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July 31, 2025

Looking for the Historical Dallas Morning News Archive at the New Dallas Public Library Website?

By Paula Bosse

You’re not alone!

The Dallas Public Library has unveiled an updated and redesigned website this week, and it’s taking a while for the dust to settle. I work in the Dallas History archives (7th floor of the downtown DPL), and even I am having a hard time finding things! But it’s only been a couple of days — the kinks will be worked out, and it’ll get easier.

We’ve had several calls and emails about the inability to access/find the 1885-1984 Historical DMN Database, via NewsBank. Let me see if I can help. I’ll try to simplify this as much as possible. (See the last paragraph of this post to find out about the POST-1984 database.)

First, there is a new website URL: it is now DALLASLIBRARY.ORG — go here.

In order to access the DMN archives, you have to log into your account (you must have a DPL library card to do this — library cards are free to residents of the city of Dallas).

Click on “MY ACCOUNT” at the top right of the home page.
Enter your username or library card number; enter your password.
You’ve landed on a page with your account information. At the top of that page, click on “DATABASES.”
Scroll down. Click on “MAGAZINES, NEWSPAPERS & JOURNALS.”
Click on whichever of the options you’d like — the most popular are The Dallas Morning News and The Fort Worth Star-Telegram (also available are Austin and El Paso papers).
For our purposes, click on “NEWSBANK – HISTORICAL DMN AND STAR-TELEGRAM.”
Click on “AMERICA’S HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS.”

And now you can begin your searches. I tend to use the search option that includes both papers, but you can narrow your preference by choosing DMN (1885-1984) or FWST (1897-1990). [There is an ongoing glitch which requires logging in a second time for access. Don’t know what’s going on, but it happens to me about 50% of the time.]

Or, more concisely:

MY ACCOUNT–>
DATABASES–>
MAGAZINES, NEWSPAPERS & JOURNALS–>
NEWSBANK – HISTORICAL DMN AND STAR-TELEGRAM –>
AMERICA’S HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS –>
database of your choice

You can also access stripped-down Texas-only versions of Newspapers.com and NewspaperArchive.com (I’m not sure why they’re not all in the same place), by doing this after logging into your account:

DATABASES–> GENEALOGY–> choose database and proceed as above

(The Dallas Morning News is not available through Newspapers.com or NewspaperArchive.com, but the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and many other Texas newspapers are.)

And that’s it. If you are having trouble with any database on the website, keep checking back because there’s still a lot of tinkering going on.

But WHAT HAPPENED TO THE POST-1984 DALLAS MORNING NEWS DATABASE? As I understand it, this very useful part of NewsBank is currently unavailable during contract negotiations. The hope is that it will be back soon. Keep checking back!

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Sources & Notes

Photo from a post featured on the Flashback Dallas Patreon page: “Bill Fife, News Carrier — 1947; photo is from the Portal to Texas History, here.

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July 25, 2025

McKell Street’s Golden Age

Veranda-life, Old East Dallas

by Paula Bosse

This does not look like Dallas. But it is. I had never heard of McKell Street, but it’s in Old East Dallas and is only two blocks long (it’s actually one long block), between Bryan and San Jacinto. This house stood until 2021 or 2022 at the corner of McKell and San Jacinto (see it in a 2021 Google Street View image here, when it was the very last remaining house on the street).

The address was 1520 McKell (the address written on the card looks like “1620,” but there was never a 1600 block of the street). When the house was built, sometime before 1903, its address was 136 McKell — you can see it and its curved wraparound porch on a 1905 Sanborn map here and on a 1922 Sanborn map here. And the sad empty lot in 2022 is here.

I love stumbling across unexpected photos like this. This was such a lovely little street. I can absolutely imagine Andy and Barney and Aunt Bee on that porch, rocking and chatting on a hot Sunday afternoon, enjoying a bowl of homemade peach ice cream and waving to neighbors as they walk by.

And now it’s nothing but an ugly stretch of parking lots and the powerfully unattractive AT&T building.

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Sources and Notes

Real photo postcard found on eBay in 2024.

This post appeared in a slightly different version on the Flashback Dallas Patreon page (subscribe for as little as $5 a month!).

