Well, it was fun while it lasted, but the Texas State Fair 2007 ends tonight around 10:00 PM. That means we get our parking back! That means we get our regulars back!
We'll miss it when it's gone, but we can hardly wait to see all our old friends and regulars.
With yesterday's Texas-OU game over (a tough loss for Texas) and behind us, there are only two more weeks of the Texas State Fair. Here at the Amsterdam Bar we always greet the State Fair with mixed feelings. It's an exciting event and the Texas-OU game is one of our biggest days of the year, but overall the fair depresses business by taking up all the parking in Exposition Park. Many of our regulars stay away and business slows down accordingly.
We are looking forward to welcoming all our friends back on October 22, 2007 when the State Fair ends. This Fall looks like a great season to visit the Amsterdam Bar. Our patio is looking better than ever with new lighting and many parties and bands scheduled.
The Dallas Young Democrats are hosting an event to promote awareness about global warming. The event is September 24, 2007 at Space in Deep Ellum, at 2814 Main Street.
The Texas State Fair starts in just a few weeks.
The Amsterdam Bar isn't the coffee house you remember.We've made lots of changes to the old bar and we're glad that folks appreciate what we've done.
Since changing the name more than a year ago, the owners of the small Exposition Avenue space have built up an entirely new establishment. It's brighter. Warmer. Full of people – hip people, who look like they'd otherwise hang out at Lee Harvey's. Or anywhere in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
The bar has a huge back patio, installed last June, where bands play when it's warm enough.
The inside is busy, too. Monday is Bad Ass Jazz Night, Thursday is trance, and on Sundays co-owner Sheldon Hubbard spins anything from Sinatra to punk. Wednesday is European Bike Night, where patrons can show off their Triumphs and Ducatis.
When we arrived around 9 p.m. on a recent Saturday, Irving-raised supermodel Erin Wasson was having her birthday party.
The place was packed with late twentysomethings in jeans, funky hats and cool accessories. Chatter and laughter echoed under the high ceilings, and the Kinks' "You Really Got Me" blared. (That's a rarity. Classic tunes like that aren't played on jukeboxes much around here.)
Several people wore X-rated balloon hats, fashioned by a middle-aged clown who was hanging out in a corner, wearing a rumpled top hat.
"You can get a dog [doing dirty things to] a cat," we overheard from an apparent balloon enthusiast. "I hired him for my birthday party."[1]
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