Follis said she ran Dance Across Texas before getting rid of it and leasing the space to other companies. In , she said she started renting to Midnight Rodeo until the company moved out without giving Follis any notice.
It was weird because I received several more calls and workers started showing up asking what happened. When she saw the condition of the place, Follis said it made her sick. Midnight Rodeo took everything but one kitchen sink. Plumbing, copper wiring, ice machines and air conditioning parts were taken. The dance floor and stage had puddles of water that had leaked from the air conditioners above. Follis said she found this upsetting because the stage had been used for performances by singers such as Marty Robbins and Elvis Presley when it was previously used at the Crestview Lumber Company.
Patrick Danner is a San Antonio-based staff writer covering banking and civil courts. Read him on our free site , mySA. It later After slow start, city climate plan may be gaining traction. The San Angelo venue has a capacity of people that gives it an additional advantage to book the larger and more popular music acts. With volume, Midnight Rodeo has potential to make enough money charging admission to pay for them.
Making enough money to keep a large venue like Midnight Rodeo open requires a steady and relatively high level of gross sales because even with leverage to book them, the big acts are still expensive.
The Texas Comptroller makes gross receipts of venues with alcohol licenses available to the public. Recent sales at Midnight Rodeo were uneven, and lagged other bars, even bars with no live music at all. The Graham Brothers eventually closed and sold their location near Southwest Blvd. Without another large nightclub venue in competition, Midnight Rodeo was it, and for nearly a decade, the club thrived, bringing popular and relatively expensive live Texas music performers to San Angelo.
The Midnight Rodeo closed down in Easterling, however, was convinced by the landlord to give it another try. The venue re-opened in March Dwaine Thomas, who today is in the oil and gas industry, is also a professional fiddle player, said he and his brother were looking for an opportunity ever since Shane Luther, who at the time was trying to sell his club in San Angelo, The Little River Club, planted the seed.
When the leasing company mentioned San Angelo, they took a look and eventually made the deal. College Guide. Best Of. City Guide. Calendar Events. Today Tomorrow This Weekend. Mary's strip St. RSS Feeds. Archives Search Archives Search Issues.
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