Big Hair is Still Alive in Big D!

[Haretip]

I had lunch at the Market Diner on Harry Hines today. That place (along with Momma's Daughter's Diner) reminds me of Dallas of the old days and good southern cooking - good chicken fried steak, cold iced tea, salad with ranch and a slice of icebox pie.

Of course, the hostess was a classic old Dallas woman with enough makeup to make a house payment for a Mary Kay Commando (Berkely Breathed reference) and a big old bouffant hair-do like we were in the middle of 1957.

Post your big hair sightings here or other old-school Dallas sightings.

I've seen a lot of places that gave you a feel of how Dallas used to be, but a lot of them are gone now. There used to be an amazing anachronistic shoe store in Deep Ellum that had been open since the late 20's. Closed about 1992 when the 80+ year old owner decided to retire. The old Sportatorium is history, and is the Longhorn Ballroom still extant?

Sigh....

[drumguy8800]

Go watch The Longest Yard (which happens to be set in Texas, hah) to see a blue-haired pink-cadillac dallasy lady with an Adam-Sandler-in-his-underwear fetish. The size of her hair suggests there might be an Adam Sandler in their too.

[Mballar]

Go watch The Longest Yard (which happens to be set in Texas, hah) to see a blue-haired pink-cadillac dallasy lady with an Adam-Sandler-in-his-underwear fetish. The size of her hair suggests there might be an Adam Sandler in their too.
Wow, I can't believe it. drummy has finally made a gramatical error. :)

[Haretip]

Ohmigod! The lady who inspired the Big Hair in Big D post made the newspaper! Picture and all. I wonder if someone was reading the thread for story ideas?

Article (http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/072605dnmetlongevity.a8887be.html)

[Tnekster]

I know that woman, or at least know who she is. She has waited on me the few times I have been there.

[Lakewooder]

Texan Dale Evans is gone but her hair will live on - as has Trigger's mane:

http://www.womacknet.net/dale/8.jpg

[clipper]

The best place for big hair waitresses was the old Lucas B&B Restaurant on Oak Lawn Avenue which has been gone for years and years. They all called you "Hon."

[Haretip]

Not necessarily Big Hair, but a true Big Dallas institution has to be the Metro Diner across from Baylor Hospital. I was there last weekend about 2:30 in the AM. Anyone know how long they've been there. I had the Hobo Special, sat at the bar and watched the cook do his magic at the grill. He knew how to handle those spatulas.

Haretip
Still looking for old Dallas

[rockaroundtheclock]

I aspire to have hair as big someday as one of the women in that article link. It would be an honor.

[Haretip]

Other Big D, old Dallas ain't dead yet, you worthless Yankee carpetbaggers:

Wimpy's Hamburges in west Dallas on Singleton. Haven't been there, but driving past this thing looks like it has been there since 1934. I mean, this burger place is one tick up on the fast food evolutionary ladder from the old Pig Stands.

Also, can I get a woop woop for Metro Diner across Gaston Avenue from Baylor? If that's not old skool Dallas, I don't know what is. And yeah, I probably already mentioned it in another thread. It is like watching artwork seeing the cook working his magic on the grill. And I don't know how old the busboy is or how his life turned out so that he is working tables in his 80s, but man, he's probably got a story to tell.

Viva la Old Dallas.

[Spjz]

Wimpy's Hamburges in west Dallas on Singleton. Haven't been there, but driving past this thing looks like it has been there since 1934. I mean, this burger place is one tick up on the fast food evolutionary ladder from the old Pig Stands.
I hit up Wimpy's a time or two back in my County Probation days. Skip it. Hands down the best burgers in Dallas are Buck's Prime (aka Korean Cowboys) and Angry Dog. If you are in West Dallas or O.C. then I would go to Country Burger or Wingfields.

[capcity]

thread useless without pics.

[Haretip]

It's not necessarily about the outside appearance. Some of the places that make me feel the most like I am in Dallas in 1960 are dumps on the outside.

FWIW, you can see the Wimpy's on Google Maps Streetview. Get some initiative. Take your own camera out there and then you'll have a picture if you really want one.