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PRESTON HOLLOW ADVOCATE VOL.22 NO.6
CLICKWORTHY 10 All the web news PROFILE 12 Brad Bradley DINING 14 Ziziki’s FEATURES 18 Covering Dallas’ counterculture 20 SMU’s film librarians COLUMN 29 Worship
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GREATER DALLAS ORGANIC GARDENING CLUB Since 1993, the GDOGC has been promoting organic and sustainable gardening methods. Come be a part of a fun and informative club covering a different topic each month. When: June 26, 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. Where: 7700 Northaven Road More info: gdogc.org
5 things to do this June COCKTAIL CLASS Roxor Grin’s cocktail class at Tricky Fish in Dallas is part of their Booze & Bites cocktail series. Participants learn to craft two full-sized cocktails. When: June 2, 6-7:30 p.m Where: 7859 Walnut Hill Lane Cost: $30 More info: tricky-fish.com
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THE WORLD OF LOLA POP-UP AT BURBERRY Shop the limited-edition The World of Lola pop-up at Burberry. When: June 3-Sept. 1 Where: NorthPark Center level one between Neiman Marcus and Dillard’s More info: northparkcenter.com
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JIM GILL’S SING-A-THON OF CELEBRATED SONGS AT BOOKMARKS Award-winning musician and author Jim Gill will lead the hourlong session at NorthPark Center. When: June 4, 11 a.m-noon Where: Bookmarks Cost: Free More info: dallaslibrary2.org/ branch/bookmarks.php
THE MARKET AT PARK LANE SPRING SERIES The exclusive spring series pop-up shop features local artisans and live performances. When: June 5, 11 a.m-4 p.m. Where: The Shops at Park Lane Cost: Free More info: shopsatparklane.com
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coming & going [+] Walgreens will open up a location in Preston Hollow at 5301 W. Lovers Lane later this year. [+] Fajita Pete’s is open at Preston Forest Shopping Center. [+] Bad Ass Coffee is coming to the area, with three Dallas locations opening starting in 2023.
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echnology now puts practically any vice into the palms of our hands, but Dallas used to be pimpled with spicy movie theaters.
We knew Downtown and East Dallas had grindhouses. But who
knew there was one at the Plaza at Preston Center? A 1976 news story by WFAA features two theaters that showed rated-X movies in what the story describes as University Park. One was the Fine Arts Theater at Snider Plaza, which started out as the Varsity Theater in 1927. The other was Preston 2 Theatre. Old advertisements list its address at 4011 Villanova, which is now the site of Muchacho. Families in the neighborhood, obviously, wanted the theaters to stop showing “high-grade soft-core pornography,” as the reporter calls it. Preston 2 didn’t just show skin flicks, though. A 1978 brief mentions a midnight showing of Top Hat.
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MONEY PROBLEMS The Dallas-based company MoneyGram is under fire from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The most serious allegations have to do with customers’ wire transfers not making it to their destinations and “leaving families high and dry.” A federal lawsuit argues that “as one of the country’s largest international money transfer services, MoneyGram engaged in unfair practices which largely impacted immigrant communities who relied on the company to send money back home to loved ones.” MoneyGram argues in its press release that, while the CFPB is right to focus on the very real issue of consumer fraud in the financial services industry, MoneyGram “cares deeply about this issue” and has made “tremendous achievements” to protect consumers.
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ABOUT THE COVER Museum of Biblical Ar t Photography by Nikola Olic.
