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[barney lee douglas]

Originally Posted by LynnSlaney

Did anyone ever go downtown to the Sportatorium for Wrestling? I had 2 older brothers who loved 10:00 wrestling & once as a treat my father took the whole family to see Fritz Von Eric & the Claw!!
***Also the old Gemini drive in theatre off Central Expin the mid- 70's was fun.

My Dad paved the Adkinson's driveway in Lake Dallas, you know them as the Von Eric's. I got to meet all the von Eric boys when they were kids. They had converted their garage into a work out room complete with weights etc...
BLD

[momof2dfw]

Originally Posted by PanTerra

You know why Baptists don't make love standing up. It might lead to dancing.

OH YOU TWO!!! STOP!! Your making this good Baptist girl laugh too hard. And you know I'm bad as I was the preachers grandkid. Those PK's have NOTHING on us.

BTW, the other fist restaurant I remember w/ the whole ship theme w/ nets and all was Zidder Zee. There was one on Old Denton Drive I believe. Real close to my grandads Baptist Church

[Lakewooder]

My grandmother was a PK (Primitive Baptist at that). Are you sure that Zuider Zee wasn't on the Circle (roundabout) where NW Hwy crosses Harry Hines now?

[rmelancon]

Grew up in Richardson....
Lived right behind Sun Rexall. Spent a lot of time in there. You name it they had it. I remember buying the KISS gum packets with the cards that you flipped over to build a poster size image of the band. I bought the Double Platinum album at Peaches which I think was down on Mockingbird.
Dallas Blackhawks... a minor league hockey team that played at fair park. My Dad took me and some friends to a game and a drunken brawl broke out in the stands. On the way back home Coma was playing at the Gemini and right as we were passing we were presented with a full frontal nude shot of a woman suspended on those wires, broadcast right down Central. Grew up a lot that night.
Pipe Organ Pizza in Promenade. My neighbor owned that organ (at least I believed he did). He also had an entire organ set up in his house. Very eccentric guy that also collected convertibles.
What was the name of the club with the frogs on the roof? My sister was there when some one set off a tear gas bomb. The frogs moved to a gas station in Carl's Corner...which as I recall burned down.
Thunderbird roller rink and making out with my first girlfriend during the slow skate (Journey, Open Arms).
Hanging out at Bills when it was just a little rock memorabilia store where you could get cool t-shirts and buttons.
I am sure I can still draw the kzew winged elephant just like we would do on our book covers. Early in this decade some one (possibly one of the DJs) set up an online version of that station streaming the old playlists. Not sure how long it lasted, but it was a great trip down memory lane. Labella and Rody. RIP Labella.
Getting a fake ID at Vikon Village in Garland. A crude fake of an Oklahoma drivers license that worked great at the beer barn in Plano.
The smoking area at Richardson High. Can you imagine!
Drag racing at California Crossing.
The member name PanTerra reminded me of The Basement and stumbling in there on a Sadistic Sunday. Grew up a lot that night too. Im still a little disturbed by that experience.
Dallas actually hosted an F1 race at fair park in 84, it was amazing.
For those of you like me that have moved away, Google Maps has Street View of Dallas...check out the weird overpass they built over Midway just north of Belt Line.

[tycobb2522]

KZEW sticker! You know, from time to time ebay has those; don't know if they're original or repro, but I've thought of getting one and putting on my daily driver just for kicks. It'd probably be lost on 99.99% of those that saw it though...

[jeffari-al-texani]

Originally Posted by rmelancon

What was the name of the club with the frogs on the roof? My sister was there when some one set off a tear gas bomb. The frogs moved to a gas station in Carl's Corner...which as I recall burned down.

Tango...Tangos...didn't the city have a beef with those frogs?

[tycobb2522]

I think they violated a provision of the sign ordinance that prohibited moving or rotating signs.

[PanTerra]

Originally Posted by rmelancon

For those of you like me that have moved away, Google Maps has Street View of Dallas...check out the weird overpass they built over Midway just north of Belt Line.

That weird over-pass is what we refer to as Mt Addison, otherwise known as Arapaho Rd.

[colt357_2000]

Since new post started popping up in my email, I will add my "dives" to the list...lol
My first "neighborhood" bar was The Village Lounge, in the shopping center on NW highway between Webbs Chapel and Marsh lane. It later became Big Ralphs City Dump No.1, even though it was the only one. Two guys from Chicago bought the lounge, punched a window in the front, it had none before, and hung some ferns from the ceiling.
The Viking lounge was on the NW highway side of the center and was for "older people', like 30 +, and had a more blue collar crowd tht worked at love field.
Caddy corner from the lounge was a building that housed several disco type bars over the years, none lasted very long, hence I can't even remember the names.
Down NW highway there was European Crossroads, and a club nearby, if not in the shopping center, that was called Silver Eagle Mining Co. It later became The Binary Star. Live rock and roll,no dress code to speak of and an overwhelming amount of Testosterone...lol
I don't remember going in there and NOT seeing a fight.
Sometimes we ventured toward the Greenville ave side of town, Lilly Langtry's, The filling station, to name a few. It was once said , that there were 65 bars on Greenville ave between Walnut Hill and downtown. I never counted, but I bet I was in most of them at least once. Especially when I lived on Holly Hill for a couple of years.
If you went to any of those places betweeen '74 and '80 , we may have crossed paths.

[barney lee douglas]

Originally Posted by momof2dfw

OH YOU TWO!!! STOP!! Your making this good Baptist girl laugh too hard. And you know I'm bad as I was the preachers grandkid. Those PK's have NOTHING on us.

BTW, the other fist restaurant I remember w/ the whole ship theme w/ nets and all was Zidder Zee. There was one on Old Denton Drive I believe. Real close to my grandads Baptist Church

My brother came up with the Ship themed restaurant at the Circle at Hines and NW HWY, The Bounty!