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Drinking And Diving In The Bayou City
Gamble Guides
August 2010
On Sale: August 17, 2010
176 pages
ISBN: 1935439162
EAN: 9781935439165
Paperback
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Non-Fiction
Houston, that sun-drenched, humidity-steamed subtropical
megapolis, might not be the first place you think of when
you rattle off great American drinking towns. When most
outsiders think of the city at all, images of cowboys,
astronauts and oilmen come to mind. And truth be told, many
natives wrestle with the concept of a dive bar, thinking
that any gin mill that lacks a velvet rope, bottle service
and a valet parking service is a dive. In Houston's Best Dive Bars, award-winning journalist (and
third-generation Houstonian) John Nova Lomax sets the record
straight on what exactly a dive is (and isn't) in the Bayou
City. From Korean houses of ill repute on Telephone Road to
bluesy Third Ward juke joints, from Galveston County bayside
gang haunts to Spring Branch redneck redoubts, from famous
old Inner Loop standbys like the Lone Star Saloon and the
West Alabama Ice House to obscure gems like the D&W Inn and
the Sundown Saloon, Lomax drank, and with this book as
evidence, lived to tell the dive-y tales. The result is the
first of its kind and the only guidebook to drinking and
diving in Houston you will ever need.
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