A $1.6 million misunderstanding.
That’s what an over-year long fight for ownership of the property near Belmont and north Fitzhugh Avenues, where Strangeways is, boiled down to.
Strangeways owners and siblings Eric Sanchez and Rosie Ildemaro opened the bar in August 2011. Strangeways, named after The Smiths’ last studio album Strangeways, Here We Come, was inspired by a joke.
“The joke, which kind of isn’t a joke, is (Sanchez) was bartending, and there weren’t that many bars in Dallas back then, and he was in between bartending gigs, and he jokingly one day said, ‘I guess if I can’t find a job, I’ll just open up my own bar so I can hire myself,’ or something to that effect,” Ildemaro says…