Elm Street Bar in Deep Ellum back on its feet, re-opening August 29

by Teresa Gubbins

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Been closed since April.

Photo by Deborah Matula

Elm Street Bar: She's up, she's down, but now she's up again: After a four-month closure, the little bar will re-open on August 29, with longtime bar denizen Cap Priggre behind the wheel.

"It's been undergoing a remodeling," says Cap. "We bought out the old owner, applied for a liquor license, the whole SUP, you gotta get all that done."

This isn't the first time Cap has owned the place.

"It's changed hands, it used to be the same owner who kept changing the name of the club," he says. "He had it as Nightmare on Elm Street, and Elm Street Lounge. I used to own it when it was Club X. Now we changed it back to Elm Street Bar."

This marks a return for Cap back to Deep Ellum after a few years on Greenville Avenue where he owned Sugar Shack.

"I sold that about three months ago," he says. "With all the construction, it was getting bad, and the neighborhood was attracting a lot of gang bangers. Greenville is so bad -- I was walking down the street, I saw a guy lying on middle of the street with his head split open, I thought maybe he was dying. Saturday night, that’s where they go. All of the clubs on Greenville Avenue have closed down, the Service Bar is the only one left that caters to the rock crowd. And with all the construction coming, they're going to make it more like Uptown."

He says Elm Street Bar will be a live-music venue on the weekends, and he'll have dub-step during the week.

"I've been in Deep Ellum for years," he says. "Now that Greenville Avenue area is closing down, I'm hoping we'll stick together."