Flashback : Dallas

Central Dallas Public Library

by Paula Bosse

Time for a few more of these: photos, etc., I’ve come across recently that I am adding to old posts on the topic in order to keep everything together, but I’m also putting them here because they’re still kind of “new.” All of these are things I’ve come across while working at my new job on the Dallas History floor of the downtown library (which, so far, has been great!). I’ve been looking through a lot of old Chamber of Commerce magazines on breaks, and that’s where a lot of these images come from.

But first, above, a really great architect’s drawing of the very library where I work (the architects were Fisher & Spillman). I’ve added it to the post “Flashback Newsflash: Working at the Library.” (Source: Dallas Public Library Archives, Dallas History and Archives, Dallas Public Library) (Images are larger when clicked.)

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This photo of kids lining up to buy tickets to see The Beatles ran with this caption: “The Preston Ticket Agency, a service of the Preston State Bank of Dallas, recently attracted this crowd when the agency was named to handle the exclusive sale of tickets for a September performance in Dallas of the Beatles quartet. Some youngsters stood in line 24 hours before the ticket office opened for business. The Preston Ticket Agency has been in operation since 1963, and last year served over 40,000 customers with tickets to major Dallas entertainment attractions.” It has been added to 2014 post “The Fab Four in Big D — 1964” (Source: Dallas magazine — a publication of the Dallas Chamber of Commerce — July 1964, Periodicals Collection, Dallas Public Library)

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The library has a poster collection. It has been dormant for many years, but it would be nice to get some new additions to the collection! If you have Dallas-specific posters, please considering donating them to the library — or, if you produce posters or flyers for events, keep us in mind and send us a copy. This poster from 1973 publicized an East Dallas neighborhood project that, happily, was successful. I’ve added it to 2016’s “The Gateway to Junius Heights” (and, incidentally, the 1917 date on the poster is incorrect, as I found ads from 1909 that had the pillars/columns/gate in them). (Source: Poster Collection, DPL)

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This 1936 ad for the Outdoor Electric Advertising company features a photo of the exterior of the Main Street side of the Adolphus, with a big neon sign for the Century Club and a smaller sign for the Adolphus Bar. I’ve included this in the 2022 post “1400 Block of Main Street, ca. 1946,” which shows this same view in the daytime. (Source: Southwest Business — published by the Dallas Chamber of Commerce — Sept. 1936 — Periodicals Collection, DPL)

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I really like this photo of Everette DeGolyer, seen here with Stanley Marcus, so I’ve added it to “Everette Lee DeGolyer, Bibliophile” (2016). (Source: Dallas magazine, Sept. 1951, Periodicals Collection, DPL)

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This cool art deco building began as an automobile showroom but became a National Defense School during WWII. I’ve added it to “2222 Ross Avenue: From Packard Dealership to ‘War School’ to Landmark Skyscraper” (2015). (Source: 1942 booklet “Young America in Dallas,” DPL)

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This photo and ad regarding the decor of the Administration Building during the Texas Centennial have been added to the agonizingly titled “State Fair Coliseum/Centennial Administration Building/Women’s Museum/Women’s Building” (2018). (Sources: photo is from Southwest Business, June 1936; ad is from the Oct. 1936 issue of the same magazine, Periodicals Collection, DPL)

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Still on the Centennial, this is a cool photo showing the large team of lighting people who produced what, by all accounts, was the most spectacular thing about the already overwhelmingly spectacular Texas Centennial (and, also, the following year’s Pan-American Exposition): the lighting displays, which, at the time, cost more than $500,000 (equivalent now to more than $11.5 million). From the article that accompanied this photo: “The general lighting effect is a battery of twenty-four 36-inch searchlights as powerful as the giants that flash from the dreadnoughts of Uncle Sam’s navy. Each searchlight will produce 60 million candlepower. Combined, the battery has a total candlepower of 1.5 billion. A 350,000-watt power generator will produce this colossal quantity of ‘juice.'” You can see those 24 giant searchlights (and the tiny-looking men standing next to them) in this photo, which has been added to 2016’s “Albert Einstein ‘Threw the Switch’ in New Jersey to Open the Pan-American Exposition in Dallas — 1937.” (Source: Southwest Business, June 1936, Periodicals Collection, DPL)

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This Dallas Power & Light ad has been added to the 2024 post “On the Line at Coca-Cola — 1964.” (Source: Dallas magazine, April 1964, Periodicals Collection, DPL)

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Here’s the Preston Road Neiman-Marcus under construction. I’ve added it to “Neiman’s First Suburban Store: Preston Road — 1951-1965” (2020), (Source: Dallas magazine, Feb. 1951, Periodicals Collection, DPL)

