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Re: living space - 8 years ago
In the SE quadrent of the intersection of Lovers Lane and Greenville Avenue and behind the strip of businesses that lined the roads I remember a neighborhood of small duplexes that may have had shared bathrooms. I believe they were built right after the war for returning servicemen and so on. Some of the residents were SMU students and it was the middle fifties before the neighborhood was redby vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: living space - 8 years ago
I can't really add much to the conversation. This is mostly personal reminisence. I wonder when the houses in Dallas with (ground level) apartments on the side of detached garages were built. I'd guess very few such were built after World War II. My folks bought a house in University Park on Purdue Street in 1942 and it was said to have been one of the last homes finished after Pearl Harboby vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: Photo of Oak Cliff Streetcar Stop, Addison & Jefferson, 1946 - 8 years ago
BillB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The bus segregation was equally inconvenient to > both races. > If I got on a bus and the front of the bus was > full, I would have to stand rather than take an > empty seat in the back. > If a Negro had gotten on the same time I did, he > could sit down and I would have had to stand. > >by vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Birdseyee Imagry - 8 years ago
Toss up question. I read about buried structures, graves, and so on not visible form the surface being located by archaeologists reviewing aerial photgraphs. Is the birdseye imagry which is an option to drawn maps on bing, google, etc.: can it / has it been used in this way if enlarged more than I can blow up the version on my PC?by vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: Cabell's vs. 7-Eleven - 8 years ago
Maybe they were made by the same company that made Dixie Cups, I don't know.. At the risk of more explanation than wanted / needed, I remember icecream being vended (prepacked) in small cardboard cups closed with a cardboard lid that you pulled up and off. You received a small thin wooden spoon with a bowl that might have been molded a little when you got a cup out of the freezer and took itby vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: Cabell's vs. 7-Eleven - 8 years ago
My father was put off by that icecream with specks of vanilla beans. He knew what it was and regarded it as good icecream, but was reminded of fly specks. There is talk above of hand dipped servings but thinking back to nineteen forties, I remember what a treat those small cardboard cups were, and the licking the last of the flavor with the wooden spoons.by vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: Remember when there was only 2 mexican restaurants in Dallas. - 8 years ago
Thank you.by vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: Remember when there was only 2 mexican restaurants in Dallas. - 8 years ago
Dallas Cop - I moved from Dallas in 1961 and Ojeda's evidently started later. There seem to be three or four locations. Which one do you like best? Not predictable if or when I'll be able to visit Dallas again, but if I do, maybe I'll stray from my usual meal at El Fenix.by vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: Parrino Family of Dallas - 8 years ago
I'm putting this old thread in play again. I wonder if curent readers not present eight years and more ago remember the Forrest Avenue Parrino's and perhaps have a receipe and so on. As mentioned above, a menu would be great if it could be posted. Did they have items other than spaghetti and meatballs and maybe a simple wedge of lettuce salad? Beer or wine service? There were several oldby vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: Duback's Roller Rink on Greenville - 8 years ago
Buzz Murdock Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > While looking at a 1956 Ashburn's Dallas map, it > shows that, beginning at Lover's Lane, Greenville > Ave. became Richardson Road from that point > northward. I don't know what or where the official register of Dallas street names might be, but in 1956 I lived in my parent's home a few blocks fromby vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: Name the stores in Walnut Hill Village shopping center - 8 years ago
Dave McNeely's observation regarding "shavings" rather than "sawdust" is (was) correct and also that the material was called sawdust. I don't know how long the Lovers Lane location of Beef 'n Bun lasted but it must have been there ten years or more in 1959.by vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: Name the stores in Walnut Hill Village shopping center - 8 years ago
Was Beef 'n Bun a chain? There was a BBQ place on the north side of Lovers Lane east of the RR tracks and before you reached the current HPHS baseball field and so on and I believe I'm thinking of the days when Park Cities Baptist Church was where Scotland yard is today. I think it wasa Beef 'n Bun but perhaps someone will have a correction for that emory. What ever the name it had sawdustby vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: Love Field Drive, Denton Drive - 8 years ago
I stand corrected. I agree with MC's note and Sibert's second. I also remember the drive-ins named by MC and the Circle. I went to the Circle a few times but never either drive-in.by vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: Love Field Drive, Denton Drive - 8 years ago
Sibert Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I remember the theater well, but don't recall the name. I think it may have been the "Denton Drive Theater". ~~~~ I think it was the Denton drive Theater also, and located on the airport side of the street. My parents enjoyed square dancing and one group they were with frequently met some where near Lovby vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: good mexican resturant on cedar springs in the sixties - 8 years ago
