Missing Dallas

TonyAtlasShrugged.com has been running a series called 50 Things I Miss About Dallas. A recent entry begins:

There was this bookstore on MLK, I think next to Elaine’s Kitchen, with a heavy Nation of Islam focus. I drove out one afternoon, walked in, browsed awkwardly, then turned to the two Nation guys sitting at a squat table in the middle of the store, benignly ignoring me like priests ignore tourists at Notre Dame. I said, “Hey, so this is kind of random, but I want to write for magazines, and I don’t have any writing clips. I was wondering if maybe we could sit around and bullshit for a while, and then I could write about it.”

Read the rest here.

Thx: David B!

Development (or not) in Dallas

Dallas Observer checks up on the MLK Blvd Business Facade / Revitalization Program in that city and finds that it doesn’t exist. [Item uses an image culled from this site (and properly credited) -- kinda cool.]

Dallas

black forest theatre, originally uploaded by _cheryl.

“1920 mlk jr. blvd., dallas, texas,” notes _cheryl, who has contributed earlier nice images from Dallas — and Austin, too.

South Dallas, One Dollar

So Jah Say!, originally uploaded by _cheryl.

This set of images from Dallas, by _cheryl, includes a couple of shots from the MLK there (above and below). Interestingly, most of the shots, including these two, were taken with a camera that cost one dollar! Pretty cool. More of Cheryl Coward’s Flickr photos here, and photoblog/web site here.

 

 

black forest theater, originally uploaded by _cheryl.

Caption info: “the renovated black forest theater. owned by erykah badu. 1920 mlk. jr. blvd, south dallas, tx. taken with the dollarama camera that cost a loonie.”

 

More from Dallas

Sportsman Club 1632 MLK, Dallas, Texas, originally uploaded by crowt59.

Terry Shuck recently contributed an excellent new batch of photos taken on the MLK in Dallas. More after the jump.

Sign on MLK, Dallas, Texas address 1628, originally uploaded by crowt59.

Winnway Motel

“Winnway Motel at 1717 MLK Blvd. & Colonial,” originally uploaded by crowt59.

Dallas-area photographer Terry Shuck says the motel advertised in this striking photograph is still open for business at 1717 MLK Blvd.

The MLK in Dallas crosses Malcolm X Blvd as it runs east to Fair Park.