i was at a beer joint down in houston, texas

[datasuspect]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K3szlIdZ3Y

[last_texas_dem]

1. If you're gonna cut someone's ear off, it's better to do so in a gentlemanly fashion.

No need in being unnecessarily harsh or violent about it.

I've always thought Mr. Paycheck made a good point in this song. haha

[datasuspect]

3. i used to live i nederland

they had some good ole boys down there at Irene's.

miss it everyday.

[texanwitch]

2. I like to call them ice houses.

Nothing fancy, old table and chairs.

Beer caps in the driveway.

My favorite one is gone, good times.

[datasuspect]

4. one of my favorites was in cut and shoot

beer, wine, and set ups

[ellenrr]

5. Oh I remember ice houses, anybody know Rudyard's?

there was an ice house I think on Westheimer in Houston, a log time ago, no longer there.

But one of my favorite night spots in Houston is Rudyards, on Waugh Drive. (not an ice house)
beer and darts and music.
People in leather jackets, people who like reggae, people who like punk, altogether a nice bunch.
I haven't been there since I left Hst 15 years ago, but it is still there.
I will be there again.

[Curmudgeoness]

6. We used to always go to ice houses too. I've been to Rudyards

but don't know if that was when I lived there, or when I go back to visit. I left Houston (OMG) 20 years ago this year, and still miss it.

[ellenrr]

8. oh my gosh another one who misses Houston

I been gone 16 years and plan to return . I used to live in The Montrose.
I miss it a lot.
What part of town did you live in?

[Curmudgeoness]

9. I lived on the east side because I was poor. Well

I was poor when I moved there and ended up staying on that side of town. If I every went back, I would never think to live in those neighborhoods, but it wasn't all bad at the time. It seemed like the whole city was just in the neighborhood for some reason, but I won't drive 30 miles for many things where I am now. Didn't seem like a big deal there.

My sister is still there, has a cute little house just off Westheimer and Gray. This wonderful neighborhood where every charming house that sells is a teardown for McMonster townhouses. Too bad. But it does give me reason to go back for a visit often.

BTW, welcome to DU.

[ellenrr]

11. I know exactly the block where your sister lives!

ooh makes me homesick just to read the street names.

Actually one of the places I lived was close to where your sister lives.

Yes since I left I've heard that they are building 6 townhomes on the lot where once one house stood.
That had kinda started when I was still there, I left in 1994.
But I hear it has taken off big time.
disgusting!!

I guess I should visit before I decide to move back. I wonder if I would hate my old neighborhood. There is nowhere else in Hst I want to live. From there I could bicycle to downtown. Not that Hst has much of a downtown, but it was where I worked. Could bicycle to food store, bookstore, etc.

of course bicycling is kinda dangerous in Hst. I saw one bicyclist get killed and a friend of mine got hit by a car and now has a piece of metal in his leg.
Houstonians (a lot of them) do not think anybody but cars belong out on the roads.

[peekaloo]

12. Yes! Also the Mucky Duck, West Alabama Ice House and if you

were there in the mid to late '80's Club Hey Hey, Rockefeller's (there was also a place near here that I can not remember the name) and The Pig(90's)!

Good times.

I was younger. :D

I lived off Fountainview between Westheimer and Richmond (outside the Loop) so there were A LOT of bars within walking distance but the downtown places were the best. Been gone 11 years now but Houston was/is a great place for socializing.

[Curmudgeoness]

13. THAT is the name of the ice house I always went to!

I was beating my brain trying to remember the West Alabama Ice House. Thinking back I don't know why we thought ice houses were a great place to congregate---open air, no a/c, what were we thinking?

You lived in a really high traffic area---I always tried to avoid it there because at 3:00 in the morning, you would still have traffic there. I had a friend who lived right in that area. Lots of apartment buildings around there.

I often wonder if it was the age I was at the time I was there, or the times, or if it is still a good place to live. I know that being older would mean I would not be out running around as much as I did. Friends were easier to come by there than anywhere else I have been, and I attribute that to the influx of people who uprooted themselves and moved to Houston, opposed to places where people grew up and had all their friends from childhood.

[datasuspect]

14. there was a bar out on Hammerly and Hollister (I think)

in a small strip mall across from some condos where my biker friend lived.

good pool action, people were friendly, lots of weirdos, big hair, bikers, electricians, cowboys, old timers, a real melting pot.

i live at one time near alabama and main, so we'd hit spots on bissonnet, some basement bar below the Montague hotel (SRO) in downtown, or places in west u.

[Inchworm]

7. 'least your name ain't Sue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1BJfDvSITY

Seems I had to fight my whole life through...

:+

[apocalypsehow]

10. Haaaahaaa! Must have been thirty years since I last heard this song blaring out of my granddad's

stereo - he loved that song.