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he 50th anniversary of a big moment in gay rights passed recently. The New York Times acknowledged Dr. John Fryer, the psychiatrist who took the stage at convention of the American Psychiatric Association at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas on May 2, 1972, and said “I am a homosexual. I am a psychiatrist.” Fryer was wearing the disguise of an oversized tuxedo, a rubber mask and wig, and he introduced himself as “Dr. Henry Nobody.” From the newspaper: The 10-minute speech, delivered 50 years ago May 2, was a tipping point in the history of gay rights. The following year, the A.P.A. announced that it would reverse its nearly century-old position, declaring that homosexuality was not a mental disorder. The story describes how activist Barbara Gittings convinced Fryer to speak on the topic, as well as how his life and career were hindered by discrimination. He was fired from a residency at the University of Pennsylvania and had to complete it over many years at a state-run psychiatric hospital, the only place that would accept him. After that, he remained quasi closeted and never had a close romantic relationship, the newspaper reports. Those who knew him say he rarely talked about the speech. The Kentucky native was recognized in his home state of Pennsylvania before his death in 2003, and This American Life told his story in 2002. Fryer did eventually find professional success, gaining tenure at Temple University and helping to pioneer hospice care. But he never became part of the gay movement, and he always felt that his career was not what it could’ve been if not for discrimination, the newspaper reports. As he told the Historical Society of Pennsylvania: “I did this one isolated event, which changed my life, which helped change the culture in my profession, and I disappeared.”
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A PICTURESQUE LIFE Since 1946, Brad Bradley’s photos have helped tell the story of American sports Interview by CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB | Photography by YUVIE STYLES
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oxes stacked along one wall of Brad Bradley’s The Laughead/Bradley studio opened across the street from neighborhood home are filled with enough negatives, SMU’s campus on Hillcrest in ’46, in a spot occupied today by slides and prints to fill several coffee table books. Jimmy John’s sandwich shop. The studio soon dominated the These hypothetical publications would feature college sports photography industry throughout the southern striking portraits immortalizing legendary sports figures, from United States. a young Michael Jordan to an old Tom Landry, and landmark And when the Dallas Texans (which folded in one events, such as the 1948 Cotton Bowl Classic, which was the season), and later the Cowboys, organized in Dallas, Bradley first integrated college football game. was hired to photograph the local pros. That was Bradley’s first Cotton Bowl, an event to which he “Up until Jerry Jones came,” Bradley says. “Then they would return every year thereafter. Bradley turns 100 June 23 got too big for us.” and says he will keep attending as long as he can. His son, Of the hundreds of sports heroes he has photographed Jimmy Bradley, promises to make — Shaquille O’Nesure he has a ride. Bradley’s streak al and Roger Staubach earned him a place in the Cotton among them — Bradley Bowl Hall of Fame — he’s the only says, without a second photographer ever inducted. thought, his favorite was Jimmy Bradley says his father Doak Walker, SMU’s only “has been a witness to social change.” Heisman Trophy winner. Today, they discuss that bowl The gridiron golden boy game in ’48, when Penn State fell of the 1940s was kind, fun to SMU. Penn State’s two Black and always an amenable players were not allowed to stay in model, Bradley says. a room in Dallas hotels, Bradley But Bradley says says. After the game, players from the work caused him to both teams met for a quiet dinner miss important family at SMU’s student center — just milestones and events. a bunch of tired college football “I was at Clemson players and a sports photographer Brad Bradley (whose given name is Jim, left) poses with 1948 (University) when Heisman Trophy winner Doak Walker (middle) and his father-inbreaking bread. Bradley took no Jimmy was born and law Jim Laughead (right). pictures at the dinner. LSU when my daughter “I did not know at the time it would be an historic event. was born,” he says. But looking back, it definitely changed the landscape (of In response, Jimmy Bradley smiles and says he’s grateful college football).” for everything his dad has created. Bradley took up photography after returning from World “I could not ask for