Dallas’ Original Hard Rock Cafe Resurrected With DIMEBAG, ZZ TOP, STEVIE RAY VAUGHN Paraphernalia
August 26, 2009, 15 years ago
Teresa Gubbins from Star-telegram.com is reporting:
Dallas’ original Hard Rock Cafe shut down in 2007 because of poor sales, after more than 20 years in a former church on McKinney Avenue. That building was subsequently razed, to the chagrin of preservationists and nostalgia buffs alike.
But Hard Rock’s owners, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, didn’t give up on Dallas, one of the chain’s earliest locations: They’ve built a new rendition on the edge of Victory Park and filled it with their signature collection of guitars and rock memorabilia. That includes snakeskin boots worn by STEVIE RAY VAUGHN, a pair of fuzzy guitars from ZZ TOP worn during the filming of the 'Legs' video, and a magnificent polished steel guitar that belonged to deceased PANTERA guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott.
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