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<blockquote data-quote="Taylor Bennett Jr." data-source="post: 168598" data-attributes="member: 2740"><p>Here's a fun Dallas location from Season 1's <em>Black Market Baby</em>: Sue Ellen and Cliff meet for the first time outside Gatsby's Bicycle Bar, at the Statler Hilton on 1914 Commerce St. (the 'bicycle' part was enough to help me find it... apparently more recently there was a swanky nightclub called Gatsby's, which I assume was unrelated)</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/ILCjebP.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="https://i.imgur.com/OeMHjP5.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Sue Ellen is here to meet mildly shady attorney BJ "Buzz" Connors (no apparent relation to fiery tennis star Jimmy) to discuss adopting the baby of the future wife of George Clooney and Roger Sterling. Cliff just happens be to an acquaintance of Buzz, and had just bumped into him on the street seconds earlier.</p><p></p><p>the location is mentioned in this fun little NYT article from 1974: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1974/04/21/archives/dallas.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/1974/04/21/archives/dallas.html</a></p><p></p><p><em>"The Statler Hilton, 1914 Commerce, is also a fine downtown hotel with a good restaurant, coffee shop and Gatsby's Bicycle Bar in the lobby."</em></p><p></p><p>how times change:<em> "And Alexander's is one of the few restaurants in the city where you can get espresso —one mark of a truly refined restaurant."</em></p><p><em></em></p><p>I'm tempted to sign up for an account just to see the original article!</p><p><em></em></p><p><em><img src="https://i.imgur.com/r5TtiZc.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </em></p><p><em></em></p><p>and... available on ebay! Swizzle sticks from the place Cliff and Sue Ellen first met!</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Gatsby-s-Bicycle-Bar-Dallas-Texas-Red-White-Cocktail-Swizzle-Sticks-x2-/253841121584" target="_blank">https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Gatsby-s-Bicycle-Bar-Dallas-Texas-Red-White-Cocktail-Swizzle-Sticks-x2-/253841121584</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Taylor Bennett Jr., post: 168598, member: 2740"] Here's a fun Dallas location from Season 1's [I]Black Market Baby[/I]: Sue Ellen and Cliff meet for the first time outside Gatsby's Bicycle Bar, at the Statler Hilton on 1914 Commerce St. (the 'bicycle' part was enough to help me find it... apparently more recently there was a swanky nightclub called Gatsby's, which I assume was unrelated) [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/ILCjebP.png[/IMG] [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/OeMHjP5.png[/IMG] Sue Ellen is here to meet mildly shady attorney BJ "Buzz" Connors (no apparent relation to fiery tennis star Jimmy) to discuss adopting the baby of the future wife of George Clooney and Roger Sterling. Cliff just happens be to an acquaintance of Buzz, and had just bumped into him on the street seconds earlier. the location is mentioned in this fun little NYT article from 1974: [URL]https://www.nytimes.com/1974/04/21/archives/dallas.html[/URL] [I]"The Statler Hilton, 1914 Commerce, is also a fine downtown hotel with a good restaurant, coffee shop and Gatsby's Bicycle Bar in the lobby."[/I] how times change:[I] "And Alexander's is one of the few restaurants in the city where you can get espresso —one mark of a truly refined restaurant." [/I] I'm tempted to sign up for an account just to see the original article! [I] [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/r5TtiZc.png[/IMG] [/I] and... available on ebay! Swizzle sticks from the place Cliff and Sue Ellen first met! [URL]https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Gatsby-s-Bicycle-Bar-Dallas-Texas-Red-White-Cocktail-Swizzle-Sticks-x2-/253841121584[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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