2019 November Lakewood

LAKEWOOD/EAST DALLAS

PEEK INSIDE EAST DALLAS’ A R C H I T ECT U R A L G R AV E YA R D

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STA N ’S B LU E N OT E : T H E OLDEST BAR IN DALLAS?

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6403 BLANCH | SOLD 3 Bed | 2 Bath | 2 Liv | 2 Car | 2,616 Sq Ft Bobby Stephens - 214-395-4579

5247 MILLER | $999,000 4 Bed | 4 Bath | 2 Car | 3,960 Sq Ft Carolyn Black - 214-692-0000

8627 SAN LEANDRO | $865,000

5 Bed | 3 Bath | 2 Car | 2,925Sq Ft RoseMarie LaCoursiere - 214-692-0000

PENDING

OPTION

6007 GOODWIN | $750,000 3 Bed | 2.1 Bath | 2 Liv | 2 Car | 2,821 Sq Ft Mary Rinne - 214-552-6735

5454 MONTICELLO | $739,500 3 Bed | 3 Bath | 2 Liv | 2 Din | 2,864 Sq Ft Mary Rinne / Steve Cairns - 214-552-6735

6820 CASA LOMA | $599,999 3 Bed | 2 Bath | 2 Car | 1,986Sq Ft The DPS Group - 214-536-8786

3750 COLVIN | $599,000 2 Bed | 2.1 Bath | 2 Car | 2,069 Sq Ft Rob Schrickel - 214-801-1795

3200 ROSS #6 | $565,000 2 Bed | 3.1 Bath | 2 Car | 2,789 Sq Ft Tina Lorance - 214-692-0000

1724 MAPLETON | $369,000 3 Bed | 2.1 Bath | 3 Liv | 2 Din | 2,097 Sq Ft Selzer Stell Group - 214-355-3113

6015 ORAM UNIT C | SOLD 2 Bed | 2.1 Bath | 2 Car | 1,400 Sq Ft Jessica Wantz - 713-299-1546

5609 SMU BLVD #407 | $299,900

4403 CAMDEN | $779,000 4 Bed | 3 Bath | 2 Car | 3,374 Sq Ft Terri Gum - 214-564-0100 POOL

LAKEWOOD | LAKE HIGHLANDS | 214-826-0316

PRESTON CENTER | 214-692-0000

2 Bed | 2 Bath | 1 Car | 1,025 Sq Ft Denise Larmeu - 214-336-6687

EBBY’S LITTLE WHITE HOUSE | 214-210-1500

4703 W. AMHEARST | $849,900 3 Bed | 2 Bath | Guest House | 2 Din | 2,489 Sq Ft

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5922 RICHMOND | $799,000

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7522 AZALEA | $630,000 3 Bed | 3.1 Bath | 2 Car | 3,031Sq Ft Rob Schrickel - 214-801-1795

6144 ANNAPOLIS | $600,000

6450 KENWOOD | $475,000

1022 CORDOVA | $424,900

2 Bed | 1 Bath | 2 Car | 1,326 Sq Ft Connie Reyes - 972-679-6344

5 Bed | 3.1 Bath | 2 Liv | 3,062 Sq Ft Mary Rinne - 214-552-6735

2 Bed | 1 Bath | 2 Liv | 1,289 Sq Ft Peter Loudis - 214-215-4269

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CONTENTS NOVEMBER 2019 VOL.26 NO.11

UP FRONT 20 Joshua Ray Walker A breakout year for this Western wonder 26 Writing Workshops You too can be an author

FEATURES 30 Audio archive Hear the history of East Dallas 44 The Boneyard A resting place for relics 48 Toy boxes for tots Furniture your kids will love 50 Take note Stan’s has served the ’hood for 67 years

TABLE OF CONTENTS PHOTO BY DANNY FULGENCIO

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Dan Micciche’s efforts to promote schools as a Dallas school board trustee paid off in an unexpected way. The third-term trustee was honored at the Children at Risk annual gala for his work improving schools and fighting for the district’s poorest children. Since his election in 2012 to serve District 3, Micciche has helped integrate social and emotional learning into the curriculum, mandated daily minutes for recess and required the district to serve food to all students as part of the Breakfast in the Classroom program.

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CRIME UPDATE

n Why did Dallas Water Utilities own a house on Greenville Avenue?

n Former Texas Tech hoops star ANDRE EMMETT was killed while sitting outside his Old East Dallas home, police say. Two people approached Emmett at 2:30 a.m.

Sept. 23 in the 1800 block of North Prairie Avenue. One individual pulled out a gun, and Emmett was shot as he tried to run away.

n Why this new restaurant opening in Casa Linda is even better than Chipotle n What you need to know about the bridge closure at Mockingbird and Peavy

n Authorities say East Dallas neighbor JAMES MICHAEL MEYER, 72, fatally shot a suspected burglar outside his home on Philip Avenue, then went back to bed before calling police two hours later. Meyer told police he fired at the individual, who tried to break into his shed with a pickax. Meyer was arrested and charged with murder.

n Don’t hit snooze on this new breakfast restaurant coming to Casa Linda n How not to handle social media: A lesson from Toasted owner Bob Sinnott

designer: Emily Hulen Thompson contributors: George Mason, Patti Vinson, Carol Toler, Scott Shirley photo editor: Danny Fulgencio

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COMING AND GOING [-] THE GRAPE

A neighborhood favorite for date nights and burgers closed Oct 9. Co-owners Brian and Courtney Luscher, who owned the restaurant since 2007, say they wanted to focus on family and other culinary ventures.

Founders Kathy McDaniel and Charlotte Parker still own the building and remain hopeful the restaurant could live on under another culinary player.

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We hold people accountable for their dreams. If you take a creative risk, take a workshop, you’re admitting to yourself and others that you have this dream. You never know where your experiences are going to lead.

— BLAKE KIMZEY, FOUNDER OF WRITING WORKSHOPS Read more about Writing Workshops in “Author! Author!” on page 26.

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An East Coast-style restaurant serving seafood and allAmerican fare will open at the former IHOP on Mockingbird Lane and Abrams Road in January. The menu includes popular items, such as the cheeseburger, the avocado dip and the Royal Seafood Tower with oysters, shrimp cocktail, king crab and a 2-pound lobster.

[+] SWIZZLE LUAU LOUNGE

The pop-up tiki bar is taking its tropical treasures to a permanent location on Greenville Avenue. Marty Reyes and Jen Ann Tonic will open the brick-and-mortar bar, Swizzle, at 1802 Greenville Ave. in the former Rocko’s Pizza space. It will serve the same rum-inspired drinks and famous mai tais that made the pop-up a hit when it opened in 2016.

[+] SNOOZE AN A.M. EATERY

Don’t hit the snooze button when Snooze an A.M. Eatery opens in the Casa Linda Plaza next year.

Construction will begin in 2020 with an opening date set for mid to late summer. Snooze is known for providing a plethora of pancakes, omelets and mimosathemed drinks.

We support the neighborhood.

