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03/02/14 10:52 AM #400    

 

Steve Keene

Daryl, Marsha, and Nancy.  Prayers for your losses and trials.

Nancy, I am doing the same thing with my parents on Tuesday.  Lance just went through this.  I guess at our age we are all facing similar things.  Feeling blessed that they are at least still around for me to love and honor.  Special prayers to those of you who have lost parents and loved ones.

And I know the non-posters say amen.

 

 

 

 


03/02/14 01:19 PM #401    

 

Steve Keene

ScienceDump posted an interesting question today.

Q:  If someone from the 1950's suddenly appeared today, what would be the most difficult thing to explain to them?

 

A:  I possess a device, in my pocket, that is capable of accessing the entirety of information known to man.  I use it to look at pictures of cats and get in arguments with strangers.


03/02/14 05:54 PM #402    

 

Marsha Brown (Johnson)

Dear All, If and When you go through with trying to settle your parents in an awesome place and you need some advice, call me. My brother Clayton lives in Plano/Richardson/Dallas area and you need a care home-or want one that is very small group home, let me know. My brother lives in The Families Choice private group home. The caregivers are so awesome and my brother is well cared for. My care home owner's name is Joy and she is absolutely wonderful!!! The price is also very reasonable and is less than the 'normal' facility. Anyway, just a very satisfied customer is what I am.  You all stay warm today.


03/02/14 09:07 PM #403    

 

Donald Dilmore

I liked Holly's C.S. Lewis quote.  Which book is it from?  I read at least 15 of his books during and shortly after my undergraduate years, but that was quite a while ago.  My first guess would be Mere Christianity.  My father maintained a strong faith until he passed away this past November.  I hope the quote describes his experience or understates it.


03/02/14 11:16 PM #404    

 

Karen Kennedy (Seidler)

Nancy, I think of all the life experiences we will have, losing a parent is one of the hardest.  However, nothing is harder than losing a child. . . I cannot imagine that.  No one told me that we would eventually become parents of our parents, if that makes sense.  I was with my Father, Mother and Step Father when they passed away.   My Mother was with hospice for 10 days.  I spent the night with her most of that time with hospice checking in on us.  She also saw friends and family members on the other side of a fence and they were singing to her.  It was so special to me because she had Alzheimer's and hadn't spoken for several years until a few days before she died.  That time allowed me to ask questions and express my love, our love for her.  I know she heard me, she did not speak to me in particular, but would sigh deeply.  Our precious Hospice nurse too asked me if there was someone that she had not seen as she was holding on so long.  The only person that had not been in was our youngest son Matt.  He lived in San Antonio at the time; we called him and she passed away three hours after he drove up and spoke to her.  

Safe travels to you as you go to her.  She is surely holding on to see you.  Take this time to talk to her, she can hear you and know that she will be safe, free of pain and with friends, family, and all of our family.  

I am one of those that reads all the posts (and enjoy them all!).  I don't post often, but this is something we all have or will have to go through, sadly.  Take care. . .  Karen Kennedy Seidler (and David)


03/03/14 10:50 AM #405    

 

David Cordell

Loved Steve's comment about smartphones!

We adopted an 86-year-old widow (Beverly) who lost her son and is estranged from her daughter. (Martha delivers Communion to shut-ins, and that's how we made the connection.) She is virtually blind and has been living by herself on Laguna in the house she has been in since the mid-sixties. We are in the process of moving her into an independent living facility (El Dorado on Arapaho) but the transition has been a bit uneven. She is very anxious. It didn't help that we can't find the remote for the 32-inch flat screen that we took to her apartment. It is stuck on channel 3 (Discovery Channel on her basic cable) since it was set up for our cable box. We have tried two universal remotes to try to do an autoscan to add channels, but the codes don't seem to work. She wants us to get her old TV, but it doesn't fit the space. Further, the streets are covered with ice, and  I would never be able to negotiate her steep driveway. That means I would have to park on the street and walk up 15 icy steps and, far worse, carry a 40-pound TV down those same icy steps. She doesn't seem to understand that her need for channel 11 doesn't trump my need to stay out of the hospital. 

The ice is starting to melt. We may be able to get her old TV later today for temporary use, then order an original remote on eBay or Amazon.

 


03/03/14 11:40 AM #406    

 

Nancy Anderson (Mandell)

Karen
Thank you so much, you helped a lot!!! David, I leave at 4am for the airport, my mom is complaining I will be too scared to drive and get my youngest sister to go in my place. Oh boy!!! No, way. I am the one who goes there. This has made me realize she has things to tell ME that jave been unsaid by her. She is waiting on ME. I am hurrying, mom. Please weather, cooperate. Montana yesterday had severe weather advisory. Prayed I will be safe and protected on the roads. Got to get there, guys. Will touch in after I get back, Sunday. Love to all. Hope ypu get the tv situation figured out, you are one of the good guys, David. God bless your wife, too.
Nance

03/03/14 05:35 PM #407    

 

David Cordell

Tommy--Great memories of your father. Your parents were always very nice to me. 

