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-Ed Orman's Drive-in grocery on Hampton Road across from Lida Hooe. Ed ran the place.

-Halbert's Riding Stable near Mountain Creek Lake

-Motorcycle Hill on Loop 12 - actually a nice group of hills at the southwest edge of the Mountain Creek Escarpment. There was also a very nice flat track in one of the flat areas on top as you went South towards where Mt View Kollege is now.

-Dairy Queen on Hampton Road

-Wee St Andrews Miniature Golf Course on Beckley

-Minuature golf course in Cockrell Hill

-Zang Bowling Alley with a very nice pinball game area with machines that you abuse a lot (tilt) to keep the ball in play

-Oak Cliff Rats

-Snow cone stand at Clarendon and Superior

-Edward's Hamburgers at Clarendon and Superior

-Wyatts grocery store on Fort Worth Avenue and Hampton with Tupinamba just across the street. There was a Skillens Drugs Store on the corner with soda fountain that made a great cheeseburger. Most all drug stores had a soda fountain log ago, I guess. There was one at Page Drug Store in the Heights Shopping Center too that someone just told me about that I didn't remember.

-That black 51 Merc with the chopped roof with purple tail lights with some furry guys inside. They would chase you if you yelled obscenities at them. It could have been a different year than that - I was always running away from it, so I'm not really sure.

-Bronco Bowl on Fort Worth Avenue - demolished in 2004.

-Virgin pins and a white sport coat with a pink white carnation. There's nothing on the Net about virgins pins; it could have been a local fad.

-DA haircut

-LuAnns on Greenville

-Tastee-Freez at Ravina and Clarendon

-Hobby shop at Ravina and Clarendon

-Big Sears store on Jefferson that was always hopping and had a very nice candy counter - demolished. The address was 611 W. Jefferson. Someone just told me that. I don't know how they remembered that.

-Ms Aubrey's study hall

-Rolling pennies in Ms Aubrey's study hall

-Dropping books in Ms Aubrey's study hall

-Cherry bombs at Greiner

-Mr Guzik and that paddle...

-That woodshop teacher, Mr Young, at Greiner that would do hand stands on the work benches

-That metal shop teacher at Greiner with that very noisy paddle...wap

-Lake Cliff Park swimming pool with six 3-meter diving boards. What a kool place.

-Youngbloods Fried Chicken at Colorado and Zang

-Henderson's Fried Chicken at State & Thomas in short North Dallas

-Jeff-Davis Shopping Center...might have been built after '62?

-Naler's Fried Chicken on Davis just west of the Hampton/Davis intersection

-Sunday afternoon at Kidd Springs pool (a weekly happening before there were happenings)

-Saturday afternoon at Weiss Park pool in junior high and grade skool and that 3-meter diving board

-Walking the large drainage pipe under Kidd Springs

-Walking the creek below Kidd Springs

-Walking the creek along Elmwood Blvd and Rugged Drive

-Mustang Falls off Plymouth Road

-Mustang Village off Plymouth Road

-Growing up in Moat City and not even knowing it...

-Swimming Hole on Five Mile Creek just off Hampton and Kiest

-Twin Falls swimming hole on Ten Mile Creek

-Reservior park off Superior at the junction of Plymouth Road and Superior

-Pool hall across from Beverly Hills Theater where you could even play snooker

-Dance parties at the Kidd Springs Pavillion

-Fishing at Kidd Springs

-Watermelon stand next to Pengiun Hamburgers on Davis just off Tyler

-Fishing at Lake Cliff...I never caught anything but perch there

-Catching crayfish in Coombs Creek

-Orange juice stand across from Lake Cliff Park on Zang

-Dances at Weiss Park gym in grade skool

-Polar Bear ice cream store across the street from Lake Cliff Park

-Skillern's Drug Stores - Hampton and Clarendon - Edgefield and Davis - Westmoreland and Clarendon - Fort Worth Avenue and Hampton with those Big Shakes

-Sunset Pharmacy with a real soda fountain - best Cherry Coke I ever had. Store was operated by Mr. Martin

-Boundary Pharmacy at Jefferson and Marlborough... see discussion...we're looking for pixes. Just East up Jefferson was an A&P, an Army Surplus Story, a Grilled System burger place and a 7-11. There was a variety store across the street from the Boundary Pharmacy. It could have been an ME Moses, but I really don't remember. It seems that there were two gas stations across the street - a Gulf station on one corner and a Humble on the other.

-Coghill-Simmons record store at Edgefield and Davis with listening rooms even. Much later in my life I met a gentleman that worked there and he was the one that would let us play anything we wanted for as long as we desired. His name was Morris and he was very kind. He played the piano like you would not believe.

-Cannon's Variety Store at Edgefield and Davis

-A&P Grocery Store at Edgefield and Davis with Schlinder's Bakery right next door

-Cry room upstairs at the Roswin Theater - kinda spooky up there, huh?

