lakewooder
Joined Jan. 4, 2007
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2 weeks, 1 day agolakewooder's comment on:
Junius Heights 3rd Annual Historic Home Tour
Excellent event and a good chance to see always-exemplary Lipscomb Elementary, which is drawing students back from private schools.
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2 months, 1 week agolakewooder's comment on:
Deep Fried Butter makes Letterman Top 10 List
Congrats to Woodrow grad Abel - he and fellow Wildcat Neil Fletcher are Food Kings of the Fair!
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8 months agolakewooder's comment on:
State Rep. proposes legislation that would break up Dallas ISD
Clay213 Anonymous DISD can't graduate a literate student anyway.
Yale, Princeton, Harvard, M.I.T. etc. don't share that opinion - DISD graduates from Woodrow, Hillcrest and W.T. White have been accepted there and are thriving.
Harvard had the whole Mock Trial team from Woodrow (second place in state, 2008) up there a couple of months ago, in fact.
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8 months, 3 weeks agolakewooder's comment on:
Moving day
Quite a Friday, both you and Megan moving west.
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9 months, 2 weeks agolakewooder's comment on:
Dallas ISD schools get a nod from National Center For Urban School Transformation
Congratulations to Bonham, which serves the Vickery Place and Cochran Heights neighborhoods. I believe it has also been ranked exemplary for five years. We are lucky to have so many exemplary and recognized schools in East Dallas/Lakewood.
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10 months, 1 week agolakewooder's comment on:
Dallas real estate entrepreneur Trammell Crow died on Wednesday
Yes, the world will remember. He was once the largest developer and landlord in the world. He shaped not only Dallas but the world.
He will always be my great model of what a successful person should be. I was lucky enough to meet him several times working on the Woodrow Alumni Association. Not only was he inspiring and determined, but he was also the Wildcat and Texan ideal of being friendly first.
Without a doubt he was my favorite famous alum but I think he would probably be glad to toss that torch to Carroll Shelby, who has many of the same traits.
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11 months, 1 week agolakewooder's comment on:
Greenville Avenue Area Business Association to award scholarships to Dallas ISD high school students
Thank you to Mr. Levy (I've been enjoying Desperado's Restaurant for 30 years) and the GAABA. I'll spread the word to grateful Woodrow alums - see you at the parade.
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1 year agolakewooder's comment on:
Dysfunctional D Magazine blogs place Dallas media in paralysis
I'm sorry to learn about this. I hope that the loss of the newspapers will mean more inclusion of those areas in D.
Good luck to those who have lost their jobs.
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1 year, 1 month agolakewooder's comment on:
Ask the Troup: Presidential Fountain edition
Pershing Street is named for him in Cochran Heights - off Henderson behind the Old Monk Pub - home to many architectural masterpieces by Charles Steven Dilbeck.
Did you know the old KLIF building was once a Magnolia Station with office above? My daddy worked there for a bit before moving to the Magnolia Building.
I think I heard that fountain was donated by some family and it was moved to another location..I'll think more and maybe I shall remember...
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1 year, 1 month agolakewooder's comment on:
Ask the Troup: Bonnie and Clyde edition
Interesting. I knew some of that but not the Halloween prank. There is a program on Bonnie and Clyde which airs on KERA Channel 13 at times - I believe Clyde's sister who was interviewed has since passed away.
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1 year, 1 month agolakewooder's comment on:
Dallas County deputy constable gets caught lying about work by satellite tracking device
How about the constable who is alleged to have been out of his district on Ross Ave. 'visiting' with business owners about changing the name to Chavez?
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1 year, 2 months agolakewooder's comment on:
Census Bureau report determines that most affluent city in the U.S. is Plano
Plano had a little soul back when there was one high school and they beat HP at Texas Stadium. Then the white flight continued and it became a monster of slab houses and composition roofs on the prairie with teens in 1,500 member high school classes.
They all ran away from poor people so why is it a surprise the poverty rate is so low? It's also no suprise that they send their poor to Parkland Hospital but refuse to pick up the tab. Why would they? The corporation will probably transfer them soon and it's on to Cary, Rancho Cucamonga, Peachtree City or Naperville. Very few people up there have generations of family invested as is the case in my area - that's how you develop 'soul'.
Meanwhile the cancer of urban sprawl and white flight will continue as "West" Plano's 29,000 apartment units start to be overcrowded with low-income people, causing the current (or temporary) residents to move farther north or back to the gentrifying city.