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July 21, 2025

“The Miracle Mile” and the Utterly Confusing Lovers Lane(s) — 1954

4500 block and/or 5800 block of Lovers and/or W. Lovers Lane

by Paula Bosse

The photo above is a detail from an ad for some of the businesses along the Miracle Mile (Lovers Lane, between about Douglas and what is now the toll road). The caption is: “The fabulous Miracle Mile looking west toward Douglas Ave.” (Surely this is a view to the east?) The same view today can be seen on Google Street View here. The ad appeared in a March 1954 magazine. At that time, the photographer would have been standing in front of Roscoe White’s Easy Way restaurant (5806 W. Lovers Lane). Here’s the ad (click to see a larger image):

Shop on the MIRACLE MILE!
On Lovers Lane from Douglas Ave. to Cotton Belt Railroad tracks
PLENTY OF PARKING!!!
The following merchants invite you to shop with them:

Beef ‘N Bun No. 1, 4500 Lovers Lane
Bernard’s Carpets, 4445 Lovers Lane
The Book Shelf, 4354 Lovers Lane
Choice Cleaners, 4530 Lovers Lane
Ernstrom’s Record Shop, 4356 Lovers Lane
Florentine Shop, 4437 Lovers Lane
Guildcraft Furniture Studio, 4433 Lovers Lane
Hodges Photographer, 4514 Lovers Lane
House of Carpets, 4408 Lovers Lane
House of Lamps, 5812 W. Lovers Lane
Jean & Morry’s, 4437 Lovers Lane
Margie’s Dress Shop, 4508 Lovers Lane
Miracle Mile Pharmacy, 4400 Lovers Lane
Miracle Mile Stationers, 4506 Lovers Lane
New York Bakery & Delicatessen, 4412 Lovers Lane
Park Cities Hardware & Paint Co., 4338 Lovers Lane
Party Bazaar & Gift Shop, 4439 Lovers Lane
Peek’s Auto and Appliance Store, 4365 Lovers Lane
Rae Ann Shop, 4417 Lovers Lane
Seidel’s Boys’ and Girls’ Apparel, 4504 Lovers Lane
Squire — The Man’s Shop, 4441 Lovers Lane
Stone’s Buster Brown Shoe Store, 4449 Lovers Lane

Every day is shopping day on the Miracle Mile
Open Thursday night — open Thursday night — open Thursday night

So. Lovers Lane. What’s the deal, Lovers? Your numbering system is insane. For instance, in the photo above, Choice Cleaners (second business on the left) is at 4530 Lovers Lane. It is directly opposite House of Lamps, which is, inexplicably, at 5812 West Lovers Lane. Not only are the block numbers nowhere near the same, the numbers of addresses on both sides of the street are even. There are businesses on both sides of the street, but that block has no odd-numbered addresses. …But only until you pass Beck’s Fried Chicken at 5820 West Lovers (you can see it on the photo at the far right, next door to AAA Liquor at 5814 W. Lovers Lane). Once you cross Lomo Alto, heading east, the numbering suddenly starts at 4455 Lovers Lane (Brady’s Texaco Service Station). West Lovers Lane is no more. You’ve just lost West Lovers Lane and 14 blocks. You might be in the Twilight Zone. I’m pretty sure the whole University Park-thing is the reason, but, oh my god. My brain melts down every time I try to make sense of this! Imagine not knowing your way around this part of town and seeing this confusing collection of signs after getting off the toll road:

For future reference, here is some even more confusing guidance, from the 1953 city directory. “WEST LOVERS LANE”:

PLAIN OL’ “LOVERS LANE”:

“EAST LOVERS LANE”:

Good luck keeping track of that. There will be a quiz. You might need a slide rule, a compass, and a bottle of aspirin.

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Sources & Notes

Ad is from the March 1954 issue of Town North magazine, a publication by and for super-boosters of the Park-Cities-and-Preston-Hollow area, which they were trying to get people to call “Town North.” It makes about as much sense as Lovers Lane’s numbering system, but it’s a cool magazine that lasted a few years and can be found in the Periodicals Collection of the Dallas History and Archives at the Dallas Public Library.

More on The Miracle Mile (with a handy map, if you’ve ever wondered what its “official” boundaries are) can be found in this Flashback Dallas post: “Stacy’s Lounge on The Miracle Mile — 1950.”

And, heck, here’s a post on Lovers Lane: “Dallas Is For Lovers.”

