Comments on: Question of the Day: Is Lee Harvey’s an Offensive Name for a Bar?

By: Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk

Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:28:27 +0000

Hmmm, Personally, I never thought about the bar all that much until I saw this post here, but Lee Harvey is a part of Dallas history, whether we like it or not, buy into the conspiracy theory of the grassy knoll shooter or believe it was Lee Harvey, or lived during that era with a deep personal connection or were born after. Actually, I find it sad that more people probably know the location of the bar than know that we have a memorial to JFK here in Dallas. But there’s the rub: bars invite communication, story telling, and hanging out with friends among the ambient sound of clicking glasses, whereas memorials invoke a solemn air where people whisper and the one in Dallas doesn’t have a spot to sit down on or a place to learn all that much. So after seeing the memorial, people head over the museum and after seeing the pictures and dates they have already seen in the history books, they then go to Lee Harvey’s where they might hear a still-living witness share their heart-rending tale or perhaps share their thoughts on what the JFK museum and memorial raised in their minds…and it will be in that moment that the everyday people, the people JFK was elected to lead, will feel the deepest connection to him.

So yeah, while the name never made it into Dear Abby’s imaginary list of social etiquette’s Top Ten Socially Appropriate Names for Bars in The Continental USA, it does undoubtedly serve the purpose of providing a place where people can keep JFK’s memory alive – and perhaps that’s the best way to look at it: They are keeping John F Kennedy’s name live in Lee Harvey’s Bar, so toast to JFK while you’re there and smile smuggly while you thinkg “take that Lee Harvey!”.

By: LakeWWWooder

LakeWWWooder — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:33:36 +0000

So what are you going to do if you find a rabbit next time?

By: cdwebb

cdwebb — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:37:44 +0000

I found a dog last December by Lee Harvey’s.
I named it Harvey. It’s a great name.

By: LakeWWWooder

LakeWWWooder — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:44:40 +0000

Well, Lakewood’s Tom Stephenson (former D writer) did it first: assassination pictures on the wall of the old Greenville Avenue Country Club (fondly known as the GACC) Point of info for whippersnappers: GACC is now J. Pepe’s.

By: ziggurat

ziggurat — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:53:16 +0000

When I go to Lee Harvey’s, I always sit in the back and to the left.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:44:42 +0000

Why no hullabaloo over the Ozzie Rabbit Lodge on Lancaster in east Fort Worth? It is adorned with a mural of Oswald’s murder, only blocks from his grave and is a great little neighborhood bar with a lot of local color.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:05:05 +0000

Not only is it not offensive, to not understand and come to terms with the mentality of Lee Harvey – or Clyde Barrow for that matter – is to not understand Dallas. This city constantly looks outside itself to try take on its idenity, dress itself in the last season couture of some other place. What it doesn’t realize is that the most Dallas thing – screw the oil rigs, the big money, the can-do spirit – are the Frankensteins this city has created. Oswald and Barrow make us look at what the dream of a no where place that promises everything really is: a scarry extreme American Dream, where fame and immortality is a bullet away. This city is always trying to pave over this reality, this heart of its identity, but the sooner it can figure out a way to embrace it, the sooner Dallas will mature into itself. No Trinity River project or Uptown development is going to make Dallas embrace what it is. Lee Harveys – fire pits and Pabst – does, in its own little way.

By: Amandax9362

Amandax9362 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:57:10 +0000

I loved Judge Roy Bean’s when we still had a few in town. Wonder if any of the families of his swingers had issues eating there?

By: Candy Evans

Candy Evans — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:00:47 +0000

How about a bar named Viagra?

By: david

david — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:20:57 +0000

I want to open a bar next to Lee Harvey’s called Jack Ruby’s — just to scare ‘em.