Who remembers these places in the evolution of Houston's nightlife? (Richmond: real estate, apartments)

[texas7]

As Washington Ave. is the "it" place right now, I have to wonder what will happen to the area when the upscale crowd goes elsewhere as historically they always move on to the next hot spot leaving the current to fall to disarray. Will it become a blighted area as most of the "clubby" areas of the past have.

Who Remembers:

The hot place at one time is now the area referred to as the Gulfton Ghetto. Then the hot place became Westheimer from the Galleria to Augusta and then again at Gessner/Westheimer

Then came the Richmond Strip

Then Downtown - shortlived as a hot place
Then Midtown - still has it's share of nightlife but not an overwhelming presence that usually leaves an area blighted when it disappears
Presently Washington Avenue

Some of these were from my underage drinking days and some before my nightlife days........

Crazy Banana
The Orchard Club on Glenmont
Bonaparte's Retreat
Barbary Coast
Ciao
Studabakers
The Fox Club
Cooters
Todds (Richmond)
Xanadu
The Place on Woodway
Genesis
Uncle Sams aka U.S. Disco
Annabelles
Squeeze Box
Todds (Clear Lake)
The Atrium Club (Clear Lake)

[sbhubbell]

Have you been reading the Houston Press lately? Great article on the new Washington club scene today. Houston News - Wild on Washington - page 1

[ElectricClouds]

Where's 'Gulfton Ghetto'?

[texas7]

Originally Posted by ElectricClouds

Where's 'Gulfton Ghetto'?

Gulfton/Glenmont/Renwick - where the glut of 70's apartments are.

[texas7]

Originally Posted by sbhubbell

Have you been reading the Houston Press lately? Great article on the new Washington club scene today. Houston News - Wild on Washington - page 1

I did read that - and that is what made me think of how cyclical all these hot nightclub areas are and how the majority of the areas become blighted after they have their hot run - perhaps because there aren't enough other businesses in the mix to sustain the area when the nightclubbers move on.

[Timnwendy]

You left out City Streets. That place thrived in the early to mid 90s.

[Oildog]

I'm guessing the clubs will move soon as the real estate prices on Washington have gone up. East or the ballpark is likely the next destination. Then many of the bars on Washington will close, but the ones that remain will be there for us 'mature' drinkers.

[HookTheBrotherUp]

The Agora
Cardi's
Rockers

And who doesn't remember The Dome Shadows? Err, if you lived in that era, which I take most here did not. I was just a teenager then, but I never went there, even though I'd pass it by on my way to work for a few years. Always meant to, just never did.

[goldenyears1984]

Houston' nightlife did not "evolve!" It was created 6,000 years ago. This is Texas, remember?

[XodoX]

Originally Posted by texas7

Gulfton/Glenmont/Renwick - where the glut of 70's apartments are.

Well, the Gulfton ghetto is bigger in my opinion. And I would think it's more like 50's/60's.
Honestly, Washington Ave. is so not the "it place" to me. You got a few bars there, that's pretty much it. There's much more of that in Midtown/Downtown/Montrose.