PartyBear said:
whitetrash said:
Bexar Pitts said:
Before the club moved to it's 25th St. location, it was located downtown. IIRC, it was in an old building between Austin and Washington..maybe on 8th or 9th..I'm not sure of the exact spot, but I went many times downtown. They too were divided into 2 sections by age groups.The exact years escape me, but I want to say early 70's.
Original location was 800 Washington, what is now First Financial's HQ (across the street from the former bank building that is now BU Social Work). IIRC both the original location and the location a half block E of 25th street were both former Safeway grocery stores; the downtown store shut down in the mid/late 60s, and the 25th st store was replaced by the bigger one at 25th & Bosque that has been a steady string of Mexican Supermercados.
When the 25th st location burned, wasn't it replaced with a corrugated metal structure? I don't go that way much any more and can't remember.
Was the Safeway store at 800 Washington torn down and replaced by the current building at the location? I'm remembering the current building there as rather small for a grocery store. But I think grocery stores were not just rather huge as they are now perhaps. The building that housed the HEB on 18th and Austin around the same time period though does seem quite larger than the 800 Washington building if I'm remembering correctly.
I don't ever recall a teardown/rebuild, but FF did put a new "skin" on what was a plain white block building. I vaguely recall it being a Safeway in the mid-60s when I was really little, like 4 or 5. But I do recall MM being there in the early 70s (I had no idea what it was, but I recall the "Over 21" and "Under 21" entrances, and some joker had scraped off the "1" so that it read "Over 21" and "Under 2").
Looked it up on MCAD; the FF building is listed at a little over 12K square feet, while Community B&T at 18th (which was originally an HEB that was enlarged by added a 2nd story) is a little over 10K square feet per floor. So that is about right for the size of a grocery store in the 1950s. Stores didn't start getting bigger under Safeway and HEB started building their tilt-wall locations around town in the late 60s/early 70s.