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The Highland Park swimming pool looks so quaint. I’ve added it to another quaint photo in 2015’s “A Dip in the HP Pool — 1924.” (Source: Highland Park, an interesting newspaper published by developers Flippen-Prather, June 1927, Periodicals Collection, DPL)

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And, lastly, I’ve added an article which was, basically, a what-the-heck-is-the-deal-with Zangs vs. Zang’s vs. Zang Boulevard? It adds a little (only a little) insight. The caption for these two photos (very difficult to capture with a phone!): “Harry Gaston, Oak Cliff real estate and insurance man, points out the ZANGS street sign in the north 700 block of the boulevard at Canty Street. A look of bewilderment adorns his face, however, when he discovers the ZANG (no S) sign on the opposite end and other side of the same north 700 block. City records show ZANG as the correct spelling… a reorientation program for the public and some great big headaches for map makers.” The scanned article (not included here), these very wonky photos, and a portrait of Louis C. Zang have been added to 2017’s “Zang and Beckley.” (Source: Oak Cliff magazine — published by the Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce — Nov. 1967, Periodicals Collection, DPL)

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Enough for this installment!

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Hometown hero… (Dallas Historical Society)

by Paula Bosse

Time for another installment of whatever this is, in which I add photos I’ve recently come across to old posts on the same topic, in order to keep things together.

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The photo above shows baseball great (and Dallas native) Ernie Banks, and his wife, Mollye, on a trip back to Dallas to participate in an all-star game and to be the man of the hour on Ernie Banks Day in Big D (Oct. 11, 1955). I’ve added this photo to the 2014 post “Ernie Banks: From Booker T. Washington High School to the Baseball Hall of Fame to the Presidential Medal of Freedom.” (Source: John Leslie Patton Jr. Papers, Dallas Historical Society, Object ID V.86.50.902)

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Below is a somewhat odd-looking, down-at-the-heels house, as seen in 1975 — at the time, it was the HQ for community radio station KCHU. The once-palatial residence, built in 1897, was on Maple Avenue, a favorite residential street of the upper crusters. It still stands, and is, somehow, more beautiful today than it was when it was built 127 years ago. It is now Hotel St. Germain (2516 Maple). I’ve added this screenshot of a house that has seen some STUFF to a post from 2019, “The Murphy House — Maple Avenue.” (Source: screenshot and detail from footage shot in December 1975 by KERA-Channel 13, probably for their local show “Newsroom”; KERA Collection, G. William Jones Film and Video Collection, Hamon Arts Library, SMU — watch the short report about KCHU on YouTube here)

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This photo shows the former Powell University prep school at Binkley and Hillcrest, across from SMU. The school was dissolved in 1927/1928. This photo is from 1931, and the old place is looking a little shaggy. Not sure what it was at that time. The building still stands (or last time I looked, anyway!). Nice to see a horse grazing on the property (in the Park Cities…). This photo has been added to 2019’s “Send Your Kids to Prep School ‘Under the Shadow of SMU’ — 1915.” (Source: Brown Book, University Park Public Library)

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In 2014, I wrote about the Metzger’s Milk home delivery drivers wearing a new uniform, which included Bermuda shorts and knee socks. This was pretty shocking at the time, and it made news around the country — it was featured in Life magazine, and there was even newsreel footage. I’ve added the silent footage to the post “Metzger’s Milkmen in Bermuda Shorts — 1955.” Watch the 1-minute silent clip from 1955 here. (Source: Grinberg, Paramount, Pathe Newsreels, via Getty Images)

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For those who couldn’t afford to be a member of the swanky Lakewood Country Club, the nearby Bob-O-Links course was the affordable neighborhood answer for those looking to play an affordable round of golf. This matchbook cover art has been added to 2016’s “Bob-O-Links Golf Course — 1924-1973.” (Source: eBay)

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I haven’t had a Great Flood mention in a while. I’ve added this photo (a real photo postcard) to the 2015 post about a boat that served an important role in rescuing victims, “The Nellie Maurine: When a Pleasure Boat Became a Rescue Craft During the Great Trinity River Flood of 1908.” (Source: John Miller Morris collection of Texas real photographic postcards and photographs, DeGolyer Library, SMU, here)

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A photo of the all-dressed-up Oriental Hotel (southeast corner of Commerce & Akard), draped in bunting and various festoonage to welcome the Elks Convention to Dallas in The Year of Our Flood 1908, is now squeezed into 2022’s “Elks-a-Plenty — 1908.” Note the woman with the parasol at the bottom right corner. (Source: eBay)

