STREET TALK

Who says there’s nothing in a name? Look what Blooming-dale’s has done for Valley View. Longtime tenants Sears and JCPenney have undergone face lifts, and some very swanky stores have been added to the Valley View directory: Aber-crombie & Fitch, Gartner Chocolates, Trouvé, Timothy’s, Pappagallo, The Carriage Shop, Haagen Dazs and (our favorite) Mrs. Field’s Cookies.



Realtor Helena Underwood

has lost a salesperson but gained a competitor-her sister, Twinkle Underwood Bayoud, who has formed her own real estate company, Bayoud & Bayoud Realtors. Bayoud is president of the company, and her husband, Bradley, is the broker (he is also president of Bedrock Development Company). Bayoud, 26, worked for her sister for three years, during which time she was honored by the Greater Dallas Board of Realtors for reaching sales of $7 million. Several months ago, she reached the $15 million sales mark for 1983.



In response to the increase of office space being built outside the Central Business District, a new, very elite private dining club is under construction in the Park Cities. Appropriately named the Park Cities Club, the restaurant has been established by Club Development Inc. and H.J. Chris Consultants. Both firms are responsible for building a number of high-priced establishments across the South, including the Plaza Club in Houston. The club, which will be located in the Sherry Lane Building at the intersection of Dallas North Tollway and Northwest Highway, already has chosen its board of governors, which includes ex-City Councilmem-ber Rolan Tucker and Realtor Ellen Terry.

George Toomer was recently contacted by NBC’s Today show staff to set up a Buffalo George guest appearance on the morning television news show during the Republican National Convention. Apparently, the show will be filmed in Dallas during the convention, and Toomer has been selected to represent Dallas. This will be Toomer’s fifth appearance on the show. And speaking of Toomer and show biz… Filmmaker Paul Bartel (Eating Raoul), was recently in Toomer’s restaurant, Genaro’s Tropical, during filming of his latest motion picture. Not For Publication.Supposedly, as a result of the filming episode, Toomer may have a cameo appearance in the film… something about a fight in the kitchen. Stay tuned.



Areecia Ward has always scoffed at the theory that fashion models lead extremely glamorous lives. She’s been modeling with Kim Dawson for five years, and she says there was nothing particularly glamorous about her way of life.

But that changed this fall. While on a modeling assignment in Europe, Ward went on a blind date with a man who turned out to be a “very handsome” Spanish count. In September, she returned to Madrid to marry him.

The couple was married in the Basilica Pontescea de San Miguel, a large cathedral near the Prado art museum in Madrid.

After the ceremony, the couple returned to Dallas, where Ward had persuaded her future husband to transfer his import/export business so that she could resume her modeling career here. Apparently, Ward has a history of going to great lengths to get what she wants. She was the star-crazed teeny-bopper who packaged and shipped herself to Elvis Presley in 1974.

When asked what her new husband’s name is, she fumbled with the words and then said, “I have it written down somewhere.” She returned, reading the rather lengthy name of her husband: Conde Eduardo Lopez Gonzalez Ferrez de Aquido.