Who remembers these places in the evolution of Houston's nightlife? (Richmond: college, living)

[texas7]

Originally Posted by Timnwendy

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

I couldn't remember the name of that place......I remembered it on the corner - 3 clubs in one but I couldn't think of the name. Thx.

[texas7]

Originally Posted by XodoX

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.

What's more like 50's/60's?

I'm not sure what bars were around in the 50's/60's in Houston - my Mom used to talk about the Magnolia Ballroom and Cooke's (Cooks) Ho-down (Hoe-down) so I would imagine that was 50's. She saw Elvis at Cooks I think, right before he went into the Military before he hit it big. If anyone on this forum knows of clubs from a long time ago, would love about 'em and the names.

I think Washington is it for the 20-somethings but from what I hear, a bit more mature crowd goes to Midtown.

[glorplaxy]

washington sucks. it is way too overcrowded now. a bunch of little douchebags with fancy shirts

[latetotheparty]

Originally Posted by 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)

Bonaparte's and Barbary Coast .... remember them well from my own underage drinking days.....

a little later, there was a c & w bar .... oh heck.... drawing a complete blank on the name .... had a mechanical bull .... was just off of woodway, i believe..... ... oh wait.... was it the yellow rose??

i also lived for a while in the apartments off of rice (?) and 59 that had a little pub in there.... just down the driveway from our apartment.... that was one of the years that the oilers were actually playing like a real football team and pittsburgh was our mortal enemy.... good times on sunday afternoons there....

my first real job (NOT working for dad) was for southwestern bell .... i was a customer service rep and our office was on gulfton, just off of rice, i think.... there was a thread in here a while back where someone posted a satellite image of that exact area and it looks like the building is still there... long, low, 2-story building and back then, there was a church's fried chicken next door.....

[Charles22]

Originally Posted by goldenyears1984

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

Excellent. Party on, Wayne.

[Mom2Feebs]

I remember Xcess and 6400...

[cheryjohns]

Originally Posted by texas7

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)

Bonaparte's retreat was actually located in the middle of a huge apartment complex called Napoleon Square. People could just walk to it from their apartment, rather than get on the road and drive. With a huge number of those apartments being occupied by young adults, they had a built-in group of customers.

[Metro Matt]

I remember back when the Richmond Strip was at its peak in the late 90's-early 2000's with clubs like Polyesters & City Streets. One time there was this, what appeared to be, "homeless" man holding a sign that read "Need money for beer & a hooker too". Saw one similar to that with a dancing drunk at the intersection of 1960 & I-45 N.

[texas7]

I remember Polyesters and 6400 - they were there around the time of city streets. Is Richmond Arms still around? What clubs if any are still left on the Richmond Strip - my clubby days are over so I have no idea what remains over there.

[ohmanon]

Originally Posted by texas7

I remember Polyesters and 6400 - they were there around the time of city streets. Is Richmond Arms still around? What clubs if any are still left on the Richmond Strip - my clubby days are over so I have no idea what remains over there.

The Richmond Arms Pub is still there.

Another place I really miss was called Munchies (circa 1985?) and I think it might have been on W. Alabama. It was a great free venue for music of all kinds. One night might be blues or rock, the next classical. I remember a group that played a strange kind of Tex-Mex music - I think their name was El Tipo and WOW, they were so good! Casual place serving light food and an outdoor patio, just a fun place to hang out. Some music union shut them down, darn it!

Really stepping back in time, my parents used to occasionally frequent a place called the Tidelands which back in the day had quite a reputation:
The Tidelands Motor Inn, 6500 South Main in Houston