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Fast-forward to 1939 and a screenshot from a fantastic bit of color (!!) film brought to our attention a few years ago by author Mark Doty and local bon vivant Robert Wilonsky (I HIGHLY encourage you to watch the short film here). It shows the legendary (to me, anyway) animated neon Coca-Cola sign which once stood at the 3-way downtown intersection of Live Oak, Elm, and Ervay. I’ve added it to “Tomorrow’s Weather at Live Oak & Elm — 1955-ish,” from 2016. (Source: screenshot from a 1939 color film — see link above to watch it)

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I posted about Salih’s earlier this year, and Mark Salih, the son of co-owner Jack Salih, sent me this photo showing the interior of the restaurant and a glimpse of the carved Western mural on the walls. Owner George Salih is on the far right, and his brother Jack is next to him. I’ve added it to “Salih’s, Preston Center: 1953-1977.” (Source: Mark Salih, used with permission — thank you, Mark!)

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Finally, I recently updated an old post from 2014, “Ned Riddle: Dallas Artist and Creator of ‘Mr. Tweedy.'” My parents were fans of the Mr. Tweedy single-panel comic that appeared in newspapers around the country, and I used to read those little books over and over. Poor Mr. Tweedy. Nothing ever went right for him! I added this panel to the post. (Source: somewhere online — the panel appeared in newspapers on Nov. 5, 1969)

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That should do it for now!

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146 years ago…

by Paula Bosse

You may have heard that DFW is in the “eclipse path” of the historic total solar eclipse that will happen on Monday, April 8, 2024. “Totality” will occur in Dallas at about 1:40 PM and will last approximately 3 minutes and 51 seconds. If you have even a shred of interest in things like this, just know that DFW won’t experience another total solar eclipse until the year 2317. …Just so you know.

Five years ago, I wrote about the previous locally experienced total eclipse, which favored Fort Worth over Dallas (this year, Dallas will experience “totality” for almost 4 minutes, Cowtown will have to do with a mere 2 and a half minutes): “Viewing the 1878 Solar Eclipse in North Texas.” That post has been racking up the hits recently, as interest has grown in this whole eclipse thing. Check it out! Also, check out the links at the bottom of that post, which link to contemporary newspaper accounts of the 19th-century event.

Also, you might want to check out these sites for info on the 2024 eclipse in Texas:

• NASA
• NationalEclipse.com (scroll down for Texas info)
• NationalEclipse.com — see times for all Texas cities in the total-eclipse path

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Sources & Notes

Photo from the Tarrant County College NE, Heritage Room, via the Portal to Texas History.

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Highland Park of yesteryear…

by Paula Bosse

Periodically, I add photos or postcards or ads that I’ve recently come across to old Flashback Dallas posts. And I’m doing that again here.

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I’m adding the very pretty postcard of Exall Lake (above) to the 2016 post “Lakeside Drive, Highland Park.” (Source: eBay)

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This early-’40s shot of an MKT train rolling through the Upper Greenville area, with SMU seen in the background and a couple of helpful maps have been added to the 2014 post “Katy Comin’ ‘Round the Bend — 1908.” (Source: DeGolyer Library, SMU — as printed in The Park Cities: A Walker’s Guide and History by Diane Galloway and Kathy Matthews)

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These two great photos by R. C. Hickman have been added to the 2017 post about one of the top Black clubs in Dallas (which had several names…): “1710 Hall: The Rose Room/The Empire Room/The Ascot Room — 1942-1975” These two photos show teen dancers (in 1956) and entertainers (in 1951, pardon the watermark)) at the Empire Room. (Source: R. C. Hickman Photographic Archive, Briscoe Center, University of Texas Libraries)

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I always say I’m not a sports person, but whenever I’ve written about sports, I’ve enjoyed it. But it’s got to have an “angle” — like 2014’s “Simulcasting the World Series in Dallas in the Days Before Radio, Via Telegraph,” which I still think is weird/cool. I’ve added an ad from 1913 featuring the Baseball Play-o-Graph. (Source: Billboard magazine, Mar. 22, 1913)

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Dallas once had tons of swellegant downtown nightclubs, including the Mural Room at the Baker Hotel. Below a 1956 ad geared to the tourist, promoting the Baker, in the age of the cigarette girl. It’s been added to “The Baker Hotel,” from 2017. (Source: This Month in Dallas, Dec. 1956)

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Margo Jones was a force to be reckoned with. This 1956 ad for Theatre ’56 (which continued after her untimely death in 1955) has been added to 2022’s “New Wheels for Margo Jones — 1955.” (Source: This Week in Dallas, Dec. 1956)

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My father was a big fan of the Old West (and the modern Old West), and he mentioned famed Texas Ranger “Lone Wolf” Gonzaullas frequently. I’ve added this photo of one of his custom pistol grips to the 2020 post “Lone Wolf Gonzaullas: Texas Ranger, Dallas Resident.”

