My family, such as it was, lived in a red brick house at 9853 Champa Drive (1,564 square feet, three bedrooms and two bathrooms) in east Dallas from the summer of 1963 until September 1971. Champa was about half a mile long, running diagonally...
Marching and picketing, sit-ins, court rulings, freedom rides, grassroots activism, soaring oratory, physical resistance and fervent prayers contributed to the success of the civil rights movement. But minor league baseball also helped eliminate...
Almost three years had passed since I visited the city, state and country of my birth, so I had to return (temporarily, of course). I said a warm goodbye to my GF, Audrey Lim, went to Seoul−Incheon International Airport and got on a big jet...
My life changed for the better when the Brandeberry family moved from Omaha to Dallas in the summer of 1969. The oldest of its three children was a girl named Carol. She enrolled at Bryan Adams High School, and her locker had by the luck of the...
As a sixth-grader at Victor Hexter Elementary School in Dallas, I wasn’t too hip. If I had been, I would have invested $5.50 to see the somewhat long-haired Beatles sing, stomp and shout at Memorial Auditorium on September 18, 1964. To do...
I like to say that since moving to Korea 10-plus years ago, I have come to disregard big-time sports. The NBA playoffs? The NCAA Final Four? The World Series? Wimbledon? The Indy 500? The Olympics? University of Texas football? The passion I long...
One-hundred acre Norbuck Park, at the intersection of Northwest Highway and Buckner Boulevard, was established in 1929. At its southeast corner is a tarnished monument to a man named Rowland D. Adams. He organized the White Rock Churches Athletic...
A fairly big crowd had gathered at Forester Field on October 14, 1967 to witness a football game between arguably the best junior high teams in Dallas. I refer to the Hill Highlanders and the Gaston Warriors. The happiest person there must have...
Frederick Lawrence Appelbaum (bogus name, although the initials are real) and I attended Hexter Elementary School, Hill Junior High School, Bryan Adams High School and the University of Texas together. The present story pertains to events at the...
While the present story pertains to my maternal grandfather, William Adair Cox (a.k.a. “Grandpop”), I will start by saying a few words about his mother (my great-grandmother, as you can probably surmise). Mamie Wynne Cox lived from...
The 18 years I spent in east Dallas, 12 of which were as a student at Kiest, Hexter, Hill and Bryan Adams, have been fairly well covered. Ah, but downtown, Fair Park, Oak Cliff and other parts of the city deserve to be addressed. Here are some...
Along with Lynn Atherton, Ronnie Bardwell and one or two other male students from Bryan Adams High School, I attended numerous basketball games at SMU’s Moody Coliseum in the 1969, 1970 and 1971 seasons. Slightly less than half of them...
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