When Dallas Used To Be Fun

[JSngry]

Yours truly was the enigmatic "Crockpot", the minstral minister from the Improvisation Nation who went from town to town armed with nothing but a tenor, a crockpot, and ingredients.

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[Jim Alfredson]

The times they are a-changin'.

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[Leeway]

Those are a lot of fun. What can you tell us about the store itself?

[JSngry]

The times they are a-changin'.

No fuckin' shit.

[Noj]

Any legal problems with the Planter's peanuts folks?

[JSngry]

Those are a lot of fun. What can you tell us about the store itself?

Actually, the guy who owned/ran it, Rod Stasick, is a member here. I've asked him to drop by this thread and reminisce.

The store was a gas, what can I tell you? If you wanted it, he'd get it. And what he got that you didn't even know you wanted...Plus, it was a great place to just hang out and shoot the bull. All sorts of people dropped in, players, fans, freaks, you name it. Ain't nothing like now, at least not for this type of musical eclecticism.

BTW, Rod's a terrifically talented cat in his own right. Do a Google search and see.

Hell, here's a link! http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22rod+stasick%22

[AfricaBrass]

I would have LOVED that store!

So... Can we call you Crockpot?

[JSngry]

Any legal problems with the Planter's peanuts folks?

None. But from the landlords....

That's Rod's story to tell, should he choose to.

[JSngry]

So... Can we call you Crockpot?

Only if you give The Porker Davis Group a gig!

[Big Al]

Can't believe I never heard of that place. Overshadowed by Bill's Records & Tapes perhaps? When did they close down?

How far back does your DO collection go?

[AfricaBrass]

So... Can we call you Crockpot?

Only if you give The Porker Davis Group a gig!

I wish I could.

[porkerdavis]

now, crockpot, you know mamma dont like you trottin out all yo little play pritties, talkin bout em like they was somethin our guests is needin. you best play nice or mamma be out here-uh with her bag o snakes and we dont needs to be seein all that.

porker

[porkerdavis]

rod stasick? where do I know that name from??? and just in the last few weeks...hmmm.

[kh1958]

I must not have ever come out of my cave during those years. I missed that store.

[Shawn]

...and I thought Jim posted this out of sadness for me moving away.

[Big Al]

txxx for posting, Tex... can you or any of ya'll DFW dudes spill on (old) Frisco?

Frisco, McKinney, Richardson..... all becoming super-suburbanized. Land's being scooped up and developed faster than Rummy can put together non-answers for the troops.

[JSngry]

It's not there any more, Clem.

[Joe]

Downtown Dallas is now effectively a ghost town.

Edited December 9, 2004 by Joe

[Big Al]

p/s: Big Al-- yeah, i've heard that almost the whole area has turned to tract home hell. where i stayed in Richardson, very near Plano border, was like that too but you could get to rural, or at least agricultural north pretty quickly & i do remember Frisco to McKinney being pretty empty...

But then I say that having not being any further north than McKinney. Beyond the suburban wasteland, it still may be pretty open. Maybe around Sherman, that area.

I think it all started when that whole area started trying to be another Silicon Valley. Then the web-based businesses that a lot of those "fortunes" were based on went belly-up. Guarantee you it'll be a ghost-town in about ten years or so, as more & more homes are either foreclosed or sold for much-less-than market value. It'll be a "modern" ghost-town, but a ghost-town nonetheless.

Sorta like Dallas.....