A new book out that celebrates Texas dive bars including those in Houston. TAMUPress
On a recent Friday afternoon, Anthony Head, author ofis sitting in Warren’s Inn in downtown Houston, ready to talk about his new book.Enduring Neighborhood Bars of the Lone Star StateThe Bars, Clubs, Watering Holes that Lubricate the Lone Star State
“I have found when I first put out a bunch of press releases nobody was interested and then when I said I'm a former editor of magazine and Kirk Weddle took the most famous shot in modern rock'n'roll history and we wrote a book about dive bars and then all of a sudden people paid attention,” Head says.The Tasting Panelwhere they essentially had the freedom to write about anything related to alcohol in Texas.
Looking through the book one of the bars outside of Houston that looks and sounds like a cool place is thein San Antonio; the bar is owned by Adela Fuller. Her younger sister Terry Loera is the bar’s manager. "What I loved about Alice's was the old cowboy wallpaper she had on her walls that was great stuff,” Head says. “I would have loved to have had that on my childhood bedroom. That was a cool place to go.”
“I have a real fondness for those old CD jukes and always consider that a point in the favor of the bar we were considering if they had a real CD Juke,” says Head. “We never found anybody that played 45s.
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