Re: Texas Theater
I read where they had to make a conceptual decision about how they were going to restore it - back to its original 1931 style, for the sake of total originality or back to the way it had been...
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vft_refectory Wrote: > > I recall that a fossil of a large sea going > reptile was found during the building of the > American Air Lines terminal at DFW and put on > display. I was...
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I stand corrected about the display being in the Braniff terminal rather than the American. But didn't American take over the Braniff space after the latter failed, and before they built their own...
View ArticleRe: Dallas Electrical Power 1912?
In 1900, Texas Power and Light built their first electric power plant,, in Trinidad, Texas. Trinidad, TX.,, is 15 miles due East of Corsicana, on the banks of the Trinity River. This location was...
View ArticleRe: Belle Starr's Cave
8/10/2013 Went exploring for Belle Starr’s cave. Our search was not very fruitful. We headed to Crawford Park near the corner of Prairie creek and C.F. Hawn frwy. We entered the creek near the abandon...
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vft_refectory Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I stand corrected about the display being in the > Braniff terminal rather than the American. But > didn't...
View ArticleOld Rootbeer stands
Back in the mid 60s my family and I would go to these places and order up root beers that a carhop brought out in frosty mugs and we all would sit in the car and drink icy cold root beers. Being from...
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The root beer stand I went to in High School was Weber's, and it was on Lover's Lane near Inwood Rd. Had good looking females taking and bringing your order. It was a popular "after school hangout"....
View ArticleRe: Old Rootbeer stands
The two places I spent the most time at were A&W and Weber's. Both on Main St. in Grand Prairie. There was one down the street from Norma's Café on Davis in near Bishop. I can't recall the name,...
View ArticleOLD MEMORABLE ESTABLISHMENTS ON MAIN ST IN GRAND PRAIRIE
Highway 80 seemed to have a little bit of everything. Growing up in Dallas and Grand Prairie offered plenty of old memorable places. Theo's Drive- In Diner The Prairie Dog Drive-In Diner The Griddle...
View ArticleRe: Area Orphanages
Hi! I have questions about Mt. St. Michaels. My mother was sent there when she was 16 and graduated in 61'. Her name was Vienna Valek and I was curious if you or anyone else remembered her or anything...
View ArticleBarefootedness
Would anyone care to take a stab at a date beyond which preteen boys (and maybe some girls) in urban North Texas generally wore shoes in the summer?
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Easy. As soon as they step on a bumblebee in a cool patch of clover as I did when I was 12. Mike
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Mike: I can recall a major stubbed toe and another misstep that, painful though they were, didn't actually cause me to put my shoes back on, at least until about Labor Day.
View ArticleRe: KZEW radio station
I remember the Zoo very well. The old Zoo was the best. Played very deep cuts from albums; did not cater to the sheep, like so many of the other "common denominator" top 40 stations. Sometimes they...
View ArticleRe: Barefootedness
Thing about the bumblebee was that it got stuck in the ball of my foot and tried desperately to get away while I screamed my head off, holding my right foot in my hand and the bee buzzed loudly. My...
View ArticleRe: Barefootedness
I was 10. Had two mishaps that summer: stuck a locust thorn into the arch of my left foot, where it broke off. My mother managed to dig it out after several excruciating minutes. while it was still...
View ArticleRe: OLD MEMORABLE ESTABLISHMENTS ON MAIN ST IN GRAND PRAIRIE
Wasn't Leddy Brothers Western Wear along that stretch?
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