Subdude Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 El Tango Dining Club 304 Preston Demolished Bismarck Restaurant 719 Franklin Extant Love Street Light Circus Feel Good Machine 1019 Commerce Extant The Cellar, Les Quatre Saisons, Moulin Rouge 300 Block Milam Demolished The Golden Fleece 807 Congress Extant Gary Smith's Plantation Club 215 Milam Extant "Live Banjo Band!" Peacock Dining Room and Grill 707 Fannin Demolished Genora White Kitchen #2 616 Main Demolished Genora's White Kitchen 1007-1009 Main Demolished Ship Ahoy 1007-1009 Main Demolished 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WesternGulf Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 looks comfortable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted April 5, 2006 Author Share Posted April 5, 2006 Kelley's Famous Corral Room 910 Texas Demolished China Clipper 1006 Milam Demolished The Normandie 1009 Milam Demolished Simpson's Dining Car 1415 Main Demolished Ten Fathoms 740 Polk Demolished Santa Anita Mexican Restaurant 1919 Louisiana Demolished Old Mexico 120 Gray Demolished West's Dairyland Main at Gray Demolished Ritz Dining Room 1214 McGowan Demolished Weldon Cafeteria 4916 South Main Extant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted April 5, 2006 Author Share Posted April 5, 2006 Spark Plug Club 1142 Adele Extant Athens Restaurant 8037 Clinton Extant Frontier Restaurant 4107 OST Demolished Bill Williams MacGregor House 5100 OST Demolished Golden Hour Restaurant 5111 Griggs Demolished Jimmy Menutis Lounge 3236 Telephone at Wayside Demolished Las Vegas Inn 3706 Telephone Demolished Dubose Tel-Wink Grill 4318 Telephone Extant Old Hickory Stick 4521 Telephone Demolished Spanish Village 4720 Almeda Extant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted April 5, 2006 Author Share Posted April 5, 2006 Congo Jungle 5704 Almeda Demolished Green Parrot 2314 MacGregor Demolished Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted April 5, 2006 Author Share Posted April 5, 2006 Stables Restaurant 2703 Weslayan Demolished Lamb's Smokehouse 2706 Westheimer Extant Suzanne Cafeteria 2912 South Shepherd Extant John's Sea Foods 1927 West Gray Demolished Marquis Lounge 1957 West Gray Exant "Lounge for discriminating patrons" Ming Palace 2011 West Gray Extant Felix Mexican Restaurant 904 Westheimer Extant Michelangelos 307 Westheimer Extant Alfred's Town & Country, 9123 Stella Link, 2408 Rice Blvd. Vittorio's Italian Restaurant 2529 Rice Blvd. Extant Look's Sir-Loin House 6112 Westheimer The Railhead 6400 Richmond Safari Restaurant 4902 Richmond Extant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJones Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 Railhead was my absolute favorite restaurant as a kid in the 70's. It has been about 20 other places since then. T-Town 2000 was and is the last incarnation there now, with shootings and stabbings nightly.Is the Look's by the Dome still there, I think the sign is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icepickphil Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 Dig those cats and kitties hanging out in front of Michelangelos. Way cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icepickphil Posted April 5, 2006 Share Posted April 5, 2006 When do you think the photo of Market Square was from? Was the night club La Bastille located there in the 70s? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucesw Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 I never knew there was a Stables on Weslayan. There was one on Westheimer just east of Weslayan and on S. Main @ Kirby. Steak House Associates: Stables, Courtyard, Bud Bigelow's and Bordman's (where Chuy's is on Westheimer). All very good restaurants.Love the cars in front of Lamb's. Let's see: 55 or 56 Buick wagon, Volvo of undetermined vintage, 57 Chevy, 54 Olds.I'll have to go look up some of these extant buildings to go look up since I don't recognize many from the pics.Dig those cats and kitties hanging out in front of Michelangelos. Way cool.I saw your comment before the pic finished loading and was expecting to see some young men plying an old profession, as they have on lower Westheimer for years. Maybe that's what we are seeing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 (edited) more of alfred's: nice food tray - and who was skippy haston? Edited April 6, 2006 by sevfiv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roym Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 Wow, Subdude, thanks for all the scans!! So has the Museum of Houston come calling yet? lolThe one from Michelangelos really cracked me up! I can only hope to be that groovy one day... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbigtex56 Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 Is that Micheangelo's postcard dated? I'd put it at 1967-69.Hope Lower Westheimer can once again have as vital a street life. If we can persuade people to step out of their townhomes onto the street (instead of into their cars) perhaps it can happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted April 6, 2006 Author Share Posted April 6, 2006 So has the Museum of Houston come calling yet? lolYeah, this will show them who has the better online museum! Hope Lower Westheimer can once again have as vital a street life. If we can persuade people to step out of their townhomes onto the street (instead of into their cars) perhaps it can happen. You know what the problem is with that stretch now? There are a couple of strip centers on the south side that are fronted by parking lots. I just don't think you can have a vital street life unless buildings front the sidewalk. Otherwise it will always turn into a non-pedestrian suburban-type streetscape. Put the parking lots in back! The one from Michelangelos really cracked me up! I can only hope to be that groovy one day... I'm just hoping that the people in that picture, or someone that knows them, stumbles on this topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpstown Bill Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 Would this be the same who owned "Skippy's" on Bissonnet near Bayland Park in the 60's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted June 7, 2006 Author Share Posted June 7, 2006 The Pink Pussycat! This came up in another topic. It was at 219 Main at Congress. Picture is from early 1970s. Sorry for the quality. Drawing from "Last of the Past" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmainguy Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 The Pink Pussycat! This came up in another topic. It was at 219 Main at Congress. Picture is from early 1970s. Sorry for the quality. Thanks sub-great pic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashikaga Posted June 16, 2006 Share Posted June 16, 2006 looks comfortable How can people be "laid back" with loud, live music playing? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted June 16, 2006 Author Share Posted June 16, 2006 How can people be "laid back" with loud, live music playing? Probably some chemical assistance. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashikaga Posted June 16, 2006 Share Posted June 16, 2006 Probably some chemical assistance. That reminds me of Cheech & Chong's "Big Bambu" album. "Unamerican Bandstand" hosted by Laid-Back Lenny. He said: "We now have the winner of the 'How many downers you can drop' contest". "The lead singer of the band couldn't make it because he stuck himself in the eye with a coke spoon". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJones Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 Stables Restaurant 2703 Weslayan Demolished I think I said this in another thread but my Uncle Robert used to GM this joint back in the 70's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sootycat Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 I knew John's Sea Foods as Captain John's Oyster Resort. I sat in there in 1980 and watched the "Miracle on Ice" game between the Soviet Union and the U.S. It had a fire some time after that and didn't reopen. It was where the Pier 1 is now on West Gray. Across the street from Captain John's, on the same side of Gray, was the Mrs. Baird's Bakery, another cool building that I wish was still there. It was replaced by a Walgreens, Blockbuster, strip center,etc.I would like to have a photo of the Mrs. Baird's building. Across the street from Captain John's was Weingartens/Safeway/Appletree and now Kroger. In the early 70s there was a small three screen cinema in that old strip center called the Park I, II and III. The Park III was like a repertory theatre before the River Oaks became one.As a teenager, I went to that cinema when it first opened. Is it still standing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enviromain Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 (edited) Genora White Kitchen #2616 Main Demolished Genora's White Kitchen 1007-1009 Main Demolished Found this currently listed on eBay. Genora's White Kitchen #2, 616 Main St. Thought you might like it. Edited December 21, 2006 by enviromain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicman Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 When do you think the photo of Market Square was from?i was wondering what yr myself....the orginal warren's was on the 300 block of milam....i'm wondering if the 4 seasons building referenced is the old warrens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted December 21, 2006 Author Share Posted December 21, 2006 i was wondering what yr myself....the orginal warren's was on the 300 block of milam....i'm wondering if the 4 seasons building referenced is the old warrens.Yep, I'm pretty sure it's the same building. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
escapee Posted December 23, 2006 Share Posted December 23, 2006 How can people be "laid back" with loud, live music playing?I used to run the door at Club Bojangles and under it La Bastille. Killer music, man. Wayne Cochran, the blue eyed king of soul, Buddy Rich, Fats Domino, The New Christy Minstrels. One night at La Bastille a bum-looking fellow came down to the club so I doubled the door fee to try to keep him out. A minute later the bar manager came running to the door asking me if I had charged the man. I proudly told him the story. He said, "You can't charge him - that's Woody Herman!"After hours we used to go down to The Cellar and take our own bottle so we could drink. The picture on this site of The Cellar makes it look much nicer and hipper that I remember. It was very rundown, no live band, fleabitten sleeping bags on the floor, and the "entertainment" was local hookers who strutted, in a wobbly fashion, their stuff on the runway, stripping at they went.I'm amazed that those brain cells are