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July 8, 2025

Vaudeville at the Sportatorium? — 1936

Original Sportatorium, in all its octagonal glory

by Paula Bosse

I saw this ticket recently on eBay:

SPORTATORIUM, Cadiz and Industrial Blvd.
Harley Sadler In Person
And His Company of 100 Stage Players Present
UNCLE TOM’S CABIN
And Vaudeville, Musical Floor Show, Refreshments

…What?!

The ticket is undated, but “vaudeville” had mostly faded by the 1930s. The original (octagonal!) Sportatorium was built in 1935 and opened as a premiere sporting venue for wrestling (and boxing) in December 1935.

The new sports bowl, under construction at Cadiz and Industrial, will have its official opening Monday night, December 9, when Promoter Bert Willoughby will offer the biggest wrestling program ever staged in Texas, if present plans go through as outlined. This 10,000-seating capacity structure, built as the home of wrestling, will also entertain many other events, such as boxing, basketball, indoor circuses, style shows [!], conventions and gatherings of all kinds. (Dallas Morning News, Dec. 1, 1935)

Sounds huge. But it’s really hard to keep those seats full — especially on nights when wrestling is not scheduled. By the end of April, there were already plans to do something about one of their biggest problems.

“We feel,” declared [manager W. T.] Cox, “that this concern is too big and that there is too much money already invested to have five or six dark nights a week, so we are going to make it possible for everyone, with anything to show, to bring it to our place, whether it be a political gathering, religious services or merchants’ and manufacturers’ exhibits. The policy of the house will be to encourage and promote sports, but it will be available to all.” (DMN, Apr. 20, 1936)

Sportatorium management came up with the idea of presenting a massive show on non-wrestling nights. They gave Harley Sadler — a longtime traveling Texas showman (and later a politician) — a long-term engagement in which he basically crammed as much “show” into one evening as was humanly possible. A stage was built, and many of those 10,000 seats were removed in order that patrons could sit at tables to enjoy the relentless, non-stop entertainment. Sadler’s company consisted of 100 players. 100!

So what could a Sportatorium visitor expect on one of these Harley Sadler nights? Brace yourself:

The Sadler players will offer two complete plays each evening — an original four-act [play], “The Siege of the Alamo” — and a three-act modern comedy farce, “This Thing Called Love.” In addition to those two complete plays, he will offer vaudeville acts, a band, novelty numbers, and 32 singing waitresses […]. The show will start at 8:30 and run for 8 hours, for those who care to stay that long. (DMN, July 8, 1936)

EIGHT HOURS! And, there were 3 different shows produced weekly. That’s a lot of entertainment. Perhaps too much entertainment. But ladies got in free.

July 12, 1936

I’m not sure how long this “residency” lasted, but however long it was, I assume all involved — performers and spectators alike — were exhausted afterward.

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Sources & Notes

Source of the top photo of the Sportatorium is unknown, but I came across it on the wrestling website World Class Memories. (this Sportatorium page is a great read). (If you know the source of this photo, please let me know.)

Sportatorium ticket was found on eBay (still there, as I write this).

More on the history of the Sportatorium here.

More on empresario Harley Sadler can be found at the Handbook of Texas, here.

Previous Flashback Dallas posts on the Sportatorium can be found here.

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July 1, 2025

Roger Staubach, HVAC Spokesman — 1970s

Rog and Fran, comparing their Carrier systems

by Paula Bosse

Dallas Cowboys star quarterback Roger Staubach appeared in a series of ads — and did personal appearances around the country — for the Carrier air conditioning company. Many of the ads featured Staubach’s family — and what a stroke of luck, because, as the ad below proclaims, “Everyone in my family loves air conditioning.” Sing it, Roger!

1979

I came across an interesting piece of trivia about Roger Staubach’s time as a Carrier spokesman: if he was unable to appear in person, he could still be at your local trade show, in his Cowboys uniform, telling you how much his family loved air conditioning. In January 1978, the Cowboys were fresh off a Super Bowl win, and it would have been expected that world champions might have other things to do, but a week or two after the Cowboys defeated the Broncos in Super Bowl XII, Roger was at the National Association of Home Builders convention in Dallas hawking A/C. …Sort of.

