Hotel California?
Sounds like it inspired a place I like–the House of Bamboo. It’s No. 54, the house with the bamboo door. Bamboo roof and bamboo walls, it’s even got a bamboo floor.
Anyone up for a trip to Bob’s Country Bunker to see the “Good Ol’ Blues Brothers Boys Band”?
There really was a Texas Rose Cafe in Houston (as described by the Late Great Lowell George of Little Feat)
(The Texas Rose had been The Maverick Camel, & then The Family Hand. For many years now, the bar/restaurant has been a gay western-themed hangout: The Brazos Bottom.)
I think Eric Taylor referred to Houston’s Old Quarter in a song (something about an old bar “at Congress & Austin”). The club gave its name to Townes van Zandt’s best album. The ancient (by Houston standards) building is now a law office; there’s a “new” Old Quarter in Galveston.
Doug Sahm wrote “Cowboy Peyton Place” about Soap Creek, in Austin. Visited it once–wish I’d visited Austin more in The Old Days.
I knew I wouldn’t be able to stay away from this thread…
At the Bama Breeze
You can shoot some pool down there
You can act the fool down there
Or you can play it cool down there
Jimmy Buffet’s tribute to some beach front bars such as the Flori-Bama, Nolan’s, the Pink Pony and Lulu’s that exist along a strip of Florida/Alabama gulf coast.
And I’ve always wanted to go to that cabaret that the Pistol Packin’ Mama visited in the 40s. As the singer says “Drinking beer in a cabaret and was I having fun.” Sounds like my kind of place.
There’s some bar in a harbor town where the barmaid’s name is Brandy.
Port Charles, home to General Hospital, had The Bucket of Blood, definitely the coolest bar name ever.
It could have been taken from the offices of the first publishers of the Denver Post, men named Tammen and Bonfils. In the 1880s they had their shared office painted red (floor, walls and ceiling) and it gained the nickname of “The Bucket of Blood”. Interesting to note a man weilding a gun and knife wounded both of the men in response to a campaign against him and it was relatively easy to clean up the office.
My I suggest “Sugar Shack” and “The Zoo”. Although according to the song the Sugar Shack “was just a coffe house accros the tracks” and it is never really clear whether The Zoo is a club or more methophoric and really is a zoo.
And don’t forget the Blue Parrot, run by Sidney Greenstreet’s character, not far away.
Then there’s Guinan’s domain, Ten Forward, aboard the USS Enterprise-D.
Port Charles, home to General Hospital, had The Bucket of Blood, definitely the coolest bar name ever.
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There used to be, maybe still is, a bar by that name in Worcester, Mass.
Sorry, that’s a real place, and it’s not even a bar. It’s a hole-in-the-wall burger joint in Hollywood.
Kip Adotta takes us to the Oyster Bar in Wet Dream.
Keeping with oysters, the Police Academy movies had a running gag of tricking people into going to the Blue Oyster.
Sometimes I run into sad-sack ex-high school jocks at this litle roadside bar. I used to know this great pitcher back then, and I saw him there just the other night. I was walking in, he was walking out.
I thought of that one briefly, but you know about thoughts like those: They’ll pass you by, in the wink of a young girl’s eye, and all you do is sit around talkin’ about…
I hear you can get a really good Pangalactic Gargle Blaster either at Milliway’s, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, or at the Big Bang Burger Bar.
Thank you, Douglas Adams.
I vote we go back to The Slaughtered Lamb
I’m goin’ to the Roadhouse, and I’m a gonna have a real… a good time, Yea!
I’ve been to the bar in Toledo, across from the depot.
Top Hat Bar and Grill - Jim Croce
These are all fine places, I’m sure, but Garth Brooks would be asking how many were in the American Honky-Tonk Bar Association.
(The) Green Door - a tune from 1956 about a popular Dallas music club . I actually stood outside that very door in 1959 or so, but the door was yellow originally.
I know I am dating myself here, but can’t deny my age!