a bigger blessing than to have all of War II. A photo from his Air Corps days shows him looking this,” says Jimmy Bradley, gesturing to the boxed photos, like Tom Cruise in Top Gun. He wanted to become a pilot, which he aims to organize and digitize. but once the higher-ups learned he could type, they put him What’s kept Bradley going strong for so many years? at a desk ordering parts for B-24 bomber planes before being “Fun. It has all been so much fun,” he says. “It was, and deployed to Okinawa, Japan, and one of the bloodiest Pacific it still is.” War battles. He has been a member of the Exchange Club of East He made it back to Texas and married Betty Laughead, Dallas since the 1950s, and he still attends Wednesday whose parents were Associated Press photographers. When meetings at the Lakewood Country Club. He also enjoys Betty’s dad landed a contract to be the official photographer of breakfast once a week at Kuby’s in Snider Plaza, where the SMU Mustangs, he asked the Bradleys to move to Dallas he says his favorite thing on the menu is “the cheap and help create a real family business. conversation with friends.” JUNE 2022
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GOING GREEK This Polish couple made Ziziki’s their own Story by RENEE UMSTED | Photography by KATHY TRAN
JACEK STACHOWIAK WAS VICE PRESIDENT OF SALES AT A TELECOMMUNICATIONS company nine years ago. The industry was struggling, so Stachowiak began hunting for new business opportunities, one that would give him more free time and control over his work. His job also included a fair amount of travel, and with young children, it wasn’t something he appreciated. He and his wife, Dorota, discovered Ziziki’s, a Greek restaurant that was founded 27 years ago, and acquired
it. They didn’t want to launch their own eatery because they were new to the industry. Ziziki’s had a staff and an established clientele. At the time, there were three locations — two in Dallas and one in Plano. “We were looking into finding the business that we would love and care about,” Stachowiak says. “And since we both love Greece and Greek food, that was our choice.” The Stachowiaks’ parents loved antiquity, so they made trips to Greece. Neither of their families had a surplus of spending money, so Jacek and Dorota often ate in
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locally owned restaurants, which served authentic Greek cuisine. “Since we were little, we both liked the culture, the Greek climate, the wonderful food and the hospitality of Greek people,” he says. Though owning a restaurant takes as much time as his previous career, Stachowiak has more control over his schedule. “Owning your own business is probably much more stressful, but much more pleasurable and much more satisfying,” he says. One challenge they faced at the beginning was learning not to be perfectionists. They realized it’s more impor tant to make people happy and ensure the restaurant is running smoothly. Another issue was that the restaurant’s revenue was low. In response, they started purchasing higher-quality ingredients and expanded the menu and wine list.
“We wanted Ziziki’s to be more exciting and more up-to-date with the times, and make sure that it appeals to the current clientele, not the clientele from 25 years ago,” Stachowiak says. Since then, lamb and chicken dishes have become the most popular on the menu. Those include lamb shank, rack of lamb, and chicken and lamb souvlaki. When the Stachowiaks were redeveloping the menu, they included dishes served at Greek restaurants and authentic options they believed would satisfy guests. Some dishes were piloted on the seasonal menu, and if they were popular, were made permanent. A few examples of those are the goat cheese cakes appetizer and the lamb-stuffed pepper. Baklava ice cream, house-made layered with vanilla ice cream, is the best-selling dessert. Stachowiak curates the wine list and recommends pairings with food. Many
customers order the wine flight. There are a few bottles from Greece, but most of the selections are from Napa. Ziziki’s doesn’t have a freezer or fryer, which means ingredients are fresh. Stachowiak says customers can expect consistency in food quality and staff, who have either been employees since the restaurant’s founding nearly 30 years ago, or since the Stachowiaks took ownership. The restaurant is open for lunch, dinner and an all-you-can-eat brunch on the weekend. Some customers eat at the restaurant several times each week, and it’s important to the staff to make them feel like part of the family. “We’re trying to create an atmosphere that is friendly and that is making our customers feel like they are in Greece,” Stachowiak says. “But also they feel like they’re our personal guests.” Ziziki’s, 11661 Preston Road, 469.232.9922, zizikis.com
