bests honky tonks in tx?

[waterdog]

for me it was #1 gilleys in the 70s. #2 billy bobs.

[Czechfish]

Cowboys Dallas and Arlington were pretty good
Red River
Country 2000
Pardners at Buchanan dam
Lee’s silver fox terrel
City Limits. Stephenville

[Snowflake Killa]

Dallas Cowboy Club

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[Grady_jones]

The Stump at Rayburn dam

[kcmarullo]

Pardners all night long ! Miss those days.

[BubRay]

Cheatam street warehouse

[Grizzly1]

Originally Posted by Grady_jones

The Stump at Rayburn dam

This is funny

[Aggiehunter08]

Texas Hall of Fame Bryan, TX.

[Hagen]

11th st bar in Bandera? i always been there middle of the week while hunting. Imagine could be hopping during weekend.

[Txhunter3000]

Silver Dollar in Austin. 70's to early 80's.

[Clint]

Buncha youngsters. For us in the 70’s it was Fairchild Hall, Riverside Hall, and Snug Harbor in Liverpool.


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[tkuehn5410]

Cowpokes in Lubbock between '98-02'

[Briar Friar]

What defines “best” in a Honky Tonk MrDog?

IMO, Any college town honky tonk on Thursday night.

Hurricane Harrys in College Station and the Hall of Fame (deceased) in Bryan were absolute meat markets on Thursdays during the semester. Dance floors packed and everyone is/was sweaty. City Limits was fun the time I went.

I bagged my Brood mare at the Hall during a Kevin Fowler concert.

All the old school dancers leave around 9 when the juke joint starts really jumping.

Nowadays, I judge a honky tonk by the size of the dance floor and the amount of dance floor standarounders. The bigger floor the better and the less standarounders the better, because I move far, fast and turn her alot.
Gruene Hall is almost too small.
The Broken Spoke is too small.
Copeland Dancehall is almost too small.
Billy Bobs is perfect.
Shroeder was perfect.
Gillys in Ft Worth was okay.
Granger Cotton Club is worth mention.

[Greenheadless]

Our goto was Eddie’s in Manvel.

[Muddy Bud]

Schroeder Hall, Goliad, Tx
Brewsters’s Ice House CC, Tx Thursday Nights

[dclifton]

Originally Posted by Briar Friar

What defines “best” in a Honky Tonk MrDog?

IMO, Any college town honky tonk on Thursday night.

Hurricane Harrys in College Station and the Hall of Fame (deceased) in Bryan were absolute meat markets on Thursdays during the semester. Dance floors packed and everyone is/was sweaty. City Limits was fun the time I went.

I bagged my Brood mare at the Hall during a Kevin Fowler concert.

All the old school dancers leave around 9 when the juke joint starts really jumping.

Nowadays, I judge a honky tonk by the size of the dance floor and the amount of dance floor standarounders. The bigger floor the better and the less standarounders the better, because I move far, fast and turn her alot.
Gruene Hall is almost too small.
The Broken Spoke is too small.
Copeland Dancehall is almost too small.
Billy Bobs is perfect.
Shroeder was perfect.
Gillys in Ft Worth was okay.
Granger Cotton Club is worth mention.

Hurricane Harry’s and the Hall! Good times!

[thebowhunters]

Originally Posted by Txhunter3000

Silver Dollar in Austin. 70's to early 80's.

O Heck, nickel beer night on Wednesday. Wow blast from the past

[redhoghunter]

Good Luck Rodeo - Lewisville ‘89-‘93ish
Stampede - Dallas at 635 and Montfort ‘92-‘94
Cowboy’s - Dallas (Garland and Gaston) then it moved to 35 and NW Hwy

All solid choices!

[Smart]

Originally Posted by Czechfish

Cowboys Arlington
Red River
Country 2000

Good choices! Three of my hangouts in the mid 90s to early 2000s...Red River was probably my favorite.

In the early 90s in my later college days, Good Luck Rodeo in Lewisville was a good one as was Benchmark in Denton, although it was short-lived.....

[redhoghunter]

Originally Posted by Smart

Good choices! Three of my hangouts in the mid 90s to early 2000s...Red River was probably my favorite.

In the early 90s in my later college days, Good Luck Rodeo in Lewisville was a good one as was Benchmark in Denton, although it was short-lived.....

Small world… we we’re probably bellied up to the bar together back then!

[Whale]

Originally Posted by tkuehn5410

Cowpokes in Lubbock between '98-02'

Hmmmm.

[999]

No Arkey Blues Silver Dollar Saloon?

[Smart]

Originally Posted by redhoghunter

Small world… we we’re probably bellied up to the bar together back then!

Probably!!

[Death from Above]

Jitterbugs…Nacogdoches Texas…early to mid 90’s

[Trapper76]

The Trio Mingus Texas

[jshouse]

My grandpa owned the Silver Spur in West Tawakoni, I grew up in that smoky a** place and my grandma's grocery store next door, Margie's.

