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The Balinese Room was a famous nightclub in Galveston, Texas, United States built on a pier stretching 600 feet (183 m) from the Galveston Seawall over the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. [2] For decades a dance hall and illegal casino , the Balinese Room was remodeled and reopened in 2001 without a casino.
The family-owned [2] restaurant Miller's Seawall Grill operates in a yellow Victorian house on Seawall Boulevard in Galveston, Texas. [1] [3] [4] [5] The interior has dark wood and tiled floors. [6] Breakfast is served all day; options include Belgian waffles, chicken and waffles, [1] Eggs Benedict, French toast, huevos rancheros, [7] omelettes ...
The original plat of Galveston, drawn in the late 1830s, includes Avenue B. The name 'strand' for Ave. B was coined by a German immigrant named Michael William Shaw who opened a jewelry store on the corner of 23rd and Ave. B. Shaw, not liking the name "Ave. B", changed the name of the street on his stationery to "Strand", thinking that the name (named after a street in London) would have ...
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Miller, Fasion and Sanfilippo traveled throughout the I-45 highway corridor between Houston and Galveston, according to authorities. Officers relied on surveillance to track the suspects as they ...
The Maceo Organization, also known as the Maceo Syndicate, was a criminal organization, that ran Galveston, Texas politically and criminally throughout most of Galveston's open era. The organization's bosses, Sam and Rosario Maceo , operated illegal gambling , prostitution , bootlegging and racketeering activities.
Two Pesos was a Tex-Mex restaurant chain in the U.S. state of Texas that opened in 1982 in Houston. It was similar to Taco Cabana but Two Pesos never opened in Taco Cabana's home market of San Antonio. The Two Pesos chain was sold to Taco Cabana in 1993 after losing a drawn-out trade dress suit that appeared before the United States Supreme Court.