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From: "Rick Massey" 
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Subject: Re: Blues Lakefront
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:10:17 -0600
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"Stumpy the Lawnmower Guy"  wrote in message 
news:k7s167$ntd$1@dont-email.me...
> there was only one Blues Lakefront across NW HiWay from Bachman Lake. 
> Forest Lane was a BEP or Dixie House.    Gene Street and Phil Cobb started 
> with a bar called J Alfreds where there was a sign at the door "these 
> folks are barred"  and you wondered just how bad "these folks" were 
> considering the bar patrons.    at some point Gene and Phil built the 
> first BEP on Cedar Springs.   Blues came along when they bought a chicken 
> joint on NW Highway, I think.   Blues seemed to be a training store (kinda 
> hard to find lakes suitable for a restaurant like the original) for future 
> managers and servers as soon as they got good they went to a new Prufrock 
> (as in J. Alfred Prufrock) location.    They opened other BEP stores and I 
> do believe the first store in Houston was robbed....the guy managing the 
> store had started either at the original BEP or Blues and he related the 
> story at the bar one night in Blues.   they opened a Dixie House (I think 
> that was what the Forest Lane store was) in an old liquor store down from 
> Blues and then sold Blues to an Egyptian named George....things kinda went 
> downhill then but it was an interesting watering hole for sometime until 
> they finally lost the liqour license.    Friendly Chevrolet owned the land 
> and it became a parking lot.
>
> fwiw there's a Dixie House over on Belknap in FW and possibly 
> another....these were local to FW and I believe the DH name actually 
> belonged to them and not Prufrock.
>
> "Rick Massey"  wrote in message 
> news:k7r6qn$8kc$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>>
>> "Stumpy the Lawnmower Guy"  wrote in message 
>> news:k7qvik$jde$1@dont-email.me...
>>> anyone remember the old Blues Lakefront by Bachman Lake (while it was 
>>> still in the Prufrock family)?
>>
>> Yep, and their second location on Forest Lane, which didn't last too 
>> long. (It became Dunston's Steak House after that) I miss several 
>> Prufrock restaurants, like Tamales, The Old Church, and Black Eyed Pea. 
>> (The Prufrock BEP was a completely different type of place from the ones 
>> these days)

Close. Dixie House was one of their first restaurants, and that was the one 
in Oak Lawn -- the first repeat of a location was a Dixie House in Lakewood. 
We used to eat at the Oak Lawn location  all the time. I remember the 
references to "Dixie Lakewood" and the rather wonderful watermelon sherbert 
with chocolate chips in it instead of watermelon seeds. (The original recipe 
called for the seeds back in, but one of he founders' grandmother replaced 
them with chocolate chips because the men would use the seeds as poker chips 
at Baptist Church Socials when she brought it)
I was in J. Alfred's once with my cousin.
I know the Forest Lane location wasn't a Dixie House, because I used to see 
it all the time as we went to the Fed Mart across the street. At the corner 
of Marsh there was the Phillips 66 station, then Burger King, then Pizza 
Inn, then Taco Patio, and then Arby's. Next was Hannah's Pies, or possibly 
H. Salt Fish and Chips, (I get those two mixed up a bit) and then the 
restaurant that became Edunstun's, then the Wolf Nursury with the Jack in 
the Box in front of half of it, then the Bee Clean car wash.
This was back in the day when we had a set list of restaurants we liked to 
visit from time to time -- Tupinamba in the huge location on Northwest 
Highway, Jay's Marine Grill across from Love Field, (decent fish but amazing 
rolls and onion popovers) The Spanish Galleon in Medallion Center, and the 
El Fenix buffet at Webbs Chapel and Forest. (A Wednesday night constant for 
most of my youth)
The first Black Eyed Pea I knew of was on Greenville near where Elitrique 
Boutique is now. (Also close to the corpse of Desparado's) 

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