Holly--Not sure if Judy was from Hamilton Park, just assume it. Someone said her father was a doctor, so maybe they lived somewhere else. You might try some medical society. Just a long shot.


03/03/14 05:56 PM #408    

 

Lowell Tuttle

Mom had ALS and passed in 08...That was rough...Strong mental, but nerves to muscles (voluntary and involuntary) or nerve sensors, or nerve to muscle connectors deteriorate....The swallowing process is what is the worst part, as I remember.  Dad, smokin White Owl minatures and drinkin Gin and Clamato juice and sellin auto insurance and working the Church soup kitchen til he just keeled over one day...We didn't do an autopsy...Did want the history to affect our insurance, if needed.  I was fortunate enough to work with him in the insurance business for 33 years.  He started selling newspapers on the street corner of downtown Seattle at the age of 7, in 1929/30.

I had Monterrey Live...one side Hendrix and one side Otis Redding.  He says (on the album and the film performance) that RESPECT was his and Aretha stole it.  If that's true, I would have to say that's is the best  cover of all time... Hendrix also performed Like a Rolling Stone, which was good, and Otis performed Satisfaction and Try a Little Tenderness, which was very impressive.  I am the recording's saved in my e mail and will try to load them...That is about my all time favorite "lost" LP....

Tommy, I think your dad was on the Board of Directors of AAA with my Dad, and also Sam Passman.  Sam Passman just passed a year or two ago at 99.  He was the attorney who negotiated the Life Magazine 25,000 payment to the officer JD Tippett family vie the Zapruder film purchase.  I didn't know that until I read his obituary a couple of years ago.  He was also my Dad's attorney in several matter after he left AAA.

 


03/03/14 06:10 PM #409    

 

Lowell Tuttle

We had her insurance for a couple of years in the mid 70s.  Her grandmother paid her premiums. 


03/03/14 07:11 PM #410    

 

Lowell Tuttle

Sort of interesting to read about Hamilton Park...Apparently the City of Dallas set it up after some bombings in South Dallas and neighborhood failures in other parts of the city and as a result of the court decision on education. .  A neighborhood of 800 or so homes was built and a school program (negotiated with RISD) was established in 1955.  Later, in 75 as the schools were falling in enrollment, RISD started a magnet program and it looks fairly successful, at leat at this point.   Not much else can I find unless I register for Classmates.com...So, most of the residents would only have been there from 1955/56 on.  Of course, that is sorty of similar to Richardson....Like I posted some time ago, Jimmy Baker's famil included the 25,000th resident when he got there...The 50's must have great, but not for all.  I lived in Fairfax Va then, next door to the superintendent of schools.    Her name was Cappy.  (Catherine.)  I remember she had a plant starter in her garden that had a glass door top you could raise up to water and plant...but put down to prevent frost from harming your seedlings in the spring.....Growing up in Washington DC was pretty cool with the Smithsonian and their Zoo...and the FBI, and Arlington National Cemtary...(both parents buried there...totally awesome to go there...) 

Civil Rights amendment changed a lot in this country, especially in the South.  Does anyone remember driving to Houson or Dallas from say...NY or Va back in 60...61 before there were freeways and you were on a state highway going to Alabama,  Mississippi, or Louisiana?  Does anyone remember driving to downtown Dallas to or thru what I would call West Dallas?  Those memories were from when I was 9 and 10 and 11 and they are very vivid...


03/04/14 12:26 PM #411    

 

Bob Davidson

David,

I have the idea that Judy lived on McShann, off Preston Road, inside LBJ.  I remember taking to her about where she lived and seeing the street and thinking "that's where she lives."  It was a long block of Northwood Hills type ranch houses occupied by black people.  

 


03/04/14 02:34 PM #412    

Daryl Summers

Having a son that attened Hamilton Park from 1st-6th I was lucky to hear the Hamilton Park story from the first home owners point of view. Each Febuary, HP's PTA program, the 100 voices of the Hamilton Park all male chorus would sing and the oldest members would tell why the streets are named for who they were and how Hamilton Park was known as the first all-black suburb in America. Black folks from all over the Southwest would come to see blacks mowing thier own yards on Sunday afternoons.

Eric Jonson and the good people of Richardson were building TI in the mid 50-early 60's. They were going to neeed porters and maids. But there was no public tranportation to get them to TI. Black veterans from WWII were having trouble finding housing using thier new rights under the GI Bill of rights. They were already tring to intergrate south of the river in Oak Cliff.