Spanish Village WAS good and it had a branch in Atlanta for a while, the project of a group of airline pilots and in the original Underground, IIRC. That was really before Atlanta was ready for good Tex-Mex.by vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: Interesting Finds - 8 years ago
I don't think anyone would argue that the original Wee St. Andrews was the preeminent miniature course in Dallas for a long time. I don't recall the archery range, but that was not my thing either. There was also a miniature place (maybe 2 x 18 holes) just east of Central on the north side of Henderson for a long time, and at some point one east of and just off NW Hiway on the west side ofby vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: Old Commercials - 8 years ago
Certainly there was an Ajax, but Old Dutch and Babo (sp?) were similar products as was (is) Bon Ami which my wife has under the sink right now.by vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: Old Commercials - 8 years ago
Certainly there was an Ajax, but Old Dutch and Babo (sp?) were similar products as was (is) Bon Ami which my wife has under the sink right now.by vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: Old new car dealers - 8 years ago
Seems as thoug there have been a thread or threads on this general line. IIRC the last Studebaker dealer in Dallas was located down town although I don't remember the street. The owner, a Mr. Myrick I believe, moved from Galveston to take over the operation.by vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: Delmo Johnson - 8 years ago
bevo was interesting and unfailingly courteous and polite. But I don't remember seeing a post from him in a long time, at least under that screen name. Sir, if you are still active, please give us an update, or perhaps someone else can.by vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: fishing around dallas back in the day - 8 years ago
Must have been in the early fifties. Dallas was experiencing one of those dry summers and all the lakes were low and the water courses drying up. There was pool on the west side of White Rock, not far from NW Hiway as I remember it, that was cut off from the main body of the lake because of the low water. There were stories that fish were so concentrated in the remaining water that that you coby vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: guys resturant on harry hines - 8 years ago
OT really since I can't add to the discussion rojinks started. But, wasn't there a Big Boy - and I think it was a Kip's - on the SW corner of Mockingbird and Greenville?by vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: Dallas County Jail Chili - 9 years ago
Scattershots. Its been a while since I looked at my first edition copy of Bowl of Red but I recall a recipe for chili with beans where the beans are canned refried beans off the grocer's shelf. I think Tolbert's comment was that was the only way he much cared for beans in chili. Generally I make chili without, but have added the canned or homemade refried at times. I'll have to lookby vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: North Dallas along the Katy - 9 years ago
What would the time frame be for these photographs? Any date for the construction of the house?by vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Creek across SMU Campus - 9 years ago
Following is a link to a thread on the SMU sports message board, ponyfans.com. In it the existence of a creek running more or less diagonally across the SMU campus is suggested with a request for someone to confirm. I wonder if someone on ghd Dallas History board has maps that would confirm this creek and perhpas give its a name. I would suppose that any such watercourse would have beeby vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: If You Could Bring One Place Back... - 9 years ago
Can someone tell me the relationship, if any, between the Goff's now located across Hillcrest from SMU and the place remembered by Mike Marsalis? I only noticed the place the last couple of times I was in Dallas, so I apologize if this is sort of a stale question.by vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: Oak Cliff video - 9 years ago
I did not have the Sunset HS connection that helped him to get off with a warning! I doubt that HP students were treated quite the same. About the time I heard the slalom story my mother got a ticket while driving on West Jefferson one day for making a U - turn. She was indignant, said she had made two left turns and not a U - turn and rejected what I remember as reasonable explanations by myby vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: Oak Cliff video - 9 years ago
I'm not a Clffie and several of the names and places I recognized are because I have seen relevant posts on this board. One thing that surprised me was that there was no picture clearly showing a stretch of West Jefferson, IIRC, with the utility poles in the center of the street. Was the picture of the Skillern's with a streetcar passing taken on West Jefferson? Are the utility poles mentioby vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: Barefootedness - 9 years ago
Our school would start at the end of August and of course the swimming pool closed. Then, Labor Day, and no school and the pool reopened for one day. It was great.by vft_refectory - DHS Archives
Re: Barefootedness - 9 years ago
After a hard rain once, a bunch of us bought some used inner tubes at a tire store or filling station and went floating down the creek from a point below Bluffview into Bachman's Lake and we repeated that a few times. Great fun. Kind of New Braunfels in Dallas. Looking back I wonder that no one got hurt on broken glass or an unseen snag in the water.by vft_refectory - DHS Archives