The Carrier Air Conditioning exhibit featured a “telequin” of Roger Staubach, a mannequin with Staubach’s face projected onto the face, giving the general effect that the Cowboy quarterback was standing there in uniform, giving the Carrier sales pitch. Staubach is Carrier’s national spokesman. Steve Millheiser, a Carrier salesman, said response to the exhibit had been excellent. “The Roger thing has been great,” he added. (Dallas Morning News, Jan. 26, 1978)

I couldn’t find much about “telequins,” except that there were apparently other celebrities who had a model of themselves made by Telequin-A.V.M., Inc., a company that specialized in “animated, talking mannequins.” I’m sure it was odd watching a mannequin with Roger Staubach’s animated face professing its love for A/C. …The ’70s, man. Weird times.

1979

1978

Roger Staubach and Fran Tarkenton, 1977

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Sources & Notes

All ads from eBay.

Roger Staubach did a ton of TV commercials — a lot are on YouTube. He declined to do ads for underwear, beer or sugary cereals

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June 8, 2025

Good News! New Newspaper Access via the Dallas Public Library!

by Paula Bosse

Good news! The Dallas Public Library now offers to those with DPL library cards free access to the “Texas Edition” of Newspapers.com! You can browse/search a large variety of Texas newspapers that the site has in its database — I think it’s over 200. I’ve only just started playing with this “Texas Edition” to see how it differs from the full Newspapers.com site, and I’ve found that it does not offer all the newspapers that the full site does (for instance, it does not offer the very useful “Evening Edition” of The Fort Worth Star-Telegram), but there are a LOT of papers there. (For access to the full site, which contains US (beyond Texas) and select international newspapers — you must purchase your own subscription.) This is very exciting!

This joins the continuing DPL access to NewspaperArchive.com (provided by the Dallas Genealogical Society — thank you, DGS!). Newspapers.com and NewspaperArchive have some overlap in their content, but they also each have exclusives. Both are great resources.

So how do you get to them on the DPL website? You must have your library card number (or login info). Dallas Public Library cards are free, but they are available only to residents of the City of Dallas. (More specific info on that — including some exceptions — is at the DPL website, here.) (You are always welcome to visit the library in person to access these databases without needing a library card.)

Enter your login info.

Click on “DATABASES” (at top of page).

Click on “GENEALOGY.”

Click on (for instance) “NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE” or “NEWSPAPERS.COM (TEXAS EDITION)” or whatever else you want to explore.

And you’re there.

These databases complement the essential Dallas Morning News and Fort Worth Star-Telegram archives, which have been available for years on the library website, via NewsBank. They can be accessed on the same “Genealogy” tab, or, you can get to the DMN and FWST (and other publications not found on the “Genealogy” tab) by navigating this way:

These are all incredible resources for everyone interested in historical and genealogical research. Thank you, Dallas Public Library! (And don’t forget the huge scanned newspaper collection at the Portal to Texas History!)

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Sources & Notes

The three images in this post are screenshots from the Dallas Public Library website.

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June 2, 2025

When Big D Had No Love for Bruce — 1974

Imagine what coulda been… (click for larger image)

by Paula Bosse

First off, apologies for the image quality of this advertisement. It’s from eBay (“He’s from Barcelona…”).

I thought it was an interesting ad, because I never knew that Bruce Springsteen played the Sportatorium, Dallas’ legendary wrestling mecca and off-and-on home to the Big D Jamboree. How had I never heard about this? (This was a show put together by local promoter Gene McCoslin, who had a long history with Willie Nelson.)

1974 was pretty early for Bruce to play in Dallas. He was starting to gain notice nationally, but he wasn’t a star yet. The tickets to the Sportatorium show were $4.50 in advance/$6.00 at the door (roughly $30 and $40 in today’s inflation-adjusted money). As it turns out, the show was canceled, because — hold onto yourselves — only 28 advance tickets had sold. …TWENTY-EIGHT.

That show was scheduled for November 10, 1974. A few months earlier — in June 1974 — Bruce was, for some inexplicable reason, booked as the opening act for… Maria Muldaur (“Midnight at the Oasis”). That show was scheduled at the UTA campus in Arlington. The Dallas Morning News reported that Bruce was a last-minute no-show, claiming a bout with the flu, but, apparently, he was unhappy with the small turnout and just didn’t go on. (Trouper Maria, having lost her opening act, performed for nearly 2 hours, and got rave reviews.)

