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Comments: Ginger, I looked in Stanley Marcus' book "Minding the Store". It stated that the family moved to Dallas from Hillsboro. In 1945, the whole family seemed to be living in East Dallas. Stanley lived on a street called Nonesuch and the rest of them lived on the M streets or somewhere in Lakewood. I know Stanley later owned a house on Tokalon for years. He also owned a condo in the Oak Lawn area. His second wife was a student of Bill's and often babysat our son before she married Stanley. We were together a couple of summers outside of Taos on the SMU campus called Fort Burgwin. I loved Fort Burgwin. Governor Clements, John Tower and others would often drop by.
Comments: A big 'snicker' to the Pelosi joke...Kathleen.. Now...I've heard that one side if not both sides of the Neiman-Marcus 'clan' lived in Oak Cliff... Is that true..? One side of the Murphey family lived on the hill in N. Oak Cliff..overlooking Singleton Blvd and West Dallas. They lived above my GM..I don't think it was the Murphey side, but don't know for sure..
Comments: Thanks Martha, Another interesting tidbit is that Mrs. Skillern lived across the street from Bill's mother's house on East Ninth Street. It turns out that the Skillern's house was best known as the first house in Dallas to have an elevator. The house now belongs to a Hispanic lady who owns a lot of rental houses in the area and has a son who is known as a psychic in Oak Cliff. Congratulations to Newt Gingrich on winning the South Carolina primary. They say tons of champaign are being delivered to Nancy Pelosi's office.
Comments: Kathlene, that is very interesting. I had an aunt and uncle that lived across from a fire station near Adamson after the war (and probably before). There names were John and Ann Morse. Had daughters Ruth, LaVon and Martha Jane and a son named John. They are all older than me. Think the girls went to Adamson but they had moved and John went to SOC. Good to see Bob Clifton is able to get away from his orchard and ice cream business long enough to post occasionally.
Comments: Went to the Houston Rockets game tonight. Great Game and Rockets beat the San Antonio Spurs!! I love basketball. I loved it in high school too. It is so easy to watch and so fast. Now Houston finally has a winning Football team AND basket ball team again.
Comments: A few years ago my husband Bill was doing some research in the neighborhood around Zang and the neighborhood near Adamson. Bill's mother's family grew up in the area. We talked to a lady named Mavis Dinkins. She remembered the various families who lived in the neighborhood before World War Two. She loved to talk about the dances and socials they shared at each others houses. One young man the girls were interested in was a boy named Billy Murphy, who had red hair. It turned out to be Michael's grandfather according to a person who knew the family. Although there were several illustrious people who grew up in the neighborhood, what surprised me was that there were still remnants of the families left. One family being Ebby Halliday's husband Maurice Acers who often came back to the old neighborhood to visit his relatives. So you will know what time period I am talking about, Bill's aunt was Valedictorian in 1928 at Adamson H.S. There are plaques with pictures in the main hallway of all the Valedictorians that cover every year.
Comments: Okay..Lynell.. Well, I know JS has 'issues' with MMM, but maybe he has finally 'recovered' from those.. We can only hope.. Those were happy days in Jr. High.. Tommy and MMM were good friends back then... I like the picture and thank Bob Baker, who was also a good friend, for sharing it with me.. Friends are good to have...  (skunks do show up, when you least expect them. 6+ skunks in a campsite, in the middle of the night, means you don't leave your tent and you don't make a lot of noise..) 
Comments: Ginger, I was referring to John Southworth's skunk. The picture you sent is a welcome addition to this guestbook. It's great to look back on the old days.
Comments: We throw a tarp over the skunks and carry them off if they wander into our armadillo traps at the ranch. It is true that if they are covered they do not spray. Well, in our experience anyway and that is the info from the locals too. But, John, you were probably better off calling the skunk whisperer since you are a Citified novice skunk trapper. Why are you concerned about Nature's Garbage Disposal (Opossum) residing under your deck? Does anyone have any news about Mary McCord?
Comments: OH! Maybe Lynell was referring to MY skunk? I hadn't thought about that. By the way, The Skunk Whisperer came by this afternoon. Pepe (Le Pew) won't be comin' around here no more.
Comments: No skunk in that picture...JS.. Nor does it apply to me who supplied the picture by way of Bob Baker.. Bob Baker's not a skunk either... The skunk was in your trap...JS...! 
Comments: Ginger ... skunk comment juxtaposed to pic of MMM. Probably a simple math problem like A + B = ?
Comments: Lynell...What's your comment about "I smell a skunk"...mean..? I'm not into interpreting your comments.. What does that mean..? Bob Clifton: Thanks for the comments about Tommy.. I'm always not certain 'how' to spell his last name. I've spelled it both ways.. Tommy was said to have an IQ of 150 back then. Was probably higher than that..!
Comments: Way back in 1983-4 I had opened a trucking business in Baton Rouge, La. The start-up did not go well and we fell behind considerably on our federal payroll taxes. I was summoned by registered mail containing the threats that go with IRS correspondence to their office in Baton Rouge. With all the trepidation one can imagine I went to my "appointment." Who was behind the desk but one of my old Wesley Methodist pals and SOCite and always a really good guy I had not seen in probably 20 years. Tommy McGowan never changed in looks or personality. One of the good guys but I did have to borrow money to pay the way past due taxes............
