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Re: voting -- not political, just history - 2 years ago
I remember going with my mother to vote in what must have been 1952. We dressed up, like Sunday School, walked up the flight of steps to Cochran Chapel Methodist Church, waited quietly in line for our turn in the booth. It was an almost solemn exercise in civic duty and a lesson I've never forgotten.by northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: big snow January 1964 - 2 years ago
My memories of the 1964 storm are of huddling on the bathroom floor in front of the wall heater because it was the warmest place in the house and I had never been so cold. My most direct experience with driving under storm conditions was during the winter of 1977-78. I lived in Irving, had just started a new job at Redbird Mall and spent half my time in Plano with my fiance. I learned that I wby northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: Things you don't see much anymore - 2 years ago
Dave, I seem to remember that one of H.L. Hunt's non-oil enterprises was a canned vegetable and bean company that had ads on the book covers we had at Walnut Hill School in the late 1950's. He had political ambitions at about the same time, maybe he slipped some not so subtle messaging into a few of the ads.by northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: Free swim - 2 years ago
There was a Red Cross pool built at Northaven Park near Withers Elementary in the early '60s. It was the last one I remember seeing in that part of town. We usually swam at the big pool at Walnut Hill Park, which is where my siblings learned to swim. I remember the ice cream machines conveniently located next to the exit. Ice cream sandwich is the best post swim treat!by northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: Walnut Hill School - 3 years ago
The latest word is that Walnut Hill is fixable, but the plan is still to go with the separate, new building for preK through middle school and use Walnut Hill for special ed and evening classes. The really hard thing is that the feds are dragging their feet with the disaster declaration, so there are thousands of people still in limbo with their homes, businesses and lives in turmoil. Robert Wiby northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: Walnut Hill School - 3 years ago
Boy, is my face red! The Highland Park Christmas tree was a pecan, not an oak. Thank God my grandmother wasn't here to see that. I really DO know an oak from a pecan!by northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: Walnut Hill School - 3 years ago
Thanks, Dave. The TJ mascot is now the Patriots. Walnut Hill and Cary are apparently not salvageable. The tentative plans are to use TJ as the center of a combined campus with K-12 grades. Even in 1955 there was a steady flow of kids from Cary and TJ taking a short-cut across our playground, which our p.e. teacher, Miss Mary Herring, was not happy about.by northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Walnut Hill School - 3 years ago
This post has taken a few weeks to appear because I've taken that long to get used to the idea of Midway Rd. without Walnut Hill School. I attended from 1955 to 1961, from 1st to 6th grade and have always considered it the cradle of my love of reading and my outlook on life and the world in general. I have never forgotten any of my teachers, from Miss Henry in 1st grade to Violet L'Hommedieu inby northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: 50th Anniversary Texas International Pop Festival - 3 years ago
My friend Susan and I were there all three days. The really shocking thing is that those three days cost me a grand total of $18.00. It's no wonder Angus Wynn III lost money. I remember a large crowd with no fights or angst. I was in school in Denton at the time and knew quite a few of the volunteer security force. The Hog Farm came straight (no pun intended) down from Woodstock and gave outby northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: Orange Julius - 3 years ago
I remember my grandmother making us what she called an "egg flip" for breakfast as a special treat occasionally. It consisted of freshly squeezed orange juice (we 'got to' squeeze our own juice) and a whole raw egg whipped with an egg beater. Yum. Aren't there still some cocktails made with egg whites? I saw an article recently about bartenders using "aqua faba" (liquid frby northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: Jim Wheat's Site - 4 years ago
Imagine my surprise when I went to the Dallas County Wiki page on the Family Search website and found a link to Jim Wheat's website. Go to Familysearch.org to find the Wiki page, or just Google Jim Wheat and scroll down until you find the link to Familysearch. I am so happy!by northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: Ida Chitwood and the Old Mill Inn at Fair Park - 4 years ago
By the time I first went to the fair with parents and grandparents (1953 or so) the Old Mill housed the Bordens Dairy exhibit. Not only could you visit Elsie and Elmer in some very snazzy stalls, but it was probably the coolest place at the fairgrounds on a warm October day. Belly up to the bar and have a cool, refreshing Dixie cup of milk. My parents called the race track at the fair the &quoby northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: blue norther - 4 years ago
My husband (who grew up in Wichita Falls) and I still refer to blue northers when appropriate. I've always loved the story, perhaps apocryphal, about the Federal Writer's Project sending someone down here in the 30's to write a book on Texas as part of a series of state handbooks. He didn't believe it when he was told that the temps can drop as much as 50 degrees in 30 minutes and changed it toby northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: Robert E Lee Park - 4 years ago
Hi Dave, Right now they're calling it by its original name, Oak Lawn Park. I think it should be permanent, but there are other names being bandied about. The monument at Pioneer Cemetery is probably not going to last long, either. Everything changes, nothing stays the same (especially in Dallas).by northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: 1970's Pyramid movie - 5 years ago
I noticed Larry Ratliff on the list. I knew him in the RTV department a NTSU c.1968 or 69. He used to be on the daily talk show on KTVT channel 11 in the early 80's with Durwood Rausch. He was a compendium of achingly bad jokes, but a nice guy. The most memorable guests for me were Slim Whitman (Love Song of the Waterfall, yodeler). and Boxcar Willie, who played harmonica and sang railroad soby northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: 1970's Pyramid movie - 5 years ago
