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Mystery pieFifth grade students in Nancy Bolle's langi class at Comal Elmenetarv School wroteclass is parr of the district's Significant Ac tivities for Generating Excellence programperformed which stiKaMystery Pie in Pictured are Monika Potter as flour; Camillaingredients. The Austin as sugar; and Karla Waples as salt.Dance halls step into the pastSAN ANTONIO lt;AP Changing times are taking a toll of country dance halls in some Central TexascommunitiesIn New Braunfels, one once-popular country emporium is vacant, another is being crowded by a planned shopping center, and a third that formerly staged two big dances a week now has only one In Seguin, only a big lounge in a bowling alley continues to have live music to dance to several times a weekIn Kirby, a former big dance hall has become a car barn and lot, and anewlv reconditioned hall in Luxellowhas thrown in the towel after operating less than a year Mow come the dwindling crowds in an area often called second only to Nashville as a country music headquarters''Heidelberg Halle in New Braunfels had its last function in February Real estate broker Graham Green whoM* firm owns the property said. The people leasing the Heidelberg just went out of business and there seem to be several reasons the increasing expense of doing businessthe high cost of bands, increasing insurance rates and some loss ofpopularity of the country dance hall fad popularized by The Urban Cowbov ,Mof December and remain closed through February “Three years ago we had dances every Friday and Saturday night but now we have ’em Saturday night on lysaid manager Nanette Sullivan Green said;“Another point in the demise of country dance halls that are away from a big city is that to make any money operators have to charge so much at the door that the admission fee discourages atten dance ”In many cases he said that the realestate the hall is located on is worthmore when put to other uses “Also at Heidelberg, our in surance last year jumped from $4 000 to$1H 000,” he saidTelevision is responsible for some decrease in dance hall crowds theNew Braunfels businessman added “The dance halls never really ap pealed to the white-collar folks but drew primarily from blue-collar peo pie and now many of them are stay mg at home to watch cable television and VCR movies Green said New judicial interpretation of liability laws making a dance hall operator at least partly responsible when a drinking patron is involved in a car wreck is a further pitfall somesayWAgreeing that the rollback of legal dnnkmu hours in New Rraunfeis .»ridfewer drinks sold Wilson said With such recent headliners at Sports West as Dottsy Bobby Jenkins and Kenny Dale and such bands as Two Way Street Black Mountain Open Road and the Revival Brother1 it not hurting for crowdsAnd we're often at capacity in pile of the jump from 10 to 12 percent in the beverage taxes about ayear ago he aid adding that his no cover charge may well te a plus factor too as it s better to sell drinks to customers who p8y no cover charge than to sell to 100 who pay a few bucks to get in'I wo other places in Seguin theCorral and K lt;Hall have occasional dances The Golden Stallion in Kirby, oncea leading dance spot is now the site'of an auto auction Former owner Arne Kienshoj commented “Forsome time tefore it quit doing business as a dance hall the onlypeople making any money there werethe musicians since after tbevwere paid little or nothing was left “And the big Texas Dance Hall 14mile*- north of town no longer exists Luxello Hall located in the community of the same name near Reama Polo Field has quit the dance business and is up for sale'A#* run i*r fMfi cruwHt In
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New Braunfels Herald Zeitung
New Braunfels, Texas, US
Fri, Nov 29, 1985
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