Last Two-Step ; Keepers of Downtown-Bound Club Relay Highlights of Cowboys' Past

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There were the Cowboys' bullriding-in-a-nightclub years, the macarena-goes-Western phase, the concerts by country-music greats -- or the soon-to-be's -- and the thousands of locals who went there to learn some boot-scooting and Texas two-step. Couples met there; some had their weddings there. Newly divorced people went there to figure out how to be singles again. Regulars have had their funerals and wakes at Cowboys.

Words and memories tumbled over one another as owner Kathy Guadagnoli and manager Tim Metcalf looked back at the 21-year history of the club, told in autographed photos that covered the walls, personal Christmas cards from Phil Vassar, the Bellamy Brothers and others, and in scrapbooks. There were notes of thanks from many charities the club has supported.

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Last Two-Step ; Keepers of Downtown-Bound Club Relay Highlights of Cowboys' Past

The last family night at the 3910 Palmer Park Blvd. location was Sunday, and today everything that's going along is being packed up to go to the new, state-of-the-art Cowboys downtown at 25 N. Tejon St., which opens Friday.

Only the location -- not the traditions -- is changing, said Metcalf, who has a weathered copy of the April 11, 1986, Gazette Telegraph with a young...

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