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In York, Pennsylvania (rust belt), three men entered a bar and one reportedly pulled the trigger of a revolver several times. The revolver did not fire. The men fled and were not found or arrested.

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Ya might need a firing pin, dude. Who sold you that piece of junk?

- Jim

I worked in York years ago. I'm sure that it has changed a lot since then. I don't think that I have to go back there, however, to discover that a place that may be called "Ultra Violets Drinkatorium" isn't going to be in the high society part of town.

"Ultra Violets Drinkatorium" isn't going to be in the high society part of town.

I've never been to York, PA; but I have to agree. I'm surprised it wasn't the kind of place where the bouncer has to buzz in patrons through a steel-clad door.

- Jim

"Ultra Violets Drinkatorium" Isn't that place on the National Register...or something?

Oldgringo wrote:"Ultra Violets Drinkatorium" Isn't that place on the National Register...or something?

Yep... or something. I'm sure it is just a dandy place to be a 2am.

York has always had a reputation for being a little on the rough side. I played with a rock band during the summers while I was in college and we learned not to take late night jobs around York. Of course, some of the places that we played in Harrisburg were not all that great either. That band wasn't good enough to play at the better venues but the extra money that I got playing in some of those dives was my summer spending money. I could bank my regular job paycheck for the long winter and the expensive bills at the college's book store.

I don't remember anything like the Drinkatorium on our playing calendar. I'm sure that I'd have remembered that one.

If I ever have the money to open a honky-tonk, I think that I'll name it "Oldgringo's Ultimate Drinkatorium, Knife and Gun Club" unless, of course, Mrs. Oldgringo wants in on the action. In which case we may have to somehow add her identity to the marque. How does "Mrs. Oldgringo's Ultimate Drinkatorium, Knife and Gun Club" sound?

I think that has a nice ring to it.

There is a restaurant chain in the Houston area called Gringo's.

I was listening to KSEV, a Houston-area talk-radio station, when someone called in complaining that this restaurant chain was called Gringo's, and it would be politically incorrect to have a restaurant called Wetback's or anything of that sort.

About ten minutes later they had the owner of Gringo's on the line. I can't quote the guy at this late date, but basically he said he was a gringo and proud of it.

Gringo simply means foreigner in Spanish, though it has picked up a negative connotation.

- Jim

Oldgringo wrote:If I ever have the money to open a honky-tonk, I think that I'll name it "Oldgringo's Ultimate Drinkatorium, Knife and Gun Club" unless, of course, Mrs. Oldgringo wants in on the action. In which case we may have to somehow add her identity to the marque. How does "Mrs. Oldgringo's Ultimate Drinkatorium, Knife and Gun Club" sound?

I think that has a nice ring to it.

I prefer the name of this place, reportedly in Schulenberg.

seamusTX wrote:
...Gringo simply means foreigner in Spanish, though it has picked up a negative connotation.

- Jim

If anyone thinks being a Gringo is negative, try being an old one.

cbr600 wrote: I prefer the name of this place, reportedly in Schulenberg.

Check the fuel prices in the background. Is this deja vu all over again?

Oldgringo wrote:If anyone thinks being a Gringo is negative, try being an old one.

One time when I was in Mexico a man said something sarcastic about me in Spanish, on the order of "What is that anglo doing here?"

I said, "¿Porqué piensa que estoy sordo?

The look on his face was priceless.

- Jim

Speaking of lowlife bars with questionable names, when I lived
in Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia, there was a bar on US 41 near
Lake Allatoona. The bar was probably considered to be in Kennesaw.

It was set back from the road a piece and the name of this dive
was "Proud Mary's Dart Bar."

I never went in the place, but could just imagine that it was the model
for the "Three Steps" song, where these words of wisdom can be found:

Well I'll tell you son
That it ain't no fun
Starin' straight down a .44 :-)

SIA

seamusTX wrote:Gringo simply means foreigner in Spanish, though it has picked up a negative connotation.- Jim

Funny how words pick up negative connotations, kinda on there own. I was reading where the word or is it a phrase "black hole" had picked up a negative connotation.
That was news to me. It had something I think to do with Dallas politics.

I saw a post here recently about a "black gun" and wondered if that was now not a politically correct term to use, since "black hole" was now not considered acceptable in Dallas.

I'm glad to here that Gringo only means foreigner as I have noticed that in a number of Mexican restaurants, I seem to order the "gringo plate". Most Mexican restaurant seem to have a gringo plate, and its funny that they always seem to have just the right mixture of what I want.

There are no real Mexican restaurants in Texas. Tex-Mex is our native cuisine (along with barbecue).

Probably there are no Chinese restaurants here that serve anything that would be recognizable in China. There was one in Houston for a while, but it went out of business.

- Jim

seamusTX wrote:There are no real Mexican restaurants in Texas. Tex-Mex is our native cuisine (along with barbecue).

Probably there are no Chinese restaurants here that serve anything that would be recognizable in China. There was one in Houston for a while, but it went out of business.

- Jim

Mrs. Oldgringo accompanied me to a TDCJ construction pre-bid meeting in Edinburg several years back and we had lunch in a Mexican cafe. We didn't care for the cuisine.

I don't think that I'd care for kung pao dog either.

OTOH, who knows what Red Lobster, etc. really puts in front of you?