Kevin Byrne

As one of the Memorial High students the club needed sound and lighting. Myself Kevin Byrne father Douglas Byrne who was a Aggie EE Engineer came with me and we reworked the club's who system and became defacto engineers in keeping the light and sound going on. Without our participation it would have had problems black light and fluorescent chalk did it rest on venue background

s.funny Doug Byrne was the person who installed the electro mechanical warning in Galveston on the gambling pier at the palms that would warn of the cops trying to run that long pier to catch games going on. Worked like a charm never dif bust them during the late 50's or 60's. Myself Kevin Byrne went on into the service US Army Special Forces and fell off the map.

There are a lot of stories about the beginning of the Catacombs, but all good things come to an end. The club was making a gazillion dollars and one day Bob Cope arrived and took it over. I went to the Army and the Catacombs was gone by the time I got out. Gone, not changed, gone, and that is the real truth. As students at Memorial High we enlisted Douglas Byrne and his son Kevin to do the sound system for the club. Everything was a co-op effort at creating the sound,

lighting and black light with florescent chalk was th back drop.

Am I the only person alive who shot (and still has) film made in the Catacombs? It's a short clip of a band called Deuce is Wild which was part of a promo film I made (1968) Neither the band members or Bob Cope (who struck me as a pompous JERK) were cooperative in my efforts. The film eventually took second place at Rice U Film Fest the same year. Hollar at me if anyone knows any of the members of Duece is Wild...the frontman was Clark Clem..whereabouts unknown.

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