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...the good old days...Stan's Blue Note, pickled eggs, shuffle board, Dorothy & RB.....Cardinal Puff's..great place to meet hot sorority babes at 3 pm on a Fri.....Old Church..signing "New York New York" at the top of your lungs on Monday nights....Bowley & Wilson wet t-Shirt contests....Jenny Bears, were ALL the SMU fballers seemed to hang out....$10.30 checks cashed at Parkit Markit.....Steak N Egg Kitchen at 2 am......The ORIGINAL Chili's off of Royal?....The Filling Station.....Marianos Happy Hours......Trader Vic's Bar....Did We EVER Study??.....Heck, I remember tripping the lights fandango at HP Cassidy's....Herreras BYOB.......Whiskey River.....Stan's was probably the place I hung the most, took dates to Puff's alot...NY Sub on Sundays for dinner.....aahhhh, the good old days. Long Live RB

Stan's is still an extension of my living room...but I do miss the old times, when it was about a third of its current size, and we played bingo on Sunday nights...and Simon says sexual twister. A girl beat me in a belch-off to win Mr. Potatohead after we tied at bingo...oh the shame....

HixsontoLeVias wrote:...The Filling Station...

Sigh.... former mband favorite, now also defunct for about a year and some change. At least there is still one on Austin, and I have the recipe for Tune-Ups and Overhauls, and a fry daddy to recreate tailpipes.

Wow, Couch 'em; you're a man after my husband's heart. He absolutely loved Filling Station. Does anybody remember Adair's? And, if you do, how many spitwads did you blow at the ceiling?

HixsontoLeVias wrote:...the good old days...Stan's Blue Note, pickled eggs, shuffle board, Dorothy & RB.....Cardinal Puff's..great place to meet hot sorority babes at 3 pm on a Fri.....Old Church..signing "New York New York" at the top of your lungs on Monday nights....Bowley & Wilson wet t-Shirt contests....Jenny Bears, were ALL the SMU fballers seemed to hang out....$10.30 checks cashed at Parkit Markit.....Steak N Egg Kitchen at 2 am......The ORIGINAL Chili's off of Royal?....The Filling Station.....Marianos Happy Hours......Trader Vic's Bar....Did We EVER Study??.....Heck, I remember tripping the lights fandango at HP Cassidy's....Herreras BYOB.......Whiskey River.....Stan's was probably the place I hung the most, took dates to Puff's alot...NY Sub on Sundays for dinner.....aahhhh, the good old days. Long Live RB

Ah...yes, the Seventies! Weren't they great??? And the 'original' Chili's is still there, at the intersection of Greenville Ave. and Meadow Road, just south of Royal Lane. Other great restaurants in the same area were Victoria Station and The Railhead (both now long gone...ironically torn down to make way for the DART rail station!)

If any of you really old-timers want to take a trip down 'memory lane', try this on for size: Remember KBOX-AM when the station was behind Flag Pole Hill near White Rock Lake? or when 'cruising' meant going downtown and driving by KLIF-AM at the intersection of Commerce and Hwy. 75? Ron Chapman was one of the DJs. Remember The Cellar (night club) that was across the street from KLIF-AM? or The Knox Street Theatre which became a flower-child discotech? The Doors played there once. Remember Hillcrest State Bank where many an SMU student had his/her checking account? Remember when Ashburn's Ice Cream and Polar Bear Ice Cream were competing rivals...Ashburn's claimed north Dallas with a store on Knox Street just about a block east of Abbott Avenue and Polar Bear Ice Cream claimed south Dallas with a shop (shaped like an igloo) across from Methodist Hospital. Remember when Ownby Stadium was an unused stadium (except for practices) and some faculty and staff members actually lived in apartments that were built in it? Remember when an A&P Grocery Store was in Snider Plaza? How many fraternities claim throwing a box of dishwashing detergent in the fountain at Snider Plaza and watching a sea of soapsuds float down the shopping plaza? Or how many saw their first X-rated movie at the now long gone Fine Arts Theatre in Snider Plaza? Remember when Half-Price Books was on Knox Street and Zale's Jewelers was where Half-Price Books is now? I could go on....maybe some of the rest of you will remember some things that I haven't...yet!

