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Perhaps you might want to go work on your bunker and quit wasting precious time on a silly forum.
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altozwei
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mreagant Wrote:
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> Things suspected for the last few days now
> confirmed.
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> Mike
I SO agree with you. We just went from history to fantasyland in a hurry.
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altozwei
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Yes, the Highland Park Cafeteria is located behind the Chili's in Casa Linda.
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altozwei
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old man from dallas Wrote:
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> Oh, I have a Ph.D. in Zoology, and have no trouble
> eating lymph nodes or salivary glands. Hog bum,
> that's another matter. In some places, those are
> cut into rings, battered, deep fat fried, and
> served as calimari. If you order fried calamari
> in a Mid-Eastern restaurant, watch
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altozwei
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Oh, those must have been really fun. Makes me wonder if there were versions for other cities as well. SWB went all the way to Kansas City, if I recall correctly.
I remember wanting to go to Hemisfair but my parents thought that was crazy to drive all the way to San Antonio for a fair. I had really great parents but they were just NOT into travel.
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altozwei
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Central Market also makes a nice quality chorizo that doesn't devolve into a nasty red liquid mess when you cook it. My biology background just won't knowingly let me eat salivary glands and lymph nodes. I have, however, had some very tasty Hot Links while growing up but cannot say that I've seen any in recent years that tempted me.
In my family, red-eye gravy consisted of the drippings from s
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altozwei
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old man from dallas Wrote:
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> Well, getting the thing into my mouth was the
> first challenge. But I managed that, despite the
> appearance and aroma of the grilled abomination.
> Everything that followed was bad.
Hot Links are very much an acquired taste, much like tripe and chit'lins or lutefisk if you grew up Norweg
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altozwei
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While cleaning out my mother-in-law's house I found a Houston Yellow Pages from 1971 with a Karl Hoefle cover on it. It is an aerial view of the Houston Ship Channel with the Houston skyline in the background. I guess he must have done these covers for all of the bigger cities within the Southwestern Bell area. Anyone ever seen any from other cities?
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rojinks Wrote:
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> who was granny emma on klif
Ken Dowe
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altozwei
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I can't give you any exact dates but when I was a child in the early 60's there were still lots of overhead lines downtown because of the electric buses. While the virtual forest of utility poles from earlier in the century had already diminished considerably by that time, they didn't completely vanish until the buses went away too. I guess that would be mid to late 60's.
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altozwei
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Dallas, collectively speaking, doesn't care much about history. Dallas is all about developers and developers are all about making money. Have a beautiful, wooded parcel of land? Someone will be eyeing it as "wasted space" and make plans for it, whether you like it or not. Have a historic building you want to preserve? They'll offer you money. Don't sell and it will mysteriously burn. N
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altozwei
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You seem to be trapped in a loop.
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altozwei
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Dave, you are correct. Eagle Ford was a separate community from Cement City. Cement City was more of a company town, established in the early 1900's whereas Eagle Ford had already been in existence since the 1840's. I don't know of anything left of the Cement City community after the Pinnacle Park development, except for the cemetery. Pinnacle Park sits at the intersection of I-30 and Cockrell Hi
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altozwei
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Does anyone here have any personal memories regarding Cement City? My son is currently doing his Eagle project at the old cemetery. We have found a little information about the area but would love to learn more.
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altozwei
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Interesting. My son is currently doing his Eagle project at the old Cement City cemetery.
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altozwei
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There was a roller rink by the Cotton Bowl, along part of the midway. It always looked like fun but my mother always thought the crowd looked too rough and would never let us skate there. Of course, the only time we were there was during the Fair on the Dallas public school day, which also was the Friday of Texas-OU weekend. I imagine it probably WAS a bit rough
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altozwei
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I believe there was one in Wynnewood too.
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altozwei
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Channel 11 had Slam Bang Theatre and Cartoon Carnival - the BEST
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altozwei
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You have Pedernales, which has been pronounced PURdinaless forever.
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altozwei
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You are not alone. It bothers me too. Much like "Gross Road" in Mesquite. Natives pronounced it Grahss as opposed to that term used for something disgusting. Then there is the chronic mispronunciation of Waxahachie. I guess I don't much appreciate people renaming things to please themselves. That proposal to rename "Garland Road" to "Arboretum Drive" worked my nerves
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altozwei
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I recall the banks of wooden phone booths that they had at Fair Park. They also had a bank of them at Methodist Hospital. My mother's sister was sick a lot in the late 60's and early 70's. Those were the days when they wouldn't let you visit a room upstairs if you were a child. My mother would take us there and give us some coins with which we could buy snacks from machines in a room downstairs,
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I remember that place. I was sick very often during my childhood and that was the place to go whenever I needed something at some crazy hour (which often seemed the case).
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I ride my trike in downtown quite a bit. It is a much livelier place these days with the Arts District, the parks, and many new restaurants. Still have lots of homeless but lots more "regular" folks too. It still startles me to see people on the streets after 5 and on weekends but there are lots more things for people to do downtown and it is fun to watch the change.
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old man from dallas Wrote:
> Tech was (and I think the building still is) on
> Pearl Street), which would be some blocks east of
> this location, n'est pas? Of course, my memory is
> old.
That would be correct. Crozier Tech is also not that tall.
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altozwei
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My grandfather worked for the Ford Motor Company, in possibly the late 20's. He always talked about the "old" Chalk Hill which he said was much steeper than its current incarnation. He said that they would drive the Ford cars out to Chalk Hill and use the road as a test run, to see if the cars were performing properly. If they didn't make it up the hill without trouble, they were not u
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altozwei
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Yep. The building is still on Beckley but the company appears to have folded a few years back. Used to love to play mini golf at Wee St. Andrews but I don't remember an archery place. We used to do archery at Bronco Bowl!
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altozwei
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While cleaning out my parent's home, in preparation for an estate sale, I came across several interesting things my folks had saved. They were married 65 years so they had lots of things but some of the most interesting finds were
1) an advertising booklet for the Ripley Shirt Company from the 1930's. My mother went to work for Ripley in the 30's and continued working there through the war yea
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altozwei
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Later on, Ajax had the "White Tornado in a Bottle" ads, followed, I think, by their laundry detergent that they proclaimed "Stronger Than Dirt" with another catchy jingle.
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altozwei
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My dad bought his last pickup from Horn-Williams at their Buckner location. He had previously bought several other cars from the dealership over the years and felt they were an honest place with whom he liked to do business. That would have been in the early '90's. He went to the dealership and looked at some Ranger trucks. He told the salesman what price he wanted to pay and, after some discuss
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altozwei
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Oh! I remember the Peanut shop. It was one of my favorite places downtown. We always stopped by to get fresh roasted peanuts. When I was in Memphis a couple of years ago, I spotted a Peanut Shop in the downtown there. i didn't have a chance to stop in but just seeing it it made me feel like I was 4 years old again.
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