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Nothing herein shall be construed as legal, accounting or other professional advice outside the realm of real estate brokerage. Compass is a licensed real estate broker. Equal Housing Opportunity.

PROPERTIES ON PARADE Spanish-inspired homes designed by architect Clifford Hutsell will be the centerpiece of the 43rd annual Lakewood Home Festival. Three Hutsell builds, including his private residence, will be on the lineup of six homes. The Lakewood Home Tour will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Nov. 9 and 10. Proceeds benefit Lakewood Elementary, J.L. Long and Woodrow Wilson.

3616 VINTAGE PLACE. Built in

2006, this Spanish Mediterranean was remodeled in the Hutsell style.

Visitors can’t miss the basement speakeasy, named “Vintage Place Social Club,” and an ever-changing craft cocktail menu.

7038 LAKEWOOD BLVD. This 1929 Spanish Hutsell was remodeled in the kitchen, master suite and courtyard. The homeowner added a junior master suite in the old sleeping porch. It incorporates stained-glass windows that add to the Hutsell flare. The corner lot provides ample flowerbeds and plenty of street frontage.

WE CAN’T STOP TALKING ABOUT THE DALLAS WATER UTILITIES HOUSE. If you’ve traversed the

intersection at Mockingbird Lane and Greenville Avenue, you may have noticed a dilapidated little building near a hill. It looks like a house, but the structure once stored machinery and equipment for the utility service. The building sits atop a 16-acre underground reservoir built in 1929. At the time, it was touted as the city’s highest point of elevation. The City of Dallas planned to turn the land around the outpost into a public park, but those plans never materialized.

1950s

7039 LAKESHORE DRIVE. This

1936 Hutsell home has California roots with hand-painted tile, beveled mirrors, original pillow tile in two upstairs bathrooms and intricate ironwork. The home is highlighted by a traditional Hutsell billiard room with a frosting ceiling flanked by stained glass.

7035 LAKEWOOD BLVD. Built in 1930, this was Hutsell’s personal home. It is known in the neighborhood for its blue exterior drapes that surround nauticalthemed, stained-glass windows.

7102 PASADENA DRIVE. Situated in

the trees, this modern retreat is a Zen oasis. The homeowners added 2,500 square feet, which includes a gym, guest room and playroom.

6616 NORTHRIDGE DRIVE. This

2018 build showcases large windows and a pastel palate. The five-bedroom home is complete with an outdoor living space and pool.

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BY THE NUMBERS: THE SEASON OF GIVING WE SPENT…

$61 million

ON CASH CONTRIBUTIONS

THE WORD After an Advocate investigation into out-of-district students who cheated their way into Booker T. Washington, new efforts to enforce residency requirements resulted in more spots for district students. Here’s what neighbors say:

“I get that we as residents of Lakewood pay for DISD funding and should be appalled at people not paying into the system taking advantage of the better schools in the district. However, I cannot help but wonder if by enforcing the boundary restrictions and limiting the applicant pool if Booker T. will continue to be a nationally recognized school.”

— Valerie Richmond Rahm

$8.8 million

ON DONATIONS TO CHARITIES

“The purpose of the school wasn’t to be nationally recognized.

That being said, if the DISD kids on waitlists didn’t have scores that would put them in, they wouldn’t be getting calls now.

There is a minimum qualification. Kids from out of district can still get in honestly for round two if there are no qualified district kids.”

— Tamara Stewart Woodchek

$2.3 million

ON ENDOWMENTS TO EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

$20.9 million

ON GIFTS TO CHURCHES AND RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS

$556,000

ON CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS Source: U.S. Census and Bureau of Labor Statistics based on ZIP codes 75204, 75206, 75214, 75218, 75223 and 75228. Numbers are derived from 2010 U.S. Census data with projections to be accurate as of Jan. 1, 2017.

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ON THE LOOSE A wandering wallaby again led neighbors on a bouncing quest to reunite it with its owner. Residents suspect it was Muggsy, the marsupial that escaped six months ago. After all, how many pet wallabies can there be? Muggsy clearly wants to live here. Can we blame him?

6476 Dunstan Ln. $799,000 4 Bed 4 Bath 2,855 sqft

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6918 Pasadena Ave $1,074,900 4 Bed 3 Bath 3,060 sqft

Nancy Johnson Group Alex Marler | 214.883.1149 alex.marler@compass.com

5903 Mercedes Ave. $659,000 3 Bed 2 Bath 2,109 sqft

White House Group Melissa Smulyan | 214.384.9040 melissa.smulyan@compass.com

4839 Junius St. $549,000 3 Bed 3 Bath 2,784 sqft

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Lakewood

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Nothing herein shall be construed as legal, accounting or other professional advice outside the realm of real estate brokerage. Compass is a licensed real estate broker. Equal Housing Opportunity.

EVENTS

NOV. 14

12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS

If you just can’t wait until after Thanksgiving to get in the Christmas spirit, stroll through the Arboretum and admire a dozen festive Victorian gazebos decorated in honor of “The 12 Days of Christmas.”

Where: Dallas Arboretum 8525 Garland Road Cost: Free with $15 general admission ticket Info: dallasarboretum.org

5 things to do in East Dallas this November NOV. 1-16

NOV. 3

NOV. 16

NOV. 30

When a London botanist returns from Tibet with a rather nasty bite, no one is safe, especially when the moon is full. Can popcorn-throwing audience members scare him off ?

This show, which combines the acrobatics of “Cirque du Soleil” and the humor of “Saturday Night Live,” explores the kooky world of a royal family reunion.

Join neighbors in discussing this citywide read, “Into the Beautiful North,” a story about a woman who leaves her besieged Mexican village and travels to the States, looking for defenders.

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of “Abbey Road” with this Beatles tribute band that’s been spreading the gospel of John, Paul, George and Ringo for more than 20 years.

Where: Pocket Sandwich

Center, 521 E. Lawther Drive Cost: $20-$30 Info: artandseek.org

The Werewolf of London

Theatre, 5400 E. Mockingbird Lane Cost: $10.50-$12.50 Info: pocketsandwich.com

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The Petite Palace

Into the Beautiful North

A Hard Night’s Day

Where: Bath House Cultural

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Where: Lakewood Branch

Where: Granada Theater,

Library, 6121 Worth St. Cost: Free Info: dallaslibrary2.org

Cost: $19-$29 Info: granadatheater.com

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UP FRONT E A S T DA L L A S HONK Y-T ONK Joshua Ray Walker chases the neon rainbow 

Interview by RACHEL STONE | Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO

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T

he 13-hour flight to Stockholm that Joshua Ray Walker took in October for a 32-date European tour was his first time on a plane.

Walker, who is from East Dallas, released his first album, “Wish You Were Here,” in January.

“I grew up in a lower-income family,” he says. “If we took a vacation, it was usually a road trip. As a musician, it’s practical to travel by car. The opportunity hasn’t presented itself, I guess. It never came up before.”

Walker finished recording his second album with State Fair Records before embarking on Europe. He also plays lead guitar in Ottoman Turks, the 10-year-old East Dallas dive bar band that’s suddenly having a come-up. They headlined the Granada Theater earlier this year.

