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there was only one Blues Lakefront across NW HiWay from Bachman Lake. 
Forest Lane was a BEP or Dixie House.    Gene Street and Phil Cobb started 
with a bar called J Alfreds where there was a sign at the door "these folks 
are barred"  and you wondered just how bad "these folks" were considering 
the bar patrons.    at some point Gene and Phil built the first BEP on Cedar 
Springs.   Blues came along when they bought a chicken joint on NW Highway, 
I think.   Blues seemed to be a training store (kinda hard to find lakes 
suitable for a restaurant like the original) for future managers and servers 
as soon as they got good they went to a new Prufrock (as in J. Alfred 
Prufrock) location.    They opened other BEP stores and I do believe the 
first store in Houston was robbed....the guy managing the store had started 
either at the original BEP or Blues and he related the story at the bar one 
night in Blues.   they opened a Dixie House (I think that was what the 
Forest Lane store was) in an old liquor store down from Blues and then sold 
Blues to an Egyptian named George....things kinda went downhill then but it 
was an interesting watering hole for sometime until they finally lost the 
liqour license.    Friendly Chevrolet owned the land and it became a parking 
lot.

fwiw there's a Dixie House over on Belknap in FW and possibly 
another....these were local to FW and I believe the DH name actually 
belonged to them and not Prufrock.

"Rick Massey" <seafox@gypsyheir.com> wrote in message 
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> "Stumpy the Lawnmower Guy" <rvn362@swbell.net> wrote in message 
> news:k7qvik$jde$1@dont-email.me...
>> anyone remember the old Blues Lakefront by Bachman Lake (while it was 
>> still in the Prufrock family)?
>
> Yep, and their second location on Forest Lane, which didn't last too long. 
> (It became Dunston's Steak House after that) I miss several Prufrock 
> restaurants, like Tamales, The Old Church, and Black Eyed Pea. (The 
> Prufrock BEP was a completely different type of place from the ones these 
> days)
>