SOLID BRASS & GLASS "GILLEYS RESTUARANT DOORS"
EXTERIOR DOORS
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USD 4,999.99 |
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USD 4,999.99 |
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| Start Time |
Friday, September 05, 2008 |
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Monday, September 15, 2008 |
| Location |
Seabrook, TX |
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lastchancetexas Store Once in the Guinness Book of World Records under "World's Largest Night Club," Gilley's burned to the ground in July 1990. By that time, the glory days of the fabled saloon at 4500 Spencer Highway were long since past. Mired in property and school-district taxes, the club had been closed since March 1989. Before that, its luster had been dimmed considerably by a bitter feud between onetime partners Mickey Gilley and Sherwood Cryer, who once agreed to split everything the club made 50-50, and wound up agreeing on not much at all. To top it off, Gilley's was located at ground zero of a devastating early-Eighties oil bust, something Pasadena -- a blue-collar patchwork of strip malls, subdivisions, refineries, and pipeline immediately southeast of Houston -- felt even more acutely than the rest of the Greater Houston sprawl. In its prime, however, way before John Travolta uttered "up ya nose witta rubba hose," Gilley's had a reputation as the mother of all Texas honky-tonks. The Gilley's logo adorned everything from cans of beer (brewed by the same Spoetzl brewery that brings us Shiner Bock) and belt buckles to women's silk panties. Texans and tourists alike would cram in by the thousands to see top country music stars like Willie Nelson, Loretta Lynn, and George Jones, while a hardy, colorful crew of regulars (known locally as "Gilleyrats") showed up every night to drink, dance, fight, flirt, make out, bullshit, shoot pool, and see who got their nuts cracked on El Toro, the club's famed mechanical bull. "It was the wildest, most fun place that you could go to, and you could do just about whatever you wanted to," says Johnny Lee, whose song "Lookin' for Love" was a # 1 country hit off the Urban Cowboy soundtrack as well as one of the film's signature songs. In his 1980 book Saturday Night at Gilley's, now-deceased Houston Post pop music critic Bob Claypool wrote: "It was, quite simply, the most Texan of them all, the biggest, brawlingest, loudest, dancingest, craziest joint of its kind ever." More than any other institution of its era, Gilley's said "Texas," and the word "Gilley's" appears onscreen in Urban Cowboy at least 100 times. And now you have the opportunity to own the doors that Mickey Gilley purchased for his restuarant. The restuarant was located at 6777 Fairmont Pkwy. Pasadena,Texas
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