![]() ![]() She was staying across the street at the Stoneleigh Hotel. He played Caruso music on the jukebox and then had a sing-along with it. After he bought the round we loved him, too! Īnd then Herschel Bernardi was here. And he bought a whole round for everybody.Ĭharles Barkley was at The P? I love Charles Barkley! Who's been your favorite?Ĭharles Barkley came down here for a basketball tournament. The Stoneleigh P has seen its share of celebrities through the years. So we put it in there like his mother used to cook it for him. We'd have to saute sausage when we saw him walking up. Stanley Marcus would come in and want his lentil soup with sausage. We started off with only two sandwiches, artichokes, spinach salad and a little soup- we had two or three soups. You know, our menu now is about three times bigger than it was then. ![]() And then he put the spinach salad next to it and did balsamic vinegar on both. He'd sit at the bar and order a burger without the bun. I thought it was his sons who would bring him. Īnything else that was special on the menu?īob Wilson started hanging out here. People would catch me at a restaurant using it and then harass me about it. I think the lore was that you hated ketchup. But along about three, four ago the kids said, "Sooner or later, we're going to have fries and ketchup." So we made room for the fries and then ketchup. I got hit once by a woman from South Carolina because I called her a Yankee for wanting ketchup on her burger. I didn't have a fryer so I didn't have fries. What's one thing you always wanted to include on the menu but didn't? Just get my dad, who is a Southern Baptist, to vote for you." So from then on, he started playing well.Įven Thomas Wicker, the writer for the "New York Times," picked up that story of Carter's first visit to Dallas. I said to Carter, "You know, I'm a kamikaze liberal, don't worry about my vote. His son came back the next day and used our phone booth and raised the rest of the money for the campaign. I bought 24 people and they raised enough money for him to fly back to Atlanta. And he told them how he did it in Georgia.Ī friend of mine wanted to do a fundraiser down here for him. They interviewed him down there-mostly about integration in Dallas. Jimmy Carter started his campaign here after Channel 13 interviewed him on Newsroom. What's been the most memorial event since the Stoneleigh P opened in 1973. The original Stoneleigh P was only 22 feet wide. There were about four or five different entities. There was a Piggly Wiggly and I think there was a barber shop and maybe a dry cleaner's later. So that building was a Piggly Wiggly back in the day? I've got pictures of it as a Piggly Wiggly with a little delivery truck in front. Originally it was an old Piggly Wiggly, and a steakhouse in the '40s. And then we got to working on it, and I went up to the pharmacist at the drugstore next door and I said, "You're not interested in selling, are you?" And he said, "Yes." And the rest is history. I was going to do it Max's Kansas City-style with jazz and all that. So we we made a deal to take the Red Jacket. Well, I was on my way to the lawyer- getting away from Gene Street and Phil Cobb - and I saw this vacancy at the Red Jacket Club across from the Stoneleigh Hotel. Where did the idea for the Stoneleigh P come from? We caught up with Tom ahead of The P's big bash to talk about the incredible longevity of the bar and its role in Dallas history. Plans call for a big party with all the trimmings, but shortly after the birthday celebration owner Tom Garrison and his daughter Laura will be making plans to relocate the bar. The P celebrates its Golden Anniversary on Saturday. In addition to welcoming musicians, artists and ordinary folk (like generations of KERA staffers), the humble watering hole has also been a hangout for actors, athletes, oil magnates and even a future president. Anyone who's ever lived or worked in the Uptown area of Dallas is familiar with the Stoneleigh P - the quirky bar and restaurant at the corner of Wolf and Maple Streets.Īt first glance it looks like just another neighborhood bar, but The P's reputation extends far beyond the Dallas city limits. ![]()
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