Walker recorded a video for his song “Last Call” at Sons of Hermann Hall with Dallas country band 1100 Springs backing him. Walker and 1100 Springs also played the opening day of the State Fair of Texas.

Walker still lives in the Casa Linda-area duplex where he grew up with his grandparents on one side and his family on the other. He took over the mortgage almost five years ago after his grandparents died. Now he lives next door to dear ol’ mom.

How did you learn to play music?

I started playing the banjo at 4 or 5 and guitar at 5 or 6. My grandfather was from Union County, Tennessee, at the base of the Cumberland Gap. He had a lot of bluegrass records, and he always had a lot of instruments, so I just picked one up and tried to play along with the record. Eventually I got an electric guitar and started playing in bands in junior high and high school. I actually smashed my first electric guitar when we played the Granada. That was cool to get to do that. It was a nice send-off for that guitar. I couldn’t get rid of it for sentimental reasons, but it wasn’t a very good guitar. Now my label is having it mounted in a box with a poster from that night.

What high school did you go to?

I went to just about every high school around here: Lake Highlands, Hillcrest, Woodrow and Bryan Adams when I dropped out. I finally finished at Richland College.

Tell us about Ottoman Turks.

I joined them seven years ago. They had already been a band for two and a half years. They put out an album called “Juarez.” We had a lineup change, and we recorded an EP and rebranded the band. It just keeps getting heavier and faster and more rock ’n’ roll. Nathan Mongol Wells is the frontman and one of my best friends. I love playing lead guitar for him.

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“Playing the Granada is the peak of your local music career.”

Catch Joshua Ray Walker in concert.

When: 8 p.m. Nov. 9 Where: The Kessler, 1230 W. Davis St. Cost: $18

How did y’all wind up headlining the Granada?

We always had a decent following in the dive bar scene in Dallas, but last spring we played an awful show. We were all tired and beat down from playing shows and pursuing our solo careers. Life was getting in the way — money problems, life in general. We liquidated our band account and decided that we weren’t going to pursue booking shows anymore, and we would just take offers as they came in — maybe play one or two shows a year at the Double Wide or something.

Literally the next email we got was to play for some guaranteed money at Sundown at Granada. We had never played that venue. I guess we were just really determined to play a better show, and we were playing for fun because there was no pressure. Shortly after, they offered us our first opening spot at the Granada Theater.

What was that like?

That was our dream. Playing the Granada is the peak of your local music career. We headlined in August, and they said it was one of the best-selling local acts the Granada has had in years. Since then, Rolling Stone has mentioned us and American Songwriter. No Depression put us on a playlist.

Bloodshot Records put us on a Spotify playlist. This is the first time we’ve gotten any national attention in the last month or so.

How did you start writing songs?

When my father passed in 2009, I went home from the hospital and picked up a guitar. My first song that I ever wrote just came out all at once. I didn’t write another song for two years. Then another one just came out all at once. “Fondly.”

The first two songs were really personal, so I always thought of songwriting as a personal thing. I didn’t realize that co-writing is so prevalent. So I’ve been going to Nashville to do co-writes the past year and a half. I write with John Pedigo a lot and my bandmates in Ottoman Turks, Billy Law and Nathan. Both of those guys are really good songwriters. Everybody in Ottoman Turks except the drummer writes and plays their own solo stuff, which I think is unique for a rock band.

This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity. lakewood.advocatemag.com

Check out Joshua Ray Walker’s music video.

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RUBY, TIMES TWO “Why would you name your new dog Ruby?” It was an honest question from a neighbor who knew Lakewood Heights residents Mike Archer and Errin Major already had a dog with the same name. “I was like, ‘There’s way more to the story,’” Archer says. Five years ago, Archer was living in Dallas part time for work when he met Major and her dog, Ruby, at the Truck Yard. The couple dated long distance until Archer sold his house in North Carolina, packed his things and moved to Dallas permanently with his dog. You guessed it. Her name is Ruby.

Ruby 1, Major’s 8-year-old Chihuahua, and Ruby 2, Archer’s 14-year-old corgi, soon became best friends. From sleeping to taking walks and chasing squirrels, the pets do everything together — including disobeying their owners. “My favorite response to those who ask if they both come when we call, ‘Here, Ruby,’ is that neither of them respond,” Archer says. “They’re old ladies, and they do what they want.” The red-haired Rubys will officially become sisters when the couple marries at the Arboretum in February. “We love the story because it’s funny,” Archer says.

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Now, the Little Forest Hills neighbor is a published author with a passion for helping emerging writers develop their craft. In March 2017, he started Writing Workshops Dallas, an independent writing school that offers classes and seminars to writers, poets and screenwriters.

With more than 1,300 students, the school quickly outgrew its space at The Mix and moved to The Drawing Board in Richardson. Doctors, lawyers, mechanics and other working professionals meet there after work for eight-week classes that include assigned reading and homework.

Under the instruction of National Book Award finalists, New York Times best-sellers and other experienced writing coaches, many students go on to publish their first stories or gain acceptance into the best graduate programs.

“When you submit work, you face a mountain of rejection. That’s why you need community.”

Little Forest Hills neighbor Blake Kimzey founded Writing Workshops Dallas in March 2017.

AUTHOR! AUTHOR! FROM OLIVE GARDEN AND REJECTION TO SUCCESS AND TEACHING, BLAKE KIMZEY MAKES A DIFFERENCE Story by JAIME DUNAWAY | Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO

BLAKE KIMZEY always wanted to be a writer. He just didn’t know how. For years he labored in the cube farm, working tirelessly to the steady tapping of keyboards and attending meetings that would make even the most dedicated employees consider swallowing staples one by one.

It wasn’t until he enrolled in a nighttime fiction class at Brookhaven College in Farmers Branch that he found new life in fantasy worlds where people wore oxygen masks or grew gills and lived under water.

Kimzey took the class three consecutive semesters, and by the end, he had nine short stories, a mentor and a writing community to support him as he chased his dream.

“I was terrified. My own struggle was thinking that my writing wouldn’t be good enough,” Kimzey says. “If it weren’t for that Brookhaven class, I wouldn’t be a writer. It changed my life.”

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“My passion in starting this was as much for the teaching artists as the students,” Kimzey says. “You have to practice what you preach, and seeing students turn in work inspires me. I recognize myself in them.”

After taking classes at Brookhaven, Kimzey moved to California and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California-Irvine.

His fiction has since been broadcast on NPR, performed onstage in Los Angeles and published by Tin House, D Magazine and Vice.

His short story collection, “Families Among Us,” contains one of his favorite tales about a family whose Pan Am flight plunges into the sea. Years later, they crawl naked onto the shore, holding their luggage, after deciding to permanently abandon the fuselage that had been their home. They hear the waves crashing and feel the sun on their skin for the first time in decades, but they soon realize they miss the fluidity of the water.

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world wasn’t without obstacles. Before going to grad school, he worked part time at Olive Garden to pursue his writing career. He was inundated with rejection letters before his first story was ever published.

