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11 years later...
I just noticed this thread again. Two things...
Someone asked if I had told Neimans that I remembered it from Dallas. I only talked to one person at Neimans in Beverley Hills (we were visiting the area in conjunction with my daughters' wedding, not our usual home turf)... a young, and very polite Asian lady, accompanied with a couple of burly looking security guys who
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Not sure about the legality of it... but in the 50s (specifically 1956-1960) I remember there were a lot of chicks available around Easter and a lot of people who had no idea about what to do with them bought them... including us... when I was in grade school. It was a bad idea. I think they ended up dying or being given away.
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I remember checking TV tubes with my dad at Skillerns in the 50s. 90% of the time if the TV wasn't working, you could fix it yourself by changing tubes.
I also remember Crabtree's... on Ross... which I think we discovered around 1959... as a source for electronics and parts and stuff like that.
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There's an image on an old ebay listing (may need to scroll down)
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Found this for 1955: hill village&resolution=1&lat=3218.2581277917952&lon=1188.1969450378533
Use zoom and pan to see everything relevant.
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I know holidays are over now - but this reminded me of something. My dad worked for Chance Vought - and the holiday season for us always seemed to open with their annual Christmas Party, which, at least in the early 50s, was usually held at the music hall at Fair Park. There was some sort of musical show, and executives in suits would make what seemed like long, boring speeches, then they had g
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I remember going to Hart Bowl about the time they opened... in the 50s. I knew generally about bowling from watching it on TV, including most of the sort of goofy scoring with strikes and spares... but had no idea how to throw a ball... but I was probably about 6 or 7 at the time. I remember that the balls and pins seemed larger than they looked on TV. My mom took some lessons from one of the
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Google images has a rather nice collection of images from Hart Bowl. If you go to this link, I think it will offer you the other pictures as well.
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Recently found this picture - which I think was not digitized last time I checked - from SMU library. Rockeyfellers at Walnut Hill Village. I had forgotten the goofy cone-shaped stands on the stools.
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When I was little my mom used to tell me that my dad had to go to work to "make money so we can buy bread from the Manor Man". So I thought he like worked at the mint or something... "making money". The discussion of the "Manor Man" reminded me - hope nobody minds the digression too much. (Actually we didn't get our bread that way - mom bought it at A&P - but
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Hogsncats - you may need to make the picture on facebook "public" - open the picture (click on it from your timeline) then use the pulldown on the upper right (well... there may be several - this is the one next to the date at least on a web browser) to "edit post privacy", and set it to public. If you can see it on facebook, but other people are getting an error message, th
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Back in the 50s, my mom used to take us for lunch sometimes to a place (I would call it a diner) called Rockeyfellers (or Rockefellers?) which was located in and around Walnut Hill Village. As I recall, it was a chain but we never went to any other locations. I believe you can see it in a photograph taken at Hart Bowl by a Life photographer - between the slide and the elbow on the guy on the le
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Hogsncats - the problem is that this site doesn't "host" photos... it would need to be uploaded to somewhere else and then when you click the little picture, you could put the url for the other site into your text using the little "picture" icon. For example, this picture is shared from the "etsy" website (where I guess they sell postcards), and it's related, so why
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The Ferris house on Turtle Creek had (has?) a basement.
I remember it because it also had an elevator, and when I was 15 or so, I walked down to the basement and rang for the elevator (which I think they were using for a coat closet) and got in a little bit of hot water with the parents for doing that.
That house had an intercom system with rotary dials on the stations and there was som
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My brother was in the hospital in CA mid 60s - nurses were still wearing caps at that time. A lot of the caps were sort of "mod" looking - and I believe one of the nurses told me that it had to do with which school they attended. Basically just confirming what was just posted.
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I used to go to Dr. Hawkins at the Children's Clinic. There was a Dr. Cornwell (Cornwall?) there also in the early 50s that I used to see.
I remember that the windows in the examining room had semi-transparent glass and if a car drove by outside it looked like a large moving star as it drove past due to the way the window glass refracted the light.