Richardson and North Dallas didnt want public transportation. If they dont have busses then they will not want try to come to Richardson. Building Hamilton Park solves two problems gives those black Vets housing that meets VA Loan standards and keeps them out of RL Thorton's hair in Dallas and gives Eric Jonson the maids and porters he needs for TI. A new black ghetto is born.

How the Quarterback Club  was formed to keep HP from playing at 1250 Beltline is another story. They were state champs of the Prairie  View UIL and out drew the Eagles but they were never allowed to play at 1250 Beltline thier Friday Nights Light shown over Greenvlle Ave Stadium were they stuffed the stands.

My Dad owned a resterant and it was the only place in Richardson or North Dallas teams and fans could eat after playing HP late at night. I just found this out in the late 90's. I told my Dad how proud I that he did this. He gave me a sheepish grin and said, but we made them park and come in through the back. So dont get so full of yourself


03/04/14 06:22 PM #413    

 

Lowell Tuttle

That is some really fine insight, Darrell...I would like to hear/view more about the area and it 's history.  I rented a house on Boundbrook that I lived in with RHS'er Mike West for a couple of years before moving to Houston and that was real close to Forest Lane off the HP area...There does not seem to be too much history there, at least on the internet.   But, aren't we thinking about before Eric Johnson?  I mean 1955 was before Central Expressway, wasn't it?  Was Central Expressway before TI?  It is almost like there is a non existent history of that area before Central...

We would escape that area back to Greenville and scoot down to Lover's Mockingbird to avoid the Central Traffic.  Night clubs...Remember Mr. Chicken?  Remember the Leather Balls Saloon.  Does anyone remember The Cave?  The pool hall on lower greenville? 

Back in those days 68 69 70 71 72 there was no liquor by the drink so minors could hang out in pool halls and THE CELLAR.  You could stay there all night...I did it once in Houston at 16 years old on tje RHS Swim Team trip to swim against Bellaire and Memorial.  We were supposed to either stay with a Bellaire student's parents or stay in the Rice Dorm set up by Neal Matson (RHS swim coach.)  Kent Harrelson (not sure about his name) and I told the parents we were staying at the dorm and we told the dorm we were staying with the parents...We hung out all night at Luv Street and the Cellar in Houston...I mean all night.  Our meet was the next morning and we ended up in the parking lot of Rice University in my Dad's SS 396....I got about one hour's sleep.  That was my best time ever in the 100 back...Din't win though...

Swim team YMCA, and RHS...there is another story...

If you have kids in swimming programs, I am sure you are groaning at that parent participation obligation.  I can't believe my parents did it...too much.

Hank Dubey was the best swimmer in Richardson...Another guy, Steve Grant was also good, but he was a few years behind.  Steve Healy was good in long distance.  The Whiting brothers, Bobby and Dickey, were good divers...

More rambling as I remember...

Late

 

 


03/05/14 08:43 AM #414    

Karlan Fairchild

Daryl, you reminded me of something that I hadn't thought about in years.  I remember that one of the distinctive features of the Hamilton Park neighborhood were all of the colorful roofs on the house that comprised that sub-division.  They seemed to be in virtually every color of the rainbow and complemented those very well-kept houses.  It seemed to me, from the outside looking in, that the residents took great pride in their neighborhood.  

That's interesting history of the reasoning behind the neighborhood that I'd never heard before.  And I suppose it makes sense.  My wife spent the final years of her teaching career at Hamilton Park, teaching 5th/6th grade, and it was regrettable to see how the area/neighborhood had declined severely.  Although the occasional well-kept house was visible, the vast majority of them were run-down to the point of being condemned.  That's a sad commentary on our society because, as I recall, the students of the former independent Hamilton Park High School took great pride in their school, too.  Which indicates to me that their parents also took great pride in the school.  Alas, things change.


03/05/14 09:12 AM #415    

Ken Briegel

My wife and I have been in Richardson for about a month and are missing the great Indian food that we enjoyed in Chicago.  I'm hoping that someone can recommend a great Indian restaurant in the Richardson, Plano, north Dallas area.  Thanks in advance!!


