![]() Click ads to see larger images.Ĭopyright © 2017 Paula Bosse. The companion post - “Highland Park High School: Photos from the 1966 Yearbook” - can be found here. Dig that groovy background!Īll ads are from the 1966 Highland Park High School Highlander yearbook. ![]() “The Tuff Sound for Parties and Dances.”Īnd the Outcasts (not to be confused with the cult-favorite garage band of the same name from San Antonio): Gary, Donny, David, Jim, and Wally. The two Dallas bands that had ads in the 1966 Highlander played all over town and participated in a few of these contests.įirst, the Rogues - described in The Dallas Morning News as “a group of young socially prominent Dallas residents” (DMN, April 1, 1966): Rusty Dealey, Wirt Davis, Mitch Gilbert, Doug Bailey, and Mike Ritchey. “Battle of the Bands” contests were ubiquitous. Speaking of music, here are a couple of ads placed by teen bands, something I’d never seen before - but what better way to market your band than to advertise in a high school yearbook?Īfter the Beatles first appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1964, a million garage bands sprang up overnight. NorthPark without the Melody Shop is like a day without sunshine. Marlow’s, “The Camera Store in Dallas Since 1915.” The space is currently occupied by Mi Cocina - see a similar view today, here. This photo was split across two pages, but I tried to piece it back together because this is a view you don’t see that often in a photo of Highland Park Village, looking east toward Preston. Andrews several times - that huge yard was pretty magical to me as a little girl. The daughter of one of the brothers was a close friend of my mother’s, and I remember visiting her parents’ house on St. ( This building is still standing on Cedar Springs.) (My family’s favorite neighborhood restaurant was the Corral.) Roscoe White’s Corral, Easy Way Grill, and Westerner. Drue’s Beauty Salon - “We Specialize in Teen-Age Hair Styling.” I know that PSB was very early entering the credit card market - I remember my parents had a Presto-Charge card - but I’d never heard of this “Presteen” checking account geared to teenagers. (For some reason I never imagined there was actually a person named “M. The memory of that ramp between what I always thought of the “sunny side” of the store and the cave-like dark side of the store is a weird, fond memory. And what kid didn’t love a dime store? I can remember where everything was at that Moses. I didn’t grow up in the Park Cities, but my parents both went to SMU and my mother worked in University Park for several years, so I spent a lot of time as a kid wandering around HP Village and Snider Plaza as a kid. Hillcrest State Bank, designed by architect George Dahl. (I wrote about Whittle’s previously, here.) ![]() I can’t remember ever getting anything other than Butter Pecan. On the other hand, I enjoyed a lot of Ashburn’s Ice Cream as a kid - the locations on Knox and on Skillman. Goff really didn’t like long hair on boys and men), so I’m one of the few native-born Dallasites who never had a Goff’s hamburger. My mother refused to patronize this establishment as the owner once said something disparaging about my shaggy-haired 10-year-old brother (Mr. Most of the ads are larger if you click them.Ībove, Goff’s. Yesterday I posted photos from the 1966 Highland Park High School Highlander yearbook - today I’m posting a lot of ads from the same yearbook, many of which include students posing at the businesses. “Senior Cools” at Goff’s… (click for larger image)
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