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This photo of Elm Street looking east from about Akard, circa 1894, shows Mayer’s beer garden at the left. It has been added to 2022’s “S. Mayer’s Summer Garden, Est. 1881.” (Source: detail of a photo by Clifton Church, from his book Dallas, Texas Through a Camera, DeGolyer Library, SMU)

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A portrait of Andrew Goodman, a man who was born into slavery, has been added to the 2023 post “Ex-Slaves in Dallas — 1937.” The lithograph is by Merritt Mauzey, a Texas artist who studied art and etching in Dallas. (Source: Smithsonian American Art Museum)

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I love ads that have photos of the businesses in them. …Unless the image quality is pretty dire. Like this one. Which I’m including here anyway. The 1956 ad for the Highland Park Cafeteria shows the interior — which I somehow managed to never see personally. But this photo (which in its original form is quite small and difficult to make larger) isn’t great, but, as things often go, I really wanted to know what that was that looked like a mural. I eventually found another ad (the one below from 1950), which referenced a “Williamsburg mural,” and, after asking about this on the Flashback Dallas Facebook page, a comment led to the screenshot from unknown news footage from 1953. I tried to sharpen the image but didn’t have much luck — except that I could tell that it does, in fact, appear to show a mural of Colonial Williamsburg, above a long planter (where, as the ad below says, an “Easter lily hedge” would have been). I have no idea why that was in the HPC, but I’d love to know. This tiny tidbit of information gleaned from a 68-year-old ad is of very little importance, as these things go — except that it took me so long to figure out! Anyway, these have all been added to last year’s “Highland Park Cafeteria and the Knox Street Business District.” (Sources: ad with photo from This Month in Dallas, Dec. 1956; ad without photo from April 1950; screenshot from unknown news footage, 1953)

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Lastly, a short Channel 8 News clip from Oct. 1973, which has an interview with Carl Anderson, a lifelong monarch butterfly enthusiast, talking about his favorite subject. In the video he is shown walking through Lake Cliff Park (the reporter mistakenly calls it Tenison Park). In the background you can see the late, lamented Polar Bear Ice Cream “igloo” on Zang Blvd. I am adding the video to one of my all-time favorite posts, “University Park’s Monarch Butterfly Wrangler.” I always think of Carl and his love of butterflies when monarchs pass through Dallas. (Source: WFAA-Channel 8 News clip, WFAA Collection, G. William Jones Film and Video Collection, Hamon Arts Library, SMU)

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Until next time!

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Oak Downs (photo courtesy Robert Hurst)

by Paula Bosse

Thanks to the great photographs shared with me by reader Robert Hurst, I learned about a long-forgotten bit of Dallas’ sporting history: the very, very brief time when greyhound racing was a thing in Big D. I wasn’t sure I’d enjoy looking into this, but it was incredibly interesting. And I sort of understood parimutuel betting for a tiny sliver of time. I really loved writing this! Check out the Flashback Dallas post from 2015, “Oak Downs: Dallas’ Brief Flirtation with Greyhound Racing.”

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Ali in Big D

by Paula Bosse

Time for another batch of images I’ve come across recently which belong in posts I’ve already written. Like the photo above and the two below, which show Muhammad Ali in Dallas on March 26, 1967, at an appearance at a mosque across from Booker T. Washington High School, during which he signed copies of an Islamic newspaper for the throngs of fans who showed up. I was very excited to see these photos pop up on eBay a short time after I had written about this Easter Sunday appearance. They have been added to the 2023 Flashback Dallas post “Muhammad Ali Visits Graham’s Barber Shop — ca. 1967.” (Source: photos by Bob W. Smith, found on eBay)

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It’s probably because I’m so familiar with the Lower Greenville area, but I really love this aerial photo by Squire Haskins, taken in Feb. 1950, showing the Hockaday campus at Greenville and Belmont (Greenville is the street running horizontally at the bottom of the photo. I’ve added it to the 2016 post that keeps getting longer and longer, “Belmont & Greenville: From Caruth Farmland to Hub of Lower Greenville.” (Source: Squire Haskins photo, from the Squire Haskins Photography Inc. Collection, UTA Libraries, Special Collections)

