Mesquite Bean said:

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If you have about an hour and a half, I'll tell you some Lakeview Club tales, '71-'72.

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What was the name of the newer honky tonk over on the west side of 2818 going north I think ...around Villa Maria?

Rattler12 said:

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Mesquite Bean said:

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If you have about an hour and a half, I'll tell you some Lakeview Club tales, '71-'72.

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What was the name of the newer honky tonk over on the west side of 2818 going north I think ...around Villa Maria?

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Are you talking about The Cowboy?

I don't think that there are too many gentlemen left to attend the few remaining dance halls. Back in 70's I lost a hat that I had left on the table to go dance. Golden Stallion in San Antonio.
It ain't like it used to be.

I'll bet you also went to the Farmers Daughter too didn't you?
Probably saw one another there or the GS and never knew it.

Gunny456 said:

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Until we bought the Missouri ranch and moved in 2020 the wife and I attended the Cowboy Christmas Ball when Michael Martin Murphy was there about half a dozen times.
Everyone ought to go at least once. I was told Michael Martin Murphy may not make it in 2026. He's like 81 now I think.
One of the pure traditions is that all women must wear dresses and men can't wear their hats on the dance floor…..the way it used to be before all the drugstore cowboy places came about.

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I've seen his Cowboy Christmas Ball road show in Austin a couple of times. It is cool.

Also, gentlemen remove the cowboy hat when they dance wtih a lady, or when they eat also in church.
I have zero tolerance for those last two.

And Randy's Rodeo.

Gunny456 said:

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Until we bought the Missouri ranch and moved in 2020 the wife and I attended the Cowboy Christmas Ball when Michael Martin Murphy was there about half a dozen times.
Everyone ought to go at least once. I was told Michael Martin Murphy may not make it in 2026. He's like 81 now I think.
One of the pure traditions is that all women must wear dresses and men can't wear their hats on the dance floor…..the way it used to be before all the drugstore cowboy places came about.

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Used to be a "no hat on the dance floor" rule at Anhalt also.

Holy Moly. I had forgot that!

My great grandfather helped build the big hall in the early 1900's. It was originally part of what was called the Krause settlement. It was a stopping spot for folks traveling from Boerne/Comfort to New Braunfels for safety in numbers from attacking bandits and Indians….hence the German name "Anhalt" meaning "now" or "at stop".
My folks took me there since I was in diapers. The hall was used for all kinds of other gatherings during the year back then.
I have lots of old memories of going there every year growing up. Crowd made up of last names like Saur, Knippe, Rust, Elbel, Koenig, Krause, Stuebing, Clausen, Specht …to name a few.
Us kids would hand roll cigarettes and use cedar bark for tobacco!! Stupid Stupid.

Gunny456 said:

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We saw him in Kerrville, Fredericksburg and Austin for many years. My mom loved his Cowboy Christmas shows….so we took her every year as part of her Christmas. Took her to his show in Kerrville in 2017 at the Calilou Theater…two months later she passed.
Good times.

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I took my mom to the Austin show year before last.

Surprised no one has mentioned the Bluebonnet Palace in Selma, Texas. It was a happening place in the early 80's when I was in high school. Saw a number of big country acts come through there before they were big. My brother saw George Straight there in his early years.
Edit to add it been gone a long time. Too much commercial development along I-35