west end

does anyone else remember when west end was cool? i remember day-time trips down to this little marketplace where strange adult men sold roses, they had a chocolate factory, a huge candy store, and a poster store where they sold what seemed to be HUGE "tiger beat" posters...i loved that. i even remember going down there one night with my older brothers and doing a music video of "celebrate (good times, come on!)." ahh, memories.



i knew it had taken a turn for the worse, i haven't been in years...really not since junior high, which is about 13 years ago now. but it seems that famed little shopping center is closing. it's strange that it is happening now, with the victory project right across the way and "taste of dallas" happening in just a few weeks...but i felt it necessary to say my farwell, as at one point in my life, i thought that place was just tops!!!