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..History of Rox's (first posted in 2007) History of Rox's (first posted in 2007)My name is Glenn"Rocko"Caillouet and this a short history of how Rox's came to be.....Rox's was opened by my grandfather Raul "Rox"Bernard.He was in business with his brother Rene Bernard when he decided to go on his own,so in 1955 he bought the house right next door to Rene's and converted it into Rox's Bar.As a matter of fact,there was a door connecting the two bars for years.Thank God he didn't find somthing across town because we would have never had the TRIANGLE,Rox's,Rene's and the Red Goose!!! Rox's was what use to be called a working man's bar,open 7 days a week starting at 5 or 6 in the morning untill the old boys went home.No women were allowed !!! My uncles Major,Doddie and Yockey worked with Rox untill his death in 1966 when Major and Doddie took over.Yockey had some time before gotten a job with McDermott where he was head of personal for about 100 years.Yockey is who I'm talking about when I say that instead of Carry Yooky we have Carry Yockey,after Yockey gets drunk we carry him to his car !!! Ha ha Haaa. Major and Doddie ran the bar untill 1980 when they retired and leased it Edmond"Coach"Gros who was actually my coach in high school.I always kid him that we were the reason he got out of coaching !!! Coach pretty much ran it the same way and did a fine job but in 1985 the oil field went bust and it killed his business.So he decided to get out and went to work for cresent crown where he is still employed.The next two guys to take over ,believe it or not,were the present Mayor of Thibodaux, L. Charles"Charlie"Caillouet(my cousin)and Tucker Chauvin who all you Houma guys know as the owner of Uptowns Pool Hall .Charlie,who wasn't the Mayor yet,and Tucker pretty much ran the place as a hobbie.They really didn't have much time for it because Chuck was a lawyer and Tuck worked for the phone company.Business got better but it never got back to where it was before,so after a year and a halve they decided they were going to get out at the end of their two year lease.This is where it starts to get good.....I was working as an electrician at McDermott supporting a family and raising Bad Brad,who at this time was just in his pre hunk stage !!!! (that wasn't in the original draft...I just added it today !!!! Ha ha Haaaaa)when my cousin Little Stevie"Reno"Bernard mentioned to me one day that Rox's was going to be avilable and we should go in together.Well he dropped out a few days later so I called my friends Lance Ford and Mac LeBlanc and told my uncles that we wanted the lease and the rest as they say ,was HISTORY !!!!!!!!! We did some cleaning and a little carpenter work and with the help from some of our painter friends,Gordy,Noon,Randy,and Mitch we got the place painted and open right after Mardi Gras in Feb of 1987.The first night we were packed but soon after buiness went to crap.Not getting any better after a year and a half Lance and Mac decided to get out,so i bought their shares in Facowee Inc.and put my head down and went to work.I knew I had to get away from the workings man bar tag but it was hard to shake.I knew what it had to become------A College Bar !!!!!! My dad Abel"Harry"Caillouet had open a colege bar in the late 60's called the Colonels Retreat which did very well.Thats where I learned the bar business from top to bottom.I did everything from cleaning toilets to eventually working behind the bar,and everything in between.So that was my model.......I started putting speakers all over the building and CRANKING IT UP !!!!!!!!!!!! I only had two other guys working for me at the time---Andrew Caillouet(another cousin) and Randy"Mop"Gros.Well gradually we started to see more and more college students comming in then it just snowballed.Thats when things got a little CRAZY !!!!!!!!Things would happen in Rox's that you would only see in old wild west movies.Just ask some of the "OLD SCHOOL" guys on my friends list,they were there.....The S--T HIT THE FAN !!!!!!!! If there wern't 5 fights a night somthing was wrong....People would be flying thourgh the air and you couldn't get a drink because so many people were dancing on the bar.If you passed out you wouldn't hit the ground because people were so jammed up !!!!!! There were two ocassions when I went home,took off what i was wearing and threw it in the garbage can,thats how messed up and dirty my cloth were !!!! As the years went by things calmed down a bit and every now and then me and my buddy Troy"Chicken" Morvant would get out my hammer and saw and add somthing new to get it to the way you see it now.It's been a great 20 years and I want to THANK EVERYBODY......All my friends that I've met over the years,all you guys and girls still comming to the Bar,and especilly all the people who worked their ass's off for me and had to listen to me ramble on and on while we were iceing up after closing...I can still hear you'll now,Thats right Rocko,you are alway's right,can we go now !!!!!! Ha Haaaaaa.........And the crew who is still working now,,,you know who you are,there are to many to mention.Without ALL of you,and I mean this, there would be no Rox's Bar,so from the bottom of my Heart----THANKS FOR SHOPPING AT ROX'S !!!!!!!!!!!! ROCKO.....P.S.-------Lets try another 20 !!!!!!!!!
The "Godfather"......T-Boy !!!!!!!!!!!!