Remember these? (Dallas, Keller, Highland Park: movie theaters, suite, places to eat)

[HockeyDadof2]

Another thread reminded me of one of my favorite reason we use to drive up from Austin to Garland to see my aunt and uncle, before we moved to the metropex. Penny Whistle Park, I apologize if it was already brought up as this is quite the lengthy thread. I guess that place is "lame" by todays standards by man I love that place when I was a kid.

[Lakewooder]

Timely aticle regarding the Lowest Greenville Tango (SHUT UP AND DANCE) frogs: Artist Bob Wade still big on critters

[barney lee douglas]

Originally Posted by 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.

During lunch at WT White's smoking area the rumor came true that a bunch of streakers were going to show up. Pickup came around the back of the school real slow, drove down an alley and all of the sudden 7 streakers came around the corner, all guys. Bad news was one of the streakers fell down hard, got up and limp/ran on.

BLD

[Lakewooder]

Hey nice find on "The Bounty" never went in there but it was fascinating to a kid.

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[barney lee douglas]

Originally Posted by 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.

Originally Posted by 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.

How about The Studio Club? Wasn't it in The Village?
BLD

[Cowboybootnut]

The first time I was in the city of Dallas was in July of 1978. I just graduated from college, took my first job with an oil field service company whose headquarters was on Stemmons and Mockingbird (now a gentleman's club). The company put us up in the old Circle Inn at the NW & Harry Hines area while we were training for four weeks. There were about a dozen or so new employees with me. I remember during the evenings, I would walk east (I was car-less at the time) from the hotel to find someplace to eat dinner. (I wouldn't do that today.) A few times I stopped at European Crossroads for a beer or just to watch people. I also found one of the best burgers at Club Schmitz withing walking distance, south of the hotel.

There were some nice and new apartments on NW Highway, east of the hotel, they looked good enough and safe enough to stay if I would have settled in Dallas at the time. I remember standing on the balcony of the hotel late at night, watching traffic and thinking this is where I want to be.

One time, one of my co-workers who had a car, took several of us to a gentleman's club near Bachman Lake. That was my first time in an establishment like that. I don't remember it’s name, it was located in a plaza. It wasn't one of the "notorious" joints that were in business in the 1990s.

Another time, when I was tired of eating at places east of the hotel, I decided to go north on Harry Hines. Big mistake! I don't think I made it more that 1 block before I got propositioned by a lady of the evening. She was in front of a hotel (long gone) I politely declined and walked on. I believe I went all the way to Walnut Hill, maybe Royal Lane and never found a place to eat. So I carefully walked back, avoiding the lady and her friends, and headed east to the usual restaurants.

Also, one time we went to Southern Kitchen, located west of Harry Hines. I thought I died and went to heaven. What a place, good food and all you can eat. And frog legs, oysters, shrimp, and other seafood. I never had any before so I indulged myself.

The training ended, and I was sent to work in the Shreveport La office. I promised myself that one day I would return. At least once every year during the 1980s, I would drive from Shreveport to Dallas, most every time I found myself driving west on NW highway to the Southern Kitchen. I was married, so there were no reasons to go to European Crossroads, or gentleman’s clubs, but they were still there. I remembered they started changing after the oil bust of 1986.

I finally got out of Shreveport in 1990, and took a job in the Dallas area. I think the Southern Kitchen was closed by then, and most of the area at NW & Harry Hines was in a downturn. At least Club Schmitz is still there.

Excuse the long windy, but this topic just brought back old memories for a relatively new comer to Dallas.

[Lakewooder]

That was a trip back in time -- there was some fried chicken place or something on Harry Hines just south of that hotel -- was called "Manny's"?? Of course The Mecca and Kellers were there too..

Did you go to Circle Disco, Chelsea Street Pub, The Beggar, After The Gold Rush or any of those places?

[Reggie1971]

Glad I found this board. Brings back a lot of memories.

I'm sorry to see a lot of the old places go. Prince Hamburgers had been there on Lemmon since 1927! I remember reading that the developer who bought the place said that it would be turned into a nice shopping strip (we have so few of those -sigh)

Remember a restaurant called...wait for it...Mother Tucker's. Yes folks, with a "T". I'm not being vulgar. That was the actual name (great prime rib and apple pie as I recall). It reminds me of a mischievious uncle who would take us to Fuddrucker's and switch the f and the r when he referred to the place.

Does anyone remember Flibberty Gibbet or Mr. Green? They were children's entertainers in the seventies in the Greenway Parks area. Mr. Green had a tie that he would make fly up at will and carried props like a giant comb. Flibberty Gibbet was dressed sort of like Robin Hood in tights and did magic tricks as I recall (I have some Super 8 footage of her from about 1975)

Among other things, I miss the Orange Julius, which was bought out by Dairy Queen but hardly served by any Dairy Queen locations (thanks a pile guys!) I also remember a cafeteria across from SMU that had a lady there who played the organ. She took requests and I remember asking her to play the Mickey Mouse theme, and she pulled it off! The Highland Park cafeteria was another great place to eat. While waiting in line you went by a picture of all the Presidents.

[kacvb1974]

What an incredibly fun read! I'm feeing sentimental. And old. And now I'm craving an Orange Julius!!!!

As a kid I loved 5 & dimes like at M.E. Moses and TG&Y. My allowance money could buy a whole lotta junk there. Arnold's on Preston between Alpha and LBJ had the best doll house miniatures, could spend hours in there.

Restaurants I miss: Del Taco--Milam at Beltline in Carrollton, Alvin Ord's in FB. JT McCords, Peeples (sp?), Dovie's, Forbidden City, all in Addison. Pete's Cafe for breakfast...but I think it may still be in business??

Other random stuff- Tandy's Leather, Brass Plum, Circus Bootery, Fresh Approach, Sanrio store at Collin Creek, Constructive Playthings, Buster Cooper's dance studio, Sandy Lake Park, Esprit Warehouse on McKinney Ave.

[MaryS80]

The original CompUSA, or should I say SoftWarehouse, back when there were very few places that sold computers and computer equipment. As I recall it wasn't even housed in a big box, but rather an office park.