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Who was Stoney Burns? FROM HILLCREST STUDENT TO MUSIC MAGAZINE EDITOR Story by RENEE UMSTED | Photos courtesy of KIRBY WARNOCK
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B R E N T ST E I N WAS BO R N D EC. 4, 19 4 2 , IN DALLAS. His father, Roy, owned a commercial printing firm called Allied Printing Co. And his mother, Esther, stayed at home. Stein had a sister, who was three years younger. The Steins, a middle-class family, lived in North Dallas. Brent graduated from Hillcrest High School in 1960, and then he attended the University of Oklahoma for two years, spent a summer at Arlington State University and then transferred to the University of Arizona in Tucson. He joined Sigma Alpha Mu, which began as a Jewish fraternity, and graduated in 1964 with a degree in marketing and advertising. When he moved back to Dallas, Stein spent a year at a radio station selling ads. Then he started working for his father’s printing company, which was the largest of its kind in Dallas at the time. Around the late 1960s, he learned about Notes from the Un d e r g ro u n d : T h e S M U Off-Campus Free Press. It was published by students at SMU, where Stein was an adviser to Sigma Alpha Mu. Stein thought Notes could use a facelift, and he volunteered to help with the graphic design. He began using the name Stoney Burns to avoid embarrassing his family or clients, and eventually, that’s what almost everyone called him. He added white space and eye-catching cover art to the pages, and he created a new logo. For one issue, Burns wrote the cover story, “Cops Start A n t i - L o v e C a m p a i g n ! ,”
took the photographs and arranged them in a collage surrounded by hippie art. He also started a column in the paper, “Underground Undercurrents.” As he worked with Notes, he let his hair grow to his shoulders, and his father fired him. So Burns became much more focused on the pub l ication. By 1967, he had taken over as editor. The founder of Notes, Doug Baker, was the son of a man who worked for Clint Murchison Jr., founder of the the Dallas Cowboys. Murchison told Baker’s father that Baker needed to end his association with the publication. A f t e r B u r n s t o o k o ve r, SMU President Willis M. Tate asked the publication to remove any mention of the university from its title and kicked it off campus. Notes was anti-war, anti-racist, advocated for hallucinogenic drugs and provided information about birth control and abortions. While leading the publication, Burns was arrested multiple times and beaten up, his tires were slashed, his car was shot, and the office was vandalized. In mid-September 1970, Burns left Notes. He sold 999 shares to the Fort Worth White Panthers for a marijuana cigarette, which they smoked to seal the deal. Then he worked for a month at the Lone Star Dispatch in Austin before returning to Dallas to work with Baker at alternative n e w s p a p e r D a l l a s Ne ws , where he was the art director, sold ads and wrote a gos-
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sip column. The News was renamed Iconoclast. Burns decided to run for Dallas County sheriff in 1972, and within a month of his announcement, he was arrested for possession of a small amount of marijuana. He was sentenced to 10 years and a day in prison, and while waiting for the outcome of his conviction’s appeal, he left the Iconoclast and started Buddy, a music magazine named for Buddy Holly. He spent a month in the Huntsville prison in 1974 before the governor commuted his sentence. Two years later, he hired Kirby Warnock, who had just moved to Dallas. There was no inter view; Burns just wanted to know if he could sell advertising. “It was the most fun I’ve ever had and the craziest time I’ve ever had,” Warnock says. Though he was hired for a sales position, Warnock mostly wrote articles and took photos for the magazine during his eight years there. As an editor, Burns was a stickler for grammar. Their office was on McKinney Avenue near Lemmon Avenue, in two adjoining units of an apartment building. It was cheap, Warnock says. Burns died in April 2011. “He was a great guy to be around,” Warnock says. “We just had a lot of fun. That’s what I remember, is having fun.” Source: “Stoney Burns and ‘Dallas Notes’: Covering the Dallas Counterculture, 19671970” by Bonnie Alice Lovell
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THE REEL DEAL How SMU film librarians are digitizing Dallas history