still there and functioning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FilioScotia Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 (edited) Speaking of "Bojangles"...Does anybody else here remember that restaurant/club Sonny Look had on Market Square in the early 70s? My dates and I frequented that place a lot because he booked in some pretty big name entertainers. I remember seeing the Four Freshmen, and anybody who ever saw those guys can testify to how great a show they put on. Ray Rogers and the Bojangles also performed there just before, or at about the same time that he was opening his own club Bojangles over on Franklin. Of all the local entertainers I've seen over the years, I still regard Ray and his group as the most talented and most entertaining. They just put on one helluva show. Ray gave Lisa Hartman her first singing opportunities. Speaking of, I know that Ray's now married to Jonni Hartman, and is Lisa's step-father, and Clint Black's step-father in law, but does he still perform anywhere?And as long as we're talking about Ray and the Bojangles, does anybody know whatever happened to Rex Kramer, the Bojangles' original front man? After his "thing" with Liza Minnelli, he seems to have fallen off the face of the Earth. Sometime around 1970, Liza Minnelli did some shows in Houston, and while she was in town she went to The Bojangles show one night. She and Kramer immediately went into heat for each other. She liked Kramer so much she took them all on the road with her as her backup group, but that was mainly to stay "close" to Kramer. He wasn't totally useless -- he arranged a lot of her recordings -- and was with her in Germany during the filming of Cabaret. Here are a couple of paragraphs from a Time Magazine article about Liza. written in 1972."Unlike most of her romances, the affair with Rex ended with some unpleasantness. Rex's ex-wife is suing Liza for $500,000, charging alienation of affection. Rex, who now plays in joints in Houston, apparently saw a more unstable side of her nature than did most other people. "The pace she sets for herself is simply terrific," he says, "but she just can't slow down. She would worry about not sleeping and would start taking downers to help herself." He describes terrible tantrums, after which she would "literally rave, then collapse." Liza angrily rebuts him point by point and now claims that she knew all along that Rex was using her. Finally, to get rid of him in Germany, where he was such a nuisance that he was barred from the set of Cabaret, she says that she and her secretary, Deanna Wenble, arranged an elaborate, melodramatic scheme to make him think she had fallen in love with a cameraman. "He said he'd leave me only if I fell in love with somebody else," she explains."Kramer was banned from the sets because he was a monumental pain-in-the-ass who was always trying to insert himself into the production process. The producer and director had to put up with him because he was schtupping their star, but Liza also got tired of him and dropped the group. Kramer dropped out of sight, but Ray took over the group and kept it going as Ray Rogers and the Bojangles and the rest is history. But where is Rex Kramer now? Edited December 26, 2006 by FilioScotia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJones Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 Filio, I have wondered the same thing about a couple of "local" acts, like Roy Head, and Johnny Lee. My mother used to date Roy Head back in his heyday, I can remember hangin' out with him a few times back in the late 70's early 80's. I met Johnny Lee a couple of times back when Urban Cowboy came out, my father and him were drinkin' buddies at Gilley's then when Johnny opened his own club they would alternate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FilioScotia Posted December 26, 2006 Share Posted December 26, 2006 (edited) Roy Head seems to be still aroundBelieve it or not, I found a website that says he was singing at a little honky tonk on I-45 up north of Conroe as recently as April of 2003. Check it out. http://www.thebulletin.com/archives/2003/april/royhead.htmAnd Johnny Lee is still out there singing and recording. These days he can be found in Branson Missouri most of the time. He doesn't have his own theater. I'm sure he sings at Mickey Gilley's Theater and other venues.Here's a link to his fan club. http://www.johnnyleefanclub.com/news.htm Edited December 26, 2006 by FilioScotia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icepickphil Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 He's still gigging all over Texas.Look for him to perform in February at the Gulf Coast Hall of Fame Show in Port Arthur.http://www.panews.com/communities/local_story_360114821.htmlBelieve it or not, I found a website that says he was singing at a little honky tonk on I-45 up north of Conroe as recently as April of 2003. Check it out. http://www.thebulletin.com/archives/2003/april/royhead.htmAnd Johnny Lee is still out there singing and recording. These days he can be found in Branson Missouri most of the time. He doesn't have his own theater. I'm sure he sings at Mickey Gilley's Theater and other venues.Here's a link to his fan club. http://www.johnnyleefanclub.com/news.htmRoy in Port Arthur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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