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Not that Adair’s is mellow -far from that Adair’s is for good, clean hell-raisers who are just out for a good time. And even though Adair’s has reason to be smug, the atmosphere is as carefree as we could have hoped for. Just about everybody’s welcome here: goat ropers, down-home boys, SMU football players, Joe Average middle class, disco cowboys, preppies. Now, this place has got class: torn U.S., British and Texas flags pinned to a wall two-tone harvest gold and beige vinyl booths thousands of spitwads clinging for dear life to the ceiling, miscellaneous graffiti covering several walls, gobs of gimme hats tacked to the wall behind the bar Roy Rogers’ “Happy Trails” on the jukebox.
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Men sidle up to the rough-cut bannisters and assume poses like those you see in Marlboro ads. The room is constructed like a corral with an open dance floor in the center. The age range is surprisingly broad – probably from 27 to 55 – and the tone and temperament are fairly sedate. There you have the Wild Crowd, a place frequented by homosexual hombres who like to two-step. Imagine Clark Gable holding Alan Ladd’s hand. imagine Gene Autry kissing Gary Cooper on the neck. The management has even tried outright rudeness. Now, everybody at the Eight-O wants the preppies out (it’s so obvious you can feel it in the air), which doesn’t seem to faze the preppies in the least. Researchers for this article were Rowland Stiteler, Chris Wohlwend, Amy Cunningham, Greg Jones, George Rodrigue, Michael Ber-ryhill, Henri Rix, Kathy Hampton, Hancel Deaton, Ellen Mansoor and Lisa Broadwater. Then an entire army of preppies decided that Eight-O was The Ultimate, and things went downhill from there. It was a great place for people-watching, listening to one of the best jukeboxes in Dallas, and discussing the meaning of life and other such esoteric trivialities. When the Eight-O first opened, it was plugged as the “in” place for struggling artists, bohe-mians, punk rockers and any other social misfits who happened to stumble in. It’s amazing what a little honest promotion can do for a place. No one should live in Dallas and not go to the Longhorn at least once: It’s a Texas tradition. You’ll fit in whether you can dance or not, and you might as well plan on coming home with purple toe-nails (those rhinestone cowboys can be real nails (those rhinestone cowboys can be rear oafs). So what if it’s crowded, smoky, the cover’s too high, the tourists are too many: This is Bob Wills’ Longhorn Ballroom, the place for kicker dancin’, beer drinkin’ and hell raisin’. But we’ve done our job and we deserve a break. We’ve seen some good entertainment and some really bad entertainment. We’ve had some good times and some not-so-good times. we’ve been thrown out for walking in the wrong door we’ve even skipped a few doors (every project has its limits). Who needs routine?īut you don’t necessarily have to summon your courage and head for an evening of who-knows-what.
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