Comments on: 23 CLUB IN BRISBANE FINDS TRACTION

By: Judy Allino

Judy Allino — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:29:33 +0000

It was a pleasure to see that the new owner of the “Historic 23 Club”. Has finally brought it back to that good old “Honky Tonk” feeling that I remember as a young girl back in my mid 20’s.

I was briefly introduced to the new owner “Ralph” and I had to let him know what a “tremendous” Job he has done to bring back the good ole days of the 23 Club”

“HATS OFF TO YOU RALPH”

- Judy-

By: David Kaye

David Kaye — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:46:03 +0000

About 6 years ago a business associate and I were about to take over the 23 Club, but then I talked to people around town and ran some stats on the population of the area. Brisbane isn’t the rough-and-tumble work-hard, party-hard place it used to be. It’s now mostly professionals who have to be in bed by 10pm to get up for work early for commutes.

After figuring that we’d have to pull in an average of $1200 each and every day in order to make the numbers work, we reluctantly abandoned the idea. It’s a shame because a lot of us can remember what Brisbane was and what the 23 Club was, but time and the population have shifted. I’m in Brisbane often and will stop by when I can. I wish much success on the new proprietors.

–David Kaye

By: R.S. Mueller

R.S. Mueller — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:45:41 +0000

The RevTones will be there November 14th.
GEN 11 & Them Slack Jawed Sons of Bitches + the ever popular TBA on Dec. 4th.

By: Jose Segue

Jose Segue — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:32:09 +0000

THIS COMMENT OF PETE OLSON’S WAS COPIED OVER FROM FACEBOOK – J.S.

Back in the late seventies I was one of the first few paramedics in San Mateo County. We were all stationed around the county, but Brisbane was manned by each of us taking an extra half-shift (12 hrs instead of 24) in Brisbane. We were housed just up the road from the back of DeMarco’s in the ‘Public Safety’ Station (the town had neither real cops … Read Moreor firemen, but people who wore whichever hat depending on the circumstance). We spent an inordinate amount of time hauling people out of DeMarco’s and the bar across Visitacion which I forget the name of – either drunk on their ass, battered beyond recognition, or screaming and trying to kick out the windows of the cop car – ahh, THOSE were the good ol’ days…after 23 years I was sooo glad to just be a musician.

By: Collin

Collin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:49:29 +0000

Good luck to the 23 Club…I’ve done 2 shows there, both fairly dismal affairs. The space is great but like you said, there’s not much local support. I wanted it to be like the built-in crowd at the Riptide, and brother, it ain’t.

Love the direction you’re taking the website, design wise…though I would ask for maybe a lighter background behind the text, because the lack of contrast makes it a little hard to read (on my screen anyway).