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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, MAR. 5, 1976
Page 5
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An artistic approach to fine jewelry.
Lakeview review: It’s a kick(er)
By LISA JUNOD
Battalion Staff Writer
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ked on his snakeskin boots
ip of snuff stuffed in his lower
is at his dancing partner, a
country girl, as they weave
ay through the crowded
oor. The dancers gently sway
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mining the loss of his young
enly the band switches
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is they leap to their feet and
ward the dance floor. Boots
against boots as they stomp
|he polished hardwood floors,
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las beemiMnkenly, to the strains of
a P riteuB-Eyed Joe. "
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putation for being one of the
night spots in the Brazos
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Bryan-College Station area. The
people pay from $3 to $5 (depending
upon the entertainment) to hear a
favorite performer, to shake their
limbs to some country music or just
to sit back and watch through a haze
of cigarette smoke.
On Tuesday and Thursday nights,
for $2 ($1 for ladies) a fellow with
itchy feet and a dry throat can spend
an evening sipping cold, 40-cent
beer shuffling his feet to the tunes of
Dennis Ivey and the Waymen. The
Lakeview Club, ‘Lakeview’ to most
Aggies, plays country music from 8
to 12 on Tuesdays and Thursdays
evenings and on Saturday evenings
from 9 to 1. The club started opening
on Friday nights with a rock group so
the customer can boogie.
Lakeview is on Tabor road, about
2 miles north of the Highway 6 east
by-pass. The parking lot is either
muddy or dusty and frequently
packed with old Chevy’s, maroon
and white Monte Carlos and sporty
new pickups decorated with match
ing fringe curtains. Overflow parking
— and there usually is plenty — ends
up in the ditches along the roadside.
On most rainy nights someone’s pic
kup gets stuck in the mud, and it
takes a few dozen tipsy assistants and
sometimes a few more beers to haul
it out.
But Lakeview lovers agree that
the warm, relaxed atmosphere and
good times are worth a little mud on
the tires, and they keep coming back
to prove it. Paul Emola, the owner,
said that Thursday night crowds
nearly always exceed 1,000 people
and the club is crowded even on
Saturday nights, when the admission
price is higher.
What draws the multitudes to this
center of western romance, high
spirits and foot stomping country
music?
Emola attributes much of
Lakeview’s success to the customers’
good behavior and to the manage
ment’s policies.
He said, that although some of the
customers get a little rowdy, the club
usually goes for 9 to 10 months with
out any kind of an incident - no lov
ers’ quarrels or drunken brawls. The
rowdiest crowd is on the Thursday
night before the Texas A&M-
University of Texas football game
James Bond joins the system
IsB. Bond, the new assistant
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isglad to be home in College
td, who started work here this
I served as city attorney for
itafrom 1969 to 1976 and was a
in the Navasota law firm of
Falco.
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eand my wife’s home and, of
were happy to be back,
think, there is time to de-
xpertise in certain areas. In a
town practice, one is con
stantly putting out a multitude of lit
tle brushfires. Like a doctor, a
lawyer hungers to specialize in a few
areas. ”
A 1958 graduate of A&M, Bond
received his law degree in 1968 from
Bates College of Law at the Univer
sity of Houston.
He graduated from A&M Con
solidated High School in 1954 and
married Mary Beth Hagler in Col
lege Station four years later. The
couple has four children, aged 3-16.
“Here I am developing opinions
and transacting business that falls
within the Texas A&M University
area of affairs, ” he said. “As an exam
ple, we re currently involved in dis
posing of some land owned by A&M.
Also we will assist every department
and agency of the university in legal
matters and the legal process.”
A member of the Texas Industrial
Commission, Bond was selected as
Grimes County Chamber of Com
merce Outstanding Citizen in 1974.
Bond holds professional member
ship in the American Bar Associa
tion, State Bar of Texas, and Grimes
County Bar Association.
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when the yell leaders hold yell prac
tice at Lakeview during intermis
sion.
When Emola bought Lakeview
eight years ago, the capacity was 450
people. Now, after several expan
sions, the club holds more than 1,000
people.
Lakeview was originally designed
as a skating rink and was called the
Lakeview Amusement Club, but
Emola said that the first owner took a
long, hard look at the price of skates
and decided to open the club for
dancing.
For a short time, the club featured
rock bands, but was converted to
country and western when Emmitt
Kelley, who owned the Peanut Gal
lery, purchased it. Kelley operated
the club for 1 1/2 years.
Students desert friends, family
and studies to jump into their cars
and bounce down the road to
Lakeview. Once inside the large,
windowless building they peer over
innumerable cowboy hats and bee
hive hairdos and push through
throngs of kickers and psuedo-
kickers dressed in checkered shirts
and jeans to find an empty table.
Empty, at least of people, but lit
tered with drained beer cans, empty
liquor bottles and half-smoked
cigarettes spilling out of the ashtrays.
But most folks don’t care what the
tables look like, as long as there’s
room on the dance floor.
“It’s really wild,” one coed said.
“Everybody dances around and
around in a big circle and if you don’t
know how to kicker dance, you can
get stomped to death!”
One girl, unfamiliar with the style
of dancing, thought that the dancers
looked like “little wind up toys. ” She
said that they move for a few beats,
pause, and then begin moving again.
Emola said that the cost of
scheduling a good show has in
creased tremendously during the
past 8 years, so he can’t bring as
many popular acts as he’d like to
Lakeview. He said that acts he once
could book for $1,500, he’d have to
pay $15,000 for now. But the music
still plays and the beer still flows and
as long as they do, there will be
crowds at the Lakeview Club. After
all, what self-respecting cowboy
could resist the lure of wine, women
and song?
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