by Paula Bosse
The kindly gentleman in the bow-tie will look after your five-year-old when you send her to the convenience store for bread and milk.
I’m assuming this is one of the first national ads for Dallas company 7-Eleven as it expanded and expanded and expanded beyond Dallas and the South. How quaint.
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Photo by Ferd Kaufman/AP (click for larger image)
by Paula Bosse
It snowed today in Dallas! It’s pretty, but not as pretty as this 1962 night-time view of Commerce and Akard (looking west). Even the approaching slush looks sophisticated in glamorous black-and-white.
(See a fantastic color photo from 1957 showing the northwest corner of the Adolphus block with that incredible Walgreen neon sign in full view, taken from the front of the Baker Hotel, here.)
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“Texas’ 16 lane (3-5-5-3) Stemmons Freeway, looking toward downtown Dallas.”
Oh, for “traffic” like that on Stemmons these days….
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