Mentioning Plano in the 1960's to a fellow DU'er got me looking for a pic
Jokingly mentioning that we occasionally shopped, laundered and perhaps grabbed a sandwich in a little town called Plano!
And there it was, the first pic on the link below: I recall being towed along in 1966 -8 or so with my mother doing laundry at that mat. my odd memory is asking mom "What's Speed Queen?" I was about 7 years old...LOL. I recall, to the best of my 60 years, this little strip was right along the street we used to take out of Richardson. (not I-75, but I think it joined up with it)
If the Rite Way cleaners sign was still up these days some would be stopping to look for a bowl of chicken Pho.
I got re-Californicated for work in 2004, but before then I never got the chance to re-tour this old area if I could even find it these days. Do any of these old buildings still exist? All I ever saw of Plano in recent years was fully new, gentrified.
I'm emailing my older brother who probably remembers more.
http://planomagazine.com/plano-history-1950s-1960s/
Plano was usually cut off the DFW inset or page on Tx maps at the time.
Then this one shows Plano as along the I-75:.
https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/workspace/handleMediaPlayer?qvq=q%3atexas%2b1956%3bsort%3apub_list_no_initialsort%2cpub_date%2cpub_list_no%2cseries_no%3blc%3aRUMSEY~8~1&trs=2&mi=0&lunaMediaId=RUMSEY~8~1~212151~5500252
