South Beach (nightclub)

Coordinates: 29°44′49″N 95°23′26″W / 29.74702°N 95.39052°W

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South Beach


Address	Houston, Texas United States
Type	Nightclub

South Beach is a nightclub with after hours located in Houston, Texas within the Neartown area which opened in 2001 on the former site of Club Heaven. The 10,000-square-foot (930 m²) dance club located at 810 Pacific Street was popular among the city's gay community.^[1] Among South Beach’s many features was a full-color water-cooled matrix laser light show utilizing Kryogen Ifex liquid ice jets that spray out a thick cloud of liquid Ice. The ice jets had the ability to reduce the temperature of the club by 20 °F (−7 °C) in a few seconds.^[2]

South Beach is owned by Charles Armstrong. Charles Armstrong also owns JR's Bar & Grill, and formerly owned Meteor Urban Lounge, and Montrose Mining Company before they closed.^[3]

Reception

In 2007, the club was voted Houston's Best Gay Bar by AOL City Guide and again was awarded Houston's Best Gay Bar 2008 and Houston's Best Dance Club 2008 by AOL City Guide.^[4] The club was previously awarded as one of the "Best of 2006" by the Houston Press.^[5]

References

^ Houston nightlife - GuideMag.com
^ South Beach - VisitHoustonTexas.com Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
^ Oaklander, Mandy (2011-05-19). "Mayor of Montrose". Houston Press. p. 2. Archived from the original on 2011-05-21. Retrieved 2022-10-01.
^ Houston's Best Gay Bars - AOL City Guide
^ Best of Houston - Houston Press Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine

External links

Media related to South Beach Houston at Wikimedia Commons
South Beach Nightclub Homepage

Neartown, Houston

Geography

Education

Annunciation Orthodox School
Houston ISD
- Bob Lanier MS
- Baker Montessori K-8 (formerly Woodrow Wilson)
- Wharton Dual Language K-8
- Arabic Immersion Magnet
St. Stephen's Episcopal
University of St. Thomas

Landmarks

American General Center
Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral
Bambolino's
Brasil
Broken Obelisk
Bygones
Byzantine Fresco Chapel
Charmstone
Chapultepec Lupita
Eagle Houston
Empire Cafe
Isolated Mass/Circumflex (Number 2)
JR's Bar and Grill
Katz's Deli
La Colombe d'Or (Fondren Mansion)
Menil Collection
Montrose Center
Niko Niko's
ReBar Houston
River Oaks Shopping Center
- River Oaks Theatre
Rothko Chapel
South Beach

Defunct	Chances Bar Dolce Vita Guava Lamp Inversion Just Marion & Lynn's Inversion Coffee House Mary's Meteor Montrose Mining Company

History

This list is incomplete.
High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA) was in the Neartown area from 1982 to 2019.
Neartown is within the Houston Community College (HCC) service area, though no campuses are operated there.
Within a section of the Neartown Association boundaries previously shown on its website are: the Houston Contemporary Arts Museum, the Administration/Glassel School buildings of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH), First Presbyterian Church, and Presbyterian School. The current (as of 2019) map does not indicate any territory south of I-69/US-59 as being in Neartown.
Gulf Coast Archive and Museum was previously in Neartown.

LGBT culture in Houston

Establishments