This month marks the 50th anniversary of Casa Linda Plaza shopping center.
The center, located on three of the four corners at Garland and Buckner, will celebrate the milestone Oct. 15. Festivities will include a petting zoo, character drawing and a time capsule burial, says Joan Buchanan, chair of the Casa Linda Merchants Association. Shuttle buses will be available to transport patrons from each section of the center.
A museum also will be set up featuring paraphernalia from the 1940s and World War II, Buchanan says. It will be open Oct. 12-15 from noon-5 p.m. each day in a space between Eckerd’s and Pier One.
The oldest tenant at the center is the Mobil Station, followed closely by El Fenix Mexican Restaurant and Buchanan’s Maddox Dress Shop.
Preservation League Creates Intown Living Center
Representatives from the Historic Preservation League of Dallas, the City and the Meadows Foundation recently announced the creation of the Intown Living Center.
The center is located in the Wilson House Preservation Center at Swiss and Oak and was set up to promote buying homes and neighborhoods in the inner-city. The center will provide information concerning specific areas of Dallas and home renovations. All of its services will be free to prospective home buyers.
The purpose of the center is to encourage restoration of endangered or potentially endangered neighborhoods, says Catherine Horsey, executive director of the League.
The center will be privately funded and Ebby Halliday, chief executive officer of Ebby Halliday Realtors Inc., kicked-off the donations with a $35,000 contribution.
The League also announced that it is changing the group’s name to Preservation Dallas.
News & Notes
THE BALLOONMEISTER: David Conger, owner of Super Tex Camera Store in Hillside Village, was the balloonmeister and chairman at the recent Mesquite Balloon Festival. He organized the festival and oversaw balloon operations.
Conger has also represented the United States in the opening ceremonies of the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta and participated in the First International Freedom Flight from Mexico to the United States, an effort to get ballooning active in Mexico, Conger says.
Conger has been a balloonist for 10 years. He became involved with ballooning as a photographer taking pictures of balloons. When he finally rode in one, Conger says he decided to become a balloonist.
REMARKABLE HOMES ON TOUR: The Lakewood Home Festival: Home Tour, Craft Fair & Cafe is scheduled Oct. 29 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Oct. 30 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Proceeds from the event, which is sponsored by Advocate Community Newspapers, benefit Lakewood Elementary School. Tickets are $6 in advance or $8 at the door and can be purchased at: Lakewood Elementary, 3000 Hillbrook, and Minyard Food Store, Gaston at Abrams, or at the tour homes the day of the event: 4707 Chapel Hill, 7169 Greentree, 7323 Lakewood, 6870 Tokalon and 6627 Velasco.
TEX-CAKES FAIR TREAT: Neighborhood resident and ’67 Lake Highlands High School graduate Terry Pope will be serving up Original Tex-Cakes during the State Fair of Texas this month. The buttermilk-laced doughbreads fashioned in the shape of Texas, conceived by Pope, debuted at last year’s Fair. The Tex-Cakes booth is located at the east entrance to the Midway near the Texas Star ferris wheel. Call 235-1525 for information.
NOMINATE A BUSINESS: Nominations for the Greater East Dallas Chamber of Commerce Small Business Awards are being accepted through Dec. 2. The three categories are: Growth, New Business and Community Service. Any East Dallas business may be nominated by a member of the Chamber. For nomination forms, contact Chamber vice president Mary Cain at 368-6000.
DALLAS DINING: Dallas Gourmet, a new dining reference book, is scheduled to be released in October, says neighborhood resident Edward Blackburn, president of Quill Creek, the company publishing the dining guide.
The book will promote Dallas’ reputation as a center of culinary excellence, says Blackburn, a Lakewood resident since 1976. The book includes reproductions of actual menus, information on catering and to-go services, location maps, brief restaurant reviews, nutritional reviews by a Baylor Medical Center dietitian and meal suggestions for the health-conscious diner.
FOWLER HOMES RECEIVE GRANT: A broad-scope, out-patient counseling and therapy program for low-income families will get underway this year at Juliette Fowler Homes. The program is possible through a $25,000 grant provided by the Hillcrest Foundation.
Families with annual incomes of less than $15,000 who are in need of out-patient counseling will be targeted for the program by Fowler Homes, a social services organization that provides care to youth and the elderly.
Call 827-0813 for information. Ask to speak to the intake worker at Children, Youth & Family Services.
AT THE ARBORETUM: A new fountain has been added to the Dallas Arboretum. The Crape Myrtle Allee and Toad Fountain features four gigantic bronze toads, each just under five feet tall, spewing a 20-foot jet of water to form an 8-foot-high arch.
The fountain was made possible by the Communities Foundation of Texas and was conceptualized by the SWA Group, a Dallas’ landscape architecture firm.
From Oct. 1-23, Autumn at the Arboretum celebrates the fall season and offers the last chance to see the Insectasaurus exhibit. The Arboretum, 8525 Garland Road on White Rock Lake, is open daily from 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
ADVENTURES IN LEARNING: The Greater Lakewood Shepherd Center launched its Fall 1994 Adventures in Learning Program Sept. 30, with meetings held every Friday through Nov. 18 at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 3204 Skillman. Classes include: exercise, German, basic and intermediate Spanish, practical weather forecasting, book reviews, bridge and drama.
The center is also offering a wellness program, designed to help participants achieve increased vitality, independence and life meaning. For information, 823-2583.
WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT: Christy Lynn O’Neil and William Lance Tyler will be married Oct. 15 at Patterson Memorial, Northwood University in Cedar Hill. O’Neil is a ’91 graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School and works for Edward D. Jones & Co. in Lakewood. Tyler is an ’88 graduate of Irving’s MacArthur High School and is a district supervisor for Merry Go Round, Ent.
OFFERING FUN FOR KIDS: KidAround, a neighborhood business that opens Oct. 17 at 2122 Kidwell, offers craft and cooking classes for children 4-5 years old. Ann Parish, a neighborhood resident, opened the business. Classes are offered once a week for two hours. For information, call 821-6602.
