Sorry Mr. Meowgi, but Behad is dead on when it comes to Kemah. The place was a dump prior to Landry's taking over. The situation now is a huge improvement.
Hey Max, you might want to edit that post. I tried to go the site you linked to but you typed H2[zero], not H2[the letter O]. Your link does not work, but I went to where you meant to link to and it looks like a great idea. Definitely something I'm going to try to do, and will be interesting to see how no liquid but water will go. Course I'm going to have to do that starting after Turkey Day cause I'm going to go visit the in-laws in Duluth, MN and there's not going to be much to do there but drink beer...
A big old thread with Kemah running all through it, and not one person has mentioned..... T-Bone Tom's I love that place. When I played there about 3 years ago, I told my folks where the gig was, and my Mom said "T-Bone Tommy's?? Your father and I used to party there all the time!" True story!
another person that grew up there during the 70's, 80's and 90's and agrees with Meowgi and disagrees strongly with Behad. Still go down to seabrook and avoid Kemah.
All I can say about Kemah is that I've lived here in Houston just about all of my life. I had a friend who lived in Clear Lake throughout the 90's and my ex-wife originally lived in Seabrook. We'd go down there roughly once a week during the 90's. We went to Maribelle's a few times also, during the day. Kemah was nothing. There was simply nothing but old shacks there. If you thought that was cooler, so be it. But it looked like a waste of a lot of land to me.
In defense of Kemah-That-Was: 1. Kemah was not a tourist trap with the exception of Jimmy Walker's. It was a real working shrimp port, not the yuppie tourist trap it is now. It was a producing community. 2. Kemah may not have been pretty, but it was a great place to live. If you were down on your luck someone would find a job for you to do. No handouts, but if you were willing to work you didn't need to be homeless or hungry. 3. I never saw a fight among those who lived there. Arguments? Yes, but no fights. The few I saw involved those not from Kemah. 4. No one cared how much money you had. You didn't need to keep up appearances. If you wanted to talk to someone you didn't text them, send them a email or even call them on the phone. You walked over and talked to them. How barbaric we were back than! Most of us didn't even have a phone. Oh, one more thing about old Kemah. Long before it was politically correct to recycle Kemah was at it. Remember the oyster shell parking lots? We were P.C. and didn't even know it.
Oh, one more note about your new and improved Kemah, I was there about a week ago and was told that, since they've run all the shrimpers off all the big restaurants are serving frozen farm raised shrimp from China.
Love necro bumps!! I went to a wedding at the Aquarium. It was fun. The bride was beautiful! I sat with the Brides family because I'm cool like that. Ahh, the lone Asian in a room full of Mexican people and a few white folks here and there. I went to Kemah in July. That b**** was too hot to do anything. I ended up playing in the arcade because it had A/C. Good ol A/C.
keep it real, meowgi completely off topic and yet entirely relevant to the subject matter of the title of the thread...i really like the downtown aquarium
I still haven't been to the Aquarium. It looked like a tourist trap ready to take my money for mediocre food. Dates would ask about going and I'd outright refuse. Haven't been to Hard rock or a Rainforest cafe either.
Good grief, you've been grinding that axe for five years? Kemah was awesome back in the day, pre-boardwalk, pre-urban sprawl suburbs. It was kind of a hidden little gem for the Clear Lake area. Now, back to your regularly scheduled fist shaking and cane rattling.