“When I was working at Olive Garden, it was hard not to be discouraged or think that it wouldn’t happen,” Kimzey says. “When you submit work, you face a mountain of rejection.

That’s why you need community. It fuels you for the next step of your journey.”

Connecting writers with other writers is one of the primary goals of Writing Workshops. At monthly happy hours, students and teachers gather at The Wild Detectives to celebrate success and encourage others in the face of rejection. Most who attend are students from the Dallas area, but some are international students who have traveled as far as India and Pakistan to take classes.

In July, Writing Workshops went global with its first event outside the United States in the heart of literary Paris. For centuries, the city has been a moveable feast for unknown artists hoping to cut their teeth in the literary world. Young writers from around the world followed in the footsteps of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald and converged on Paris for the weeklong event.

Students honed their craft during the day, and at night, Kimzey brushed off his skills as a former Parisian bicycle guide and led the writers on a literary tour that left them feeling artistically refreshed.

“We hold people accountable for their dreams,” Kimzey says. “If you take a risk, take a workshop, you’re admitting to yourself and others that you have this dream. You never know where your experiences are going to lead.” lakewood.advocatemag.com

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Carmona told producers he would dye his hair Fieri’s iconic bleach blond spikes to get featured on the show. They told him that wasn’t necessary.

Three days later, the production crew came to Dallas to record Carmona making his famous pulpo tacos.

“Out of the six places, I’m the only taco shop in Dallas to be on the Food Network,” Carmona says. “People started coming in from all over the state.”

Carmona has cooked in Dallas, Miami, New York City and Las Vegas over the past 30 years. Recently, he worked at the resort Las Ventanas in Cabo San Lucas, a resort city on the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula. He quickly became inspired by the street vendors.

“I decided to sample all of the great food that they offered on the Pacific,” Carmona says.

“Being from Mexico City, you don’t have those tacos there.”

Carmona was blown away by the food and came to Dallas to start selling seafood tacos inspired by his travels.

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Telling tales THE LAKEWOOD BRANCH LIBRARY PRESERVES OUR NEIGHBORS’ PLACE IN HISTORY Every neighbor has a story to tell. For years, the Lakewood Branch Library has worked to record the oral histories of longtime residents discussing topics like work, faith, education, employment and housing.

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Dallas artist and stage designer Jack Bridges transformed a Santa Claus statue into a giant cowboy.

Photography courtesy of The State Fair of Texas®

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J AC K B R I D G E S

Birthing Big Tex

J

ack Bridges once said he’d try anything that was impossible.

But the artist took one look at the colossal Santa Claus former Dallas Mayor R.L. Thornton asked him to overhaul as a Christmas decoration for Fair Park and didn’t see any potential.

Bridges proposed his own seemingly impossible idea — transform Santa into Big Tex, the official greeter of the State Fair of Texas who has welcomed visitors for decades.

“I could build anything that needed to be built. That’s why they called me,” Bridges says in a 1983 interview. “The Santa was big, and it was square. I figured the State Fair needed

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a Texas symbol on the order of Old Man Texas.”

Big Tex was born in Kerens and found a home at Fair Park. But his story is, ultimately, an East Dallas one, where the artist who brought him to life grew up.

Bridges was raised on Miller Avenue near the Greenland Hills neighborhood. He spent his childhood fishing and squirrel hunting in the backyard. The boys who had the most fun brought their girlfriends, he says. But because he was secretly seeing his Spanish teacher, he took his dog or his mom instead.

In 1925, Bridges started working at Fair Park, performing odd jobs in what is now the Automobile Building.

His father had an exhibit there selling 16 flavors of soft drinks. He made about $5 million one year peddling the 5-cent item.

At their factory, the Bridges supplied concentrates, syrups and flavoring to bottlers across the Southwest. They delivered their products in 52 large trucks that they stored in a garage on Sanger Avenue.

Unbeknownst to Bridges, the space also doubled as a weigh station for bootleggers smuggling liquor from Mexico.

One day, when Bridges arrived at the garage, he opened the door and walked right into a machine gun.

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Throughout the room, bootleggers were using transportation equipment to lift 5-gallon cases of alcohol out a garage window and into the neighboring house.

“I knew the boys. They said, ‘Come on in, Jack,’” Bridges says. “I knew better than to say anything. Everyone in town, in one way or another, was connected to that type of racket.”

When the Depression hit, the family fortune vanished, and Bridges started working for John A. Poteet. The artist once said in jest that if Bridges ever needed a job, he should pay him a visit. Bridges cashed in on the offer and joined a community of artists that nurtured his maturing skills as a creator.

During World War II, Bridges helped build a hospital in Hawaii before joining the Navy.

Photography courtesy of The State Fair of Texas®

He stayed in the islands six years and then moved back to Dallas.

He designed and built scenery for amateur dance and theater companies before going back to work at the fairgrounds. It was there he completed the project that defined his career.

Bridges was tasked with creating Big Tex from a 49-foot Santa statue made of iron-pipe drill casing, papier-mâché, cloth and unraveled rope.

The Kerens Chamber of Commerce had hoped the figure would entice shoppers to spend money at local stores. But when the novelty faded, the chamber sold the statue to the State Fair for $750.

“When I mentioned creating Old Man Texas,” Bridges says, “J. Hugh Campbell said, ‘Why don’t we build a Young Man Texas? We have enough of us old sons-ofa-gun sitting around.’”

Thornton liked the idea, and because he had the money, that’s the way it went.

Bridges cut the frame into pieces and welded them into a cowboy whose right arm appeared hooked into his vest and whose left arm was outstretched in greeting. His face — modeled after Bridges, Will Rogers and rancher Doc Simmons — featured a wink and a long, hooked nose that was so grotesque, Big Tex had

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to have surgery. Over the years, he became friendlier with two open eyes, a straight nose and a voice that said, “Howdy, folks” to guests.

“I took the worst features from all three of us,” Bridges says.

“Then they made us make him into a pretty boy. I liked him the way he was, more rugged.”

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Once the frame of Big Tex was complete, Bridges encountered another problem — finding clothes big enough to fit the 52-foot cowboy. When he sought donations, he was refused on his first call to the clothing company, Texas Concern.

“They said, ‘We don’t think much of those big monstrosities. We’ve seen it tried before, and it never works,’” Bridges says.

Just a few minutes later, representatives from the H.D. Lee Company agreed to donate clothing for Big Tex. In 1952, the icon debuted at the State Fair wearing denim jeans and a red plaid shirt with black accents.

Through the years, he’s updated his look with new clothes and a little bling. During the Diamond Jubilee, Bridges drilled a hole through crystal salad bowls and placed them over Big Tex’s buttons to mark the occasion.

When Big Tex isn’t welcoming visitors to the State Fair, he’s stored in various buildings at Fair Park — for the same reason the president and vice president are separated during an emergency, Bridges says. He didn’t want to lose the pieces all at once in an accident.

Until his death in 2001, Bridges served as Big Tex’s caretaker, keeping him safe from vandals who once drew a mustache on his disembodied face. He also oversaw the installation process, which took about six hours and a crane to insert the figure's 16-feet spud pipes into the ground.

