Colony Club Billboard in Beautiful Kodachrome — Early 1960s
by Paula Bosse
Downtown Dallas has it all…
by Paula Bosse
This. Is. A. Fantastic. Photo.
If only for the great, great, great Colony Club (“the best of the undressed”) billboard featuring Chris Colt (“the girl with the 45s”).
See this same view of the (one-time) intersection of Elm, Ervay, and Live Oak here and here. (The dazzling animated neon Coca-Cola sign was once where Chris Colt is showing off her 45s.)
I almost never post images with watermarks, but this photo is pretty spectacular. Look around the watermark!
I don’t know the seller of this color slide. I have no affiliation with the person. I get no cut in any sale. But I want someone reading this to BUY IT! Let’s keep this with someone who loves Dallas history! (And if you DO buy it and would like to send me a digital copy… well, I wouldn’t say no!) See this slide currently on eBay HERE. (HURRY!)
To see a naughty photo of Chris Colt, you can click on an antique collectors’ website here.
Colony Club ad, Nov. 22, 1962
And below is a photo of Colony Club owner Abe Weinstein in his younger years counting his moolah.
photo: Dallas Jewish Historical Society
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Sources & Notes
Top image is from a color slide in a current eBay listing here. (Seller’s title: “Original Slide Dallas St Scene Colony Club Coca Cola Billboards Southland Life.”) There is no date, but Golden Steer Barbecue opened at 1713 Live Oak sometime in 1961.
Abe Weinstein photo — from his days as the co-owner of Abe’s and Pappy’s — is from the Facebook page of the Dallas Jewish Historical Society.
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Flashback : Dallas 
Gorgeous slide! And what tantalizing snippets of the Medical Arts Bldg. and the Mayflower Restaurant. – Steve Schaffer
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Beautiful color slide. I remember many of those signs when my family visited Dallas coming from Fort Worth. FW had great signage too, but not like Big D.
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I like the Coca Cola sign that was replaced by that ultra Fifties Lee Optical number so much it hurts.
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I don’t know if people realize the dichotomy that was Dallas, Texas in the 1960s. Hard-core evangelical conservatives alongside a naughty side of strippers and whores.
They both existed in Dallas back then, side by side.
When you’ve got W.A. Criswell and Candy Barr, you’ve hit both ends of the spectrum.
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Absolutely.
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[…] just such a great period snapshot of staid-and-conservative, edgy-and-naughty Dallas. From the post “Colony Club Billboard in Beautiful Kodachrome — Early 1960s.” (Somebody bought this color slide on eBay right after I posted this — I hope it was a […]
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cris colt best in my life thanks for the education
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