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■ ODESSA (AP) — Ronnie Lewis,
B-year-old proprietor of Dos Ami
gos restaurant, beer garden and bull
Big, admits he’s sometimes compul
sive about expanding his business.
■ One afternoon, while contemplat
ing an empty house on his property,
he decided it would make a good ex
tra bar.
H "1 went and got my crow bar and a
Bdgehapnmer, and 1 said, ‘Yeah, we
■ndo it — we got three days,’ ” Le
wis said, referring to preparations
■r the second annual C.C. Hutton
dnvitational Bull Ride in June, head-
Hied by Eddy Raven. Hutton is Le
ins'silent partner.
■ Contractor Mike Pool said, "We
were through three hours before
Idirtain time, weren’t we? Eddie Ra
ven was here on Saturday night, and
we were still pounding nails Satur
day afternoon. We squeezed it all
in.”
Due to the time limit, though, Le
wis was forced to use some new
materials. That was a first for Dos
Amigos, which has been built from
the ground up with discarded win
dows, doors, stones and bricks.
“The things in this place came
from all over town, ail over the coun-
try,” Pool said.
Dos Amigos got started with the
1982 purchase of property that had
servea as a horse barn for 20 years.
Lewis had been in construction busi
ness for 10 years prior to the pur
chase.
“In March, we started shoveling
out the manure,” he said. “1 lived in
the bar while we were building this
place. This is where we dropped.”
The place had a magic even then,
Lewis contends.
Quite a bit of the “antique junk”
found on the property was incorpo
rated into the West Texas decor.
Also decorating the interior is a
vast assortment of business cards
tacked to the walls and ceiling.
“Some of these have been here
since day one,” Lewis said. “Some
people have three or four different
cards up there.”
One card is from Singapore.
“You look around, and you can
find cards from anywhere,” he said.
“Midland, Kermit, England,
France.”
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Backyard is Navratilova’s playground
FORT WORTH (AP) — When you’re a profes
sional athlete, you take the game seriously.
So when you’re not competing, it’s nice to have a
place where you can really play.
Tennis champion Martina Navratilova finds such
a place in her own back yard. When she returns
from winning at Wimbledon or Prague, she retreats
to the small, enclosed yard of her Fori Worth town-
house for relaxation and recreation. T he swimming
pool provides options for aquatic sport: a water slide
winds down from the balcony and a basketball goal
hovers just above the water. A neon palm tree on the
wall of the house and a canvas privacy screen with a
palm tree motif introduce a playf ul decorative note.
“I wanted it to be a little different from what ev
erybody else has, something special,” Navratilova
said.
To achieve such an end, she and companion Judy
Nelson hired Alan Richardson, of Richardson-YVhit-
neyand Associates, to plan the landscape. They gave
him a free hand, directing him only to include an
abundance of flowering plants.
"I don’t like just green things,” Navratilova said.
“1 really like to see flowers.”
Richardson said, “When I got here, I found a very
uninteresting back yard — a rectangle.” Brick walls
and absence of shade c reated a harsh environment,
uninviting to people or plants.
Plantings were chosen to soften the yard’s severe
lines, add color and establish a theme.
“Martina is primarily home during the summer
months, so we wanted to take advantage of the
Texas heat,” Richardson said. Thus a tropical motif
was chosen. “Texas will afford that almost six
months out of the year,” he said.
Elephant ears, banana trees and pink and green
caladiums line one end of the pool, below the canvas
screen. Along the adjoining wall are bougainvilea in
big pots, hibiscus and pink crape myrtle.
Shallow bowls of verbena, purslane, geraniums
and periwinkles provide additional color, as does the
jackobean vine when its purple blossoms drape the
wall in autumn. Strawberry plants serve as a gound
covering as well as of fering fruit.
The intense colors of the flowering plants are un
derscored by black and white accents. The water
slide is high-gloss black enamel on the outside and
white inside. Palm leaves are outlined in black on the
white canvas screen, supported by black and white fi
berglass trunks.
The basketball goal at the other end of the pool
likewise is supported by a palm tree “trunk.” The
screen, trunks, goal and slide were designed and
made by Fort Worth carpenter and artist Ron
Mackey.
On a second-story wall overlooking the pool, neon
palm trees created by Fort Worth artist Frida Blu-
menburg cast a warm glow. They, too, boast fiberg
lass trunks by Mackey.
“1 really (ike it at night,” Navratilova said. “It’s
really beautiful.”
Navratilova is the first to acknowledge the respite
this oasis affords in a world normally aswirl with
travel, competition and fans.
“It’s a very, very relaxing place for me,” she said.
“It’s one way to get away from it all.”
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into yet another house next door to
Dos Amigos. He lives there and
shares the yard with his pets. Lewis
now owns 17 lots in the neighbor
hood.
The restaurant did begin as a res
taurant, featuring the first fajitas
ever served in Ector or Midland
counties, Lewis claims. Since then,
the menu has expanded, most re
cently to include soft chicken tacos.
Also expanding is the range of en
tertainment offered at the establish-
Bull riding draws about 400 peo
ple every other Sunday. Austin
bands such as Joe Ely, Omar and the
Howlers and the Tail Gators draw
even more.
The first bull ride was held in
1983 by Bad Company Rodeo.
The last major physical expansion
took place at the same time that the
old house was converted to a bar. A
larger stage was built to accommo
date bands, and the Cowboy Club
grew.
“That was the biggest move we
ever made in one time,” Pool said.
“It took two solid weeks and 600
beers. That’s how many beers we
had on the tab. Some of it was trade
out for beer and fajitas, just what
ever. Some of it’s been real money
even. He usually feeds us.”
Even now, “We’re scheming what
we can drag in and weld together,”
Pool said.
How is Dos Amigos able to ex
pand when other businesses are
going under?
“The food, entertainment and
beer, it’s been affected, but you can
still come in here and drink two
beers and have a fajita and spend
less than $5. Some people come just
to see it,” said Lewis, who employes
five full-time people and hires two
or three part-time bartenders dur
ing special events.
“Dos Amigos could be in trouble,”
Lewis said. “It’s a day to day deal.
Success is getting to work in the
morning.
“I feel it’s a success to be here
from where I was, but I’m not a
wealthy person. I haven’t had a vaca
tion in 1 don’t know how long. And I
don’t jump up and go to the horse
races or go to the lake.”
The saga of Dos Amigos isn’t over
yet.
“We’re going to have two stories
all the way around,” Pool said, “one
board and one nail at a time. It’s all
going to take 100 years.”
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