Bridges’ family members say they’re relieved the creator wasn’t alive to witness the fire that destroyed Big Tex in 2012. Although the icon was rebuilt the following year, Bridges’ granddaughter, Elisabeth Bridges, told the Dallas Morning News that the original was priceless.

She says, “To me, it will be Big Tex, and it will be the new Big Tex, but it won't ever be the Tex that Jack built.”

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DAV I D G U I O N

Home on the range — and on Monticello too

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“As I entered, I heard two drunks sitting on the John with their britches down singing ‘Home on the Range’ at the top of their lungs,” Guion says in a 1974 interview at his home on Monticello Avenue. “That’s the funniest place I ever heard it.”

Guion made his name in New York City, but his West Texas upbringing inspired the cowboy tunes and African American spirituals that made him famous.

Born in 1892, Guion grew up with eight siblings in a wooden house in the ranching town of Ballinger. He developed a love for the plains and prairies through family camping trips. During the day, they fished and rode horses. At night, the chuckwagon cook played his fiddle, and they danced to tunes like “Turkey in the Straw” and the “Arkansas Traveler.”

At 6 years old, Guion started taking music lessons in San Angelo from British piano instructor Charles Finger.

Every Saturday, his mother sent him on the Santa Fe railway with a neck placard, stating his name and destination. A few years later, Guion began writing his own compositions.

“I never planned to be a composer,” Guion says. “I’d planned to be a concert pianist. I was just writing because

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I have a creative brain.

It was there and had to come out.”

Only once did his family try to derail his music career by encouraging him to attend military school.

His father booked Guion’s dorm room, packed his trunk and purchased a train ticket. But 30 minutes before departure, Guion was nowhere to be found. He had saddled his horse and rode through the prairie until 4 a.m.

“That was the end of my military training,” Guion says. “My father decided he had a boy with a mind of his own and didn’t try to send me anywhere else.”

Guion’s musical studies took him to Vienna to train under Leopold Godowski at the Royal Conservatory of Music, but he was forced to return to Texas with the onset of World War I. He moved to Lakewood in 1920 and taught in the piano department at Southern Methodist

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Hardin-Simmons University officials greet David Guion, left, at a reception in Abilene. Photo courtesy of The Portal to Texas History.

University. During that time, he met his wife, and they married in a house on Gaston Avenue. Two years later, their divorce spelled the end of his tenure at SMU, and he moved to New York City.

While there, he met blues singer Nora Bayes and wrote her the song, “Old Maid Blues,” which became his first hit. She introduced him to publishers at G. Schirmer, Inc. who agreed to an exclusive contract that brought new popularity to his music.

His greatest hit, “Home on the Range,” emerged from his production, “Prairie Echoes,” which featured ropers and cowboy dances. It was so successful, NBC broadcast an hourlong radio program that ran from coast to coast. Guion, dressed in cowboy regalia, arrived for the live show in a Cadillac with a police escort

that stopped traffic on Fifth Avenue.

During his heyday, he received fan mail from around the world, played in the most prestigious venues and performed on two weekly radio shows that inspired the singing cowboy character, which appeared in Westerns throughout the 1930s and ’40s.

“I was having too good a time in New York,” Guion says. “All the wealthy people were entertaining me, and we had some wild parties.”

One night, two police officers arrived at his home in Greenwich Village and said he was to accompany them to Brooklyn. The police took him to a friend’s house, and when he knocked on the door, the host said, “I hope this will teach you a lesson. You forgot all about the dinner I’m giving in your honor, and I had to send the police to come get you.”

Guion retired from public life in 1936 and bought his own home on the range in a Pennsylvania valley.

The government later condemned his property to build a dam, and he moved back to his house in Lakewood. He continued composing ballets, religious selections, love songs and piano pieces. When he died in 1981, it was with few career regrets.

He says, “I like everything I’ve ever written.”

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LESTERE MILLER

‘Daring Birdman Of Dallas’

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f aviation pioneer Lestere Miller bought a packing crate and put wings on it, his students at the Texas School of Aviation knew he could make it fly.

Perhaps no man in Texas did more to train the next generation of pilots and kindle curiosity in aviation than Lestere. In 1914, the Lakewood Hills neighbor opened the state’s first flying school on Columbia Avenue behind what is now Juliette Fowler Communities. In a large frame building that served as his hangar and workshop, students from across the state arrived to take lessons from the “Daring Birdman of Dallas.”

Lestere became a household name in 1911 when he departed Hillsboro and piloted the first recorded airplane flight in Texas. His fame continued to grow as he made the state’s first airmail flight from Dallas to Fort Worth on Jan. 8, 1917.

He took off from a pasture near the Lakewood Country Club and soared into the western sky over a crowd of cheering onlookers.

Thirty-seven minutes later, he arrived in Fort Worth and made the return trip in 21 minutes thanks to a strong tailwind.

“He didn’t have a thought for anything other than aviation after the Wright brothers made their flight in Kitty Hawk,” his wife, Ione Miller, says in a 1973 interview. “He lived and breathed aviation all his life.”

Lestere was devoted to aviation, but he had little money for flight school, Ione says. He lived on 15 cents a day — enough to purchase bread and greens — as he taught himself to be a pilot and flight mechanic.

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Lestere Miller, left, sits atop an early airplane model. Photo courtesy of the Dallas Public Library.

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A 1916 photo of Lestere Miller that appeared in the Flatonia newspaper. Photo courtesy of The Portal to Texas History.

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In 1912, he was awarded the 63rd pilot’s license in the United States. They number more than 600,000 today.

A year later, on Oct. 13, 1913, he got his airmail permit. Believing 13 was his new lucky number, he added an “e” to the end of Lester so his first and last name would total 13 letters.

In the early days of flight, airplanes did not have enclosed cockpits. Pilots, wearing layers of wool clothing for warmth, simply sat at the front of an exposed, triangular base to steer the aircraft. It was a dangerous hobby, and newspapers reported that Lestere’s plane crashed into several cars and fences.

During one flight, a crash landing pinned Lestere to the ground, and hot water from the radiator poured onto his

back. A 12-year-old girl passing through the field where he landed was able to lift the plane so Lestere could crawl out.

But he bore scars from the blisters on his back until he died. When people asked how he got the scars, he told them he was a lion tamer.

At the start of World War I, Lestere was drafted and sent to Dayton, Ohio.

The daredevil pilot had a romantic streak, and a few months later, he and Ione married after a four-year courtship. The papers heralded the news with the headline, “Romance in the air.”

“I thought I’d rather be left his wife than his sweetheart,” Ione says.

But Lestere never traveled overseas to fight at the front lines.

Instead, he trained pilots in Dayton before moving to New Jersey to manufacture planes for the Standard Aircraft Corporation. While working in the States, he kept his draft card in his pocket at all times to prove to angry passersby that he was still serving his country.

After the armistice, Lestere bought a shop in Dayton and used the materials to make planes that sold for more than $3,000. Lestere also built one of the first planes with a passenger seat and traveled throughout Texas

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The demonstrations required just the right flying weather — clear skies and low wind.

