The "Good Ole Dallas"..remember???

Santa Fe and Baby Dolls on NW Hwy.
Driving down Harry Hines and finding anything you wanted.

No one has mentioned the original Elliott's Hardware on Maple St. It smelled like a hardware should and it had bin after bin containing every widget and doo hickey known to man

The Dallas Blackhawks ended in the early 80s, then just before the Stars got here, we had the Dallas Freeze and the FTW Fire. Tickets were 7 bucks and the beer was cheap too.

Stan's Blue Note before the fire. The place was much smaller and they were actively collecting those bras and panties. Sunday night bingo with big John Halverson calling the shots (and she said O 69). Those were good times.

The Greenville Av St.Pats parade when it was on lower Greenville and the Patty O'Furniture Presision Lawnchair Drill Team.

Dixie House is still open.

Bill's Records and Tapes when he was on Spring Valley... and the commercial "Bill's, Bill's....BillsBillsBills".

wasn't there a drive in at 75 and 635? Originally Posted by Guero

not only was there a drive-in there... but who remembers the Joe Bob Briggs Drive-In Movie Review? every week in the Dallas Times Herald (before the EVIL Belo Corporation bought them and killed it in their attempt to create a monopoly newspaper, but i digress); later in the Observer. until he got fired for an article called 'We Are the Weird', as i recall.

Joe Bob says... Check it Out.

JPdM

Bobolinks golf course
Rolling Stones at Memorial Auditorium
Shooting range at the north end of the runway at Addison Airport
Stables at what is now Greenhill School
Gold Bond Stamp redemption store
Preston Road as two lanes north of Royal
Fritz Von Erich and the Iron Claw
Dallas Eagles, Orlando Cepada and Willie McCovey
Strip clubs and street walkers on Cedar Springs
Tornado of 1955(?)
SMU v. Navy, 1963
Doc Nelson, Jim Krebs and SMU basketball
November 22, 1963

i remember going to the joe walsh concert half stage at reunion and then king biskit flower hour re-playing the concert the next friday... damn i miss the kzew!

the first texas jam where aerosmith was bood off the stage because they were so drunk and absolutly horrible, ted nugent passing out at the end of his last song and everybody thought it was part of the show until the roadies dragged him offstage.

pink floyd at texas stadium where the pig had deflated and was atop the q102 van so it looked like it was fucking the van.
the dead thing at r.c.'s then at dada.
juan, i think the zappa show at reuinon was 77 or 78 i know because i "LOST" my suburban there that night. we went up into the nosebleed section and got very lost in deed!

The Dallas Tornado playing at Ownby Stadium at SMU.
The dancing frogs on top of some club on Greenville?
Peaches Records?

Also remember when the Grenada Theater was an art house theater with great double features that changed three or four times a week.

It was six frogs over Tangos.

Movie theaters: the strip downtown (Majestic, Palace, Capri and...?), the Esquire on Oak Lawn
Spring Valley Golf Club (on SV between Preston and Montfort)
Preston Hollow Country Club (the once-EDS site on Forest at Hillcrest)
Glen Lakes Country Club (nee DAC pre-Mesquite) on Walnut Hill and Central
Following up on THH/Dallas Tornado: Kyle Rote Jr
Pawn shops on Elm Street
The Dallas Texans
Wes Wise, mayor (and the end of the CCA rule of Dallas -- too bad)
Robert Thornton, Mercantile Bank: "The reason that Dallas is great is because it has dydamic (sic) men".

How about the Magic Time Machine? that was bout the coolest restaurant to go to for your birthday,,,,even if it was WAY OUT in Addison.....

and the Dallas Chaparrals Basketball team

Freds barbecue in Wynnewood village. They would bring the food to your table on a platter with a little sterno can flaming underneath.

Klif radio with Mike Selden and his brother Bob was band director at DeSoto High School.
Kvil radio (the sister channel of Klif) Ron Chapman
Knus 99fm (I called the dj one time and we were talking then the song ended and she said "hold on a minute" I could hear her introduce the next song over the phone and then we resumed our conversation)
Kzew 97.9 with Beverly Beasley (where she would play a new album side at midnight...once I remember her playing the same album side twice in a row...guess she liked that one)
Q102 (and the overnight Dj had a segment at 4am called 'What are you doing strange' where listeners would call in and tell him)

Warren Culbertson on Channel 4

In early 70s Wfaa newscast
Bob Gooding
Murphy Martin
Jack Van Roy (the red headed weather man)
Verne Lundquist
Let me speak to the manager was a program hosted by channel 8 manager (Mike Shapiro I think). He would answer letters from the viewers and talk about the direction the station was heading.
Bowling for dollars (enough said)

a few years later the first African American news anchor in Dallas
was on channel 8 Iola Johnson

Loved those Dallas Blackhawks (I would get to the fair park coliseum early and watch the team on the floor behind the goaltender...shagging errant pucks and one time the goalie broke his stick and threw it over the glass for me to retrieve it)

90 fm radio in the early eighties was news/classical/jazz. They played classical music in the afternoon and in the evening they had a DJ named Ed Budanauro . He introduced me to jazz, reggae, world music you name it. On the weekend they had a show with Dennis Gonzales who at the time was the Mariachi band instructor for the DISD. He had the most amazing musical knowledge of anyone I have heard and he was comfortable with playing Bulgarian chorus music, to Jazz, to anything under the sun.

Nice thread. You guys are bringing back a lot of nice memories.

Anyone remember the Holiday Inn on Central Expressway with the "Eternal Flame" out front? I lost my virginity there. Honestly. Then we went to the Kips Big Boy someone else mentioned for a late night snack.

Was anyone else at Six Flags the week it opened way back in the day?

Anyone remember the small strip club near the circle on Harry Hines & NW Expressway? That was the first one I ever went in.

SL

Reading thru this brings back some great memories.
But a day like today (snow) would be 3 for 1 at Judge Beans and 2 for when it rained.
No better place to go drinking on those two day's.
Any one remember the trailers off 121 and Preston? Aprils??

Fun thread. Great memories!

Anybody remember the Cotton Bowling Palace?

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...4611/index.htm

Bowling was all the rage in the early '60s, and my brother and I always tried to talk Dad into taking us bowling there on Saturdays. As I recall, the owners of Friendly Chevrolet bought the site when bowling's popularity waned.

Pearl Man, I remember riding my bicycle to the Inwood Theater to watch kids' shows. Back then, you didn't even have to worry about locking your bike! (Or mine was crappy enough that no one wanted to steal it.)

I also remember shooting .22s on some acreage not far from the intersection of Marsh Lane and Valley View. That was way out in the country back then!

Juan Pablo de Marco, Harold Taft was the best! They just don't make 'em like him any more. We wouldn't even consider watching or listening to anyone else's weather broadcasts.

Anyone remember Charco's Drive-in on the corner of Mockingbird and Abrams? It was a happenin' place for H.S. and college kids in the late '60s. If you didn't have a date, you could often find one there.

And then there was the Forest Lane cruising scene. At times, the place looked just like a scene from American Graffiti.

Ahhhh, the memories!