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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1983
THE BOERNE STAR
Families came and brought
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Tune Twisters playing, 2 to 6
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the Kendalia property are
Karen Morris, Leta Condra
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Interior Designers and was a
student representative to the
Annual ASID Conference in
Boston, Massachusetts, this
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Sandra Angle is married
and lives in Boerne with her
husband, John, son Ted (18)
and daughter Cathy (10). She
is the daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. J. Spencer Dryden, of
Bethesda, Maryland.
ing them on the benches
around the edge of the floor
when they fell asleep.
Included in the property to
be restored eventually are a
zinc coated tin feed store, a
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was 15, and played for 17
years. “Otto Zoeller started
our band, then Paul Elbel
took up and we played
together. In 1932, the band
kind of busted.” Kneupper
admitted he was ready to
“kick up his heels” when the
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dance floor had to be supple- Kneupper remembers that it families lived there, King
said, including the Lee
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was so full we didn’t have She was a member of the
room.” Kneupper said all IWC Student Chapter of the
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ED KING—stands in front of will renovate a seed store on
the old home he plans to the property for his art
eventually restore. The studio.
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where you can bring your
kids when you want to.
“This is primarily a local
dance hall. We are not
promoting it to the people in
San Antonio. We don’t intend
to be more than a local dance
hall with German hands,
country and western bands,
real first quality bands.”
On Saturday, October 8,
Midnight Rose will play at
the Hall. And the Kendalia
Volunteer Fire Department
benefit is scheduled for
Saturday, October 15. “We
want to try an experiment
this Sunday afternoon
(October 2),” Morris said,
“with a dance and music by
the ‘Tune Twisters’, a group
who plays soft country,
polkas, waltzes. The dance
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ELBEL BUILDING—The hopes that eventually the
George Elbel, building, building can be used for a
constructed in 1911 has the country restaurant or retail
marble nameplate attached store. The Kendalia Dance
to the old partially restored Halle, which opened Septem-
building in Kendalia. Ed ber 10 is having a dance this
King, one of the owners, Sunday afternoon with the
who owned it exactly when.
- Beet al was primarily the
operator. There were
different people involved.
“I would like for someone
to organize a Hill Country
dance hall circuit. There is a
dance hall in Sisterdale, Twin
Sisters, Kreutzburg. Fischer
has one and there is one in
New Braunfels. They are all
on-going dance halls.”
“We’ve been real pleased
with the turnout,” Morris
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wedding anniversary and
they said they plan to come
next year to celebrate their
50th anniversary.”
The Old Kendalia Dance
Halle has been “warming up”
dance bands for the Kendalia
Centennial celebrations 1883-
1983, Ed King said recently
while he was working on
restoring the old Douglas red
fir building. “That wood
comes from Oregon and the
northwestern states. Some of
those trees are as big as
eight feet in diameter when
they are cut.”
“The Dance Hall was built
in 1903 by the Nicholas
Syring Musical Club and they
played here,” King
explained. “Edward
Kneupper, now 95, was 15
when the dance hall was
finished. He played the bass
horn in the second band, the
Zoeller Band, 17 years in all
here.”
The hall measures approxi-
mately 60 x 40 feet, with
about 2,000 square feet for
the dance floor, King
estimates. Seats run around
the edges of the dance floor,
just as they did in the old
days, but tables have been
added to one area, and a beer
garden, 100 x 60 feet,
expands the building on the
east side.
Fans under the stage
furnish a breeze and the old
windows or wooden sides,
are propped up just as they
used to be.
“We tried to retrieve much
General Store, as it was started playing the bass horn Store front porch, where
mented with fresh lumber. was “so full in its first year
“Conrad Bectal did buy the that it had to be built onto
hall,” King said. “I’m not sure the next year.”
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“There was square dancing FRIENDS—Donald D’Spain
every night, and the waltz visits with his friend.
was the main thing.” Ninety- Edward Kneupper, on the
five year old Kneupper present Kendalia General
of the original concept, but will start at 2 p.m. and run to taken precedent over any- •
make it functional,” King about 6 p.m.,” Morris said. thing else these past '"•
said. Tables were con- “This was a real famous old months, he said. .\
structed from wood from an Dance Hall,” King stated. A Conrad Bectal and family— , , •
old Boerne house and the lot of people danced here. It lived in the house at one —-a. A i aag
seats around the edge of the was always crowded.” time, and a variety of
the early 1900’s, as was a known in 1911. “He didn’t
stone pattern impressed into keep the store very long but
the tin. “The zinc coated, sold it shortly after to
pressed pure zinc doesn’t Conrad Bectal, and it was
rust.” There are samples of known as the Bectol General
such tin buildings on Main Store until the 1940’s and the
Street and Rosewood Drive war.”
in Boerne. Although King was un-
King is eager to work on certain of the hands it passed
the feed store, planning to through, Gertrude Widener
restore it for use as his art ran it during the 50’s, he said,
studio. He works in oils, does “In 1960’s, it pretty much
print making, etching and declined. The last thing here
lithographs. King received was more or less a local
his art degree in design from tavern in the 70’s. We bought
the University of Texas in it in the early spring, 1982. e —.vum ..
Austin in 1973. Originally and started restoring all the Admmdd.
from Oak Cliff, in the Dallas property. I wanted to get the / 52
area, he fondly recalled that front (of the store) looking * ,
he has hunted in the Hill good and then shifted / / ; •
Country since he was 12 emphasis to the dance hall.” . .—e , - ~
years old. He hopes to The columns in front of the
eventually have art functions Elbel building, King ' "- -—
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Dance Hall
The Old Kendalia Dance
Halle re-opened on Sep-
tember 10.
“The first dance was real
good,” one of the owners, Hal
Morris, said this week. A lot
of people came because it
was real nostalgic and people
were there who had been
there as kids, when they
danced or played in the band,
when they came there with
sweethearts or wives.
“The Eddie Krauses were
at the Dance Hall when they
celebrated their 25th
hope to make this building a
multi-use facility.
Presently he is living in
the wooden house on the
property. The house is white
and grey, but he hopes to re-
paint it. The dance hall has
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The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 29, 1983, newspaper, September 29, 1983; Boerne, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1547432/m1/30/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Patrick Heath Public Library.