Fort Worth Star-Telegram, June 9, 1974

Springsteen’s first actual performance on a Dallas stage appears to have been sometime in the same year as those two ill-fated non-gigs: 1974. Freelance rock critic Kim Martin-Pierce remembered it: “He always had a troubled history here. [He was booked to play at the old Mother Blues nightclub, but] he sold so poorly at Mother Blues that they moved him over to Gertie’s on Lemmon Avenue. He didn’t draw well at all there either, but he gave the greatest performance I’ve ever heard in a small club.” (DMN, “Springsteen Finally Shows Big D Who’s Boss” by John Anders, Nov. 30, 1984, after Bruce’s two sold-out shows at Reunion Arena)

Sorry, Bruce, for the cold shoulder! I think Dallas eventually came around. But you missed out. Playing the Sportatorium would have been really, really cool. And those 28 people would still be talking about the most amazing show they had ever seen.

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Sources & Notes

Top ad from the Dallas underground newspaper Iconoclast, Nov.8-15, 1974; found on eBay in April 2024.

This post appeared previously in a slightly different form on the Flashback Dallas Patreon page.

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May 26, 2025

Margaret Werry (Bosse): 1936-2025

by Paula Bosse

My mother, Margaret Werry (who was known as Margaret Bosse during much of her time as a political activist), died on May 16, 2025, in hospice care at Baylor Hospital in Dallas. She was 89.

She was born in Dallas, grew up in Oak Lawn on Hartford Street, between Douglas and Wycliff, a couple of blocks from her grade school, Sam Houston Elementary. Instead of attending North Dallas High School, she chose to go to Crozier Tech downtown so she could focus on advanced science courses (she had dreams of going to medical school). She graduated at 16 and attended SMU, majoring in Comparative Literature. (See photos of both of my parents from SMU yearbooks here.)

My mother with SMU president, Willis Tate

She spent a short time at UT medical school in Galveston, but her mother’s unexpected death brought her back home. She soon began working at an antiquarian bookstore on McKinney Avenue, located in an old Victorian house — The Aldredge Book Store, where she met my father, Dick Bosse, another former Comparative Literature major at SMU. They married a few years later. That bookstore was a home-away-from-home for my parents, for me, and for my brother. Every kid should be lucky enough to grow up in a used bookstore. (My parents divorced amicably in the ’80s and remained friends until his death in 2000. The obituary of my father written by my brother, Erik Bosse, is here.)

2800 McKinney Avenue, ca. 1960

My mother’s passions in life were working for progressive political causes and for advancing and promoting women’s issues. The 1970s and ’80s were a time of non-stop political activity for her. She was one of the small group of women who were connected in various ways to the First Unitarian Church on Preston Road who helped and supported attorney Linda Coffee in developing the case that became known as Roe v. Wade. She tirelessly worked for women’s rights, even helping to establish the Women’s Southwest Federal Credit Union here in Dallas at a time when mainstream banks and credit unions did not generally grant loans to women without their husband’s consent (!). She always described the ’70s as the most exciting time of her life. A lot was changing then, and she was right in the middle of it.

She was also a passionate animal-lover — our house was never without several cats. Some of her fondest childhood memories were her visits to the farm of her aunt and uncle, which she always described with idyllic nostalgia.

She also loved classic movies, Orson Welles, William Faulkner, and bookbinding, to name just four random things.

I remember her reading books to me and my brother. My favorite was The World is Round by Gertrude Stein, which I love to this day, and which I am convinced led to the love of writing and language my brother and I share.

My mother was the kindest person I knew (next to my father). She was smart, funny, and ethical, and, somehow, she never lost her patience when trying to help me with my math homework (sadly, I did not inherit her love of numbers and mathematics). She was a wonderful baker, and I will miss her amazing Christmas cookies and cakes.

And I’ll just miss her. I’ll miss her every day. Her health had been in decline for several years, and the last few months were difficult for her and for my brother and me. I am relieved she is no longer suffering, but it breaks my heart to lose her.

I received a lovely note from Charles Drum, who used to work with my parents at The Aldredge Book Store during those early days. Here is what he wrote:

I read about your mom’s passing. My thoughts are with you. Your mom could always make me laugh. It was a gift. Like your dad, she had a treasury of arcane knowledge to share. I wish I’d been able to talk to her in recent years. We had a lot of memories of ancient times.

