Business Calendars

Long before gimme caps and ball point pens, nearly all merchants gave calendars to their customers.  Here are some from 1947 through 1983.  Seems that dogs, girls and babies sold.

Upper Left:  Smith’s advertised 125 varieties of fine fruit, papershell pecans, Hereford cattle and hard hitting bass on the store’s 1947 calendar.

Right:  J.D. Tate & Son’s 1949 calendar.

Lower Right: Robert Kay’s 1948 calendar featured radios but in only a couple of years his primary business was televisions.

Lower Left:  Attorney, Fredrick Harmon advertised his insurance business in 1950.

Alf Sloan even provided his home phone number 93 on his 1952 calendar.

De Leon Grocery and Market’s slogan was “A Square Deal or No Deal”.

J.Doss Miller Jr. owned the John Deere dealership then located behind Smiths.

Dabney’s thirty-two years later, then owned by Bobby Carl Simpson.  The phone number had changed a little from 30.  It was then 817-893-2555.

E.E. Dabney Hardware & Furniture in 1950.  The store phone number was 30.

It was almost like predicting the future as Golden Oak featured all the Caraway clan in football gear.  On Dec. 20, of that same year De Leon won its first State Football Championship.  Kayce and Kim are in their De Leon cheerleading gear.  We are unsure why the boys, Chris, Kyle, Kevin and “little Clint” are being forced to wear agricultural school shirts.