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n official YouTube channel from Southern Methodist University delivers daily news on topics such as real estate, schools, City Hall, celebrities and the Dallas Cowboys. It’s just that these stories are going digital about 50 years after they first aired. Two guys in a sub-basement beneath the Greer Garson Theater at SMU spend five days a week restoring, digitizing and cataloging film and video archives containing old news stories from WFAA and KERA, plus the odd 16-mm reel that could contain a formatted-for-TV movie, a student orientation film from the 1960s, or often a surprise, since not every old label is correct. It’s like opening a mystery grab-bag every day. The vault at the G. William Jones Film and Video Archive, kept at a constant 55 degrees Fahrenheit and low humidity,
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holds a total of about 5,200 films on 16-mm and 35-mm. In the vault are fine-grain masters of the TV show Death Valley Days, which ran an astonishing 452 episodes, from 1952-1970; a rare 1926 Alfred Hitchcock feature, The Pleasure Garden, a silent film about chorus girls in London; and the Tyler, Texas Black Film Collection, which contains about 14 features entirely directed, produced and acted by Black filmmakers for Black audiences between 1935-1956. Much of the 35-mm collection consists of “B-movie junk,” anything from cheesy horror to soft-core, with titles such as Disco Godfather and CB Hustlers. They also have 35-mm versions of Disney’s Pinocchio, Easy Rider and Hard Day’s Night, for example, plus an impressive collection of Italian and French new wave paragons. “But those are available on BluRay, and anyone can watch them,” says Hamon Arts Library moving image curator Jere-
my Spracklen. “A lot of the stuff we have that you’ve maybe never heard of, we have the only copies. They’re not great movies, but they’re rare.” The entire archive of the bygone production company best-known for the movie Benji is among the collections.
VINTAGE NEWS There’s also a history of Dallas told through the lens of TV journalists. Curator Spracklen and Scott Martin, who has a master’s degree from the SMU film school, upload four items every day: a full roll from exactly 50 years ago, a KERA clip and a WFAA clip, then either another KERA clip or something from another collection. Their biggest YouTube sensation is a film of Jimi Hendrix arriving at Love Field in April 1969, which has almost 363,000 views. Footage of a 1974 baseball fight between the Texas Rangers and Cleveland has over 166,000 views. Previously unseen footage of Martin Luther King Jr., uploaded four years ago, and a 1970s profile on journalist Bob Ray Sanders, uncovered this year, are among the team’s favorite finds. And they say this daily time travel can be rewarding. “We’ve heard from people who say, ‘This is my grandfather, and I’d never heard his voice before,’” Martin says. Spracklen and Martin have become experts on Dallas history by osmosis. “It’s cyclical,” Martin says. “And we were dealing with some of the issues in 1970 that we’re dealing with now.” The KERA, channel 13, archive offers a history of video formats, which arrived
neatly organized. Digitization of that collection began about two years ago. Their stories from the 1970s dive a little deeper into topics like poverty and politics in Dallas. The WFAA, channel 8, film archives came in cans that were sometimes accurately labeled. Uploads of those have been ongoing since about 2015, and they contain work from former local reporters Tracy Rowlett and Bill O’Reilly. The vault also holds the KDFW, channel 4, archive. Those were stored uncarefully and are not well cataloged. The team expects to take years to restore and upload them, a project they haven’t yet begun. In the first step of digitization, Martin uploads a 16-mm film, for example, onto a reel-to-reel device. He feels for the splices and determines if they will hold, or if he needs to restore them. If not, the archive has a machine that will play the film and digitize it. Martin then works on adding metadata to YouTube as well as the analog film.
IN THE VAULT Besides moving images, the archive also contains hundreds of original movie posters, most of which were donated by film historian Jeff Gordon, who moved to Dallas shortly before his death in 2020 but had a relationship with the Hamon Arts Library for years prior. The film and video collection started in 1970 to serve the film school and was named for film collector G. William Jones in 1995. “It started as a teaching collection for the film school,” Spracklen says. “At the time, they didn’t have DVD; they didn’t have VHS. If you wanted to show a film, to film students, you had to have a print.” Some came from film exchanges that closed, such as the Tyler Black Film Collection, named for the city where it was found in the 1980s. The Sulphur Springs Collection was donated to the archive in 1993 after someone in that East Texas town found eight reels containing 33 “pre-nickelodeon” films dating from 1898-1906.