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1 year, 2 months agolakewooder's comment on:
UPDATED: State Fair of Texas announces 2008 list of weird fried foods
I'll have to taste the chicken fried bacon several times before I know if it sucks.
Congrats to Abel Gonzales, fellow Wildcat, on his innovative food stylings. Fire and Ice sounds perfect for a sunny warm day at the Fair.
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1 year, 5 months agolakewooder's comment on:
Hard Rock Cafe coming back to Dallas?
A historic building like Union Banker's Trust in Ellum? The perfect marriage of music and a place which needs a hotel.
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1 year, 5 months agolakewooder's comment on:
Frisco man has car stolen by a Craigslist respondent
I've just been glad I never go to Frisco ;)
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1 year, 6 months agolakewooder's comment on:
DFW-area high schools named tops in nation by Newsweek
Hey don't forget W.T. White, my beloved Woodrow Wilson and Hillcrest - and the other two DISD high schools on the list - all placed above schools in Richardson, Plano, McKinney and Frisco.
So Realtors, stop directing buyers to the sticks.
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1 year, 6 months agolakewooder's comment on:
Former Arcadia site on Greenville Avenue in Dallas will become mixed-use retail center
Net worth is more important than income and hard to document. There's a lot of net worth around there (especially to the east and north), most long-time residents have no mortgages (and their homes are still appreciating nicely -unlike depreciating Park Cities).
Some old-money types take lower paying jobs for fufillment (such as education, acting, arts). Question is, they can afford whatever they want - but will they buy?
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1 year, 7 months agolakewooder's comment on:
Severe weather summary around North Texas
Hey y'all I am 50 and the only tornado of any consequence in Dallas was a year before my birth. Something to think about?
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1 year, 7 months agolakewooder's comment on:
A convention center hotel will bring more business to Dallas
Forget this - spend the money on Fair Park and hold conventions there - it's one facilty no other city in the world can match.
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1 year, 9 months agolakewooder's comment on:
Lakewood Whole Foods decision has many up in arms
Mike throws great parties, that's why he really can't patronize a dry grocery store.
I would suggest the Far West nightclub on Gaston at E. Grand for a full-service grocery store serving both sides of the lake. God knows a lot of people would like to be rid of that place - at least the East Dallas -- whoops White Rock YMCA - is not open when the drunk bumper cars and no law enforcement action starts late on weekends.
I don't think we were out of line wanting at least 'a nod' to the PD from WF. It took a couple of years and compromise from the Lakewood Shopping Center property owners and eight neighborhood groups to 'craft' the thing. WF should have known better than to be ham-fisted with East Dallas.
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1 year, 9 months agolakewooder's comment on:
Laura Bush and mother eat at Sevy's Grill in Dallas, exclamation point
Rawlins I think we will be ok if they move back to the north side of town. And perhaps if they move into the bubble only their little local publications (such as D Magazine) will give us the excruciating details.
The cool people in Dallas will be safe - but I admit I am a bit worried about a couple of the huge acreage estates for sale on W.Lawther Drive at the lake. Several Secret Service Suburbans could cause a severe cessation of recreational activites at White Rock.
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1 year, 9 months agolakewooder's comment on:
TxDoT cuts funding for plants along Central Expressway in Dallas
How much are they going to charge the Park Cities?
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1 year, 10 months agolakewooder's comment on:
UPDATED x 2: Historic Hard Rock Cafe building in Dallas gets the axe
SMU couldn't afford to keep up the DeGolyer estate but donated it to the city of Dallas. Many altruists, philanthropists and men of good deeds do such things.
Landes is none of those things.
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1 year, 10 months agolakewooder's comment on:
UPDATED x 2: Historic Hard Rock Cafe building in Dallas gets the axe
I feel sorry for people who cannot put our beloved city over making a dollar. I respect property rights but I also cherish the history of my hometown. A solution could have been found. I shall be boycotting whatever you do, just as I boycott Dr Pepper (very difficult), anything associated with Jerry Jones and the Fiesta strip center which took down the Dahl-designed Sears Roebuck on Ross. I shall also loudly oppose anything you try to get from our city council in the way of variances or zoning changes.
You have your rights and I have the right to do this - I hope others will join me.
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1 year, 11 months agolakewooder's comment on:
Dallas: The Hidden City
Thanks Rawlins - tell it like it is!
Nice to have chatted with you at the wonderful Christmas-Pegasus-Party.
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Exhibit review: Bodies... The Exhibition in Dallas
I think the Exhibit is amazing!! Y'all are wrong though, this isn't the first time it comes to Dallas because i saw it when i was in the 8th