Those days at the Aldredge Book Store, working with your dad, Sawnie [Aldredge, the original owner], Mimi [Sawnie’s wife and ABS fixture], and even Thelma [the somewhat irascible maid] were formative years for me and set standards of care, wit, camaraderie, and just plain fun that I was rarely able to match in following years. Your folks’ interests. stories, and above all their humor are a vivid part of me to this day.

Happy I sat down to write you.

Thank you, Charlie. (See Charlie in a photo with my father, here.)

I recently came across this image of my mother and me at one of the hundreds of book sales and book events I found myself at during my childhood. (It’s hard to see me, but I’m in there, next to my mother, dwarfed by people and books and people with books.)

I’ll miss you, Mama. Thank you for all your memories of Dallas.

Thank you for everything.

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Sources & Notes

Flashback Dallas posts about The Aldredge Book Store are here.

I understand friends of hers may be preparing a get-together to remember my mother. If you were a friend of hers and are interested in attending, please send me an email at the contact info at the top of this page.

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May 12, 2025

Whimsy on Main Street — ca. 1906

by Paula Bosse

I’ve seen a lot of postcards with views of “Main St. looking West,” usually taken from about Ervay, with the Wilson Building as the architecturally impressive centerpiece. But I don’t think I’ve seen this one. I don’t know when the photo was taken, but it was mailed at the very end of 1906. It looks like the new Wilson Building (which opened in 1904) may still have construction work going on, at least on the ground floor.

But “whimsical”? Take a look at the horse-drawn dry-cleaning-company delivery wagon on the lower right side of the card. It’s got a GREAT BIG TOP HAT on it! Maybe this sort of thing was popular in the early years of the 20th century, but I’ve never seen anything like this on the streets of Dallas in photographs or postcards of this period. Until now. I love it!

The postcard — written and mailed on December 27, 1906 — was addressed to “Master Phillip Wyman” in Yonkers, New York. The sender — identified only as “Harry” — sent this message to Phil, probably a young family member:

Dear Phil, Enjoyed your letter so much. Can hardly find time to write much so will send you an occasional postcard. It is very warm down here, to[o] warm for even gloves. About July weather. Must get to business. Love to all, Harry

Too warm for gloves — in December! Imagine! I bet Master Wyman — who was no doubt shivering up in Yonkers — had his young mind blown. (I wonder if he noticed the big top hat?)

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Sources & Notes

Postcard from eBay.

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April 29, 2025

Lulu Roman, 1946-2025

In a Dallas courtroom, 1971

by Paula Bosse

Lulu Roman — known for her appearances on the TV show Hee Haw and her numerous gospel recordings — died last week (on April 23, 2025). She was a Dallas native and a graduate of Samuell High School. A summary of her life and career can be found in the Hollywood Reporter obituary and her Wikipedia entry.

She graduated from W. W. Samuell High School in 1964 (her name back then was Louise Hable), and five years later, she became an original member of the cast of Hee Haw. In 1971, her Oak Lawn apartment (2627 Douglas) was raided by seven narcotics agents, who seized 5.5 pounds of marijuana and small amounts of LSD and hashish. She was booked for drug possession, and this effectively ended her connection with Hee Haw (she later found religion, gave up drugs, and was welcomed back to the show when she was clean — you can see her talk about her new-found “high” to a Channel 8 reporter in 1973 on YouTube here). (The photo at the top is from one of Lulu’s appearances in court in 1971.)

She then went on to a successful career as a gospel singer. RIP, Lulu.

1963 Samuell yearbook, Junior class photo

Performing a “Calypso Christmas carol”:

1963 Samuell yearbook

1964 Samuell yearbook, Senior class photo

With classmate David Henderson, in costume for a theatrical production.

1964 Samuell yearbook

Detail of a photo of members of the Thespians Club:

1964 Samuell yearbook

Hitting the big-time, on Hee Haw:

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Sources & Notes

Top image is a screenshot from Channel 8 news footage of Lulu’s drug possession trial in Dallas on Sept. 3, 1971, from the WFAA Collection, G. William Jones Collection, Hamon Arts Library, Southern Methodist University.

School photos from the 1963 and 1964 Samuell High School yearbooks.

Color photo of some of the Hee Haw cast members (Gordie Tapp, Junior Samples, Grandpa Jones, and Lulu Roman), from The Tennessean; black-and-white photo from Alamy.

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