A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

Urban Cowboy was a topic of conversation.

I remember you said that it embarrassed you, LOL!

I was going to reply and didn't and now I can't remember what thread it was anyway, so I'm posting here.

Yeah, good ol' Gilley's, LOL!!

I never went there during the height of popularity but some of my "gang" did. LOL!!

I really wanted to go to Mickey Gilley's restaurant that he opened in Pasadena a few years ago but I don't know if it's even there anymore.

I look at Urban Cowboy fondly these days. There was a time when it was a horrible trigger because of a horrible break-up I had with a guy I was with before Gray. I made the mistake of living with this jerk. Well, he cheated--coworker, natch!

So I was the one who ended up moving out. Yeah, stupid, I know. He took my key but didn't know I secretly made another so I could get the rest of my stuff.

He never knew until I finally got the rest of it--she was practically living there by then. He was "playing," too, keeping both of us on a string.

Well, the day I got the rest, I left a little "message." I had NO idea it would make such an impact!! LOL!! I didn't know until years later because I "B'ed" him after that.

Anyway, the weekend I was supposed to move out, while he was at a wedding in SA with her that the two of US had been invited to...Urban Cowboy was on. And it was so sad.

To top it off, I looked outside at one point and there were two people going at it in the hot tub!!

EW!! Glad I moved!!

Anyway, I gradually got the movie back to the point where it is a fond memory instead of a crap one.

Plus...hey...John Travolta? Va-va-voom!! (at least then, he's a little hefty now, LOL!!)

So, I'm done yakking now. I think!!



Have a nice day!!

Charlotte

Hey, Charlotte. Just noticed this thread.

I'm curious to know what people from other parts of the world thought of Urban Cowboy.

I guess that's because when I think of Pasadena, Texas, I think of my history with it. My dad living there in that crappy Pasadena house. The old main road that Gilley's was on, how disgusting it is, and how it's predictive of white flight in EVERY town in America. How, when I went to high school in Pasadena School District in the 70s, Black people did not step FOOT in Pasadena, let alone live there! They wouldn't survive a year in that town! Jasper, Texas, had nothing on that town. And then there's all my family history in that town.

I remember my mom being obsessed with Roy Orbison. I grew up listening to his music every week of my life til I graduated high school. Every freakin' week. My D18 is named after one of his songs. But the weird thing is that his mother worked as a nurse's aide in the hospital my mom worked at in Pasadena! They worked together! And for all her obsession with him, she never once asked his mom to let her meet him.

I guess that just added into all the 'weirdness' that was Pasadena.