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They'll get Kenneally's one of these days, I fear.

The Ale House...RIP

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I hope not. Big fan of Kenneally's. Ale House was haunted apparently.

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Upstairs!

The Ale House was a wonderful place.

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Upstairs at the Ale House was haunted. I knew a straight laced guy that saw some stuff there. He swears by it this day. Former house of ill repute.

I hate this thread. I just looked up Ernie's on Banks and it's gone too.

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I know Kays wasn't slammed 6 nights a week but it boggles my mind the cash flow on an owned piece of property can't justify the one time profit the developer is gonna see on 6 townhouses right there.

I know the owners wanted to cash out so I guess its just taking the million(s) they got offered and taking off to the Hill Country.

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Strange comment coming from the tine board's official Houston bar and restaurant scene insider guy. Figured you would know the owners have other interests in town, and already have said they may reopen Kay's elsewhere.

I have no idea of their finances, but the place was uncomfortably dead the last couple times I stopped by. Not, "cool i have the pool table to myself" slow, but "wondering if I'm annoying the servers" slow. Overhead costs don't go away with the crowd. It's a tough business, and they've kept Kay's open a lot longer than I really expected, given the surroundings. It's another sucky sign of the d-bag times we live in, but I don't know how anybody could blame the owners for taking a good offer. It's a business, not a charity devoted to nostalgia.

I can think of a few other healthy businesses that closed when property taxes and other costs outpaced the real value of the business. Anyone remember JMH grocery?

So what's the over/under on incidents of arson at the construction site?

You took my post wrong. It wasn't a slam on the owners at all. It's about that townhomes are apparently more valuable than an established business from an economic standpoint.

I know Kays wasn't always slammed but obviously the basic economics say that a developer of townhomes finds the property more valuable than an established bar that I assumed had positive cash flow.

It's the owners place and they have every right to do what they're doing but I'm just more surprised the offer they got is for townhomes and not something else or someone taking over the bar.

I know there's talks of opening Kays elsewhere but there's no way in hell to replicate it. Kay's Lounge is that building and that building alone. It can't be replicated anywhere else.

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....I have no idea of their finances, but the place was uncomfortably dead the last couple times I stopped by. Not, "cool i have the pool table to myself" slow, but "wondering if I'm annoying the servers" slow. Overhead costs don't go away with the crowd.....

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It's been probably 7-8 years since I've even been to Kay's, but when I was there pretty often in the 2001-2007 time frame it wasn't terribly uncommon to see this.

We could never really pin it down, but there would always be random night where there'd only be a dozen or so people there - and not at 8pm, but at 10:30-11:00pm.

There were times when we'd refill our own bucket because Jerry (doorman) and Alicia (bartender) were listening to or telling a story with the rest of our group and didn't want to stop.

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They'll get Kenneally's one of these days, I fear.

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I hope not. Big fan of Kenneally's. Ale House was haunted apparently.

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Damn. That made me sad. Was on my rotation back in late 80's early 90's. Miss that place.

Until we meet again...

i wonder how much that went for

They didn't sell it.

The Roll N was probably my favorite bar in Houston. Just something about it. F-ing millenials.

so they burned it?

It'll be in a bar in Fredricksburg eventually. The owners wanted to "retire" out towards there and open up another place.

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The Roll N was probably my favorite bar in Houston. Just something about it. F-ing millenials.

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The Roll N closed too????

The RollN closed in like 2009.

The sign is still behind the Lone Star saloon downtown.

Yeah, Joe Lee moved completely out of that San Fillipy center a long time ago.

Sucks. Mario and Marshall were kind enough to give my wife and me the two green bankers lamps from the bar. Very nice gesture.

Change really sucks at time.

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you guys also cry about your pog collection that you can't find anymore?

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You seriously comparing Kay's to pogs? One was around for 75+ years and the other was a fad for ~2 years. That's not an apples and oranges comparison, that's and an apples and monkeys comparison.

Wonder if they'll mind me doing a bunch of Mexican Chicken shots, then puking in their driveway

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who wants to live on top of the old Kay's?

2332 BISSONNET ST

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What a random ******** comment. Aren't you the guy who posts about "parrot head" parties? Sorry we're not cool and edgy enough to play dress up with septuagenarians and instead talk about memories of real places we grew up around.

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Sheesh. $350/sqft for a vertical McMansion?

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I just want to point out that for that same price point, you could own a pretty sweet house on 200 acres 30 minutes from College Station.


But by all means, buy the shoe box.

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But by all means, buy the shoe box.

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This quote really sums up those properties nicely. They look like Urban Living decided that everything they toss up in the loop looks like chintzy Chinese sheet rock boxes that no one over 30 would ever buy so they decided to break into the local Toll Brothers office, steal some blueprints, and upgrade to Laotian sheet rock.

Beautiful land. Different target market.