Flashback : Dallas

Cute little Peruna…

by Paula Bosse

Time to organize creeping clutter — here are a few things I’ve added to old posts.

The first few are related to Peruna, the diminutive SMU mascot. The drawing above and the ad below have been added to the post “Little Peruna: He Died With His Mustang Bridle On — 1934” (bit of a tearjerker…). (Sources: the drawing is from the 1939 SMU yearbook, The Rotunda; the Varsity Shop ad is from the 1960 Rotunda)

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This photo of the wonderful memorial to Peruna I — by noted Dallas artist Michael Owen — has been added to the post “The Peruna Monument — 1937.” (Source: SMU Archives)

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This 1956 ad for Ted Hinton’s Motor Lodge has been added to “Ted Hinton’s Motor Lodge — From Bonnie & Clyde to Motel Heliport.” (Source: Reddit)

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I know that Austin’s BBQ was a big favorite of people, and here are a couple of photos I’ve added to “Bull Pen Barbecue/Austin’s Barbecue — 1949-2000.” (Sources: ads are from the 1964 and 1965 Sunset High School yearbooks)

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These two images have been added to “The New Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. Building — 1928.”  (Sources: photo is from a SWB ad in an 1899 Dallas Fire Department publication, via the Portal to Texas History; the postcard is from “the internet”)

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This little ad has been added to my sole post mentioning Hitler (and not in a way one might expect…), “The Texas Fire Extinguisher Co. and Hitler — 1942.” (Source: Texas Fireman magazine, June 1951, via the Portal to Texas History)

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A photo of the Washington Theatre/Theater from Oct. 1916 has been added to “The Washington Theater — Dallas’ First Movie Palace.” (Source: Theatre Exhibitors Herald and Motography, June 1919)

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This blurry 1970 screenshot of the strip shopping center on Mockingbird, just east of Central (once home to Trini’s Restaurant), has been added to “Trini Lopez: Little Mexico’s Greatest Export.” (Source: KERA Collection, Jones Film Collection, SMU)

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This 1949 ad for Wynnewood (“The Planned ‘City Within a City'”) has been added to the post “Wynnewood.” (Source: Dallas magazine, Feb. 1949)

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The last additions have been made to the post “Metzger’s Milkmen in Bermuda Shorts — 1955.” It’s a long story, but this post has been “hidden” for several years, and I’ve just gotten around to basically rewriting the whole thing. I’ve added a bunch of photos, articles, and assorted other stuff, and I’ve also removed a bunch of stuff. Below are a few of the things added: a photo, a cartoon, and a sampling of headlines from newspapers around the country — see the post to learn about the to-do about BERMUDA SHORTS! (Sources: the photo is from Life magazine, the cartoon is from the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the headlines are from Boston, Detroit, and Murfreesboro, Tennessee)

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