The vault also contains a lot of 16-mm reels of unknown origin that pertain to Dallas history, such as footage of the Velvet Underground performing at White Rock Lake, which they digitized two years ago. Occasionally the footage makes its way into documentaries, such as the 2021 miniseries The Lady and the Dale. Their Velvet Underground footage was part of a documentary shown at the Canne and Telluride film festivals. The USA Film Festival originally started as a mechanism for the G. William Jones Film and Video Collection, and films from the collection sometimes show as part of local film festivals and events. While screenings of the archive’s rare films may be unusual, Spracklen and Martin are eager to publish their digital news archives. It’s rewarding to uncover footage of big news events and celebrities, but the less glamorous stuff is fun too, Spracklen says. “It’s the human-interest stories,” he says. “The everyday life that’s happening, and it was being covered in the news.”
How Paper Affair survived online invitations and the pandemic Story by RENEE UMSTED | Photography by JESSICA TURNER
A s a c h i l d , M e l i s s a Wa y t e ’s favorite make-believe scenario was a retail store. It started as a pretend career, but after 15 years in the investment industry, she made it real. Wayte, who has a finance degree and an MBA, worked in New York
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and Dallas, where she was born. She realized that she wanted to spend more time with her son, 5 at the time, and daughter, 2, so she left her corporate job and opened a paper store, Paper Affair. “I was just passionate about paper. I still am,” she says. “I love all
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types of paper, all types of printing methods, calligraphy. I still write the hand-written thank-you note.” The original business plan called for seven locations across the metroplex, in areas where residents could afford high-end products and where Wayte saw a need for
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that kind of store in the market. The first one opened on Lovers Lane near the Dallas North Tollway, 15 years ago in May — one month after she left her investment job. Wayte says she liked this spot because it had plenty of traffic. A location in Plano opened a year l a te r, a n d t h e t h i rd , in Frisco, opened two years after that. “I had visions of a bigger thing, and then, I will just be honest, I got tired after three,” she says. “It’s a lot of work.” She also says she’s working more now than she did during her finance career, usually visiting each location d a i l y, “ w h a t eve r ’s needed, whatever fire has to be put out.” Early on, Paper Affair was focused o n p a p e r p ro d u c t s , s u c h a s i nv i ta t i o n s, announcements and stationery. Then online invitations became more popular, and the business had to adjust. Wayte, who now lives in Plano, noticed after a few weeks that the table she stocked with gifts sold out consistently. I n re s p o n s e , Pa p e r Affair expanded its gift offerings, and now, shoppers can browse tables and shelves full of gift items. The five most-popular products have been the same for the past seven years.
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Nora Fleming makes serving pieces and home décor products that can be accessorized with “ m i n i s ,” d e c o r a t i v e a d d - o n s made for different seasons and occasions. Big O key rings, designed by a couple of Highland Park women, are the secondmost-popular purchases. These are followed by Nest candles, Peepers glasses and Karen Adams calendars. Paper Affair closed for about two months when the pandemic started. Wayte knew she had to come up with a way to open her business again, so her daughter h e l p e d c rea te a we bs i te t h a t allowed people to shop online. “I’m a big believer in brick-andmortar stores in a community, and I’ve never had a website to sell
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because I didn’t want to be an internet seller,” she says. The store also started offering home deliveries and curbside pick-up. During the pandemic, many couples canceled or postponed weddings, and large gatherings weren’t common. But eventually, l ove b i rd s st a r te d ce l e b ra t i n g again. Over the past year, Paper Affair has created products for three to four times the typical number of couples. Along with the increased demand has come problems with the supply chain. Certain products aren’t available, and Wayte, like many others, can’t say when they’ll be back in stock. “Being open 12 years and always b e i n g a b l e t o ge t w h a t eve r I wanted to have in the store, it’s
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been a weird time,” Wayte says. “I have to bring in whatever I can get, and it may not be what I want, but it’s what’s available.” It’s not just wedding-related business that has picked up; the past two years have been the store’s busiest. Wayte says she knows it’s cliche for a retail store to say it prioritizes customer service above all else. But Paper Affair’s business model creates long-term relationships between the store’s employees — most of them 10-year veterans of the company — and its customers. “It is kind of like a family business where we’re involved in their lives for every event,” she says. “The paper side keeps us actively involved in our customers’ lives.”
