Remember these? (Dallas, Arlington, McKinney: marketplace, pub, association)

[Lakewooder]

I believe my father used to say that Mr. Culbertson had some connection to Paris, Texas. He was certainly a gentleman and had a kindly manner.

Channel 8 had a "Dale" before Troy also - Dale Milford, who later was elected to congress.

Check this out: Re: Local Television Performers

[Lakewooder]

Also just found this: Welcome to IckyTwerp.net boy does that bring a smile to my face!

[PixieB]

Originally Posted by Lakewooder

Miss Barnes/Cundiff just retired a few years ago from Lakewood Elementary - she was there for almost 40 years! She has some great stories about being the 'young' teacher - most of our teachers were older so we always said we were raised like the kids from the 1930s. We were obedient, lined up, washed our hands and NEVER made a noise during the silent prayer in the lunchroom! Going to Mr. Chapel's office was certainly an ignominious fate!

Did you have Mrs. Alexandar for 2nd grade? One of my funny memories is that she would stand at the door of our room, talking to the other teachers out in the hallway. When the class would start talking and getting loud, she would put her arm in the classroom, behind herself, and "snap, snap, snap" her fingers to try to make us quiet. Unfortunately, she didn't realize we were then laughing at her "loose skin" waggling underneath her triceps! (Though I joke, she was a lovely teacher!)

Rarely did I get in trouble, but after you comment about Mr. Chapel, I recalled having to stand out in the hall and "sweating" it out that I would be let back into class before Mr. Chapel made his "rounds". Seems that I wasn't so lucky, but, I don't think anything bad happened. Hope it didn't go on my "permanent record"! wonder where that thing is now?

[tycobb2522]

Originally Posted by Lakewooder

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[DaveG99]

Originally Posted by kt2le

For you long-time Dallasites..........
Titche-Goettinger,

Now I'm hungry......

I know someone that lives in that building. 1900 Elm

[barney lee douglas]

Originally Posted by PixieB

Regarding the balloons, yes, there was a little mouse shaped head inside the outer balloon. I remember this because when I was about 4 or 5 my mom had bought me one....that night, when trying to go to sleep, seeing that "head" floating around in my room was just a bit too much, so mom had to take it to the den! Also would do the run and slide routine while mom and dad looked at things in Jas. K Wilson (Boooooring!) Love seeing the ducks and the marshmallow/pecan Christmas decorations.

I feel like I learned to walk in Northpark! How about: Young Ages, The Shoe Box, there was a "dime store"...maybe a Woolworths or something, and it always smelled funny! In the wing that had JC Pennies, Oh, and the Kip's coffe house restaurant, across from the big fountain in front of Titches...upstairs on the wing where Lord & Taylor was, the two favorite clothing store...I can't remember, they were upstairs, directly across from L&T. Oh, Casual Corner and I think The Limited. Judy's was down from there...not a place mom or dad took us to shop, but I did buy some really expensive ($100 or so) cream colored suede? dress boots...I remember Dad not being too happy that I had spent that much money.

In Hillside Village: Jo-Jo's toy store (how I coveted the Suzy Homemaker toys) and their signature gift wrap of large and small polka dots, the Schwin bicycle shop, and even a "place" where you could take your own motorized race cars and race them on a track (during the 60's), John Cobb drug store had a soda fountain (I learned you cannot ask a neighborhood friend to buy you an ice cream cone and walk it home to you!), and near and dear to my heart was Davenport's 5 & 10 cent store (or, 5&dime). I always envied the little girls from St. Thomas in their cute uniforms, and even remember seeing the nuns in their full habit in the dime store too! In fact, I think Davenport's smelled a little funny. Must be something about dime stores that all smell funny!

White Rock Lake where you could rent peddle boats at the old bath house.

Oh, on Hillcrest, just north of Mockingbird, The Red Barn restaurant? Yum...I can still smell the fried chicken...and you always received a red balloon when you left.

Out on far Northwest Hwy (I think) there was a circle and on the right was a restaurant that looked like an old ship...I read earlier the name was "The Bounty". The only time I remember going as a tiny child I saw what was called "a yard of beer" and the beer glass was nearly as tall as me!

