A trip through Deep Ellum.

With the reopening of Trees this past weekend, I thought I would take a walk during lunch and see exactly how bad off things are, what has closed, what has opened and take some photos of the awesome murals.

It’s been about 5 years since I’ve been to Deep Ellum to see a rock show, or drink some beer. These days I venture to this historic part of Dallas to visit a couple of customers during work that I service copiers for. So during lunch today I made the short trip from the hospital and parked my car outside of the now defunct Coyote Ugly Saloon.

The All Good Cafe has some great food. I’ve eaten there a few times.

This used to be the Galaxy Club, located at Main and Malcom X, now its just an empty building.

It seems that the Curtain Club is still open as I saw a guy painting the concert calender white on the side of the building, getting ready to paint on the upcoming show schedule.

That’s one of the things I’ve always liked about Deep Ellum, is all the color and paintings on the buildings.

Here is a painting of Erykah Badu, a famous R&B Dallasite.

The Door. Not where I remember it being. It used to be further down on the east side and over a street. Now it is where the Gypsy Ballroom once was. The Ballroom was a great place. I saw the Starlight Mints here once. And Mates of State also.


This was taken through the glass door looking inside of a building. I thought it was pretty cool.


The Prophet. The Prophet is owned by the same guy that owns the Door. Seeing as how The Prophet is where the Gypsy Tearoom was and both the Tearoom and Ballroom stood back to back to each other, letting you move from one to the other. The Prophet was around in the late eighties and its back, I guess. The Tearoom was a great little hole in the wall bar. Very intimate setting. I saw the Anniversary here. Probably early 2003. I wanna say I saw Grand Champeen here also. Either with the Anniversary or another date. GC is a great band from Austin. You may even have heard one of their songs played during the movie “The Life of David Gale” starring Kevin Spacey. Or not.


Trees. Probably the most recognized, and more prominent clubs in Deep Ellum until it demise a few years ago. The painting on the door featuring the Toadies has to be new, yet it features a cd release several years old. Strange.

lemongrass. Seems like an upscale sushi bar. I saw lots of ‘upscale’ eateries that seems to have filled in the massive void in up and down the streets, though good for the economy, it just didn’t seem like they belonged. lemongrass sits next door to Trees.

Here, a painting of Lisa Loeb, another Dallasite(raised, not born here). The other paintings I really couldn’t make out. Though one seems to be of Willie Nelson.

I’m not entirely sure if Clearview/Lemon is still in operation or not. It wasn’t the greatest of places either. I did see Fastball, another great Austin band, here once. You may know of a song called, The Way. It was popular in the mid/late ’90s.

And finally, another great little place to eat.

Well, there you have it. I had more pictures but these seemed to be the best. I’m not sure if Deep Ellum will ever be what it used to be, but I guess things change over time.