roym Posted September 12, 2006 Author Share Posted September 12, 2006 My grandparents and mom lived on E 11th between Oxford and Beverly-right next to Walker's-a kind of ice house. I have a great pic of my mom looking kind of loopy after graduation from Reagan in the mid 40's over a couple of beer bottles in that ice house on Beverly and E. 11th where Berryhills is now. Another one that still exists is Jim's at Wakefield and Alba in Garden Oaks. Post that pic, man! How to spot an icehouse: "If there not 46 zillion bottlecaps laying in the parking lot crushed by 46 million pickup trucks -- you're in the wrong place." Bingo! That one little picture says a lot. Thx! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreakyDude Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 Bingo! That one little picture says a lot. Thx!I used to collect bottle caps and the best place to find them was at an icehouse! That may have been cheating a little, but it did the trick! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absinthe_1900 Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 There used to be one in Rice Village called "The Poor Mans Country Club".Another at Holcombe & Kelvin was called "Toot-N-Tell'em". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEnd Susan Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 (edited) Does anyone remember the old ice houses that used to dot the east end? I remember one on Canal and 67th across from Richeys grocery store, and another on Harrisburg right by the railroad tracks and yet another on Navagation close to Wayside. They actually had bar stools outside on the sidewalk pulled up to a bar. Edited March 13, 2007 by EastEnd Susan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonzo1976 Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 My grandparents used to run Mak's Ice House, off Cullen and McKinney. Learned to play pool there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicman Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 My grandparents used to run Mak's Ice House, off Cullen and McKinney. Learned to play pool there!been biking thru that area and cooled off there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brerrabbit Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 My Father's hang out was Sheffields on Telephone Road and its still standing although the neighborhood has change dramatically over the years. I spent a lot of time in that old building. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 (edited) Almost embarrassed to admit in the early 80's we would go to a joint called (I think) Ken's Club but it was way out by Hobby Airport. Last I saw it was near collapse, funny! The owners were cool they let us bring in our own brew and stuff it in the air condition rack while we played pool. You should have seen the winners at the bar. Like a scene from Barfly or Leaving Las Vegas. Foster Brooks & Dean Martin look-a-like's all over this joint/dive! They all came in with their own 1/2 gallon bottles of moonshine.This place was so unusual as we played pool; customers would careen their cars into the building and hit the wall shaking the lamps, dust coming down and all, but everyone just kept on playing as normal. Surprised I lived to tell about it! Edited March 14, 2007 by Vertigo58 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicman Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 harrisburg country club is another popular one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJones Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Perhaps our next HAIF get together should be at an Icehouse. Is the Icehouse on Sage still open ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 Perhaps our next HAIF get together should be at an Icehouse. Is the Icehouse on Sage still open ? Maybe we should, before we all meet in a sanitarium! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racehorse Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Does anyone remember the old ice houses that used to dot the east end? I remember one on Canal and 67th across from Richeys grocery store, and another on Harrisburg right by the railroad tracks and yet another on Navagation close to Wayside. They actually had bar stools outside on the sidewalk pulled up to a bar.Sep 19 2009 The Avalon theater 75 th & Lawndale is gone as of this day "Open lot' Also at 75 & Lawndale sOUTH SIDE was the " Wahoo Ice House " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retama Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 Boy, am I glad that this subject was posted because it has been on my mind the past few weeks. It really surprizes me how quickly the ice house disappeared (though it shouldn't). As a kid growing up in Baytown in the 1960s and 70s there were still quite a few of them particularly on Houston's east side, in Pasadena down in Kemah and Texas City, Galveston had some rough ones, Sonny's in Baytown was a good one. My dad used to drop by an ice house off Hwy. 146 in Bacliff when I was a kid. Mom thought they were "common" and "low class." As a high schooler my friends and I used to roll into some ice houses and play shuffleboard and shoot pool (drink beer, too). Seems like they just dried up almost overnight. If people have photos of ice houses, post them, please! Also, I'd be interested in hearing about the social life of these places because some were just "beer joints," where old men sat around complaining and drinking Lone Star and Shiner while others were very lively places where people danced to the jukebox. Damn, I'd love to sit in an ice house drinking a Miller High Life listening to Webb Pierce or Hank Thompson again! That is a lost cultural experience! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 "Icehouses inTexas have a long history of being THE cornerstone of a neighborhood:once the only place to get ice, they soon became gathering places todrink beer, eat and hang out with neighbors."http://www.beavershouston.com/allaboutbeav.