Our Mission Statement

“Our mission is to preserve and share the social history of Dallas and Texas — from nightclubs and restaurants to music, sports, and everyday life — by collecting, organizing, and celebrating the stories, places, and people that shaped our communities. Through our growing archives, digital platforms, and volunteer network, we connect generations, support local preservation efforts, and foster a living legacy that honors the past while inspiring the future.”

Vision Statement

“To be the leading resource and community hub for preserving and celebrating the social history of Dallas and Texas — ensuring that the stories, places, and people that shaped our culture are safeguarded, shared, and cherished for generations to come.”

We began our journey into Memories Incorporated as a Facebook group, Memories of Dallas. We started it as our old Facebook group had gone to pot after the Owner and sole Admin died and left no Moderators. The politics and sales stuff were flying left and right. This was around 2016

So we began our FB Group with our first two rules, NO POLITICS and NO SALES!

By and by, we started to understand that we needed some sort of group outside Facebook that could put us on a different level rather than simply a Facebook Group. So myself, Paul Heckmann, plus Steven Spainhouer and Tanya Stracener created “Dallas Memory Guild” as “Memories Incorporated” was taken at that time, 5-15-2018. I pursued the name Memories Incorporated and the owner gave it to me a couple of months later so we filed for and were granted the name change.

We were awarded an EIN for Memories Inc, 83-0566883

We also filed for a DBA in Dallas County, “Memories of Dallas”, that we were granted

We are currently over 50 interviews with such folk as John Ford Coley, the runner-up for the Grammy in the 70s, Mike Nesmith from The Monkees, Thomas ‘Hollywood’ Henderson, the All Pro LB for the Dallas Cowboys and so much more. We let them tell their story in their own words.

We also throw in some history when it matches our goal of documenting the social history of Dallas. The complete story of how Playboy came to Dallas, how it started on a $5,000 bet between a couple of realtors that Playboy couldn’t be brought to Dallas, and how it almost ended up across the street from the Cabell building in downtown Big D! The history of the first super club, the gigantic, 6,000 capable club ‘Louann’s’ as told by the folks that worked there, bands that played there, family members of the founders, Lou and Ann Bovis and Marty Martinkus. The name bands that played there from Lawrence Welk to Chuck Berry to Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart to the Trogs and so many others. The list is absolutely amazing.