What do you remember about places to go and things to do in the Plano in which we grew up? Share your thoughts. I've thrown a few in the first comment to get you thinking.
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"It's true we can never turn back the clock and live the past over or even change it. However, it's still fun to share forgotten memories. I've started this blog to let those of us who grew up together in Plano and at Plano High School to do just that, reminisce."
Remember the brick street in downtown Plano? It's still there as a matter of fact. I remember "Pioneer Days" when the men had to have a mustache or beard or be thrown into jail. Having a malt at Allen's Drugstore is another fond memory. Our theater which is now gone (does anyone remember it's name?) with the Saturday afternoon matinees. We read all the posters to see what was coming next week...John Paul Jones, the Three Stooges in Orbit, Psycho, Horrors of the Wax Museum and the list goes on. I remember having a hamburger at Hayes Cafe the afternoon before a ballgame with Jim Ritchey and his dad. Of course who can forget Mr. Skagg's grocery along the highway! Remember when it wss a 5 mile drive in the country to Richardson and 13 to McKinney and there was no Central Expressway running through town?
ReplyDeleteThen there was the Texas shaped pool that Coach Moore would let the football boys use when he was in charge of it one summer.
I guess I'm a little nostalgic, but these and many other hold a lot of good memories of places and the friends I enjoyed them with.
Trudy and I were in Plano recently and our son took us "downtown" for lunch. We ate at Kelly's Eastside and I loved it. Where we sat I was able to look out on 15th and all the memories came flooding back; Saturday's at the movies, sitting downtown and talking on Saturday night after we took our dates home, seeing all the windows painted in support of the Wildcats. I can see the faces now - Bill Stubbs, John Weatherford, Ms. Moore at the five and dime, and my favorite place of all, Murrell's Hardware. They had it all.
ReplyDeleteWhat a special place, Plano.
Ken Bangs
Pioneer Days - what was that a celebration of? Wasn't it in 1976, maybe part of the national bicentennial celebration? But it seems like it was a Plano-only thing, maybe sesquicentennial? Anyway, I remember my parents taking me downtown, where there were many events. Remember the Spanish themed strip on K, immediately north of 15th, where Willie Mays was for so long? Much, if not all of that strip center was unfinished, with dirt floors. I remember they had a rocking chair marathon in that building.
ReplyDeleteGetting away from Downtown, do you remember Dude's Drive In further north on Ave K. Was it before or after Parker Rd, or did Parker even go through to K yet?
Scott