Remember these? (Dallas, Spring, Andrews: apartment complexes, home, theater)

[case44]

Hey, gang, let's see if you remember some TV names from the past. For some of you, I'm going to go waaaaaaay back.

Channel 4 (when it had CBS)- Ray Walker, Judy Jordan, Eddie Barker, Warren Culbertson, Lee Martin, Judd Hambrick, Tony Garcia, Dick Johnson, Jay Ruffin, Frank Glieber, Dick Risenhoover, Roger Twibell, Wayne Shattuck, Jack Harrison, Barry Judge, Dennis Monson.

Channel 5 - Russ Bloxom, Ward Andrews, Harold Taft, Boyd Matson, Lee Elsesser, Frank Mills, Bobbie Wygant, Jane Jayroe, Dave Layman, Brad Wright, Roy Eaton, Ron Spain, Ron Godbey, Mary Ruth Carleton, Bill Kelley.

Channel 8 - Bob Gooding, Murphy Martin, Verne Lundquist, Dale Milford, Don Harris, Suzie Humphreys, Jack Van Roy, Rene Castilla, Ray Gaskin, John Criswell, Judi Hanna, Blaine Smith, Ed Hogan.

Channel 11 (when it was independent)- John Whitson, Durwood Rowell, Howard McNeil, Doug Carter, Robin Johnson, Icky Twerp, Jim Newton.

Any of them ring a bell??

[MaryS80]

Harold Taft, and John Criswell I both remember. I think Criswell was on 4 for a while.

I remember Walter Evans on the noon news for channel 4 for many years.

and the 8 country reporter/Dairy Queen guy.

[pfw]

I remember a restaurant by Love that had head phones at each table. You could put them on and hear the control tower or something. I also remember getting orange sherbet every time I went there for desert. Am I making this up???

I saw that someone mentioned Swenson's ice cream parlor. My family loved that place. We sometimes go to the one in Plano but it's just not the same anymore.

The news people I remember...Harold Taft, Brad Wright, John Criswell, Bill Kelley (didn't he also do the children's program that had Davey & Goliath?), Suzie Humphreys (she was KVIL with Ron Chapman, am I right?).

[case44]

I don't know why I'm thinking about this, but does anyone remember Jim Dandy fried chicken? That was the first time I had spicy fried chicken.

[case44]

Originally Posted by pfw

I remember a restaurant by Love that had head phones at each table. You could put them on and hear the control tower or something. I also remember getting orange sherbet every time I went there for desert. Am I making this up???

I saw that someone mentioned Swenson's ice cream parlor. My family loved that place. We sometimes go to the one in Plano but it's just not the same anymore.

The news people I remember...Harold Taft, Brad Wright, John Criswell, Bill Kelley (didn't he also do the children's program that had Davey & Goliath?), Suzie Humphreys (she was KVIL with Ron Chapman, am I right?).

Right. Bill Kelley hosted "The Children's Hour", and Suzie Humphreys did weather and co-hosted "News 8 Etc." in the mornings a few years before she joined Ron Chapman at KVIL.

[case44]

Originally Posted by MaryS80

Harold Taft, and John Criswell I both remember. I think Criswell was on 4 for a while.

I remember Walter Evans on the noon news for channel 4 for many years.

and the 8 country reporter/Dairy Queen guy.

You are right. The 4/8 Country Reporter guy was Bob Phillips.

[pfw]

Originally Posted by case44

I don't know why I'm thinking about this, but does anyone remember Jim Dandy fried chicken? That was the first time I had spicy fried chicken.

I do, my uncle was a manager at one of the stores.

[momof2dfw]

Ahh, Harold Taft. If he said it was going to rain, it rained. I remember many more of those than I thought I would - geez, must have been watching too much news as a kid. OOHHHH, "It's Ten O'Clock. Do you know where your children are?"

Used to watch Davey & Goliath every Sunday morning before heading off to church.

We were just discussing Bob Phillips and the Country Reporter show the other day. Sponsered by DQ and James Wood Motors.

Cruising Forest Lane and actually being allowed to hangout in the parking lots along the road. When they first painted the mural on the wall along Forest.

[MaryS80]

Is Mr. Peppermint in there somewhere?

[case44]

Originally Posted by MaryS80

Is Mr. Peppermint in there somewhere?

That's good ol' Jerry Haynes. Before he was Mr. Peppermint, he was the very first sportscaster on Channel 8 in the 1950s. Hard to believe, but he was.