Hello Cecil
I was just looking at the photo of th Aristocrat, Oh what fun I have going there. Young folks today would not thinks of that as fun. I remember to guys in your class I wonder where there are. Leon Mayfield and Weldon Washington they were good friends with my coz Cuney Clemons.
Thanks have a nice day.
Hi Cecil & Nancy, The Aristocrat is really a part of our "Black Hisory." We lost the State Theater and North Dallas Shoe Shop, Hill & Smith Drug Store, Home of Visiting Friends,Johnson Eat Shop,
and many more black own business on Thomas,Hall,Allen, State, Leonard,Pearl and Flora.
Those prices must have held for about 10 years, because I paid a quarter for those "good juicy greasy" ones at Good Luck Chuck mentioned after football games and track meets in 1963. The week before I started work at Moo Cow on Munger & Washington in 63's Summer burger prices went up to 40 cents, and Moo Cow's owner Ben Lisotta said "I'll have to raise my price to $.40 too or I'll lose money".
Then there were those great-tasting link baskets....do we even want to talk about them!!?
* Hot Chocolate....10¢
* Ice cream cones ... 5¢ and 10¢
......man!
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Cecil you just hit a mother lode,gold..gold..gold!Congatulations and Thanks for sharing. My memory is walking thru the parking lot, on to Good Luck's for one of those juicy Hamburgers or a Foot Long w/chili and onions. A coach didn't want to see you at the "Crat" when I came along.
Man this is good stuff........I've been searching for any photo of the State Theater before it closed on Thomas & Hall St.
The hamburgers were a QUARTER....this is good stuff
I never got the opportunity to enjoy the Aristocrat as some of my friends did... I remember being there and someone tipped my daddy that I had been there well u know what happened. After that I remember us cutting through the parking lot on our way to Good Luck...
I missed out on good fun... Wink as a teenager were u really able to order a Champale?
I did go to the Pink Palace. It had curb service too.
Cecil you just struck gold, Thats a nugget. The Old Aristocrat, the place to be .As teenager I would park(not my car) and order my big shot drink. Give me a Champale with extra cherries,later to label it a lady drink.
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Hey Cecil Ray, how well, do I remember The Aristocrat & the pink champale drink! that was "the drink" for us, over there. :)
"Those were some good days." The senior class of 1954? That's the same year, I started Booker T. in the 8th grade, 14 years old .... "Wow" !!
I was just looking at the photo of th Aristocrat, Oh what fun I have going there. Young folks today would not thinks of that as fun. I remember to guys in your class I wonder where there are. Leon Mayfield and Weldon Washington they were good friends with my coz Cuney Clemons.
Thanks have a nice day.
and many more black own business on Thomas,Hall,Allen, State, Leonard,Pearl and Flora.
Then there were those great-tasting link baskets....do we even want to talk about them!!?
* Hot Chocolate....10¢
* Ice cream cones ... 5¢ and 10¢
......man!
Man this is good stuff........I've been searching for any photo of the State Theater before it closed on Thomas & Hall St.
I never got the opportunity to enjoy the Aristocrat as some of my friends did... I remember being there and someone tipped my daddy that I had been there well u know what happened. After that I remember us cutting through the parking lot on our way to Good Luck...
I missed out on good fun... Wink as a teenager were u really able to order a Champale?
I did go to the Pink Palace. It had curb service too.
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