During an exhibition in Hillsboro, the pilot told the crowd the wind was too strong and canceled the flight. The angry mob claimed he was a fake and locked him in the local jail until city officials released him.

“He enjoyed telling that story as much as he could tell anything,” Ione says.

Lestere survived the dangers of flying — and entertaining its fans — but died from emphysema in 1963, despite the fact that he didn’t smoke. Even as he took his last breath, Ione says he couldn’t help but talk about his passion.

“I’m very proud of his contribution to aviation,” Ione says. “He was very interested in the boys going to the moon. If he had been a young man, he probably would have wanted to go there, too.”

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Gold rings from a parking garage stored at the Boneyard.

H OA R D E D H I S T O RY PIECES OF DALLAS’ PAST ARE STORED AT THE BONEYARD WHEN WILLIS WINTERS answered the unknown number on his phone, the last thing he expected was a frantic message from a Washington-based researcher pleading with him to save the light pole at Dealey Plaza.

The pole, located at the corner of Elm and Houston streets near the old Texas School Book Depository, had been hit by a car and was on its way to a salvage yard when the East Dallas neighbor with a penchant for history and preservation interceded.

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Willis Winters retired as director of the Park and Recreation Department in October.

Winters, the former director of the Park and Recreation Department, took it to the Boneyard, located at the IC Harris Service Center just a few minutes south of Samuell Grand Park. There, a team of researchers and FBI agents studied the role the light pole may have played in the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

When the study concluded, neither The Sixth Floor Museum nor the National Archives wanted the historic artifact. Since then, it’s remained in a shipping container at the Boneyard, where Winters has quietly stashed other pieces of the city’s past to save them from the wrecking ball.

The site is called the Boneyard, but the name is scarier than the actual location. It’s simply a dusty, slightly overgrown field filled with architectural relics sitting on wooden pallets at the back of the park maintenance facility. The items would be too expensive or time intensive to create today, so Winters saves them in case they can be reused for park projects or loaned to groups on behalf of the department.

The Boneyard started in the 1990s when the City of Dallas restored the Tenison Memorial Gates at Samuell Grand Park. Built in 1924, years of dirt accumulation and mortar deterioration had left the structures in poor condition. The column capitals were too dilapidated to save, so restoration workers molded and recast

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Clockwise from top left: A cracked Texas stone; a column capital from the Tenison Memorial Gates; a portion of P.C. Cobb Stadium; a piece of the original fish fountain at Fair Park.

replacement pieces before giving the originals to Winters to take to the fledgling Boneyard.

Other pieces soon followed. Gold rings from a parking garage, stone parapets and fences torn down from community pools are littered throughout. There are even two rows of seats salvaged from the Cotton Bowl after bleacher seating was installed in 2009.

Not even Winters knows all the items stored at the Boneyard. With his retirement in October, the park department embarked on a mission to identify and label the artifacts scavenged from across the city.

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P.C. COBB STADIUM Concrete slabs featuring illustrations of athletes are all that remain of P.C. Cobb Stadium. The 1920s stadium was torn down to build the Infomart at Oak Lawn Avenue and Stemmons Freeway.

Five stories in the air, demolition workers used a jackhammer to break the façade into pieces and lower them to the ground. They were stored in a warehouse for years until Winters brought them to the Boneyard. The goal is to use the slabs in a seating plaza at Stemmons Park where neighbors can peek into the world of high school athletics during the early 20th century.

GREAT NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OFFICES The building that housed the Great National Life Insurance Company offices was built in 1963, but it had the look of the future. The innovative and revolutionary building at Harry Hines Boulevard and Mockingbird Lane was wrapped in aluminum sunshades that stretched along the façade — contrasting the flat, clean lines of office architecture in the 1950s. The building, which became the Salvation Army headquarters in the 1980s, was added to a Preservation Dallas list of mostendangered buildings. That didn’t save

it from demolition in 2018. A portion of the diamond-shaped shades was taken to the Boneyard for possible reuse.

TITCHE-GOETTINGER CARTOUCHE In 2012, a 96,000-pound cartouche that once adorned the Titche-Goettinger department store in downtown Dallas came to rest at the Boneyard. The crest depicts images of commerce and industry, as well as the six flags that flew over Texas. The limestone pieces were removed from what is now the University of North Texas chancellery to make way for new windows.

FAIR PARK FISH FOUNTAIN You’ve probably seen the fish fountain that sits in front of the Women’s Building at Fair Park. But the 1936 original, designed by Raoul Josset and sculpted by José Martin, is tucked away in the Boneyard.

After years of neglect, the half circle of flying fish was restored in 2000.

The original is kept in storage in case restoration workers need to again mold and recast the crumbling cast-stone sculpture with a plaster coating.

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FAIR CHAIRS WHY THE GREENS BUILD THE CUTEST FURNITURE EVER FOR A CAUSE Story by JAIME DUNAWAY | Photography by DANNY FULGENCIO

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FROM SECTIONAL SOFAS TO FRENCH SETTEES, children’s furniture matures faster than the tykes who will inevitably spill juice on the chic pieces. But creative couple Phil and Casey Green build chairs and toy boxes that make kids never want to grow up.

For seven years, the Lakewood neighbors have transformed premade wooden items into dinosaur chairs and toy chests shaped like tigers, boats and school buses. Instagram fans rave about the products, but you can’t find them for sale anywhere except charity auctions for Dallas Court Appointed Special Advocates.

“It’s our shared hobby,” Casey says. “It feels like something special we get to do. It’s not a chore, and we think it’s good for our kids to see you put in hard work to raise money for someone who needs your help.”

In 2012, CASA volunteers approached Casey, senior creative director at Fossil, about donating her design talents to the organization that advocates for abused children in Dallas County court. With Phil’s carpentry skills, the couple created a latticework kid’s chair modeled off a mid-century modern look. The next year, they made chairs with a Lucite back and lacquered, rose gold seats.

In subsequent years, the designs got younger and more elaborate thanks to creative assistance from their children: 8-year-old Zoey, a third-grader at Lakewood Elementary, and 6-year-old Miles, a kindergarten student at Geneva Heights.

“The first two years were clearly for me, thinking it was hilarious to have mini adult furniture,” Casey says. “Now I usually try to pick something they’re interested in so we can get their help on it.”

When Zoey was obsessed with the Dallas Zoo, her parents made a striped toy box with a tiger’s face on the end. They built a school bus the following year when Miles learned the school bus song at day care. This year’s design was a “monster Muppet” with giant googly eyes, polka dot sock-puppet arms and

painted feet. The toy box lid served as the giant green mouth.

The Greens’ creations aren’t just fun — they’re functional. With two kids, they know the safety features that must be added to protect little fingers from getting pinched. The first year they made a toy box, they installed safety latches to ensure the lid would never close too quickly on unsuspecting toddlers.

Most projects can be built for less than $100 and resold at auctions for up to $1,000.

But not all projects go swimmingly. Making the boat-shaped toy chest almost ended in a shipwreck.

