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Speaking of GBC, a place up the road to the west called 7 Points was a very corrupt municipality. Jim
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Skip Fletcher of Fletcher's Corny Dogs died recently. One thing I never understood is why one could never get/purchase those things outside the State Fair or other celebratory venues?? Jim
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During my high school years in O.C., we, my friends, ran into a very rough group of kids(punks) from Irving in the area of west Ft. Worth cut-off or Blvd. Jim
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I remember these things from the 50s into the early 60s. Fairly standerd unless you were pretty well-off and had central air and heat. Our house was old…circa 1920. Nobody got up to get around on a winter morning in our house until Dad got up and lit the thing. He got up at 5AM. We had in the living room a little ceramic gas heater with radiants and a flimsy rubber hose connected to a cone-shaped
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So you don't remember Charles Albright? Jim
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Thank you Dallas Cop. I think a lot of prostitutes lived/worked there also. I remember in the 60s a lot of young women office workers lived in the apartments along Gaston. Many worked at the Bell telephone exchange, I think on Bryan.
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As a child in O.C.I frequently heard of East Dallas as place that "decent folks" should not visit. It was an area inhabited by drunks and lower class people. My mother talked unfavorably about such places as Colette Ave. and Columbia. She also mentioned Peak St. I, however, knew of a good Church of Christ at Peak and East side. I wonder if that east Dallas back then was simply a buffer
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I sorta remember that building in the photo from when I was a little kid(not the geodesic dome). The "igloo" as pictured seems to have been a beer joint or cafe in the photo. I surmise it is dated early 40s. Jim
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Makes sense. I never knew 635 and 820 were tagged as interstates. Didn't pay that much attention, really. I simply thought of them as beltways. Jim
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45 goes from Galveston to Dallas. Hwy. 75 continues northward. Why, then, is 45 designated as interstate…I45? jim
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I remember when growing up in OC that Dallas police cars had these flashing red light beacons affixed to the top. There were two: one on each side. We called them "cherries" in the 50-60s. I also recall that accident investigators had white head dress and ,I believe, their cars were white also. When did DPD modernize their squad cars and go to light bars and the red/blue motif? Jim
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Thank you. I guess I could have Googled it, but on this forum sometimes the literati add more illuminating info. Jim
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I think that is where Dakota's Steakhouse was a few years ago. Jim
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Thanks to all of you for your clarification. So the White Plaza was originally the Hilton? i thought the only Hilton enterprise in Dallas was the Statler. In 1963 the northern most part of that building-along Harwood-was a parking garage Jim
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The Statler-Hilton(that has now fallen into a sad state of deterioration)was next to the public library(also vacant) that was directly across Main St.from this building that I was inquiring about. Jim
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Was he Henry Wade's chief investigator? Jim
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I was watching a TV program about the Kennedy assassination and noticed a building on the corner of Harwood and Main (NW) corner as the motorcade turned. I know that it was/is a hotel because I had designed the decorative grillwork on the north side facing the Dallas Co. Jail.. I also remember a great BBQ place nearby. What was the name of that hotel? Jim
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Can anyone here expand on the demise of the Dallas Times Herald back in?-I don't remember the date. I do remember my mother was quite emotional about it as if a close relative had died. Maybe the subscriptions were down. Jim
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These weren't "wannabes" they were real creeps in my estimation. 13-15 year olds have a tough time with attitudes, hormones,their role in society and such. Surely they like to "blend in" and look the role of James Dean et al. The ones I'm referring to, unless they matured thereafter, were budding sociopaths. These specimens were disruptive in class, tended to spend a lot of ti
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I went to Greiner in 55-56 and there were hoodlums attending there even at that time….knife carrying, cigarette-smoking creeps with ducktail haircuts and steel taps on their shoe heels. Jim
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I had two roommates at UNT in the 60's who graduated from TJ(61-62?) Max Gilley and Mike Curtis. Jim
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I know in the late 40s and 50s in Oak Cliff, attitudes were replete with suspicion and dislike for Northerners (and negroes). I heard the word "Yankee"used often. There were some kids on our block from Astoria, NY that were constantly demeaned. Their dad transferred down to work at post-war Chance Vought. I thought their accent was so cool. Strangely, my dad referred to all northerners
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Went to Sadie Hawkins while in college during the summers. Interesting assortment of women there. I was young then with an abundance of testosterone.
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I suppose Joan's dad was George. I'm just guessing. Our relationship was never that serious that I got to know the family. It was later that I connected her with the restaurant. Jim
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I very well could be misinformed. There are so many fires in the western USA. Jim
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Joan must have been a grand-daughter of the original Lucas. Oddly, Lucas sounds so un-Greek. Jim
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It's good to see that there are still people around that like to remember the Dallas in the 40s, 50s, and 60s and,and ,I suppose, the 70s. We all seem to share certain memories and recollections of places and events. Jim
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As I understand it, the 2015 fire was likely arson-induced. Jim
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in the 60s at NTSU I dated Fiathon Lucas's daughter, Joan. They lived on Yamini Dr. in N. Dallas….. Jim
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