[BrandonA]

Originally Posted by 999

No Arkey Blues Silver Dollar Saloon?

Arkey Blues is legendary in Texas.

In the 80’s -90’s Ed’s River Palace in Johnson City

[Das71198]

I think it has closed down, but London Hall. They used to have a deer hunters ball.

[125Dad]

Stagecoach ballroom in Ft Worth

[Hoss163]

Originally Posted by Grady_jones

The Stump at Rayburn dam

Lol

[bowhuntertex]

Floores Country Store was a great dancehall back in the day. It is OK as a concert venue. So many great dancehalls to list. But the small-town dance halls where the best.

Schroeder Hall
Quihi Gun Club
Ed's River Palace
Kendalia Hall
The Cabaret in Bandera
Arky Blues
Copeland inn and Dance Hall
The Wishing Well
Kickers Palace
Anhalt Dancehall
Twin Sisters
Blue Bonnet Palace
The Cotton Club
The Lumberyard (Round Rock)


I much prefer and always did prefer the old dancehalls/honky-tonk to the big city ones.

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[Hoss163]

Hurricane Harry’s
Cowboys red river
Cowboys San Antonio
Backroads in Brownwood
Coyote club Ruidoso NM

[T-roy66]

#1 Gilly’s

[TxMedic]

Originally Posted by Das71198

I think it has closed down, but London Hall. They used to have a deer hunters ball.

Drive by it every time I go to the ranch!

[Preacher Man]

Originally Posted by Greenheadless

Our goto was Eddie’s in Manvel.

This is the one I was going to mention. I learned how to two step at Eddie’s. Drove by there the other day. Good times.

[Lynn21]

In Dallas- Cowboys back in the late 80’s. Does anybody from Dallas also remember The Debonair? Thursday nights- nickel longnecks….

[TexZ71]

Gruene Hall, surprised it hasn't been mentioned

[Abcdj]

Originally Posted by Lynn21

In Dallas- Cowboys back in the late 80’s. Does anybody from Dallas also remember The Debonair? Thursday nights- nickel longnecks….

Yes, early 80s Debonair Danceland Dallas
Stage Coach Inn and Billy Bobs Ft Worth
The Ponderosa Ballroom Abilene

[KBM]

Originally Posted by Preacher Man

This is the one I was going to mention. I learned how to two step at Eddie’s. Drove by there the other day. Good times.

Last time I drove by 7/8 years ago wasn’t anything but a slab. Spent a lot of time there up until it closed, my parents were on Manvels VFD and they held all of the auctions there. Danced with a lot of girls that where way to pretty for me when I started goin as a teenager

[redfishted]

The Lakeview Club
Tin Hall
Grew up in the SPJST hall in Centerville
High school and college it was Ghrams in Bryan.

[hogslayer78]

Obviously you folks don't know honky-tonks because no one has mentioned the one and only Porter Lounge 😉🍻

[Chew]

Originally Posted by hogslayer78

Obviously you folks don't know honky-tonks because no one has mentioned the one and only Porter Lounge

My parents used to take me in there. Lmao.

[Goldeneagle]

It was hard to beat the Longhorn Ballroom back in the day.

[Snowflake Killa]

Originally Posted by kcmarullo

Pardners all night long ! Miss those days.

Crazy times

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[lodgepole]

The Armadillo Ball Room - last place Keith Whitley played.


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[Mayhem]

Originally Posted by hogslayer78

Obviously you folks don't know honky-tonks because no one has mentioned the one and only Porter Lounge

That’s a beer joint Mike, not a Honky Tonk.

A honky was would be the old Sundance in cold springs or Texas dance hall in Huffman.


Spent a many a night in Cadillac Ranch and Johnny B. Daltons.



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[hogslayer78]

Originally Posted by Mayhem

That’s a beer joint Mike, not a Honky Tonk.

A honky was would be the old Sundance in cold springs or Texas dance hall in Huffman.


Spent a many a night in Cadillac Ranch and Johnny B. Daltons.



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In Porter it's a Honky-tonk Justin🤣🤣🤣

I spent many of nights in those you mentioned. Especially Wilson Rd hall in Humble.

[Mayhem]

Originally Posted by hogslayer78

In Porter it's a Honky-tonk Justin

I spent many of nights in those you mentioned. Especially Wilson Rd hall in Humble.

I never did the Wilson road hall scene.

Nite moves country side was pretty good


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[mjames76]

Southern Junction in Rockwall was where we went in the mid 90's, saw Gary Stewart there.
If it was slow we would go to the Star in Greenville

[Quackerbox]

Originally Posted by Das71198

I think it has closed down, but London Hall. They used to have a deer hunters ball.

As of last year it was still open