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Rome Inn

Submitted by clex on Tue, 02/28/2006 - 11:46pm. Bars

Wow. Low cover ($1), cheap beer ($1 pitchers), close to campus (lot's of coeds), and Double Trouble who seemed like they lived upstairs. It's Texas French Bread now... quite a transition.

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Summer of Pizza

Submitted by Brad McGrew on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 2:23pm.

Before it was a bar Rome Inn was an Itallian resturant. It was one of the few places that delivered pizza in 1970 the year I graduated from McCallum. The day after I graduated I moved into a boarding house at 17th and Colorado and started delivering pizza for Rome Inn. C-Boy Parks was the cook after he did breakfast and lunch at the Nighthawk on the drag. Pizza was slow that summer so I would often drink beer with C-Boy. I wish I could remember how many times C-Boy had to tell customers they did not have a dilivery boy because I had drank too many pitchers with C-Boy.

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C-Boy

Submitted by beer belly on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 6:22pm.

Would love to hear more about C-Boy. I knew him in mid-80's when I delivered beer to Ski Shores and C-Boy cooked BBQ there. I liked him alot. Many years later I engraved his name into my smoker and now I think of him everytime I fire it up.

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Rome Inn

Submitted by Just me on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 9:01pm.

Exactly, Clex. Thank you for posting this. My teenage sons don't believe that I walked down the street a few blocks (I was a dumb coed), paid $1 and heard Stevie Vaughan, as he was known. And Lou Ann Barton. And I didn't believe it when a friend visiting from Austin here last year said Rome Inn was now a bakery. Sigh.

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At the Inn

Submitted by Dave@the Door on Thu, 03/19/2009 - 12:08pm.

I had just got out of the Air Force and was going to school at SWTS, I worked for the Dillo as security, when former Dillo security and a good close buddy Jose(Peppie)Cerna asked me to work a few of the jobs he had so he could take some time off. He hooked me up at Mannor Downs doing races and concerts, the White Rabbit, After Hours, and my favorite club of all the Rome Inn.

C-Boy Parks was the owner and what a wealth of knowledge he was! Peppie had Blue Monday with the T-Birds and had Paul Ray and the Cobra's and stuck me with a group called Double Trouble and a country kid named LeRoy Parnell that was my regular gigs!

I remember the night that the sax player had left the group to do session work in Dallas, I walking back to the pool table when Stevie broke into Vodoo Child and I stopped dead in my tracks back to the band nobody was really in the place yet and all I could say borrowing a phrase from Buddy Guy was "Shit".

It seemed like the band hit a whole new stride Miss Lou Ann was still with them but it really was turning into the Stevie show from that point on. Thanks to some good people that heard the same unbelievable talent backed by what I believe is the one of the most awesome duals in music Tommy and Chris these boys were never a doubt going to be big.

We still was able to hold on to them for another 9 months or so before Chisley (stop yelling) Milkan took them on the road to the top. God... Chisley and I had a love hate relationship he hated it when I was right! During a horse that was foaling (i told him we didn't need a vet the horse knew what to do)!

Well that's one of my favorite Austin stories...and to think I got like $30 a night and all the beer I could drink!

By the way the quote on the Ladies Room was was Peppie's idea for getting me a few dates LOL!

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Correction

Submitted by Brad McGrew on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 2:18pm.

Jack Davis was the owner but C-Boy ran the place for him.

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I think?

Submitted by Dave@the Door on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 8:04pm.

If memory serves me right Jack was dead and his wife owned the property and leased it to C-boy. I could be wrong but I think that is what I was told at the time. Have a lot of great C-boy stories he could make me laugh my ass off. I got him good one time I loaded the furnace up with a little gas before igniting it and blue about a two foot flame as he was going to come up and help me by holding a flashlight...he cussed me up good and said he was going to use that 32 in his boot on my sorry ass. I miss those days a lot of good people just having a little fun! At the end of the night he would make sure a couple $20 bills made there way into the money the guys made at the door so they could have a meal.

Dave@The Door

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Rome Inn

Submitted by arlo watson on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 9:08pm.

Mike Watson and myself Arlo watson bought the lease from Jack Davis in 1975, we ran it until late 79's, it broke even at best, C Boy Parks ran the club for Jack Davis after we left, until the lease expired. It was rented or sold to the French Bread com after that Thanks, Arlo Watson

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