The couple tried to modify the premade box, but it became clear they’d have to start from scratch. The piece, which was expected to take 10 hours to complete, took 40, and the family had to rush to finish before the deadline. Zoey chipped in by picking out paint colors, and Miles helped his dad sand the wood so it could be decorated.

Although the project was the hardest the Greens have ever tackled, they say it’s also their favorite.

“There’s nothing like it that you can really buy,” Casey says. “Sometimes we’re trying to figure out something that doesn’t exist.”

The desire to push their creative boundaries motivates the Greens to attempt a new project each year. CASA has tried to recruit them for its annual Parade of Playhouses at NorthPark Center, but the family prefers to perfect its craft of building one-of-a-kind children’s furniture. In the future, neighbors might see a table and chair set or a train-shaped chest they’ve toyed with building for years.

“It’s always a fun project to do, but at the end of the day, we never forget what it’s for,” Phil says. “There are children right here in our own city who need so much more than a chest or toys. They need someone to stand up for them, and Dallas CASA stands ready to do that.”

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S TA R BA R Stan’s Blue Note calls itself the oldest, continuously open bar in Dallas

MIKE MCRAE DOESN’T HESITATE when he says his

sports bar, Stan’s Blue Note, is the oldest, continuously open bar in Dallas. City records are, admittedly, not great at tracking such things. So how does he know?

“There are a couple bars that claim to be the oldest,” McRae says. “When I talk to them about it, I ask when they opened. We opened in 1952.

Then they say, ‘Well, you know…’ They don’t know what to say.”

“I absolutely love dive bars, and Stan’s is a dive bar.”

Stan’s became the city’s oldest bar when Greenville Bar and Grill closed nearly three years ago, McRae says. After opening in the 1930s, it was one of the first places to get a beer license after Prohibition. When it closed, the title could have passed to Ships Lounge, which opened in 1947. But the East Dallas establishment encountered stormy weather and closed for almost a year in 2015.

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Florida Gators fans pack Stan’s Blue Note to watch the matchup against Auburn.

that “continuously open” distinction.

There’s also another caveat. Some places in town are older than Stan’s Blue Note, but they aren’t stand-alone bars. They’re hotel bars or fraternal lodges that just so happen to also serve alcohol.

“I absolutely love dive bars, and Stan’s is a dive bar,” McRae says.

“That’s what makes me happy. It has such a good feel.”

Stan’s is known as a sports bar, but when it first opened, it was the go-to place in the neighborhood for live music. E.E. Stanley purchased the property on Greenville Avenue and built the bar so his band would always have a place to play its soulful blues and swinging jazz.

Stanley eventually sold the property, and it came under the ownership of Dorothy Shipley. Sporting cowboy

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Mike McRae renovated Stan’s and redecorated with neon beer signs and sports memorabilia.

boots and a beehive hairdo, she ran the bar with an iron fist. She didn’t allow cursing, and patrons knew better than to cross her.

Stan’s served only one draft beer, Budweiser, and about five canned beers. The offerings included Schlitz and Miller High Life — both considered high-end beers at the time.

The food menu was just as scant and perhaps even more unsavory with menu items like pickled pig feet, hardboiled eggs, chips and Slim Jims.

When Shipley made friends with the next-door restaurant owner, John Caulfield, they devised an ingenious and profitable solution to Stan’s food problem. They cut a hole in the wall between the businesses so customers could order meals from Caulfield without leaving the bar.

When Shipley sold Stan’s to Caulfield in 1987, the going price for a mason jar of draft beer was 85 cents.

Caulfield remodeled Stan’s — starting with the ceiling when the nicotine-stained surface collapsed after years of smoke damage. He

also expanded the bar to the size it is today. He acquired two neighboring businesses, and just like that, the bar grew from 57 square feet to 1,700 square feet.

Stan’s changed hands once more in the following decades and became a sports bar with 33 TVs and a wall projector. Regulars pack the space every weekend to cheer for their favorite teams and enjoy half-price food during happy hour.

When McRae considered buying the business, he joined the crowd at the bar, observing what looked like a scene right out of “Cheers.” At Stan’s Blue Note, the staff knows your name, interacts with customers and cares about the community, McRae says.

The 67-year-old bar underwent another renovation when McRae became owner. He demolished the old walls, applied a fresh coat of paint and decorated the interior with neon beer signs and sports memorabilia.

“Women heard the bathrooms had been remodeled, and they all started coming back,” McRae says. “Business immediately increased.”

Sports banners for various college teams hang from the ceiling, but McRae doesn’t cheer for anyone in particular. He does, however, have a soft spot for Oklahoma. Ten years ago, an OU student came to Stan’s with a group of friends to watch the Red River Showdown. The customer’s three brothers, who all went to Oklahoma, continue to organize watch parties, which have grown to 350 students. If the Sooners lose, they pack up and go home. If they win, they stay and party all weekend, McRae says.

The owner doesn’t care that his allegiance is to an out-of-state school.

It’s good for business, and extending Stan’s streak as the city’s oldest bar for another 67 years is his first priority.

“I’ve been in the bar business since I was 15,” McRae says, “and owning Stan’s Blue Note, the oldest bar in Dallas, makes me proud.”

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OUR NEIGHBORHOOD

By PATTI VINSON

Passionate preservationists How a couple saves East Dallas historical homes one by one

N

eighbors Patty Simon and Kyle Collins love everything historical.

Collins is a lifelong antiques collector. Simon grew up in upstate New York, where she felt at home with old houses and fell in love with power tools. Now they gravitate to the historical homes in East Dallas and are passionate about preserving their past.

The couple discovered their mutual passion early. In 2006, just a few months into their relationship, Collins suggested they find an old house to restore. Living in a Deep Ellum condo at the time, Simon had often cut through East Dallas neighborhoods on her way to her orthodontics practice on Skillman Street. She suggested they check out Reiger Avenue. They found a historic fourplex and discovered their unique strengths.

“I can visualize the plans in three dimensions and have an eye for design,” Simon says. “My training makes me think backward from what the finish looks like to where we are now and all the steps in between.”

After the fourplex on Reiger was completed, Collins proposed on the balcony.

House hunting soon commenced. Though they scoured Lakewood, Munger Place and Junius Heights, nothing felt quite right. They made the decision to find a house in disrepair and restore it.

Collins stumbled upon a deal in Peak’s Suburban Addition. They bought the Prairie-style house from a Realtor who had purchased it on the courthouse steps a few weeks before. Simon and Collins knew the house already. Their contractor for the fourplex had used it to store architectural salvage.

When they went to the house one day in search of a newel post, they looked beyond the dust and cracks. The couple saw what was left of a grand staircase and were smitten. They wanted the house.

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Cutline here (Photography by Danny Fulgencio).

Patty Simon and Kyle Collins at their Peak’s Suburban Addition home. (Photography by Danny Fulgencio.)

Built in 1906, the house had known many lives, first as the home of a young couple and elderly father, then a boarding house in the 1940s. It was later divided into nine apartments but had sat vacant since the late 1970s.

“It was a complete wreck,” Simon says. But the couple were undaunted. “We could do what we wanted and make it our vision,” she says.

