Bar Memoriam, Volume 2: Ruthie's Place
Many of the taverns in my dive bar book have closed. Here is one of them.
Ruthie’s Place
1829 Richmond
(713) 522-7240
I grew up less than a mile from Ruthie’s and walked by it a thousand times and never went in. Nobody I knew ever went in there either, which led me to believe that like a few of the other dives not far away on Lower Richmond, that Ruthie’s was a gay bar. (In Ruthie’s case, I had it fixed in my head that it was a …
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