We used to have friends in Pasadena and would go over there from Baytown to visit and shop some. The old white working class Pasadena is long gone, Nesdel Club, Johnny Lees, I'm Proud to Be a KIKKer, Panchos, Mickey McCarty, Taco Bueno, Ice Houses, the Banditos MC, David Allen Coe, Mr. Dellhoussie gone! A friend of mine grew up in Pasadena with Bert Coan and we used run his old Chevy pickup ragged going to all the beer joints on old Spencer Highway to watch the pool and shuffleboard hustlers work. You would not believe how much money used to get passed back and forth in those run-down joints. Mickey Gilley splits time between Pasadena and his theater in Branson, Mo. The night they unveiled the old Gilley's sign at Cowboy Ranch Mickey showed up fer it and threw the switch to relight the old sign. The guy that owned Cowboy Ranch was a real eccentric which was reflected in Cowboy Ranch. The whole place had symbolic meaning to him right down to the rain gutter than ran down through the center of the parking lot. All the signs in that lot were old Pasadena businesses. He told me the bar was the original bar from the old Galvez Hotel. The grass used to be greenah in Pasadenah.