Pleasant Grove Business Ads: 1959-1969 (Pt. 2)
by Paula Bosse
Jerry’s Food Mart, 6416 Lake June Rd., 1964-ish
by Paula Bosse
This final installment of 1960s ads for Pleasant Grove businesses has even more more ads from the yearbooks of H. Grady Spruce High School and W. W. Samuell High School (a link to the previous posts is at the bottom of this page). (Click ads to see larger images.)
BAXLEY CLEANERS, 8117 Scyene — Murrill L. Baxley owner. This very cute little building still stands!
1960
PLEASANT GROVE CLEANERS, 8011 Lake June Road.
1960
THOMAS COIN-OPERATED SPEED QUEEN LAUNDRY, 11001 Seagoville Road. (Laundromats once offered the use of hair dryers?)
1966
CAMPUS BARBER SHOP, 9614 Old Seagoville Road. (1966: owner Ike Robertson pictured with Jack Kelley and “Red.” 1968: owner Keith Gibson.)
1966
1968
NATALIE SCHOOL OF DANCE, 231 Pleasant Grove Center — Natalie Skelton owner.
1966
SOUTHEAST YMCA, 2818 Prichard Lane. Still standing but now a church, I believe.
1964
PLEASANT OAKS BAPTIST CHURCH, 412 North Masters Drive. Still standing in what looks to be a remodeled building. (The church has asked that I add a link to their website.)
1967
MACON-HOLCOMB FUNERAL HOME, 8142 Lake June Road. Still standing (as a different funeral home).
1959
DUDLEY M. HUGHES FUNERAL HOME, 2615 S. Buckner Blvd. Still standing (as a different funeral home).
1967
1968
GROVE STATE BANK, 1520 S. Buckner Blvd. I’m kind of shocked to see that this once-cool mid-century building is actually still standing — as a Bank of America branch. Its exterior has been smoothed of most of its character, but the original building is still there.
1964
TRINITY SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION, 1838 S. Buckner Blvd. I think this original building is also still standing — now as a Chase Bank branch.
1966
JERRY’S FOOD MART, 6416 Lake June Road and 10420 Second Ave. in Rylie — Jerry Smith owner.
1964
JERRY’S FOOD MART, 1328 Jim Miller Road.
1966
BEST FOR LESS FOOD MART, 1042 Second Ave. — E.R. Smith owner. “Where Ma saves Pa’s money.”
1966
1968
BARNARD’S DRIVE-IN GROCERY, 136 N. Masters — O. L. (Leon) Barnard and Thelma Barnard owners. I love this couple!
1968
N. D. WHITTLE & SON POULTRY FARM, 2660 Dowdy Ferry Road. I’m happy to see this is an ongoing (and expanded) business!
1967
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Sources & Notes
All ads are from the high school yearbooks of H. Grady Spruce and W. W. Samuell.
Other Pleasant Grove posts from Flashback Dallas can be found here.
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I love it (seriously), and the almost flawless work you do with this civic treasure you curate, Paula. It was fun to learn that Jerry’s had added a foot to its food marketing. 🙂
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Ha! Thanks. (I’ve corrected the typo!)
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Yes! Laundromats used to have hair dryers. You know, the kind that incorporate a chair and you sit in and the big shell goes over your head (for those 1960s hairdos). My mother used to do her laundry at one over on Knox (close by Highland Park Cafeteria) and I remember the row of hair dryers along the window. I guess women would wash their hair just before going to do the laundry? Or maybe they just went to dry their hair? In those days there were lots of (relatively) inexpensive apartments along Airline and Abbott and such, that wouldn’t have had room for a big hair dryer in the apartment. I also remember when my mother got a portable hair dryer, that looked like a big bee hive when disassembled; you took the shell off, erected an arm, attached the shell to the arm, put it on a table behind you, and sat in front of it just like the big-uns at the beauty saloon. (Then about 5 years later the blow dryer came out and that was the end of the giant hair dryers). As the son of a woman with large hair, I well remember the giant hair dryers.
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That is so interesting, JC! I had no idea!
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Here’s the Hoover hair dryer, deployed:
And packed up:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/74042852/vintage-hoover-portable-hair-dryer?show_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details
Before she had that one she had one with a flexible hose that carried hot air to a soft shower-cap-like bonnet that went over the hair and dried it without crushing it. That was real handy for defrosting the fridge – she would set the base of it on top of the fridge, lead the hot air hose down into the freezer compartment and keep the freezer door closed on the hose so just a bit ajar.
I bet no one under 40 has even SEEN a refriigerator without self-defrosting, never mind been familiar with the methods used to defrost them quickly.
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Haha!
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I really liked the link to the Whittle Feed Store on Dowdy Ferry Road. In the 1960s I used Dowdy Ferry as a shortcut to Highway 77 and always enjoyed its raffish charm. Not sure that route was any shorter than another but it always was interesting.
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