Remember these? (Dallas, Garland, Denton: garden, friendly, property)

[jetsfan16]

I found an aircheck of Ron Chapman's morning show from KVIL from 1988.

Here is a link to it, as there was little music on it:

Ron Chapman, KVIL Dallas | March, 1988 : Airchexx.com

[dallas retired]

What times we had in the smoking section at LHHS!

Remember Fun Palace and Hardies?

[PanTerra]

Originally Posted by dallas retired

What times we had in the smoking section at LHHS!

Remember Fun Palace and Hardies?

I remember that fenced-in concrete slab of a smoking section. It would get covered in butts. I can't even imagine having that anymore.

[W James III]

I think many Schools had Smoking sections and even in the 70’s in rural places like Plano chewing tobacco and Dip was often very common
Plano East High School had a gun range under their gym for students, and I am sure after the rash of school shootings it was converted to storage

[W James III]

Does anyone remember the blue laser light that they use to shine skyward off a building at the toll road at LBJ? This would be in the late 80’s

[barney lee douglas]

Originally Posted by W James III

I think many Schools had Smoking sections and even in the 70’s in rural places like Plano chewing tobacco and Dip was often very common
Plano East High School had a gun range under their gym for students, and I am sure after the rash of school shootings it was converted to storage

WT White had such a smoking area behind the school. One time during lunch a bunch of streakers ran around the corner of a house behind the school and one fell down turning a corner into the alley.
BLD

[W James III]

Originally Posted by barney lee douglas

WT White had such a smoking area behind the school. One time during lunch a bunch of streakers ran around the corner of a house behind the school and one fell down turning a corner into the alley.
BLD

You seem to know a great deal about those streakers, sure you weren’t one of them? : J/K

[barney lee douglas]

Originally Posted by W James III

You seem to know a great deal about those streakers, sure you weren’t one of them? : J/K

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[Mike from Garland]

Great site! Read all 96 pages.

[Mike from Garland]

Before Medallion or anything else was built around Abrams and NWHW [loop 12] my brother Pat,me and my cousins used to ride horses there. My Aunt Ann owned alot of the land in that area as did a man named Caruth. She owned a large house at the end of what is now Lovers Ln. Back then that part of Lovers was "Anthony Ln." She built the street and named it after my dad A.A.[Marty] Martinkus . Her and my uncle Lou built all the houses - about 10 I think -along the street and would only rent them to returning WWII armed service members who had, or were expecting, a child.
There was a Cabells Mart on the east side Abrams [which later became a 7-11] just south of the intersection with NWHW. There was a funeral home on the south side of NWHW about where Shakey's Pizza was later built. I believe it was "Crane Funeral Home" As a Kid I have a recollection of this rickety one lane bridge that had a slight turn in it that I think was on Abrams just north of NWHW.
Aunt Ann [now deceased] and Uncle Lou also founded and owned LouAnn's until about 1975. Uncle Lou died in I think 1952, so most of the growth of the night club was due to Aunt Ann's enterprise. Lou and Ann had 4 children ; Chelle, who still lives in the, Dallas area ,Tony, who lives in California and Phillip and Louis who are deceased. The club was on the SE corner of Lovers and Greenville. The Roma Motel was eventually diagonally across the intersection, there was a liquor store just south of the club on the same side of Greenville. In the early 70's the take out pizza kitchen called "To-Go" was opened on the Lovers Ln. side and was operated mostly by cousin Phillip. Across the street was a "Pitch-and-Put" golf. Lee Travino worked there and Phil and My brother Pat would sneak over there when they were supposed to be selling pizza and play golf with Lee. Lee played against them using a Dr Pepper bottle as a club and still beat them!
Also across the road was a stable and boarding for horses. That may be the horse rental that a previous blogger asked about thinking it was on Greenville. Of course that was all just open fields around there then until you got down to Abrams Rd. There might very well have been other stables on Greenville Ave. Aunt Ann had her own stable with horses, corral and lots of room to ride.
My dad worked for Ed Maher Ford, downtown on Harwood, [420 I believe]He would work some Sundays when the dealership was closed and took me and Pat downtown with him. We would wander the streets looking for mischief. We climbed the unfinished Sheritan and Southland Life buildings. Pat broke his arm sliding down the strip between the escalators going to the basement of one of them. It's a miracle we are alive.
I was in the Doctors library of Parkland Hospital, which was just inside the emergency room, on Nov 22, 1963 but I'll share that another time.
Thanks for letting me regress and forgive me my errors. It's been over 30 years since I lived there.
Mike