Chris Frankel posed the question...How many of the bars in my dive bar guidebook from four years ago had bitten the dust. Of the approximately 100 bars in the book, here is the role call of the damned: Ernies on Banks (new ownership, better now as Grand Prize Bar) Cahills on Durham (now Lukes Icehouse. Have not been) Dirt Bar (moved downtown from Yale. I hated the Heights location) Shady Tavern (Sold and reborn as The Boot, a Louisiana-style icehouse for the #lsuinvasion. Will reserve judgement til I taste the crawfish.) The Usual (closed and just sitting there.) Blancos (bought out by St Johns. Not even Debakey money could hold out forever against that juggernaut.) Marfreless (Still around but not really...I mean cmon) Happy Go Lucky (Telephone Rd Korean clip joint;, closed, razed, earth probably salted.) Cedar Lounge (razed, a too-little-lamented tragedy. Serious music history there.) Reds Country Place (closed, I think. Building just sitting there.) Carolyns (Closed. I forget why but it went downhill after the new owner ditched the amazing honky-tonk / swamp -pop jukebox in favor of online crap.) Red Hog Saloon was closed by the time my book come out. Building still vacant and available on the glamorous Hempstead Highway. The sinister yet generic Westheimer Pub had also vanished at press time. Jackies Tavern in Bacliff bit the dust too, thank God. Even Bacliffian drunks wondered how a place as consistently violent and drug-fueled as that scum-hive stayed around as long as it did. Crowe Bar off South Post Oak closed and re-opened with a new name. ENDANGERED DIVES Blue Lagoon and NJs are both involved in litigation over allegedly serving to drunks who subsequently killed people (or themselves) in accidents.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 23:27:24 +0000
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