Comments: What a couple of cute boys! I think I smell a skunk.
Comments: Gee...aren't they cute..? They were in those smart, brainy classes back then and both played tennis.. One's still singing..One 's gone on to the 'place in the sky'..
Comments: From the dusty archives of Ginger Hearn comes this pre-Jurassic pic of Tommy McGown and Mike Murphey: 
Comments: Smelly Johnny: Throw a tarp over the cage, pick it up and take him out and let it go. The guy across the street from the shop catches them all the time. ACCORDING TO HIM, if the trap is covered up they wont spray. TRUST ME!
Comments: Ken: The bad thing about Spanish was that I took 2 more years at SOC. The following summer, I was painting houses and a Mexican (that's what they were back then) family lived next door and they had 3 kids. MY CHANCE! I can impress them with my Spanish. I couldn't understand a word they said. They would jabber, point at me and laugh. So much for formal education.
Comments: Tommy McGown and Mike Murphey (MMM) were smart kids.. I have a picture of them that Bob Baker sent me, but can't figure out 'how' to 'attach it' to this SOC...'thingy'...GH.. 
Comments: You wake up in the morning and you just never know how the day is going to shake out for you. Like today ... I wake up ... make myself some coffee and remember that last night I set a trap to catch that pesky oppossum that has taken up residence under our back deck. With coffee in hand, I venture to the backyard to see if the culprit was lured by the Mr. Frisky Catfood used to bait the trap. Good news and bad news ... Yes, the trap is occupied! However, the temporary resident is a SKUNK. Now I have a new dilemma - how to dispose of him without finding myself on the receiving end of what skunk's are famous for. I've spent the morning reviewing YouTube videos about trapping skunks and the ultimate conclusion is that disposing of one is like working with Nitroglycerin. I'm thinking about hiring these two creepy gals who have obviously put a lot of thought into one solution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJVAFpgPsik
Comments: See? I was at Storey too and didn't know you because you were probably in...what did Ken say?...Advanced class....what were y'all advanced in anyway??? Never mind!
Comments: Was Mr Hobbs teaching choir at Zumwalt way back then??
Comments: Charlotte, they were all at Storey. Oh wait, I was at Storey. Never mind!
Comments: Bosc....I heard there were some smart kids, but never met or saw any of them in wood shop, art, home making, P E, choir or acting class.
Comments: Geo Juan - That's some really neat info. I had Mr. Gunter my sophomore year at SOC for Algebra 3 & Solid Geometry. Based on my grades, I think he must have taught the class in Spanish. The obit for Mr. Sallis is in today's Dallas Morning News. In my memory of Mr. Sallis, I kept remembering a brother named Ed Sallis which is confirmed by the obit. I don't know if Ed was a teacher, or maybe I knew of him through my dad as a fireman or policeman. Go get it Detective Geo Juan. James - I am sure you are remembering Carlos Cruz. Seems like a lot of the Hispanic kids back in the day couldn't speak a lot of Spanish. Zumwalt Lions....I still have my letter jacket.
Comments: Good note John. It seems I was in his class just before lunch. He was a man that could get up set easily. If I remember we had a guy named Carlos in or class and Sallis was always be correcting his Spanish. The other thing I recall is that I went from an A the first two six weeks to an E on the final at the end of the year. We had a hard time together. Jean and I wanted to go there but alas I had to have knee surgery
Comments: Ken, you have a remarkable memory. I checked current online databases and located a "William Fred Sallis", age 88, living in the Dallas area. Going back in the dusty archives, I found an old 1961 article about Fred Sallis of Zumwalt who was leading a 16 day summer trip into Mexico. It was geared toward teacher types who wanted to travel. Only $149. Looks like James Anthony's memory is pretty dang good also. Hope this link to a pdf file works: http://people.consolidated.net/swsw/dmn_1961.pdf I went to Zumwalt but don't recall Sallis. During the '56 to '57 school years (before Zumwalt opened) he was assigned to O.W. Holmes. Joining him there was my future math teacher Mr. Gunter. I'm sorry to hear Mr. Sallis suffered such a bizarre end. 
Comments: Grubbs - I remember that guy, Mr. McCullough, McCormick, something like that. I think you and I were in the same class. His room faced Ledbetter, second story and seems like he was young and skinny and prone to screaming fits of anger. I always heard that Johnny Bullard and some other guys hung the him out the window by his ankles. He disappeared not long after that. James - Thanks for the memory boost. Glad you weren't on the Italian cruise ship! C-Mac - Grubbs and I were placed in the Advanced Class or whatever it was called. Big mistake. We took Spanish in the 8th & 9th grades. Wish I had paid attention, no bueno.
Comments: I learned to make a mean pie crust in 8th grade homemaking class. Woulda made some lucky guy a great wife at 13. Imagine every night being greeted by a wife in an ugly skirt and top, an apron, (all of which she'd sewed herself) and a dinner consisting of something with white sauce, homemade biscuits, and a pie with real, homemade crust. See what you boys missed out on by not proposing marriage in 1958? You could weigh 5.000 pounds by now, and so could I! Maybe we could get a reality show. |
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