On 3 Feb 2005 09:15:45 -0800, "Sy Liebergot"
wrote:

However, the real history took place in The Singin' Wheel down the road
a bit. This was the "Pancho Barnes Happy Bottom Riding Club" for the
Apollo Flight Controllers and their astronaut friends. It stands empty
today and I was told recently that the owners of the property are
asking $680K, and that the "worthless POS building should be torn
down." I devoted Chapter 36 of my autobiography to the Singin' Wheel,
but a lot of stories could not be told.

....You know, when I get around to getting OMWorld revamped(*), I could
be easily pursuaded to proved space for some of those untold accounts.
Unless, of course, they're stories that should not be told *out* of
school :-)

(*) Cue Pat to go "well, OM, if you weren't spending all your time
photographing strippers with their clothes *on*, you'd -have- more
time."

Everytime The Outpost owners have problems, they appeal for money--us
old Flight Controllers shoulda started a fund and bought the Wheel a
long time ago..

....Off the record, I dropped by the Outpost during the last JSC trip
just before NYE, and to be honest I wasn't that impressed. Lots of
memorabilia, but the few patrons that were there *and* the guy - at
least, I *think* it was a guy - behind the bar stared at me and my
brother like we were bugs in a jar. Needless to say, we didn't stay
long.
OM

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