Searching a MORE LIBERAL, HIP, ARTSY Dallas suburb (Garland, Denton: salary, living in)

[Lakewooder]

I think Forest was still a two-lane road back then (we had a cousin who lived in some apartments which were out in a field at Webb's Chapel and Forest around that time) and LBJ was not built until about 1969. I can remember that the Sears was built before Valley View Mall - and believe me there was not much out there...Doran Chevrolet moved there from Downtown (we bought a new 1966 Impala downtown -$3,200? ) and lots of folks thought they were crazy.

[theloneranger]

Originally Posted by Lakewooder

I think Forest was still a two-lane road back then (we had a cousin who lived in some apartments which were out in a field at Webb's Chapel and Forest around that time) and LBJ was not built until about 1969. I can remember that the Sears was built before Valley View Mall - and believe me there was not much out there...Doran Chevrolet moved there from Downtown (we bought a new 1966 Impala downtown -$3,200? ) and lots of folks thought they were crazy.

People were predicting the demise of Jesuit when it moved to Forest and Inwood in 1963...there was so little development that Jesuit was able to establish the street numbering system for Inwood...therefore they picked the easiest address for 16 year old boys to remember and went with 12345. Ursuline had been in the area since 1948 and was literally the first building within a mile of where it opened.

[Lakewooder]

Well when I was a small child they tore down the original Hockaday on Greenville at Belmont - I have memories of going to the demolition sale because I still have a couple of cabinets from there I plan to put into my 1916 Craftsman Bungalow at some point.

It's too bad they tore down the original Ursuline Convent on Live Oak (before my time) that was a magnificent building from the 1880s. St. Paul Hospital from about the same time (now Bryan Place) was still around when I was a kid, I had a few friends who were born there.

[BigDGeek]

Originally Posted by Lakewooder

Ha! That's roughly what I said about my fifth grade English teacher, Jolly Blanche Robertson - always quoting Shakespeare and she appeared to be from that era!

However, I think a lot of the posters here were alive in 1970 when this map of Dallas and its satellite cities was drawn:


http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world_cities/dallas2.jpg

I wasn't. And it isn't 1970 anymore. Richardson may have started off as a "satellite city" but there are not any cows or cotton fields anywhere near here now. I can find my Richardson neighborhood no problem on that map (in yellow, no less).

[FarNorthDallas]

Hahaha, there's Renner, TX on that map. And I didn't realize Shepton was the name of a town in what is now Plano.

[Lakewooder]

LOL BigDGeek I know it's not 1970, I'm more stuck in 1984...uh not the book.

Anyhow folks that 1970 map was my world growing up, so when I spout off about certain suburbs and exurbs, imagine growing up that world!

[Katenorthwest]

Originally Posted by artsyguy

Great post. Austin's liberal is completely different than the liberalism in Dallas. Austin is more about statism, hiding prejudiced beliefs behind a facade of PC behavior, and being weird. Dallas is more of a libertarian liberalism.

kate's husband again. libertarian is good! i voted third party and am a huge ron paul supporter, my wife voted differently but we're both very independantly-minded, constitutional folks. it's not everything but it's nice to find places that welcome thoughtful intellectualism; places that aren't blindly committed to divisive loud rhetoric from either side.

[BigDGeek]

Originally Posted by FarNorthDallas

Hahaha, there's Renner, TX on that map. And I didn't realize Shepton was the name of a town in what is now Plano.

Originally Posted by Lakewooder

LOL BigDGeek I know it's not 1970, I'm more stuck in 1984...uh not the book.

Anyhow folks that 1970 map was my world growing up, so when I spout off about certain suburbs and exurbs, imagine growing up that world!

I understand that; I still have to look at a map to find some very far-out suburbs that I hear people talking about. I grew up in the 1980s and when I was a kid we never went north of LBJ unless we were going to the Galleria which was not very often! Plano was very far away in those days, 190 did not even exist!

[_Charles_]

Try Oak Lawn and Oak Cliff - you need to go midtown not the burbs.

[redman421]

"A town with culture, art, music, parks, lakes, trees, recreation (other than huge sports events). Price doesn't matter."

Because only liberals enjoy and appreciate these things right? The rest of the conservative republicans are part of the great unwashed that only care about 7-11 and Sonic...it is statements like the above that make me dislike liberals...why don't you move to NY instead..they will welcome you with open arms.
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