-Kessler Theater on Davis

-Harper's Barber Shop next to the Kesseler Theater

-All-day Saturday movies at the Sunset Theater at Hampton and Clarendon (old Jim Town area) with free popcorn sometimes with a 9-cent admission fee

-Yellow Cab Depot at Davis and Polk

-Pool hall at Jefferson and Tyler on Friday nites

-Pool hall at Marlbourgh and Jefferson on Friday nights

-Rexall Drug Store in Heights Shopping Center

-7/11 Store at Edgefield and 12th (kinda rough there at times) for pix: http://www.sunset61bison.com/50s_pics/Goodole7-11.jpg

-Not being kool to ride a bicycle in junior and senior high - yikes, what were we thinking?

-Motor scooter gang at Greiner in '59...shoot, they made us stop riding to skool together in a group

-Cushman Eagles with ape-hanger handle bars in '59

-Mustang skooters that would go 80+mph in '59

-Harley House on Main Street downtown. The Indian house was across the street but that brand had failed in '53 and only used motorcycles were sold in that store. There was an Ariel Square-Four in the showroom for a long time.

-Vincent Black Shadow motorcycle - I never saw one but anyone who ever owned one was supposed to have been killed riding it, uh, the model with two 500cc engines that was supposed to run 150mph.

-Smell of sulfur from those chemistry classes

-Roller Coaster Hill

-That bison head that talked to us...I always thought the voice could have been Mr. Griffin tricking us. I recently found out that it wasn't Mr. Griffin.

-Red Bryan's on Jefferson

-Austin's Barbeque (Bull Pen)at Illinois and Hampton Road. Go here for pix:

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-Goff's Hamburgers in Wynnewood...still one around on Lovers Lane

-Wynnewood Theatre - demolished

-Crest Theatre - bldg still exists

-Roswin Theatre - demolished

-Vogue Theatre - now church

-Beverly Hills Theatre - now church

-Stevens Park Theatre - demolished

-Theatre in Cockrell Hill on corner of Cockrell Hill road and Jefferson - bldg still exists

-Beckley Theatre on Jefferson just off Zang-?

-Esquire Theatre - demolished

-Inwood Theatre - still showing movies there...

-Spirit jug...that always seemed kinda mystical to me and I had out of body experiences when the spirit (or whatever it might have been) was allowed to come out.

-Clearview Shopping Center that used to be an airport. The Clearview sign ended up on the front of a klub in the East End, or as some say Deep Ellum, in the late 80's during the post-punk, post-industrial era. Sign is still there.

-Slinky and physics classes

-Amusement park across from the Dallas Zoo...seems there was a ferris wheel and Tilt-a-worl

-State Fair (flat) amusement rides

-A-Harris Shopping Center at Beckley and Kiest...first mall (open-type in the Oak Cliff)

-Crest Shopping Center close to Saner Blvd and Cedar Creat Blvd (open-type)

-Caterpillar, the Rotor, Scrambler, Flying Carousel, Octopus, Fly-O-Plane (only one operating in US), Roundup, Himalaya, Bubble Bounce, minuature boats, the Hammer (before Tom Delay), Matterhorn, Paratrooper, Rock-O-Plane, Sky Wheel (double Ferris Wheel, Swing Carousel, Tilt-a-Whirl, Twister, Calypso, the Wild Mouse, the Comet...See the following site with photos too:

http://www.flatrides.com/index.html

-Devil's Bowl racing

-Stock car races at Fair Park

-Chantely's Seafood Restaurant off Lemon and Oak Lawn

-Luby's on Jefferson

Some skooters from the 50s:

Lambretta

Vespa

Cushman Eagle

Cushman Super Eagle

Cushman Silver Eagle

Cushman Pacemaker

Mustang Stallion

Mustang Bronco

Mustang Colt

Mustang Pony

Allstate Highlander Step-Through

Alstate Scrambler (Puch) early two-stroke engine

Allstate Cruisaire

Allstate Moped

Simplex Automatic Motorscooter

Zundapp - introduced 2-strokes in US about 1958. Four-strokes were used by the Germans in WWII

Penny Postcards of Dallas

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Central Expressway in 1962

http://www.texasfreeway.com/dallas/historic/photos/images/us75_central_typical_6_1962.jpg

Some downtown theaters:

Majestic, Palace (with a kool organ rising up out of the floor), Tower, Rialto, Capitol, and Melba. In 1955 there was a protest against segregated seating at the Melba Theater. That's sounds like a very weird thing for Moat City. The interior architecture of many of these was striking, huh?

Some classes we should have had in skool:

AC/DC circuits

Basic psychology and sociology

Early adolescent behavior

Good manners

Study habits

When to be quiet

An article about Jim Town at Hampton and Clarendon

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~jwheat/jimtown.html

Dallas County Historical Markers (opens in MS Excel)

http://www.dallaschc.org/Dallas%20County%20Markers.xls

Nice 60's site:

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade60.html