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I recently spent the night in La Grange during a Texas road trip. I visited a few sights and I read something about the infamous Chicken Ranch, which inspired the book, musical and movie "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas". It was finally closed down in the early 70's and the buildings were purchased, moved to Dallas and turned into a restaurant. It wasn't in business very l
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Cement City High School sat where Thomas Edison Middle School sits today, This was Bonnie and Clyde's old high school.
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You can check Bubbles out in all her glory on Youtube in the film "Mars Needs Women", an extrmely low budget movie shot in Dallas by director Larry Buchanan, staring ex mousketeer Tommy Kirk, Yvonne "Batgirl" Craig, also from Dallas, and Neil Fletcher, who when he wasn't acting was inventing something called a "corn dog". The movie is not good but it has some great s
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I seem to remember my grandfather telling me about water wells at Kidds Springs (hence the name I guess). There was a time when the water coming out of the tap was not potable and was only used for washing and bathing. It was red in color. You had to go wells at the park for drinking and cooking water.
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Kresges (spelling?) in Wynnewood village, right next to what would be Krogers had a sandwich bar.
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I remember using my own black cats and bottle rockets in Kiest park up until the early 1970's when someone came by and told us they were no longer allowed. Only the Jaycees fireworks were allowed after that,
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When I was a broke college student, I drove up to the Dallas Gold and Silver Exchange to sell a jar of Mercury dimes I collected. It should have been worth about sixty bucks, which was a lot back then. I made the mistake of going there the day after the Hunt brothers dumped all their silver on the market. My jar of dimes turned out to be worth about a jar of dimes. I still hold a grudge against t
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You have to go back to the 1920s, when Dallas had one of the largest Klan chapters in the country if npt the largest. It was chapter 66. They gave 50,000 dollars to build a new building for Hope Cottage which stood somewhere near where the Scottish Rite Hospital stands today in Wellborn. They frequently marched downtown and had their own day at the State Fair.
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Texas theater is a major part of the Oak Cliff revival which includes the Bishop Arts District and the old Kessler Theater. It hosts live shows as well as films. Well worth a visit if you have the time.
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Wow! I was always told that Dallas was designed as a place to do business and get out of before sundown. That's the way it always was when I was growing up. It was just bad development all along. This is a real eye opener.
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Yes, I remember Goat Mountain. A friend of mine would slip his 8 trac of Bach's A minor Toccata for organ as we drove through.There is a tiny old family cemetery in the middle somewhere. We stopped there for a while and heard the dreadful low moaning and horrible clanging of bells! Yes, we wandered into a coven of devil worshipping cows!
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I remember the little burgers at Griffs/ Just mustard, a couple of pickle slices and meat. Man, they were good! They supersized everything now to keep up with everybody else.
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With all of the forgettable "reality" shows of today, it amazes me how someone with a little makeup, some cheap costumes and a huge imagination could create so many memories. We have gained in technology but lost so much in creativity, at least in television.
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I remember Bronco Luvitch. Probably because of the unusual name. Also Bulldog Pletsches (not sure of spelling)
In the 70's The TV version was a taped show from Will Rogers auditorium in Ft. Worth. I think from Wednesday night. You didn't get a show during the Stockyard Show week. Friday was the Sportatorium show,
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I remember going into the Western Heights cemetery sometime in the 80's. There was no fence around the old part and much of it was overgrown with bushes and small trees. My friend and I went back into some of the bushes and found stones dating back to the 1870's or 80's. They were not manufactured headstones, but rocks with names and dates just scratched in with a knife.We meant to go back one ti
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What is more amazing is that there is a small church down 12th street that was once Winnetka Bible Church, where I went with my granparents, It became a spanish church in the late 70's and now it is a private home!
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A lot of the Merry Melodies and Looney Tunes characters were creations of one Tex Avery, who graduated from North Dallas High School on 1925. It is said that the famous "What's up, Doc?" greeting of Bugs was popular among the seniors of North Dallas High school when Avery was as a student.
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I attended MB Henderson in the 70's. Miss See was my elderly music teacher, She must have done a good job, because I teach music now. I torture the youngsters with violin scales. I did teach for a while at Harrell Budd. The neighborhood is quite different. I saw Sisters of Mercy walking down the street close to the school one day. The Sisters of mercy are members of Mother Theresa's order, based
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I actually printed off a copy of that article and it helped locate the point where I searched. I looked mainly for the well, since any evidence of a dugout cave would be long gone. The article also mentioned a "pleasure resort ' nearby. The creek runs through Crawford Memorial Park in Dallas and I didn't find any evidence of an old resort there. It is not the best developed park in Dallas. T
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I returned to the site I visited last summer where the old Texas and New Orleans Railroad bridged
Prairie Creek in Dallas. This time I brought a friend and we descended into the creek to look for any remains of Belle Starr's cave. The area was covered with rocks, debris and litter, and there was a lot of sand, I am guessing brought in when the bridge was built. The bridge itself is a ruin. I lo
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It was on Davis Street. I believe near Davis and Westmoreland. The building is still there.
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It was on Davis Street. I believe near Davis and Westmoreland. The building is still there.
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It was on Davis Street. I believe near Davis and Westmoreland. The building is still there.
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It was on Davis Street. I believe near Davis and Westmoreland. The building is still there.
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It was on Davis Street. I believe near Davis and Westmoreland. The building is still there.
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It was on Davis Street. I believe near Davis and Westmoreland. The building is still there.
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It was on Davis Street. I believe near Davis and Westmoreland. The building is still there.
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It was on Davis Street. I believe near Davis and Westmoreland. The building is still there.
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