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From: "Stumpy the Lawnmower Guy" 
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Subject: Re: Blues Lakefront
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:43:44 -0600
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"Rick Massey"  wrote in message 
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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$1@speranza.aioe.org...
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>>> "Stumpy the Lawnmower Guy"  wrote in message 
>>> news:k7qvik$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)
first BEP was on Cedar Springs near Oak Lawn    honestly don't believe 
they'd have a DH next door to the Pea and I still think that store in the 
old liquour store was the first DH     once Gene and Phil  got the concepts 
going they got nicer locations but I think they stayed with existing 
buildings.    once the Brits took over in 86 you started seeing new stores 
in new buildings.    I note that there may actually be a DH still in Dallas 
over on Gaston Rd?   but the restaurants in FW are Dixie House Cafes and 
totally different.    ahh the memories of the copper clad bar at Blues and 
the time the power to the glass washer got shorted to bent up conduit (makes 
you wonder about their wiring and grounds)     everytime a bartender would 
wash the beer glasses they'd get a tingle    I think finally it did blow the 
breaker and they got it fixed before someone died  


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