They had in-house X-ray and laboratory
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I got to be on "Uncle Tiny" once probably 1959 or 1960. A girl in our neighborhood had a grandfather who was a manager or maybe an owner at the station - don't really remember that detail except this old guy came out and hugged the girl before the show.
I remember it was sponsored by "dial a flavor" (it was a can with 3 partitions that had 3 flavors of stuff you could p
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I have a like 1.6 second video clip from December 1960 showing a sign for the "Denton Road Drive In". The sign was like a sideways T with "Denton Road" spelled vertically, and "Drive In" coming out horizontally between the O and A in the vertical "Road". I can't read what's playing unfortunatly... it's a video made from a 8mm movie. start at about 2 min
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I know Vought made mobile homes at one point... didn't know about appliances. ("Vought Industries", a subsidiary).
International Harvester made refrigerators at one point, at least according to a letter my dad wrote. (I found pictures on google).
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The name Bobbitt in the Beauty Salon brings back a memory that my mom said that "Mr. Bobbitt" was going to fix her hair. I thought it was funny that my mom had a man do her hair - heck since I had a man do mine, it seemed like a woman should do hers.
Am I remembering right that Beef 'n Bun had concrete floors painted red and sawdust?
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I think my dad (also occasionally me, my mom, and my mother) went to Dr. Jack Lanier at the Launey Clinic in the late 50s.
Dr. Lanier was a friend of my dad's, and I remember one Saturday or Sunday we went in there, and he brought his kids - my dad or maybe my brother had some sort of accident and needed stitches - his kids were playing with the old switchboard - plugging and unplugging stuf
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I remember there being a barber shop there by 1960 - on the north side of the same row of stores as Grant's and Gaston's Cafeteria. It seems like I remember it being large -like with two rows of barbers - does that sound right? My mom would let me run over there by myself and get my hair cut (it cost like .75 then I think).
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My cub scout group used to skate there on Saturdays - I think it was the place near the Cotton Bowl because we would always see the Cotton Bowl when we went down there. It seemed to me like it was pretty funky and old even in the late 50s, but I don't remember much detail. I never skated very well either.
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(I put this in another thread, so this is duplicated here where it shoulda' been in the first place)...
Also in WHV - Ray's ice cream. Beef 'n bun. Levine's. Later Texoma (or Texhoma?). There was a big barber shop. I think a gift shop too.
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Also in WHV - Ray's ice cream. Beef 'n bun. Levine's. Later Texoma (or Texhoma?). There was a big barber shop. I think a gift shop too.
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I flew TTA once in 1968 from Dallas to College Station via Tyler - I was in high school at the time. Some of the other "kids" who were headed to the same program I was at Texas A&M were kidding about calling it "Tree Topper Airlines", and kidding me about "I wonder if they mowed the runway in College Station", and things like that. It all turned out fine, but I
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Thanks Bob - it's certainly possible. Back in my toddler days I was supposed to go get my mom when "Country Gardens" came on because she liked watching the show. I think it was late afternoon like 3 or 4PM.
Memory is pretty vague here too, but an older woman sounds right to me as well.
Back when the show was on I didn't know the name of the music.
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Oddly enough I found a clipping of a TV Schedule from Friday, December 28, 1951. I googled it and found this string so I'm jumping in.
"Julie Bennell on cooking" was on WFAA Channel 8 at 4PM (in 1951), and it looks like it went for 45 minutes. "Texas Ranger Time" started at 4:45.
I'm wondering if this was the cooking show that used the "Country Gardens" song
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A while back, Debby Lacy shared a paper she wrote about the Lively and Cochran families and the Bluff View Dairy... it can be accessed at:
The Lively Family:
I just tried the link and it still works. It's a google doc.
I pretty much only remember the place (The Denton Dr. and Carrolton locations) from field trips in kindergarten and grade school.
Bill Parrish
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As to "Mr. Sandman"... I didn't know the artist or the year, but a quick search on youtube yielded:
It says "The Chordettes", 1954.
Also see
As I recall Tony's was on the south side of NW highway, and I think east of Lemmon, but I could be wrong.
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