03/05/14 09:28 AM #416    

 

Nancy Anderson (Mandell)

Larry cantor
You were my neighbor on Lois lane
You played with my brother tom and the wall kids?
In elementary? We moved in high school. I hung out
with Nancy Kay Webb but guess what I saw in my moms photo book
A pic of you, my brother and I think Kathy wall. I babysat the walls do I was too cool
To be around them! I babysat a lot to get away do you rememver me?
I was stuck up, As a kid until I got to high school
My mom told me college changed me.
I remember your mom. I remember the feelings were similar to how I felt
About my dad. Gotta run. It's been tough
You were darling. I'm bringing album home
And I wanna talk to you. Hugs nance

03/05/14 09:57 AM #417    

 

Karin Ridenour (Anderson)

Ken,

The best Indian food in the area (in my opinion) is India Palace on Preston just south of 635.  In Plano, there is Pasand near Park (or Parker) at 75. Richardson has Kebab and Kurry, which has a buffet so you can taste lots of different things.  If you want to venture into east Dallas, there is Kalachandji's at the Hari Krishna temple off Grand and 30.  They aslo have more traditional vegetarian food if someone in the party doesn't like Indian.  I have studied Indain cooking there for a number of years on Thursday nights.  Hope you find one you like!

 


03/05/14 11:45 AM #418    

 

Lowell Tuttle

Oh yeah, that was another one of our clients.  ISKCON (acronym may be wrong.)  International Society for Krishna Concsciousness.   They had vans and had to have liability insurance.  My Dad had been in Calcutta during WWII so he was able to relate to them.  They couldn't get insurance anywhere, so we wrote them thru the pool.  Four vehicles per policy is/was all that's allowed.  They had a lot of vehicles, so we had to write up apps all the time to accomodate...and listing the drivers...it was something else.  They were really nice people.  I think they owned an old house down by Fair Park.  I don't see them much in Houston any more...


03/06/14 10:35 AM #419    

Ken Briegel

Thank you Karin!  It sounds like you know your Indian food.


03/07/14 08:19 AM #420    

Daryl Summers

Karlan, I hate that after being Travis' teacher for two years Linda left teaching.

The four main congergations that serve the Hamilton Park area are, St. Paul AME, Hamilton Park UMC, Hamilton Park Baptist and Greeenville Ave Chrch of Christ. The pastors meet once a month for breakfast or lunch. They are all my friends and several  times we have broke bread. Thier main concern is the neighborhood is now owned by absentee land owners. The orginal owners have past away in most cases and the children and grandchildren own the homes now. They live in Plano, DeSoto and Duncanville. They are still members of thier "Home Church" and return to the church on Sundays for worship but the area is mostly rentals not homeowners. Most of the owners say, "It's Mom's or Grandma's it's not worth much, but there are to many memories in that house and we need to keep it in the family"


03/07/14 05:09 PM #421    

Karlan Fairchild

Yeah, Daryl, Linda gave it her all for many years but couldn't turn-down that amazing offer of early retirement that RISD made and she took it and ran.  I'm keenly aware of the dangers involved with investor-owned properties if the investors don't care about their properties.  It seems that there used to be a certain aura about that particular neighborhood, long before integration became the norm, and it appeared to be a little oasis in the desert, in many respects.  That's long-gone, regrettably.  I'm heartened to know that you are in regular communication with those pastors because breaking bread with someone is the quickest way to break-down barriers. 


03/08/14 10:10 PM #422    

 

David Cordell

From one of our classmates who will remain anonymous
Senior Motel Moment 
 
Last week, a woman checked into a motel on her 65th birthday and she was a bit lonely.  She thought, I'll call one of those men you see advertised in phone books for escorts and sensual massage.
 
She looked through the phone book, found a full page ad for a guy calling himself Tender Tony - a very handsome man with assorted physical skills flexing in the photo.  He had all the right muscles in all the right places, thick wavy hair, long powerful legs, dazzling smile, six pack abs and she felt quite certain she could bounce a silver dollar off his well-oiled bum.  She figured, what the heck, nobody will ever know.  I'll give him a call.
 
 "Good evening, ma'am, how may I help you?"
 
Oh my, he sounded so sexy!  Afraid she would lose her nerve if she hesitated, she rushed right in.
 
 "Hi, I saw your ad,  and I hear you give a great massage.  I'd like you to come to my motel room and give me one.  No, wait, I should be straight with you.  I'm in town all alone and what I really want is sex.  I want it hot, and I want it now.  Bring implements, toys, rubber, leather, whips, everything you've got in your bag of tricks.  We'll go hot and heavy all night - tie me up, cover me in chocolate syrup and whipped cream, anything and everything,  I'm ready!!  Now how does that sound?”
 
He said, "That sounds absolutely fantastic, but you need to press 9 for an outside line."

03/09/14 12:21 PM #423    

 

Marsha Brown (Johnson)

From The Como Motel????


03/09/14 01:22 PM #424    

 

Lowell Tuttle

The Como...In 1960 when we moved to Richardson from Houston, our family stayed there about a week to ten days before we found our home at 727 Newberry...Remember swimmin in that pool with brother and sister.  Never went back that I know of.  Also, Cedarberg's mom worked part time in the office at the Dallas Continental Inn...Over by Floyd Road...


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