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Up in the mountain Eve n J es u s n e e d e d so m e a l o n e t i m e
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mmediately he made the disciples
get into a boat and go on ahead to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up the mountain by himself to pray.” (Matthew 14: 22-23). Parents never seem to find enough time for themselves. Especially when children are young, a parent’s own self-care often seems to be the one thing that suffers most. Between regularly scheduled activities, illnesses and emergencies, what little spare time young parents have often evaporates amid a mountain of other obligations. This story from the Gospel of Matthew has always been a favorite of mine. It’s the very end of the famous “Feeding of the Five Thousand” story. To understand just how applicable it is to modern parents, we must start at the beginning. Jesus has just received word that his cousin, John the Baptist, has been murdered. Matthew tells us that when Jesus hears this news, “he withdrew in a boat to a deserted place by himself.” You can hardly blame him. Jesus needs some “alone time,” much as we all do when we are deeply hurt. He needs to come to terms with his own grief. Unfortunately, the moment Jesus arrives across the lake to this “lonely place,” he discovers that it’s not so lonely after all. The crowds, it seems, followed him. (They apparently have little concept of “healthy boundaries.”) You might guess Jesus would be angry with them or feel sorry for himself. But that’s not what the text says. Matthew tells us that Jesus “has compassion” for them. I’ve written to you before about this word “compassion.” The Greek word here —“splagchnizomai”— means to be moved with deep emotion. It’s a visceral, physical reaction of love and sympathy to the pain or suffering of others. It’s the same as that
complex wave of feelings you have when a child needs something, and you would do anything in your power to help them. That’s what Jesus does. He heals the sick, and eventually feeds more than 5,000 people with a few fish and loaves and bread. That’s the part of the story we find amazing. And we often stop telling it here. But that’s right when these little verses at the top of this page take place. After Jesus has responded to the human need, fed the hungry, healed the sick … he sends them away! He sends his Disciples away too. Then, he looks around to find that he is *finally* alone … finally able to spend the quality selfcare time he sought, hours ago. And so, he goes “up the mountain by himself to pray.” Isn’t this the perfect story for parents? Try as we might, our child’s needs never fit into neat, pre-programmed schedules. But we can draw hope and inspiration from the fact that it was like this for Jesus too. Parenting, like Jesus’ ministry, is the art of managing nearly constant “interruptions” from needy “others.” This doesn’t mean self-care is impossible. But it could mean we’re likely to be frustrated if we expect self-care to follow a rigid routine, every morning at 9:15 a.m. Maybe we’ll have to carve out time late at night or early in the morning. Flexibility, in ministry and parenting, seems to be key. By all means, respond with compassion to the needs of your children. That’s what good parents do. But once you’ve met those needs, do the rest of what Jesus did, too. Send everybody away for a while, and spend some time on self-care. If Jesus can do it, as hard as it might sometimes feel, so can you.
