that was in my class at obadiah knight, then there was the youngest called TW after he was grown he was called tom. burt wells used to date the older sister of my late wife carol fry her name was paula fry i remember burt wells donny cates and james harris as the older boys with cars clifford skelton was one of my best friends i have notby rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: Love Field Drive, Denton Drive - 9 years ago
siberts sister of course i remember walter whittington. sp he was an old toy lawner, they had a record player in the front room an kids brought thier records and danced the latest dances i was never much of a dancerby rojinks - DHS Archives
Re: Love Field Drive, Denton Drive - 9 years ago
siberts sister. i lived at 8900 liptizt right across the street from the keetons and next door to the mathis brothers thier mother was an older sister to jackie and patsy sprabary. clifford skelton was one of my best friends, aso remember burt wells he had a car pretty early the lamberts lived on felder across from vernon,george and dorothy embrey i still communicate with jack sprabary and vernoby rojinks - DHS Archives