Remembering Dallas in the late 70's (Garland, Greenville: bars, food, venue)

[Grainraiser]

"How about Southern Kitchen, speaking of all you can eat. Their crabmeat cocktail and cinnamon rolls were to die for."


That place was great. I ate many a meal at Southern Kitchen.

[pat cox dabbs]

Originally Posted by ETex2

Last time I checked the original Dickey's BBQ restaurant was still there, at the NEC of Central and Henderson. I ate there every week during the early to mid '80s since my office was a block away.

yes it is still there. i was talking about closing after they sold all they cooked that day. they would have a line and if you didn't get there the food would be gone for the day. i haven't been there in years i don't know if they still do that. patsy cox ( dabbs)

[Johnz55]

I am trying to remember a nightclub on Greenville ave in the late 70's. It was a dance club with three levels. The bottom level had 2 pool tables-ground level had the bar and some tables and the upper level had a dance floor and some furniture arranged conversation style. A great sound system with dance music all night and lots of people.

[katefrisco]

In the 70's ...well I was young then. I remember going over the railroad tracks from HP over onto Knox Street. I remember going to Polar Bear Ashburns in the area where Toulouse now sits. Knox Street and that area was not that nice but not a bad area of town. I remember JG Boyds.
Restaurants that used to be in the Park Cities..not necessarily by SMU that have long since vanished...
The Rib - barbeque joint on the corner of Lovers Lane and the Dallas North Tollway (Northwest Corner)
Mr. Pepe's on Lovers Lane - very nice French cuisine
J's Cafeteria over on Mockingbird and Airline in the shopping center where La Madeleine is located.

Over in Lakewood Village:

Where Matt's Ranchero is was a restaurant called Seven Seas.

At Northpark:
Doesn't really count but I miss it...Orange Julius across from JC Penney. I used to ride my bike up in the summers to get one. Oh how I still miss Orange Julius.

[awecelot]

Originally Posted by PanTerra

Peggy Sue Bar-B-Q in Snyder Plaza.

Peggy Sue is still there, along with Kuby's, Burger House, and many other Snider Plaza institutions.

[Cowboybootnut]

Originally Posted by Grainraiser

"How about Southern Kitchen, speaking of all you can eat. Their crabmeat cocktail and cinnamon rolls were to die for."


That place was great. I ate many a meal at Southern Kitchen.

The first time that I ever was in Dallas, summer of 1978, I went to Southern Kitchen and loved it! Thought I died and went to heaven. When I moved to Shreveport I came over to Dallas several times and I always made time for a meal at Southern Kitchen.

I miss it.

[g. ingram]

I am so happy to come across this website. I'm an author in the middle of a novel set in Dallas in the late 70's. I lived there for 15 years but moved away in '75 so really appreciate all the postings about places to go and things happening in that time period. Thanks everyone!
g. ingram

[turkeytrot]

It was on the radio and is still there. 96.3 KSCS FM Country radio station back in the late 70s was an "easy listening" country station not the type of country station it is today. It was different. And if memory serves Terry Dorsey may have been on KPLX back then or came along soon after.

[J. S. Greer]

The Blue Chip located in the American Apartments was a small but hipped place to be. Membership required but if you were pretty the bouncer would let you in. Music was a combo by Bobbie who? Hot pants were welcomed. Wiskey sours, JD and seven, Tom Collins and shots. What a neighborhood bar/club. Miss it. So who was Bobbie?

[mgcmanmike]

Yep, Sonny Bryan's on Inwood, just N. of Harry Hines, was a great spot. Construction workers and limos would be lined up to get BBQ and onion rings before they sold out. The son and grandson is who I remember in 1975-6. I met some of the family in the mid '90s and they had sold out. The "new" Sonny Bryan chain of rest. are way over-priced, not nearly as good and the family said they'd sure seen a difference.