The Best Time in Anderson or In Your Life

[Ma and Pa]

It's all Triangle to me; but then I was probably sampling their beer and greasy food long before you two "kids" ever stepped thru the door!   

[me]

It's all Triangle to me; but then I was probably sampling their beer and greasy food long before you two "kids" ever stepped thru the door!  

Oh to be a kid again.... Hum, on second thought make that, oh to feel like a kid again...

[smokeykat]

It's all Triangle to me; but then I was probably sampling their beer and greasy food long before you two "kids" ever stepped thru the door!   

I doubt that Pa...I am pretty old myself....I don't go to bars anymore...but I do believe I was in the Triangle once when my husband(now ex) played in a band there.

[me]

Hubby used to play in there too a long time ago.  I have some clips I might put on here to see if anyone remembers the band he played in.

[Ma and Pa]

Country music? That's the best kind to get people drinkin'. I remember back in, I think, 1970, Larry Beeman bought the old Stables (at the north end of Main St.) and renovated it as the "Sugar Cube II", a psychedoodle tavern featuring small-time rock bands. Some of them were pretty good. Anyway, I was laid off from D-R at the time, as was the custom, and Larry gave me a job there. Might be the only job I ever had that I really looked forward to going to work! Every night was a party, and employees got free beer! As you may guess, it was too good to last; rock music just doesn't make ya thirsty enough, and the young crowd must not have had enough grief and pain to need heavy alcohol sedation, so "Sugar Cube II" lasted a VERY short time. It reverted back to the Stables, replete with country music, and stayed in business for a long time.

[Da Wham]

I was meaning the building itself when I said the Triangle.  It had changed hands and was something other than Grasshoppers for a while before it closed for good but I don't recall what it had been called most recently.

Rockabilly's

[Da Wham]

True Triangle tale back when Vern owned it.

Hanging on the wall at the back of the stage was a long bamboo pole painted like a candy cane.  Underneath the pole was a sign that read: This is an 11 ft. pole - for those women you wouldn't touch with a 10 ft. pole.     

I have some other Triangle tales......but they may be beyond telling on a forum.       

[Da Wham]

Hubby used to play in there too a long time ago.  I have some clips I might put on here to see if anyone remembers the band he played in.

I may vaguely remember that band.     

[Da Wham]

Country music? That's the best kind to get people drinkin'. I remember back in, I think, 1970, Larry Beeman bought the old Stables (at the north end of Main St.) and renovated it as the "Sugar Cube II", a psychedoodle tavern featuring small-time rock bands. Some of them were pretty good. Anyway, I was laid off from D-R at the time, as was the custom, and Larry gave me a job there. Might be the only job I ever had that I really looked forward to going to work! Every night was a party, and employees got free beer! As you may guess, it was too good to last; rock music just doesn't make ya thirsty enough, and the young crowd must not have had enough grief and pain to need heavy alcohol sedation, so "Sugar Cube II" lasted a VERY short time. It reverted back to the Stables, replete with country music, and stayed in business for a long time.

That's interesting to know.  By the time I came back to town not to long after that it was still the Stables, and it was the Stables before I left, so I didn't know of that incarnation.

[Da Wham]

Well, then maybe there were four because my cousin worked at one on 53rd street.
Btw, I really disliked the sancho. But the cheese enchiladas I loved!

Hey! They are still alive, just not around: http://www.tacotico.com

I loved the Sanchos.   

[Da Wham]

I remember wasting a good deal of my time (and my teenaged allowance) shooting pool at the Golden Palms Cue Room, on Broadway. And there were a few games down at the Paramount Billiards, in the basement below the theater. Man, what a dive! Looked just like one of those pool halls in Paul Newman's old movie "The Hustler". Miss ya, Paul.

I also have tales about skipping school and hanging out at the Paramount Billiards.  I loved those old guys.  They taught me how to play pool and smoke cigars, but most of all they also taught me how to play snooker.

I used to hang out at the Palms after I came back to town.  The Paramount billiards had closed, the guy died, and the Palms was the only place with a snooker table.

Used to also play out at the place just south of 53rd st. on S.R. 9.  Big white building with apartments above.  Used to sell lawn ornaments out of there before it became a pool hall, IIRC.

[Da Wham]

I also have tales about skipping school and hanging out at the Paramount Billiards.  I loved those old guys.  They taught me how to play pool and smoke cigars, but most of all they also taught me how to play snooker.

I used to hang out at the Palms after I came back to town.  The Paramount billiards had closed, the guy died, and the Palms was the only place with a snooker table.

Used to also play out at the place just south of 53rd st. on S.R. 9.  Big white building with apartments above.  Used to sell lawn ornaments out of there before it became a pool hall, IIRC.

[me]

I may vaguely remember that band.     

Ya think?   

[Ma and Pa]

Wham: I'm sure you can still hear the call in your mind: "Rack 'em, Harry!"  Harry was the old guy who ran the place; he kept possession of the triangular rack, so he set up the table for the next game. 25 cents for 8-ball and straight pool; I think 9-ball was cheaper. I wonder if Harry lived there!?  BTW, my pal Danny Davis, an Anderson historian and mega-
collector of local memorabilia, wound up with that Coca-Cola Paramount Billiards sign that hung over the door. When Dan died, it was sold in the damndest 3-session estate auction I ever attended. I really miss him.

[Gardengirl]

LOL!!!

That is soooo true about Chinese restaurants what Ma said. I don't trust them, either! Once, I had some orange chicken that was GREEN when you bit into it. They can hide a lot with that breading and those sauces. And, I can't tell you how often I have been eating in a Chinese restaurant when a cockroach would crawl across the table or up the wall.