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H E R E L I E S DA L L A S Sparkman-Hillcrest wins Preservation Dallas honor Story by RACHEL STONE | Photography by JOHNATHAN JOHNSON
THERE IS A PLACE IN DALLAS where nine of our city’s most important architects, one of the world’s greatest bluesmen, a football saint, an Oscar winner and a sheriff who helped take down Bonnie and Clyde are remembered. Sparkman-Hillcrest Funeral Home and Memorial Park’s 88 acres are the final resting places of some of Dallas’ most prominent citizens, as well as a few allAmerican characters. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Mickey Mantle is here. So
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is former Texas Gov. W. Lee “Pappy” O’Daniel. Sparkman-Hillcrest’s history as a burial ground precedes the incorporation of Dallas as a city, and the cemetery recently won the Stewardship Award from Preservation Dallas. In the 1940s, the Caruth family owned about 30,000 acres in Dallas and the surrounding area, including the eventual sites of SMU, NorthPark Center and Sparkman-Hillcrest. When William Barr Caruth arrived in Dallas from Kentucky in 1848, he brought multiple
enslaved people, including Edward “Ned” Fields, according to “Slavery and the Postbellum University: The Case of SMU,” a law journal article by Lolita Buckner Inniss and Skyler Arbuckle, published in 2021. Sparkman-Hillcrest holds the graves of enslaved people who worked on Caruth’s plantation and died in the 1850s. Undertaker George W. Loudermilk began purchasing land from the Caruths for the cemetery in 1893, according to compiled genealogy research on findagrave.com. “Loudermilk matched teams of horses and beautifully outfitted carriages sporting ‘the only rubber tires in the city’ which became a source of great pride,” states a history from Preservation Dallas. “As the business entered the age of the automobile, hearses were the original ambulances for transporting the sick to hospitals as well as the deceased to the burial ceremony.” The first of four generations of the Sparkman family began operating the cemetery in 1920, when Will R. Sparkman purchased it and operated under the name Loudermilk-Sparkman for many years. Sparkman moved his business to the
former Belo Mansion in 1926, leasing it for 50 years. The mansion, which still stands at Ross and Pearl streets Downtown, has been renamed the Arts District Mansion. This was where the body of the outlaw Clyde Barrow was placed on public view in 1934, drawing huge lines of crowds. Architect Anton Korn designed the Hillcrest Mausoleum, which opened in 1937. Korn also built grand homes in Highland Park and Lakewood. “The style of his architecture is pure and classical, reflecting honesty and purity of heart,” Preservation Dallas states. Here are a few of the well-known people buried at Sparkman-Hillcrest, located at 7405 W. Northwest Highway. Freddie King is known as a Chicago bluesman, because that’s where he became known, but he was born in Gilmer, Texas, and lived in Dallas at the end of his life. In the 1970s, he performed at venues around town, such as the legendary Mother Blues on Lemmon Avenue. He lived a hard life of drinking and touring and died of complications with pancreatitis at age 42 in 1976. King was inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. Tom Landry needs no introduction
around here. He was the first head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, leading the team for 29 years. Did you know he had a master’s degree in industrial engineering? That he played seven seasons of professional football before becoming an NFL coach? He died of leukemia in 2000 at age 75, and the honors he has received are too numerous to name. Greer Garson received seven bestactress Oscar award nominations, winning in 1942 for Mrs. Miniver. Garson was from England, but her third husband was a Texas oilman and horse breeder, and they lived part-time in Dallas starting in the 1960s. She founded the Greer Garson Theatre at Southern Methodist University. She died of heart failure in 1996 at age 91. Ted Hinton knew Bonnie Parker when she was a waitress at Marco’s Café in Old East Dallas, and he later admitted to having a crush on her. He was a 29-year-old Dallas deputy sheriff in 1934 when he became part of the posse of lawmen who ambushed Bonnie and Clyde at Gibsland, Louisiana. Hinton’s son, the former Dallas County deputy Linton Jay “Boots” Hinton, operated the Ambush Museum in Gibsland from 2004 until his death in 2016. Ted Hinton died in 1977.
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5539 Falls Road $6,750,000
SOLD Private University Park Offering
Susan Baldwin 214.763.1591
Terri Cox 972.841.3838
4256 Park Lane $7,250,000
3005 Rosedale Avenue $2,895,000
Alex Perry 214.926.0158
Susan Bradley 214.674.5518 B LO U N T | D E S I G N S
SOLD — Represented Buyer 4926 Linnet Lane $1,749,000
PENDING 6958 Brookshire Drive $1,925,000
Tim Schutze 214.507.6699
Lori Sparks 214.680.6432
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