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Yeah, I’ve had my fair share of delicious Stoneleigh Burgers and cherry cokes at the Stoneleigh P. Here’s a great photo showing it in the ’70s, in the building originally built in 1923 (it burned down in 1980). I’ve added this photo to a 2019 post I really enjoyed writing, “Stoneleigh Pharmacy/Stoneleigh P.” (Source: Dallas Municipal Archives Facebook page; from the Historic Preservation Office collection)

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I’m fascinated with the telegraph. I’ve added this 1904 telegraph-school class photo (with a woman!) to the 2014 post “Start Your Brilliant Career at Dallas Telegraph College — c. 1900.” (Source: eBay)

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Lake Cliff, man. Wow. I’ve added the two postcards below to the extravaganza of cool postcards collected in the 2019 post “Beautiful Lake Cliff — ca. 1906.” (Source: eBay)

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On a hot day in May 2017, I went downtown to watch the restoration by the fabulous Julie Richey of the beautiful tile mosaic on the exterior of the St. Jude Chapel on Main Street (I absolutely LOVED writing about this in “Mosaic Restoration at Downtown’s St. Jude Chapel”) — I was aware of the mosaic only because I had written the post “The Saint Jude Chapel Mosaic by Gyorgy Kepes — 1968” a few weeks earlier. I’ve added the postcard below to that latter post from 2017. (Source: eBay)

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Pre-fab housing was a big deal in Dallas after (and during) WW2, because of a severe housing shortage. I’ve added the ad below to the 2014 post “World War II ‘Victory Huts’ at Parkland.” (Source: 1944 Southwestern Medical School yearbook)

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The Rose Room on Hall Street. Fantastic. This photo has been added to the 2017 post “1710 Hall: The Rose Room/The Empire Room/The Ascot Room — 1942-1975.” (Source: eBay)

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This screenshot from news footage about the removal of the contents of the Oak Lawn National Bank (3110 Oak Lawn Avenue) is interesting to me because it shows the Italian Villa restaurant across the street at 3211 Oak Lawn (currently occupied by Green Papaya and its neighbors). The odd brick… um… structure things have always seemed weird to me, but there they are. I’ve added this screenshot to another one of those posts that is probably just WAY TOO LONG, but I’m cramming it into 2018’s “Sam Ventura’s Italian Village, Oak Lawn.” (Source: WBAP-TV news footage shot on Jan. 23, 1955, from the KXAS-NBC 5 News Collection, UNT Libraries Special Collections, via the Portal to Texas History)

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A few blocks away on Oak Lawn was Whittle’s, mecca for band kids. I’ve added this to 2017’s “The Whittle Music Building — ca. 1956” (the first part is about the original downtown location before the move to Oak Lawn in 1965 — scroll to the bottom of the post to see a few photos of the Oak Lawn location). (Source: I failed to note where I came across the ad)

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And lastly, I keep stumbling across weird, obscure stuff that I wrote about years ago — like the story about a 1963 police raid on the East Dallas home of a cafe-owning bookie named George Bartlett. He got a black eye during a scuffle with vice cops as he tried to flush betting cards down the toilet. The worst day of his life was captured for posterity by WBAP-Channel 5 news cameras, showing the down-and-out cafe man, still in his pajamas, being handcuffed in his bedroom. I originally came across the story when I was writing about a fire on Knox Street which damaged several businesses, including his cafe — that photo is featured in the 2016 post “Knox Street Fire — 1961.” I’ve added this screenshot in the part about poor George. (Source: KXAS-NBC 5 News Collection, UNT Libraries Special Collections, via the Portal to Texas History)

You can watch the short, silent video here — and you can read the explanatory news script, which the TV anchor would have read as the film ran, here (otherwise, you’ll have no idea why you’re seeing loaves of bread…).

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Sources & Notes

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by Paula Bosse

I’ve spent a lot of the past month visiting a loved one in a hospital. It hasn’t been fun. For either of us. Here are several hospitals photographed in 1944, some of which were unknown to me before my 2020 post “A Few Dallas Hospitals and Clinics — 1944.” (Above, Bradford Memorial Hospital for Babies, 3512 Maple Avenue.)

Stay healthy!

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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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Sources & Notes

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East on Main from Market…

by Paula Bosse

I am in the midst of a supremely stressful move of a relative. Very, very stressful. So my output here has been punier than I would have liked. When time is at a premium, it’s always handy to be able to dip into the FD archives. Here’s a look at a photo I really like which was featured in the 2017 Flashback Dallas post “The Swiss Avenue Car on Main Street — ca. 1900.” Lots of zoomed-in details.

I hope I make it through this next week. Wish me luck!

If you are so inclined, please consider supporting me on Patreon, where, somehow, I’ve managed to post pretty much every day.

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