Seeing Santa at the Ross Ave. Sears store...and the incrediblly intoxicating smell of popcorn that emminated from the candy counter in the middle of the store!

Vincent's Seafood in Lakewood, next to the Lakewood Movie theatre.

Griffin's or maybe Griff's Hamburgers on Abrams just south of Northwest hwy...I think they were closed in the 60's after the word was they had horsemeat in their hamburgers? I just remember their little "icon" figure was cute.

And I do remember Dan's cafe in Lakewood. I think I only ate there one or two times...being ever so bold as a Senior and actually leaving campus for lunch! (Heck, that was so long ago, the worst thing you could do was get caught chewing gum in class or writing "notes" with colored markers in study hall!) When I was in town recently I looked for it and was sad to see it gone. Yummmy hamburgers and such a charming, cafe feel.

My favorite place was the Kips Big Boy on Mockingbird and Greenville. The Silver Goblet milkshake (I always seemed to get the one that was leaking?) and their French Toast had somthing on it that reminded me of a wooly mammoth?! There was an old house just to the east of this Kips, and we would stare out the window at it. Mom said that when she was a teenager at Woodrow, they all thought it was haunted...and that was back in 1947! Imagine how run down it was by the early 60's!

Anyone remember a Charco's drive-in from the 60's? It was on Mockingbird and Abrams, just west of where the old Southern Maid donought trailer was, on Abrams.

I love the old Dallas. And I really enjoy these type's of threads! Haven't accomplished anything tonight...just couldn't stop reading!

Super fun to read all the memories! I was just at the twice yearly antiques day in Round Top, TX and one of the vendors had a Kipps Big Boy Figure, I mean the regular size that was always by their restaurants!
Does anyone remember the store on Maple called Pandemonium? Cool place to go for all the OUT THERE stuff. I got many a black light poster there for my COOL ROOM, lol. I had at one count, 128 posters with a 4 foot black light. Talk about colorful!
BLD

[Casa Linda boy]

Vincent's in Lakewood later became The Seven Seas restaurant for several years. There was also a Wyatt's cafeteria in Lakewood in the 70's as well as The Electric Circus disco club, which was across the street from Mickey Finn's pool hall.

[Casa Linda boy]

Vincent's in Lakewood became Seven Seas restaurant for a few years. It was across the street from a Wyatt's cafeteria during the 70's and around the corner from the Electric Circus, a disco club in those days, formerly called the Chalet back in the 40' and 50's. There was also a Mickey Finn's in Lakewood where the old Skillern's drug store had been at Abrams and Gaston.

[Lakewooder]

Mr. Stefanos owned Seven Seas; his daughter was in my class. That Wyatt's was the very first in the chain (we also had the first Minyard's nearby and the El Chico was the oldest). I can remember Skillern's (getting a banana split at the fountain - seemed traitorous not to go to Harrell's but they were having a special) - also Mickey Finn's was the foosball capital after that - many kids from Woodrow went there but I was 'too Baptist' to go until later!

Do you remember Mr. Cat's?

[PixieB]

Ok, that explains why I remember both Vincent' and Seven Seas in my memory. Another place I feel that I "grew up" was Wyatt's in Lakewood. Remember the round "Chef's face" emblem on front? Also, inside the restaurant, there was a "window" in the wall where the employees would put the trays and dishes to go on a conveyer belt into the kitchen to be washed. As only a childs mind could imagine, I thought it was more "cartoon" like and afraid that little children could be sent to be bathed!? Oh, and it was a treat to go up to the counter and pay the bill, for they gave each child 1 piece of Fleers Double Bubble gum!

Regarding Harrell's Drug Store...my mom graduated from Woodrow in the late 40's and said that after school they would stop by there for a malt or soda...had a juke box, and it was a fun, just like "Happy Days". I always felt jipped that all that had changed by the time my era rolled around..., but not too badly! I can remember the wood shingled roof feature on Harrell's, but can't place where Skillern's was in relation to Harrell's? Also, I remember hearing about the Lakewood Rats, sort of like a Fonzie group of guys, in the 50's.

There was a dress shop, Rose's , next to Wyatt's where my grandmother bought my mom's formal dresses for Woodrow dances, and it was really neat when my mom bought a dress for me, for one of Woodrow's dances.