Happy Anniversary to my two special friends...Gary and Tanya Leverett...I remember that day 10 years ago so well..it was a special day that Barney and I shared with you...Love you!!

My Dad was a street car driver until they went of style in Dallas as I was growing up.  One of our favorite things was riding with him to the end of the lines and reversing the seats while he pulled the line down from one end and pulled it up on the other end.  If you are on McKinney around all the restraurants, they run some of the old trolleys or street cars up to Ross and back.  Fun memories and still great times jumping on one of these and letting the breeze run through your hair.

Sharon, I remember riding those trollies downtown when I was a young girl with my mom.  She would go downtown Dallas to the beauty salon to have her hair done.  I remember those crazy permanent wave machines that they hooked up to women's hair for permanents in those days, scared me to death right out of Frankenstein's era with that wavy hair!  

I have seen this once before but I still find it interesting how many modes of transportation are represented and no one seems in much of a hurry but the cars.  Everyone seems on their own agenda.  I guess it is like they say sometimes, the more things change the more they are the same.  Except everyone and everything is in fast motion these days.  Looks like cars put us in that mode?

Yeah John, Coach Blair also had a high school phenom on the team named Egypt Allen.  Egypt was great in high school but didn't do much in college, I think at TCU.  Kinda  makes you think coach Blair was the reason for a lot of the kids success.

Texas A&M --Beat Notre Dame and are NCAA national champions in women's basketball.--Gigum Aggies!!

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The funniest thing that ever happened at Lisbon theater, my brother Phillip and his friend Alvin Henson was there for the movie Love Me Tender.  When Elvis died you could hear girls crying in the theater. Phillip and Alvin stood and started clapping and cheering.  They were instantly escorted out of the bldg...I guess you'd have had to been there...Phillip has been gone for years now but his memory still brings a smile...I found his name on the memorial page of SOC's 58 59 page.

Thanks Phyllis.  I am looking forward to the new Gloria's.  Hope we can have a SOC luncheon there someday.  The last company I worked for owned the Firehouse they are going into.  I am anxious to see the changes.  The owner has always retained the integrity of that building.  I used to be the property manager there and always admired the charm and efforts they put into it.  They also are the primary interest of the Belmont Hotel on Ft. Worth Ave. which has turned out so nice as a boutique hotel.  Many celebrities stay there when they are in town.  One of the first was Rachel Ray filming a segment of her show there.

Yes, the El Chico at Davis and Zang has been Tejano for many years now and is still very good.  Gloria's is fixing up the old firestation at Bishop and Davis and should be open there soon; I presume that the original location at Davis and Llewellyn/Cedar Hill will be closing down in favor of the new, larger, spiffier location.  Darn, this is making me hungry.  Fortunately, Tuesday is Taco Salad/Nachos Supreme day at the deli downstairs! 

Thanks Kathleen and James - should have remembered it was on Ft. Worth Ave.  I used to live just down the street from it in the late 60s when I lived in apartments.  Maybe the one I was thinking of was previously El Chicos.  The big competition was just down the street - El Fenix and is still today on Colorado.   Just goes to show - Tex Mex can be good at many places.