My guess is that the performance ended up on the proverbial cutting room floor. I suppose we could be in crowd shots. I believe the sequence we were shooting was the grand finale where all the victims in the movie come together in a vision of some kind. I think we were there for atmosphere, just to prove that Dallas had hippies, too. It makes for a good story for an old lady to tell the kidsby northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: 1970's Pyramid movie - 5 years ago
It never occurred to me to check IMDB because I didn't know it had ever been released, much less had a retrospective showing at Alamo Draft House in Austin. I think the apartment in the movie trailer was where we went to pick up our pyramid, which looked just like the one set up in the living room only bigger. I think the kids on the swing were filmed at Reverchon Park the same weekend we wereby northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
1970's Pyramid movie - 5 years ago
Back in about 1974 or 75 my husband and I went to Reverchon Park to be in a movie being filmed about pyramid power (what can I say, it was the 70's). My husband was filmed singing a song he had written and I was in several crowd scenes. There were stories about the movie on local news and it seemed to be a relatively big deal at the time. It was produced by some local bigwigs and based on a boby northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: Jim Lowe as Big Tex - 5 years ago
I'm not sure it was filmed during the fair. I know that some kids from Dan D. Rogers Elementary were picked for the merry-gp-round scene, because my god-mother's son was in it. Jose Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney were going through a messy divorce at the time and it was a topic of keen interest to be so close to headlines like that.by northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: Gill Well - 5 years ago
Dave, I believe they are one and the same. The pagoda was long gone by the early 50's when my memories of our visits to the park begin.by northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: Robert E Lee Park - 5 years ago
When I was small my grandparents lived on Irving St. between Turtle Creek and Oak Lawn. It was part of our routine to walk to the park when we spent the day with them. I remember the statue and the bench around it. I loved the horses. Fast forward 15 years and my sister and I used to borrow our parents car and drive down on Sunday afternoons to hang out. We had to hide our copies of "Notby northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: KZEW radio station - 5 years ago
Frank, thanks for reminding me of KFAD. When I was a RTV major at NT several of my friends worked there and visiting the studio was always a treat. I never really thought of the format being "black oriented jazz", just "jazz" like we heard every day in the music building.by northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: Woozie Soft Drinks - 5 years ago
My Dad's print shop had one of those old chest type soda pop coolers. You lifted the lid and slid your choice of pop along the metal grooves (bad choice of words. can't think of a better one at the moment) to get it out. It was full of Nehi and Grapette and Big Red. My Mom was a Dr. Pepper fan, but she also loved Pepsi, so we saw that in the fridge sometimes. Sodas were not an everyday thingby northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: DALLAS HOSPITALS 1911 - 5 years ago
Harlan Crow has "redeveloped" it. It is now a mixed use center which manages to preserve the bulk of the original complex. I'm not a usually a fan of such efforts, but it turned out better than I expected. For a while in the mid 50's it was the county old folks home. I remember touring it with my Bluebird group about 1957 (I only know that because we went downtown to the Tower Theatby northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: Kidd Springs - 5 years ago
We had both the Salk and Sabin in our family. One of my mother's younger cousins had polio and walked on braces when we were kids, so there was no hesitation about it in our house. Our pediatrician, George Branch, recommended the Salk and the whole family stood in line with the rest of the neighborhood at Harry C. Withers School for the Sabin sugar cubes. I'm not sure if it was the public healby northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: Duback's Roller Rink on Greenville - 5 years ago
Back in the early 70's I lived in East Dallas and worked at brand new Valley View Mall. My usual alternate to Central was Greenville and on an almost daily basis I'd see an old gentleman in a beret sitting in a rocking chair on the porch of an old frame building at the northwest corner of Park and Greenville. A photographer friend of ours stopped and asked to take his picture one day and we stby northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: seven year drought - 5 years ago
My husband's grandfather, who lived in Hunt County his entire life, had an amazing garden every year with the help of his chickens. He had enclosed runs at each end of the chicken house and alternated year by year so the garden spot had the benefit of a year of "activity" in the run. We're pretty sure he didn't come up with this on his own, having seen variations of it elsewhere ourselby northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: seven year drought - 5 years ago
According to a friend who grew up in Duncan OK, that red water is murder on white tshirts. it's apparently harder to remove that red stain than either mustard or grass stains. I live in Collin County now, right in the big middle of the Houston Black Clay.and can personally attest to the amount of soil shrinkage around here. Things have improved since the drought broke a couple of years ago,by northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: East Dallas - 6 years ago
I can't believe we've been through this entire thread and no one has mentioned the Lakewood Rats. My mother graduated from Woodrow Wilson in 1942 and I grew up hearing stories about how low down bad the Rats were. Apparently a few of Dallas's most prominent business leaders in the 50's and 60's were ex-Rats. They were legendary and known all over town. My dad went to North Dallas and knew allby northdallasgirl - DHS Archives
Re: Dearborn space heaters - 6 years ago
We had floor furnaces and then central heat (but not air) in North Dallas c. 50s-60s, but all of my non-dorm student housing in Denton had space heaters with open radiants. I remember how horrified my mother was to see open gas heaters in a second floor Depression era apartment with back door nailed and sealed shut because the outside stairs were falling down. I think I moved soon after that.by northdallasgirl - DHS Archives