Safari Redux
by Paula Bosse
Dallas? Yes!
by Paula Bosse
Back in 2014 — when Flashback Dallas was still in its blogging infancy — I wrote about the Safari Steak House in North Dallas in the post “Back When Preston Royal Was ‘Exotic’ and Had Its Very Own Elephant.” There were a few errors in that post which I corrected today, thanks to a couple of commenters on the original post who pointed out that what I thought showed the Safari restaurant at Preston & Royal showed, instead, the Houston location. Kind of embarrassing!
What better time than this to say that I ABSOLUTELY WELCOME CORRECTIONS!! I’d like this blog to be as unpedantically accurate as possible, so, please, if you see I’ve smugly written something which is blatantly incorrect, please let me know! I’ll be happy you let me know.
I invite you to check out that original post, now updated with a couple of photos of the actual Dallas Safari Steak House, including the one above, taken by the estimable Squire Haskins in 1961.
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Sources & Notes
Photo “Safari Steak House, Dallas, Texas” by Squire Haskins, 1961, from the Squire Haskins Photography Inc. Collection, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections — more info on this photo can be found here. (Thank you for the links, Tom Bowen!)
The Safari space is now occupied by Royal China, which I love from the days I worked across the street at Borders.
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Flashback : Dallas 
Anybody remember parasailing behind cars in the empty field on the southwestern corner of Preston and Royal?
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Wow. Not far from the fire station: https://flashbackdallas.com/2014/11/07/preston-royal-fire-station-1958/
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That empty space in the corner between the two buildings was eventually filled by Contemporary House, a fantastic mid-century modern furniture store which also had a shop on Greenville Ave. south of Park. It was full of Eames and Herman Miller. My parents bought a really cool Drexel desk there. I remember spending quite a bit browsing time there in the 50’s.
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Thanks for the additional info, Victoria!
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I had my birthday party there in , I think, 1960. Just a couple of friends and my parents. I remember they sang an interesting and harmonious version of “happy birthday” that seemed pretty exotic.
I was in grade school at the time…
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