What do you know about the Sabre Room?

I happened upon this when looking at another website. Wow I never knew it existed. Possibly had heard of the name. It apparently is in operation and is a vintage throw back to places that might have existed decades ago.

Both Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin and many others have played at this historic place. Anyone know if the food is good or anything else about it?

http://thesabreroom.com/index.html

Note...I looked it up on yelp and it does not have very good reviews. Also it looks to be more like a banquet hall and not a restaurant. But if anyone can chime in I would love to hear something about it.

I've been to a few weddings and company Christmas parties there.

The food pictured here is about what I remember, think Brown's Chicken and Catering and you're pretty close. Graduation party type food.
I'd never pay to go there personally.

I had the opportunity to enjoy all that is The Sabre room about 20 years ago. The experience had all the horrific qualities of a bad acid trip. We were invited to a wedding, natch, and the reception featured all sorts of incongruous moments that included, but were not limited to dudes dressed in remotely Arabian type outfits serving Cornish hens that had been impaled on swords to the bride and groom. Drinking from footwear, and bridesmaids standing on tables during a Billy Idol song yelling at the top of there lungs, "hey, hey something something get l***d, get..."oh you can figure it out. Apparently this chant was all the rage in certain circles at the time.

Admittedly, this all had very little to do with The Sabre Room itself, save for the impaled poultry, but sharing is part of the healing process, so I thank you for this curative opportunity.

Pursuit wrote: Drinking from footwear, and bridesmaids standing on tables during a Billy Idol song yelling at the top of there lungs, "hey, hey something something get l***d, get..."oh you can figure it out. Apparently this chant was all the rage in certain circles at the time.

Admittedly, this all had very little to do with The Sabre Room itself, save for the impaled poultry, but sharing is part of the healing process, so I thank you for this curative opportunity.

You're probably thinking of the obscene variation on Mony Mony that was all the rage at the time. I used to work with a bass player who dubbed places like the Sabre Room (and there are thousands) as "schmizz palaces" which I am not exactly sure what it means but it sums up places like that perfectly.

Actually, that just makes the Sabre Room sound kind of awesome....

trpt2345 wrote:You're probably thinking of the obscene variation on Mony Mony that was all the rage at the time.

The obscene chant fill-in version is still commonly sung at weddings. Some things don't change.

As for the Sabre Room, my old high school sweetheart lived 1/4 mile from there, so I drove by it more times that I can remember. Never actually been in it. It was talked about in almost reverent tones as being The Place in Hickory Hills/Palos Hills/Southwest Suburbs to get married back in the heyday. There's a video tour of it here. Always seemed quite kitschy to me, but the inside doesn't really look much different than any other banquet hall in the area.

Knew it was kitchy but kind of thought it might be a south suburban version of Sabatinos but I think not after all I have read. Now backing away from it........yikes!

Yup, Mony, Mony was it. Vile chants celebrating sacred lifetime commitments combined with Arabian poultry impalers....beginning..to experience....flashback....arghhh

Pursuit wrote:Yup, Mony, Mony was it. Vile chants celebrating sacred lifetime commitments combined with Arabian poultry impalers....beginning..to experience....flashback....arghhh

As a North Sider, I'd never heard of this place, but it definitely fits a certain demographic - kind of the degenerate version of the Tony and Tina's Wedding crowd. Or to put it another way, the patrons of those anonymous south suburban bars that kept 80's cover bands in business, and advertise in the Illinois Entertainer. Throw in polyester pants, a crush on Stevie Nicks, and big hair for the women, and this is the next step--not to stereotype or anything....

I'd almost forgotten about Mony Mony. Somehow it wouldn't surprise me if that chant still existed in a place like this....

The Sabre Room was the go-to place for high school homecoming dances and proms back in the 70's if you lived on the southwest side or in the south burbs. Styx played there for one of my school's dances before hitting it big. It's the kind of place you'd expect Henry and Karen to have had their wedding reception in Good Fellas.

My friend Cathy met her husband there -- she was a Sabre Room dancer. I'm not sure I want to know the whole story, but she's very happy now and no longer dancing at the Sabre Room.

Suzy

Hold the phone. This is a classy place. LOL Truly if the website is factual, some of the greatest entertainers of our time have performed there.

http://thesabreroom.com/EntertainmentHistory.html

Don't know how both mayor daleys got on the list. did not know they were entertainers.

toria wrote:Hold the phone. This is a classy place. LOL Truly if the website is factual, some of the greatest entertainers of our time have performed there.

http://thesabreroom.com/EntertainmentHistory.html

Don't know how both mayor daleys got on the list. did not know they were entertainers.

Sure, you say that, but I'm betting you never heard Richard J's version of Mony, Mony. He killed it, just killed it, until the unfortunate table collapsing incident that is. Really kind of a shame, Sinatra was watching his back.

sdritz wrote:My friend Cathy met her husband there -- she was a Sabre Room dancer. I'm not sure I want to know the whole story, but she's very happy now and no longer dancing at the Sabre Room.

Suzy

I beleive they called the dancers the Sabrettes. It was quite the place in its time.

2146 north wrote:

sdritz wrote:My friend Cathy met her husband there -- she was a Sabre Room dancer. I'm not sure I want to know the whole story, but she's very happy now and no longer dancing at the Sabre Room.

Suzy

I beleive they called the dancers the Sabrettes. It was quite the place in its time.

Indeed they did, and apparently, indeed it was. Through the magic of google:

http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&h ... X-6gHRms0a

Holidays at the Sabre Room

Drove past the Sabre Room a few weeks ago heading into Chicago on 95th Street. Read up on the history, Sabre room was built on the former site of Dynell Springs Spa - I guess the fountain from the spa is the one in the lobby of the Sabre Room.

Must have been something to see Frank Sinatra in 1976 at such a small venue while he was playing stadiums in other cities. Then again the following June of 1977 with Dean Martin.

Sign was lit up the other day when I passed by, not as much yesterday:

Henry Kissinger joining Koko Taylor
for that Wang Dang Doodle encore
was certainly worth the price of admission.

SCUBAchef wrote:Henry Kissinger joining Koko Taylor
for that Wang Dang Doodle encore
was certainly worth the price of admission.

I saw Koko do the Wang Dang Doodle many times before she passed and I'd pay a very pretty penny to see it live just one more time

These pictures of the Saber Room make me think of the Drury Lane/Martinique which was also on 95th street, but at 95th and Western. The Martinique was notable for its purple hued interior.

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