Who remembers Kip’s Big Boy? Students from Lake Highlands High School posed with the mascot in 1967, the year the sixth Kip’s Big Boy Coffee Shop in Dallas opened in Lakewood. (More)

THE BACK STORY

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Cheerleaders on strike: The NFL season has begun, and there will even be cheerleaders. Remember when Jerry Jones bought the Cowboys in 1989 and 14 Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders quit? (More)

Too Tall: Watch this charming interview between Ed “Too Tall” Jones, then a 24-year-old Dallas Cowboys rookie, and his teammate and Dallas native Harvey Martin. (Oak Cliff Advocate)

The newspaper happened to have one reporter in New York City that day, former Dallas Morning News fashion editor Tracy Achor Hayes, who was in town for New York Fashion Week. (Lakewood Advocate)

Who remembers the East Dallas Banner newspaper? (Lakewood Advocate)

A mural by Michael McPheeters in Deep Ellum. Photo by Renee Umsted.

DEEP ELLUM BLUES

Cradle of rock ‘n’ roll: It all started in the Mississippi Delta, but also Oak Cliff, Texas. (Oak Cliff Advocate)

Terrestrial: Did you know that Dallas is home to the first radio station in Texas? Here’s the story of WRR, which is over 100 years old. (Texas Monthly)