The two worked on the restoration every spare minute over the next three and a half years. The biggest challenge was educating contractors on historic restoration, but working with their designer and architect was a joy.

“It was like we were on an archeological

dig,” Simon says.

As apartments, the ceilings had been lowered to 8 feet, so the couple found they actually had 12-foot ceilings. They also discovered old fireplace boxes and a full basement that had been filled with chunks of concrete.

Although they were a tad crumbly, the two loved the plaster medallions in each of the rooms, as well as the details on the hallway ceiling. Simon had the original medallions impressed and repoured in plaster.

Their hard work and attention to detail paid off. Not only did they create a home they love, they were honored by Preservation Dallas with a Preservation Achievement Award.

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The couple then turned their attention to a nearby bungalow. It had been the childhood home of Alexandre Hogue, a well-known Dust Bowl artist who has dozens of works on display in the permanent collection at the Dallas Museum of Art. One day, as they worked to meet a deadline for the Landmark Commission’s review, a visitor appeared.

“I thought it was someone trying to meddle in our plans and was rather annoyed,” Simon says. “It ended up being the daughter of Alexandre Hogue, who had just finished lecturing at the DMA about her dad’s work.”

Hogue told them, “Whenever I’m in Dallas, I drive by daddy’s old house to see if it’s still standing. I’m so happy you’re restoring it.”

After the woman shared old photos of the house, Simon and Collins redrew the front porch to make it as accurate as possible. The house sold, and they immediately began working on a Victorian they had purchased. Painstakingly restored down to the baseboards, it’s now on the market.

Are there more restorations in the future? The couple hesitates, then Collins says, “Never say never. We might find something that needs to be saved.

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All around Dallas we have individuals and organizations doing both. Usually it starts with an observed need. Someone sees a kid who comes to school hungry or an elderly person who can’t drive to the doctor. Suddenly, a goodhearted soul comes to the rescue. The child is offered breakfast and the homebound person a ride.

“But what about someone who builds a fence around the pond and locks the gate?”

The charitable statistics can be staggering — the number of meals served, the amount of clothing donated, the total dollars in scholarships provided. All good. It comes from generous hearts.

It’s a transfer of wealth that aims not so much to equalize outcomes, but to improve opportunity by taking away deficits that defeat the human spirit.

Most people who engage in this kind of charitable work tire of it quickly if it doesn’t produce lasting results. That is why nonprofit organizations are created. They scale up the work. They create systems that share the load, involve more people in the cause and generate philanthropy to keep the work going across time.

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The more organizations take root, the more systemic analysis is done. Why is the child not eating breakfast at home before school? How will the elderly receive medical attention if they can’t arrange transportation? Now we’re talking about the kind of changes that alter the way we live together for good.

We get the idea of moving from direct service charity to transformative empowerment — from giving a fish to teaching to fish. But what about someone who builds a fence around the pond and locks the gate? If you don’t recognize how hard it is for people to put their fishing skills into effect because they can’t access the fishing hole, what have you done?

This is the move advocates urge from charity to social justice. Social justice is simply making sure that all the good work done with individuals is not undermined by the invisible fences that lock out people who are willing and ready to do their part in caring for themselves and others.

We love the parable Jesus told of the Good Samaritan. We celebrate the man who noticed the stricken soul on the side of the road. We see that he didn’t just offer him help in the moment. He came back and made sure the man had what he needed to move on when he healed.

What if we were to provide a safer road to Jericho so no one else would suffer that fate?

Now we’re talking about politics. In the interest of helping people, religion and politics ultimately do mix.

GEORGE MASON is pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church, president of Faith Commons and host of the “Good God” podcast. The Worship section is underwritten by Advocate Publishing and the neighborhood businesses and churches listed here. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.

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LUTHERAN EMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH /corner of Peak & San Jacinto/English Worship 10:00 am/Sunday School 11:00am-Noon/Spanish Worship 12:15pm/ church.emanueldallas.org CENTRAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, ELCA / 1000 Easton Road

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OUR CITY

By MITA HAVLICK

A reluctant goodbye to The Grape The romantic Lower Greenville icon wooed me to East Dallas

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t’s sad times in East Dallas as another iconic establishment closed its doors in early October. The only solace I find is that we can’t blame developers or gentrification for this one.

The Grape, our local gem of a restaurant, opened its door 47 years ago and closed them for the last time Oct. 9.

That’s almost half a century of meals — an amazing feat in a city where dining establishments constantly rotate.

During that time, The Grape changed ownership only once, in 2007, when Brian and Courtney Luscher purchased the restaurant from the original owners.

It must have been a relatively seamless transition because from this diner’s perspective, it retained the same warm and intimate, yet fun, vibe it always had.

I heard the bad news Sept. 10 from one of my most reliable sources — my Facebook feed via the Lakewood/East Dallas Advocate. By the time I saw the story, it had been shared dozens of times, confirming that I was not the only one who was crushed. I read the article and chose a Facebook reaction I tend not to use — the sad teary face.

When a friend texted me the link to the article, my reply was an emotional, “NOOO!!!!!” I needed to let the universe know just how heartbroken I was.

I congratulate the Luschers for making the personal and difficult decision to close versus being forced to close down.

Yet I’m having a hard time being positive, primarily because my connection to The Grape is long and strong, going back 20 years.

My boyfriend, now husband, John, and I were long-distance dating in 1999. Even though he lived in Addison, he would almost always bring me to Lower Greenville when I made my frequent trips from Chicago to see him.

Our first Lower Greenville date was at Café Izmir, our second at Gloria’s and our third at The Grape.

“I needed to let the universe know just how heartbroken I was.”

In my former Chicago neighborhood, we walked pretty much everywhere because everything was close. It was impossible to find street parking, and the price for valet was outrageous.

That little pocket of Lower Greenville between Vickery and Goodwin reminded me of the sweet, intimate neighborhood restaurants I frequented in my hometown, and it was especially true of The Grape. I loved the food, I loved the service and I loved my dinner companion.

And I started to love Dallas.

Actually, that’s not true. It was that whole M Streets area that pulled me in.

I was blown away that not only could people in this part of Dallas walk to awesome bars and restaurants, but street parking and valet were free. It truly blew my mind. Our first visit to The Grape certainly wasn’t our last. We frequented the place for date nights, family birthday celebrations and meetups with friends.

John and I often debate where to go out to eat, tempted by new places in the Design District and Oak Cliff. I can’t even count how many times we’d look at each other and say, “Why would we leave our neighborhood when we have so many great choices right here?” The Grape was one of those places that kept us from leaving our ’hood.

A few years ago, a group of us Mockingbird Elementary moms decided to meet at The Grape for dinner for its “Best in Texas” hamburgers, which they only served on Monday evenings. Coincidentally, our waiter was a Mockingbird Elementary dad. That fact — after several bottles of red wine — became a sign that our restaurant choice was a result of divine intervention.

MITA HAVLICK is a neighborhood activist. Find her commentar y regularly in the back pages of our print edition and online at lakewood.advocatemag.com. lakewood.advocatemag.com

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