BILL CHERRY'S GREATEST DALLAS PARK CITIES REAL ESTATE BLOG: SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH DALLAS REALTOR BILL CHERRY - Special Thanksgiving Edition

SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH BILL CHERRY

7^th Edition

LANDS' END & POTTERY BARN.  For years and years I've bought a great deal of merchandise by mail order.  The two companies that are the most efficient, the most gracious and the most competent are Lands' End and Pottery Barn.

And by the way, the children's clothes at Lands' End are very stylish, well-made and priced just right.

BRENDAN GILL.  He was the New Yorker Magazine's most elegant biography-in-a-short-story-writer for about fifty years.  His 1990 book A New York Life: Of Friends & Others provides fascinating tales of people you've heard about (Dorothy Parker, Eleanor Roosevelt, etc.) and people you've probably never heard of (Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Simon Verity, etc.).  I reread it about every two years.

BRENDAN GILL'S SON.  His name is Michael Gates Gill and he has recently published his autobiography How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else.  He and his book are nothing more than a total embarrassment to him, his family and to Starbucks.

HOME MARKET.  Unless the outcome would be to your financial benefit, I recommend that you not list or buy a residence at this time.  Irrespective of common wisdom, it is an economic Malanthrope to think that a buyer's or a seller's market actually has definable dimension, and a "buyer's market" is what we are currently experiencing. 

The only market that can be logically and accurately worked with and with reasonable certainty is a free market - that's the one that's described in the definition of appraised value.

NEW YORKER CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST.  This cartoon is a perfect and complete lesson in what might be the penance for earning the wrath of God. Two fallen angels are sitting on eggs.  The caption reads, "I always figured Hell would be less ironic."  It was submitted by Ben Snyder of Charlottesville, Virginia.

FALLINGWATER.  The Edgar Kaufmanns were a wealthy department store family in Pittsburg.  They found a piece of land about sixty miles from their house.  The land surrounded a large waterfall, and it was seeing that waterfall in the eyes of summer, winter, spring and fall that made the Kaufmanns know they had to have it.

They commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to build them a home there, a home from whose windows they could watch the magic of their preciouswaterfall.  Instead Wright designed and built for them a house from which there were no windows overlooking the waterfall.  Wright said that they could hear its sounds from anywhere in the house, therefore this way, they would be a part of the waterfall, not just observers.  They bought the idea.  Afterall, they reasoned, he was the artist.

Wright named the house Fallingwater.  Why that name?  It contains Wright's initials (FLLW) in the proper sequence. Waterfall doesn't.

HIGHLAND PARK CAFETERIA.  In 1925 what would become a Dallas institution, the Highland Park Cafeteria, opened on Knox Street.  For whatever the reason, it closed in 1995.  The recipes that had made it famous went with it.  A few months back, new owners bought the recipes, the name, and many of the former employees joined them in establishing the new Highland Park Cafeteria, this time in the Casa Linda Shopping Center at 1200 North Buckner.

It's as everyone remembers it.  And it's not hard to know it's the truth because the place is always full of old-timers with their walkers, oxygen bottles and turned up hearing aids.  They're the ones who went to the original when they were young.  The place is beautifully decorated, very clean and neat, and diners are serenaded by a grand player piano.

The better known Luby's Cafeterias have drifted quite a bit.  More than likely whatever it is will now have as an ingredient chili powder.  However, Highland Park employees don't even whisper the word "chili" much less shake the stuff over what they're cooking.

FIRST OF THE HOLIDAY CONCERTS.  The Oak Lawn Band will be performing its "Holiday Concert" on Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. at Northaven Methodist Church, 11211 Preston Road.

HANDEL'S "MESSIAH."  The Dallas Bach Society will start you holiday season with Handel's "Messiah" on Sunday, Decmeber 2, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. at the Morton Meyerson Symphony Center. 

THE NUTCRACKER.  The Texas Ballet Theater with its internationally acclaimed artistic director Ben Stevenson will present the traditional ballet and orchestral performance at Fair Park Music Hall on December 20, at 8:00 p.m., December 21 and Saturday, December 22, at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., and on December 23, at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

NEIMAN-MARCUS 100th ANNIVERSARY.  From its opening day, Neiman's presented an image of both trendy fashion and superb quality. To Dallas, Texas, the United States, and the world, it remains a living legend. The hundred year anniversary of its first store on Elm Street in Dallas provides a good opportunity to reflect on its contributions to the fashion and retail world as well as Dallas history. A fine exhibit is on display on the 7^th floor of the Dallas Public Library at 1515 Young Street through January 6^th.  Neither the Neiman or the Marcus family remain as controlling stockholders, but the merchandising teachings of Stanley Marcus are very much alive

To the left is a photo of Lawrence and Shelby Marcus that was taken at the store's 100th Anniversary party by professional photographer Patrick McMullen.

I look forward to sharing this time in the park with you next weekend.  In the meantime,

GOD Blesses!

Bill Cherry

Dallas Realtor-Broker

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