Dallas Nostalgia Picture Thread

[Assman 1830]

Tollway & LBJ 1968

Central Expressway & Walnut Hill 1959

Dealey Plaza underpass construction

Sivil's Drive-In 1957.  Located at current day Fort Worth Ave and Davis St, by the Greyhound station

 

Carhops at Keller's

Original Chili's on Greenville

This place was the shit

[futureman 22546]

[futureman 22546]

[DeepEastTexas 644]

Crystal's in Irving was the go to pizza place for several years. Not the best, but at that age any pizza is good pizza.

[markstanco 12612]

 

Screw it can't get it to work as pic

[mdmost 43050]

 

https://lakewood.advocatemag.com/2013/10/24/remember-penny-whistle-park-didnt-live-east-dallas-80s/

 

You can buy a t-shirt that someone printed up.

 

https://www.spreadshirt.com/penny+whistle+park-A2392510

And I worked at both Crystal's in high school. The Inwood one closed in the fall of 93. 

[BigDHornfan 6550]

I was just coming to post the same thing MD.  Good times!

[BigDHornfan 6550]

 

 

[mdmost 43050]

That wrap around Aladdin's Castle in Valley View was the best. There was also a really good arcade off Park Ln and 75 where the Bed, Bath and Beyond now stands. 

[Chewy's Hairy Horn 868]

I don’t remember Six Flags mall having an arcade, but I do recall Forum303 mall having an awesome one. Many quarters spent there for sure.  

Edited April 1, 2018 by Chewy's Hairy Horn

[Kilgorehorn 308]

That original Chili's had some great burgers and fries.

[Surly Bevo 25152]

Classic

Always a good date place

Mom used to torture a young Surly Bevo dragging his ass here on the weekend

[Surly Bevo 25152]

Also these freaky bastards

 

Edited April 1, 2018 by Surly Bevo

[BigDHornfan 6550]

Sliding down these as a kid...

[Jive Turkey 12644]

[mdmost 43050]

Surly, was the last picture the place on Coit just south of 635?

BigD, those columns are still at Northpark. My kids are always sliding on them

[Surly Bevo 25152]

2 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Surly, was the last picture the place on Coit just south of 635?

BigD, those columns are still at Northpark. My kids are always sliding on them

Yep, all I remember was it was this artsy fartsy craft fair type place.  Which when you are about 10 years old is the last place in the world you want to be at say 2pm on a spring Saturday.

[3adays 454]

What, no photos of Kennedy’s brains splattered all over the place? 

[TwiceHorn 31536]

Jerry Bywaters painting of NW Highway looking west from Hillcrest.  The El Fenix is still there, the water tower is modern.

Also, re Olla Podrida

https://dallasmemorabilia.blogspot.com/2009/07/olla-podrida.html

Edited April 2, 2018 by TwiceHorn

[Beau Vine 54430]

Edited April 2, 2018 by Beau Vine

[EuroHorn 3268]

[Assman 1830]

Sports

[Knoxtnhorn 6066]

This popped up under a Prestonwood Mall search, but I believe it's the interior of Olla Podrida.

 

 

I was trying to find the skating rink at Prestonwood, but all I found was this picture (for ants) of the clock.

[Knoxtnhorn 6066]

WhiteWater in Garland.

[Knoxtnhorn 6066]

And I still haven't figured out how to post videos yet, but the following link is a video of the Cave Ride @ Six Flags in 1987.  Good for some nostalgic chills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA8nMuo1yXA

[Trey3216 15356]

6 minutes ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

WhiteWater in Garland.

I peed in that pool many times as an under 10 yr old

[Chewy's Hairy Horn 868]

3 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

I peed in that pool many times as an under 10 yr old

So did I as a 12 y/o. 

[rage-a-holic 4473]

10 minutes ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

This popped up under a Prestonwood Mall search, but I believe it's the interior of Olla Podrida.

 

 

I was trying to find the skating rink at Prestonwood, but all I found was this picture (for ants) of the clock.

Yep, first one is OlPa. My mom liked that place. It was cool to wander around, but the stores sucked, aside from the candy shop.

 

My goto at Valley View:

 

 

[Knoxtnhorn 6066]

I only have a couple of memories of Valley VIew as we were regular Prestonwood or Richardson Square mall-goers.  Got my first pair of black Reeboks at Valley View.  Best friend and I would eat at El Fenix @ Valley View, whenever his dad would give us an extra $20 to get out of his hair.

[BigDHornfan 6550]

WhiteWater in Garland.

Fucking Dragon’s Tail whooped your ass!!

[Knoxtnhorn 6066]

Not Dragon's Tail.  The really high one in the middle that had three slides.  I think 2 required inner tubes.  One of the slides was pitch-dark - it may have been called the "Black Hole".  Anyway, I recall not being too fond of making the climb up the stairs because the damn thing swayed in the wind.

