Gone but not forgotten

You know you're getting old when important places from your youth no longer exist, either torn down and paved over or sold to a new proprietor and turned into a garish Mexican supermarket.

We won't forget you...

* Northpark Mall 6 movie theater - a far cry from the spacious stadium seating of today, but perfectly good to see the first-run release of Star Trek 2 and Back to the Future

* the Airline Extension apartment - you climb onto the roof of the building next door

* Tom Thumb grocery store on Walnut Hill - deli and produce on the left

* My Video on Webb Chapel - old one-sheets for $1!
* Cockrell Beach - no one asked us if it would be okay to build an arts museum there

* Ownby Stadium - never sold out

* Sound Warehouse at LBJ and Monfort - we miss you most of all, 45 singles

* Mr. Gatti's on Walnut Hill - you share the all-you-can-eat lunch buffet, they'll kick you right out of there

* The Filling Station on Greenville - one Tune-Up, please

* Dairy Queen on Hillcrest - a nice way to spend the time before your evening class

* Sesame Place - don't wear your glasses in the ball pit

* Federated on Forest Lane - yes, we rented videodiscs (not laserdics, videodiscs) there

* Piggly Wiggly on Walnut Hill - where our grandmother shopped
* United Artists 6 on Park Lane - it may have been UA's flagship Dallas theater (and made pink neon briefly trendy), but that was one terrible location

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