Dive Right In
I am saying the average age of the party goers was 34, but that’s because I’m averaging the ages of the birthday boy’s mom (91) and grandkids (7 and 5). But the guys did rock, and it was some fun!
Dallas used to have a great dive. It was called the Lion’s Pub and it was on Yale, just west of Central Expressway. The story is it was started by some SMU law students in the very early 60’s. It was just a shack with sofas that looked like they must have cost $5 at the Salvation Army and some rickety tables and chairs that did well to hold us up. Most people didn’t sit though. We played foosball or just stood around the bar. Pitchers were a buck and a draft was a quarter. There was so much beer spilled on the floor and on the furniture and never cleaned up that the place just reeked. But we didn’t care. I think we named the mouse that ran through every now and then. We must have stopped going when the bathrooms got treacherous. I think they tore the building down in the 80’s. They had to; it was about to spontaneously combust.
Well, that was a fun trip down memory lane.
My child in a DIVE?!!! How on earth could this have happened. I din’t teach her that-she must have heard about her parents antics.
Comment by MOM — September 22, 2008 @ 10:37 am
Well written article.
Comment by Crystal — November 10, 2008 @ 12:00 am