Well try this on for size.

Where Culwell & Son sits now at the corner of Hillcrest and McFarlin there was a pharmacy with a soda fountain where you could get a burger. Bet you don't go back that far son...you were too busy getting kissed by that cheerleader (at age 10? or there abouts).

The old liquor store next to the 7-11 on Mockingbird right at the divide line between wet Dallas and dry HP...is still there.

Then there was the Big Boy restuarant at Mockingbird and Greenville.

We use to play handball in the courts set up inside Ownby on the second floor.

Where the 7-11 on Hillcrest at Asbury sits now use to be a little diner with great burgers and fries.

Or how about back when Commerce Street was a two way street and on Texas/OU weekend the cars would cruise up and down both directions with fans hanging out of the windows shouting at each other and people were throwing furniture out of the windows of the Baker Hotel down on to the drunks on Commerce? Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end...

BTW, if I remember correctly, the waitresses at the Cellar would be serving you in their underwear. I remember a friend of mine commenting that he had gone there and that it was rather disconcerting when the waitress asked for his order, to turn towards her and to be looking straight at her panties.

The Fine Arts theater use to be a great place to take in a movie...oh well, long gone now.

Then there was the Hilton Inn with the interesting Feirce Sparrow piano bar...which in recent time became the Hiltop Inn and then the Santa Fe Inn. Thankfully someone is going to redo that place and make it decent again.

Diamond Girl wrote:Wow, Couch 'em; you're a man after my husband's heart. He absolutely loved Filling Station. Does anybody remember Adair's? And, if you do, how many spitwads did you blow at the ceiling?

If you talking about the redneck bar down towards deep ellum then its still there. A favorite of While Helmet. Surprisingly good burger there.

PK wrote:Where Culwell & Son sits now at the corner of Hillcrest and McFarlin there was a pharmacy with a soda fountain where you could get a burger. Bet you don't go back that far son...you were too busy getting kissed by that cheerleader (at age 10? or there abouts).

Then there was the Big Boy restuarant at Mockingbird and Greenville.

Where the 7-11 on Hillcrest at Asbury sits now use to be a little diner with great burgers and fries.

PK: Oh, yes...I remember that pharmacy. And I was 8 years old when that lovely cheerleader, Diane Cosper of SMU, kissed me during Homecoming 1965.

There was also a Kip's Big Boy Restaurant at the intersection of Hillcrest & Northwest Highway. The building is still there but it's now E-Z's Hamburgers & Pizzas. No comparison between it and Kip's...I'll take a Big Boy hamburger, fries and a vanilla shake anyday!

Any of ya'll go bowling at the Cotton Bowling Lanes near Love Field or the Express Bowl across from SMU on the east side of Central Expressway?

And do any of ya'll remember the Dallas Texans (later Dallas Cowboys) practice facility and HQ that was behind the big blue metal fence on the east side of Central Expressway between Mockingbird Lane and University Blvd.?

And who could forget The Levee, just a few doors down from Campisi's on Mockingbird Lane? Best Dixieland jazz this side of New Orleans! SMU alum Jim Cullum and his Dixieland Jazz Band would play there often.

Man...the memories!

God you people are OLD!

Having just had a milestone birthday, I'm glad to be able to read this thread and realize how relatively young I still am.

Stallion wrote:God you people are OLD!

Some body has to be...we will be gone some day making room for you to be old.

couch 'em wrote: .... If you talking about the redneck bar down towards deep ellum then its still there. A favorite of While Helmet. Surprisingly good burger there.

Wasn't that place reviewed by the Burger Wars crew?

I believe it was, and received a good review.

Stallion wrote:God you people are OLD!

It's nice to know that there's something I am that Stallion is not. Waitaminute!

Am I the only one old enough to remember the Stables. That was the "under age" place when I was there. I worked and played there.