This Wednesday night the Esquire Tavern will celebrate the last few hours of freedom before you have to sit it out with the family! It's the Swindles and the #3 Dinners banging it out on the river under the lights of the Hemisphere Tower with cheap booze and no rules all night long! The Esquire has become one of our favorite places to get our "action on the make" and we need you to get your ass downtown to start the shakedown! Swindles start the night at 10:00 so get there early!
Don't know who the #3 Dinners are? Have you been livin' in a hole outside the loop? Click on the pretty picture and it will take you to their land.Don't be showin up at 11:45 and start complaining about The Swindles stopping early! Get there before 10:00. Hell, catch happy hour and some chicken tacos at the Mexican Manhattan at 6:00 then stroll on over!
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Visiting the Esquire is almost like taking a step back in time. Check the cool Neon lights out front! It looks like the Star Club in Germany where the Fab Four used to play! The Esquire got going in 1933, and despite floods and yuppy urban revivalists, it has retained much of its original furnishings and decoration. Flocked wallpaper, pressed tin ceilings and brass foot railings at the bar offer a glimpse of this tavern's past. It really looks like Miss Kitty is gonna step into the room at any minute. Moreover, the Esquire boasts Texas' longest wooden bar (79 feet) and has been distinguished as the state's longest continually operated bar. I can't believe we are actually going to play here! The only other band I've ever seen here was Flaco, and that was for a record release party that I really don't remember much of. It seems that I was with Deadly Fredly and Joe and the record company was footing the liquor bill...
The skinny on the the Esquire is that it was established in 1933 by Gus Magadieu and his son, and a few years later sold to George Georges and his brothers Al, Mike, and Albert. In 1981 Rick Grinnan and Goodhue Smith purchased it from the Georges. Are you asleep yet? Now in addition to having the best balcony to watch the action on the River Walk, The Esquire Tavern has the loudest Mariachis, a great jukebox, the tastiest hand-shaken margaritas, the coldest beer and the best prices on - or above - the River Walk. Need more big talk? The Esquire Tavern's "Longest Bar in the state of Texas" will hold 5,973 longneck bottles of beer on the antique bar and back bar and accommodate 289 rednecks abreast and two deep bellied up to it. Since 1933, over 43,792,899 bottles of beer have crossed over the bar into the hands of its' thirsty customers. It's the damn oldest business on the River Walk and we are gonna play there on Wednesday night once again! Are we lucky or what!
Thanksgiving will never seem the same after this hangover!