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchtastic Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 (edited) "Icehouses inTexas have a long history of being THE cornerstone of a neighborhood:once the only place to get ice, they soon became gathering places todrink beer, eat and hang out with neighbors." http://www.beavershouston.com/allaboutbeav.html You did not just quote a $12 cocktail/hipster restaurant website in a thread about icehouses! Shame! LOL, maybe you forget it's the HAIF, not Stuffwhitepeoplelike.com.OK, I'm kidding. But only a little! Edited September 23, 2009 by crunchtastic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 You did not just quote a $12 cocktail/hipster restaurant website in a thread about icehouses! Shame! LOL, maybe you forget it's the HAIF, not Stuffwhitepeoplelike.com.Its a former icehouse, though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashman Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 Little known fact:Beaver's Ice House was an ice house. It was going to be run by Louis Beaver. Beaver ran an ice house on Shepard at about 29th street - just inside the north loop - from about 1988 to about 1995, maybe 1996. That, too, was named Beaver's Ice House. (It is now called Buffalo Fred's. Fred is Vietnamese)After he shut down that ice house, Beaver started a tape copying business. (Seismic mag tapes) If you were so inclined, you could meet Beaver at The Shiloh almost any afternoon.Then he decided to open up another ice house. He got the lease there south of Washington (where the restaurant is now) and proceeded to build his ice house.I called them on the day it was supposed to open and asked for Louis. They said that he had a heart attack and died that very day.That is, indeed, the rest of the story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 Beaver's was previously called Doodie's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westguy76 Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 (edited) I grew up just south of Gulfgate mall down the street from the Reveille Ice House. Only one I have been too in Houston was the one on West Alabama saw a girl get bit by a dog while drinking beer. Edited September 23, 2009 by westguy76 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 That's what happens when dogs drink beer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashman Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 That's what happens when dogs drink beer.Excellent! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtticaFlinch Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 That's what happens when dogs drink beer.I'm having a little difficulty understanding the mechanics of it all. How is it possible to simultaneously drink beer and bite someone? It seems impossible to me... unless, maybe the dog was using a straw and a beer helmet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24zulu Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Boy, am I glad that this subject was posted because it has been on my mind the past few weeks. It really surprizes me how quickly the ice house disappeared (though it shouldn't). As a kid growing up in Baytown in the 1960s and 70s there were still quite a few of them particularly on Houston's east side, in Pasadena down in Kemah and Texas City, Galveston had some rough ones, Sonny's in Baytown was a good one. My dad used to drop by an ice house off Hwy. 146 in Bacliff when I was a kid. Mom thought they were "common" and "low class." As a high schooler my friends and I used to roll into some ice houses and play shuffleboard and shoot pool (drink beer, too). Seems like they just dried up almost overnight. If people have photos of ice houses, post them, please! Also, I'd be interested in hearing about the social life of these places because some were just "beer joints," where old men sat around complaining and drinking Lone Star and Shiner while others were very lively places where people danced to the jukebox. Damn, I'd love to sit in an ice house drinking a Miller High Life listening to Webb Pierce or Hank Thompson again! That is a lost cultural experience!Remember my old hang out, Silver Wings, on 146 in Baytown? Seemed that the air was always cool in the evening, as the ceiling fans harmonized with Merle's every song. I was there the night that everyone found out that Charlie Pride was black. What a shocker that was. We had all played his music, and bought the albums, and then ... the bomb-shell. What a night! Didn't stop us from playin', and buyin' his music. Anyone had a cold one at, Bully Paul's Ice House on Telephone Road?? There's some stories there brother! Give me some feedback, or better yet, a cold one ... or two, or ten... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6thgentxn Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 There was an icehouse on Washington Ave about a mile east of Memorial Park (near Pig Stand??). It was old when I went there in the mid 60s. It catered to the semi-pro and amateur Soft ball crowd at night and the locals in the afternoon/evening. One evening the owner came to each table and apologized because he was gonna have to start charging a quarter for a longneck. I think they had been 22c. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chasbro Posted August 18, 2019 Share Posted August 18, 2019 I was with my Dad and I remember listening to a Floyd Patterson - Sonny Liston heavyweight championship fight on the radio at Bangs on Bissonet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melon8855 Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 Does anyone remember an outdoor bar in memorial park in the late 70’s? I think it was called West”something” Drive in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkultra25 Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 32 minutes ago, Melon8855 said: Does anyone remember an outdoor bar in memorial park in the late 70’s? I think it was called West”something” Drive in. Westcott Drive Inn? It was located where Canyon Creek is now (6603 Westcott). If that's the one, it was there well past the late 70s - I think it closed only a few years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earlydays Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 I remember an old ice house on Almeda, it was next to the riding stables on the edge of Herman Park. My recollection is from the late 50's when I was a kid and loved ice-cold Cokes pulled out of an icy cooler! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roym Posted June 10, 2020 Author Share Posted June 10, 2020 (edited) On 8/18/2019 at 5:32 PM, Chasbro said: I was with my Dad and I remember listening to a Floyd Patterson - Sonny Liston heavyweight championship fight on the radio at Bangs on Bissonet. Oh wow, someone else remembers Bangs! Tell me more. I found an entry on 4504 Richmond in 1957, and one on 4504 Bissonnet in 1964. There were two locations. Edited June 16, 2020 by roym factual corrections Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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