Y'all remember the inner tube ride on the far side of the park?  It was awesome.  You'd go down in steps, spend some time in a pool, then a life guard would push you on your way.  The finale was a very large and wide concrete drop.

[Deej 76922]

[mdmost 43050]

White Water had the cliff slides in the deep end. Just a little ledge you’d slide down. Also had a kickass pirate ship you could climb on with rope ladders and water cannons. Used to try to shoot people off ladders with those. Had a kickass birthday there complete with an Optimus Prime cake. 

Was it White Water or Wet n Wild that had the White Lightning slides that were really fast?

[Eddyline 116]

50 minutes ago, Assman said:

Sports

 

 

 

Arlington Stadium? Quite possibly the hottest place on earth in August...

[Beau Vine 54430]

Assman, I'll raise your Dallas Freeze with this:

Still have one of these:

Also...

 

Edited April 2, 2018 by Beau Vine

[Hornstrader 179]

Turnpike Stadium in Arlington was the hottest place ever any time the sun was up. You put your life at risk if you sat in the left field bleachers for a day game

[Trey3216 15356]

43 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Assman, I'll raise your Dallas Freeze with this:

Still have one of these:

Also...

 

I’ve got a wooden Dallas Blackhawks stick at mom and dad’s house.  Those games against Ft Worth were legendary

[AngryBevo 20]

5 hours ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

WhiteWater in Garland.

 

loved that place, so close to home.

[Assman 1830]

As a kid, I moved to Dallas from SA in '91, so my Arlington Stadium memories are limited, but wasn't there a tunnel south of DFW around AA Headquarters?  I remember we had to drive through a tunnel at some point to get to Arlington.

[Larry T. Spider 1747]

I never lived in Dallas but I lived in Tyler in the 80's before moving to Austin in 1991. Dallas was the closest city so I spent a lot of time going between the spee-lunker cave and the log ride. My parents always wanted to drive the old cars that seemed like a total death trap. 

[markstanco 12612]

I can name about a fourth to a third of those players.

[Ghost of LL 15539]

On 4/1/2018 at 1:55 PM, Surly Bevo said:

Mom used to torture a young Surly Bevo dragging his ass here on the weekend

Goddamn--that place coupled with a trip to the fabric store was fucking kryptonite to an adolescent boy.

[Surly Bevo 25152]

Goddamn--that place coupled with a trip to the fabric store was fucking kryptonite to an adolescent boy.

Now I just broke out into a cold sweat thinking about Hancock Fabrics.

[Beau Vine 54430]

 

11 hours ago, markstanco said:

22 hours ago, Deej said:

I can name about a fourth to a third of those players.

Poser.

Pugh, Bethea, Martin, Hill (? I thought he was taller), Richards, Johnson, Saldi, Pearson, DuPree

Cole, Donovan (either him or 67), ??, Andre (?), Rafferty (or 64), Scott, Wright, ?, Jones

Bruenig, White, Henderson, ?, Hegman, Brown, ?, ?, Fitzgerald

Thurman, Dorsett, Laidlaw, Waters, Hughes, Harris, Newhouse, Washington, Lewis

Septien, White, Staubach, Carano, Dennison (?), ?, Kyle, Pearson, Barnes.

 

Dad used to take me to McDonald's every year on the first day those came out.

 

Edited April 3, 2018 by Beau Vine
quoting two posts is hard

[Jive Turkey 12644]

This still blows my mind. The brownfield.  

[Zepol87 9191]

Sports

My dads best friend in high school was the backup goalie for the freeze. Went to many games and even got to travel on team buses. Saw slapshot at about 7 years old and thought it was the best thing ever. Have about 30 signed sticks from those guys. They would get hammered at my grandmas house instead pleasant grove when they didn’t have a game.
/csb

[Hornstrader 179]

The team used to stay at the Reunion Hyatt the night before the ousux game. They left a copy of the Wall Street Journal outside the rooms. Plenty of players were pissed when they could not find the sports section.

[DaggerHorns 3086]

I remember crystals, six flags in the summers, the three J’s over Dallas (Jamal Mashburn, Jim Jackson & Jason Kidd). 

I vividy remember Tatu from the Dallas Sidekicks. I got a soccer ball autographed by Eddie Radwanski.

The Forth Worth Fire. Skating at Tandy center. Montgomery Ward in Ft. Worth.

[Constant 6755]

I miss this old bird. The atmosphere at the AAC doesn't even come close. 

[futureman 22546]

2 hours ago, Constant said:

I miss this old bird. The atmosphere at the AAC doesn't even come close.