Remember these? (Dallas, Arlington, McKinney: sales, apartments, garage)

[momof2dfw]

Originally Posted by Lakewooder

We were all probably together at the Beggar one night!

Stranger things have happened.

[kt2le]

CHELSEA STREET PUB - that's it! We went all the time and, later, when we home in the summers from college. Once we were in college (you know, older - lol), we'd go places like Up Your Alley to hear Bowley & Wilson and their hilarious songs. We always sat FAR from the stage - lol! It seems like the name changed later to Bowley & Wilson's since they were the headliners, anyway.

What a funny, small world we live in! A group of us were talking at a party once and laughing about how everyone in town has, at some point in their 20's, lived in The Village. None of us at the party knew each other at all but we discovered that ALL of us had lived in one of the various Village complexes at the same time in the early to mid 1980's! We'd probably sunbathed next to each other at the Village Country Club during those summers!

[Lakewooder]

Yes and how about those Village pool parties with bands? I never lived there but I really 'lived' there many times. I remember trying ouzo for the first time at one of those..

My freshman year at SMU (drinking age 18) we went through I don't know how many pitchers of beer at Bowley and Wilson's -- their songs were hilarious and especially when they got sorority girls up on the stage...

[momof2dfw]

OMYGOSH you two..... stop . I'm w/ Lakewooder in having never lived IN The Village but sure do remember it . Bowley & Wilson, geez blast from the past.

[Lakewooder]

Bowley and Wilson would probably be sued today -- also I feel lucky to have grown up with great music. I remember going from Rock and Roll to Disco to Country to New Wave and back in a few short years. I don't get this stuff they play today - I would rather listen to talk radio -- am I getting old or is it really that bad?

[kt2le]

Remember:
"You'll never get your wish/with a SMU sorority........." and who could forget the wooden horse and tall white top hat needed for another one of their classics. THIS IS WHY we always sat FAR from the stage!

[Lakewooder]

I hope you didn't go to the restroom when they had the microphone hidden in there!

[Lakewooder]

Google Bowley and Wilson -- I found that they will be playing at Poor David's soon:

Feb 16 - BOWLEY AND WILSON - THE COLONOSCOPY TOUR 2008 - for tickets: BowleyandWilson.com

[lizziebeth]

What a great post!
I remember:
...when Lewisville seemed soooo far away from where I lived near JJ Pearce. A friend moved up there and we swore it was like driving to Oklahoma. Of course, we took Preston Road as far north as we could and then hung a left in BFE somewhere. Which would probably be 121 but there was nothing up Preston in terms of homes and commerce in those days. Nothing!
...Olla Podrida with all the cool tchotchkes. I spend way too much money there on personalized items (with the paint penned dot letters....very early 80's).
...Bobbie Wygant. She's still on Channel 5 every now and again. When we moved here in 1977, she was one of the first local people I saw on tv while cooling our heels in the Holiday Inn on 75.
...having my first paid job at Prestonwood in 1979 when it first opened. Worked at Morrow's Nut House with lots of girls from Pearce and Richardson although the really popular girls worked upstairs at Paradise Bakery. Loved being by the skating rink. Fun job.
...NorthPark I & II. I think the last movie I saw there was Titanic, what, 10 years ago? They had great bathrooms! You know, like the little private stalls they have at country clubs.
...Cruising Forest Lane. Of course, by the time that I turned 16 and was old enough to drive, I didn't care about Forest anymore. Before they installed all of the no u-turn signs, it was cool to see all the cars go a few blocks east on Forest and then do the big u-turn to get back where the action was.
...Shakey's and their excellent pizza and the Tiffanyesque lamps. Used to go to the one on Belt Line.
...having my 16th birthday party at Magic Time Machine. Our waiter was a hot blond guy with 80's hair with the stage name Thor. Where are you now, Thor?!?!?!
...our graduation party at or close to Love Field. It was some kind of octagonal shaped building (or something like that). Sounds like LLOVE that others have referred to that closed before I graduated in '82 but we were definitely down there somewhere.
...Tinsley's Fried Chicken at Campbell and Preston. They had the most amazing rolls! I think my dad always bought the fried livers. Blech!
...Ferrell's at Valley View.
...The Beach Boys and many others at Starfest (is that really what it was called? Off Forest and Coit?) Great area for outdoor concerts.
...taking the Surtran (?) shuttle from Coit and Banner to the Cowboys games. Guess that wasn't that long ago.
...Blue laws. How did we ever survive without shopping on Sundays? Though as a mall employee, I was happy for the day off.
...The Filling Station on Greenville and Park. Where we went for lunch after the high school graduation ceremony at Moody Coliseum.
...The Enclave. First and last time we had escargot. Went there for homecoming dinner.
...The drive-in at Forest and 75. Seems like they revived it for a while before CarMax moved it. Now I think I'd have to drive to Granbury for the joy and sentimental value of watching a movie from the car.
...dressing up to see whatever show was at the State Fair that year. I still dress up somewhat even though many people are a bit more casual.
...when they were expanding 75 in, what, the late 80's/early 90's? I swore I would only drive 75 after 9 p.m. when traffic was light. It was like a roller coaster ride and those entrance ramps were scary!
...when anything south of LBJ seemed really foreign to me. For a while, I couldn't keep Bachman and White Rock Lakes straight. I don't even think I even knew where they were when I was in high school. Just never had the occasion to go by either one.
...taking my drivers test at the one story business complex called Keystone at Spring Valley and 75. That business complex is long gone! Now it's the theatre (although still called Keystone), MicroCenter, Razzoo's, Bone Daddy's, etc.
...Camaros and TransAms as the cool cars.
...Grand Junction Pizza in Spanish Village at Arapaho and Coit. One of the former employees wrote in to Sports Illustrated last year about how the crew still meet for the annual Thanksgiving football game. They had some great pizza and the most excellent Centipede and Galaga machines.
...when someone predicted in the late 70's that the centerpoint of the eastern half of the metroplex would be at Preston and Campbell. Who knew? Mom and Dad should have bought land in Frisco while the buying was good!

[lonestar2007]

Originally Posted by momof2dfw

Yes, Olla Podrida was torn down many years ago . Nothing but office buildings now in that area.

Yeah, the El Fenix is still open but it is not a cafeteria like it was. bummer

Olla Podrida had some of the coolest things!