810 Pacific Street

2001

     Heaven was one of Houston's main bars, from its opening
in August 1985 until it was closed by a fire in December 1997.
It was one of Charles Armstrong's stable of popular bars,
next door to JRs and across the street from the Mining Company.
At that location its replacement was South Beach, opening in June 2001.

And the location became South Beach, 6/8/01

Article on both South Beach and Rich's

2002

2003

Below, courtesy of Chad Simpson,
photos of he and his friends at SB, 2003
by Paul Strictlin, Sea Owl Graphics

2004

During the late 2000's there was a dearth of gay publications in which to run ads,
especially ones in color which were the most appealing

2005

2006

2007

2008

Charles Armstrong

2009

2010

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

[ there actually were not a lot of choices of publications in which to run ads in these years ]

2017

2018

Closed for remodeling, and then COVID...

Below, Sept 19th, a bit of humor
{prior to the facelift}