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Comments: Oh yeah, Sharon. I remember too..I think it was the other way around...Franklin came after Whitehall....didn't it somebody? Gotta go...I gotta call Ken!
Comments: Ken's phone is gonna be a-jinglin'!
Comments: Too cute, Ken. Charlotte, the book is hard back and it must weigh 20 lbs. In Oak Cliff, I remember our prefix changing from Franklin to Whitehall (or maybe the opposite). I don't remember my cell number and can't figure out how to pull it up, so I keep it written down! I'm about to go high-tech and get a new cell phone, but gosh it's confusing.
Comments: I was at the purse counter at Neimans in NorthPark years ago, about to buy a Coach bag. (This was before Coach's prices went sky high.) Stanley Marcus walked up to the counter, and the employee turned to talk to him. He told her nicely to finish the transaction with me. I think about that incident when I see managers blocking the aisle at Target and Walmart, getting in the way of customers. You know they are important, because they speak very loudly and they point a lot. I've even seen this at Nordstrom's, and it always amazes me. Something else that bugs me at stores: You're standing there, money or credit card in hand, ready to pay for something. The phone rings, and the employee answers it and gets involved in a long chat. I like to shop online!
Comments: I remember my telephone number: Beachwood 4-5789, you can call me up and have a date, any old time. la-la-la-la-la-la-la, ohh baby...... uh...never mind.
Comments: Joan worked at Neimans when she got out of TCU and when we lived in Lakewood we would occasionally see Stanley out walking. He knew everyone that worked at Neimans and he and Joan would talk shop for a while. Those were the good old days.
Comments: Sharon, very interesting about that Directory. Is it hard back? I remember my phone number when we were changed to Drexel and Franklin etc ...mine was FR4-3206. But, I don't remember any others that I had before that. I don't know why that one stuck with me...maybe because it was the one I had the longest and it was the last one before my parents left Oak Cliff??? Dunno
Comments: While at my mom's on Saturday, I picked up an old and very big book that was under an end table. It turned out to be a city directory of Dallas from 1937 sponsored by Perry Motor Co. which became Boedecker-Verner. My Uncle Joe and Aunt Annie Rusek were listed at their address on Alaska and it also gave his occupation as mechanic for Perry Motor Co. They had a five-digit phone number. I can still remember the very first phone number we had (Tennyson 3902) from the early 50's, but can't remember any others except the one I have now. Strange.
Comments: Lynell, I took my information from "Minding the Store" where there were several pics calling her by her nickname ''Billie''. Her maiden name was Mary Cantrell. I thought Stanley didn't like the designs of Frank LLyod Wright and replaced him with architect Roscoe DeWitt, according to an article, I read several years ago. I was surprised when the book didn't mention South Dallas as a beginning address. I know Stanley couldn't live in Highland Park because they didn't allow Jews at the time. So, he lived in Lakewood. He and his first wife were on Nonsuch in 1945, according to the Dallas City Directories. He had the house built in 1935. His second wife, Linda Cumber Robinson, used to drive a yellow VW and her job with Stanley was to organize his library of books and art.
Comments: I may be mistaken on this, but I believe most of the early-day department store owners were Jewish and lived in South Dallas -- the Titches, the Sangers, the Neimans, Kahns, Marcuses, etc. Mr. Stanley's first wife, Mary, died and after several years he married a lady named Linda Cumber. They lived in a Frank Lloyd Wright house on Nonesuch Lane in Lakewood.
Comments: Yes, Pelosi is a joke...oh nevermind, I see that is not what was meant here. haaaaaaaaaaaa! My bad! Those are interesting facts about who lived in Oak Cliff in the day Kathleen. It was a beautiful part of Dallas with all the trees and rolling hills...I suppose it still is.
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. |
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