Lionel Earl Abel started his career playing the organ in silent movie houses. He first appeared in San Antonio in 1921. He would later drop "Lionel" from his name, but it remained part of his legal name all of his life.
Abel later returned to San Antonio in the late 1920's to play the Wurlitzer pipe organ at W. J. Lytle's new Texas Theater. It was Abel that introduced the concept of the audience singing as he played the organ.
When movies began to talk, Abel was out of a job and opened his first restaurant on Main Avenue just across from McKinley Elementary School. The family lived in quarters on the second floor.
His later restaurant on the corner of Broadway and Hildebrand needs no explanation. It is no longer there having been replaced by a high rise condominium building.
With Martha Lorena Abel he had one son, Earl Able, Jr. to which refer in these pages.
Abel later returned to San Antonio in the late 1920's to play the Wurlitzer pipe organ at W. J. Lytle's new Texas Theater. It was Abel that introduced the concept of the audience singing as he played the organ.
When movies began to talk, Abel was out of a job and opened his first restaurant on Main Avenue just across from McKinley Elementary School. The family lived in quarters on the second floor.
His later restaurant on the corner of Broadway and Hildebrand needs no explanation. It is no longer there having been replaced by a high rise condominium building.
With Martha Lorena Abel he had one son, Earl Able, Jr. to which refer in these pages.
Lionel Earl Abel started his career playing the organ in silent movie houses. He first appeared in San Antonio in 1921. He would later drop "Lionel" from his name, but it remained part of his legal name all of his life.
Abel later returned to San Antonio in the late 1920's to play the Wurlitzer pipe organ at W. J. Lytle's new Texas Theater. It was Abel that introduced the concept of the audience singing as he played the organ.
When movies began to talk, Abel was out of a job and opened his first restaurant on Main Avenue just across from McKinley Elementary School. The family lived in quarters on the second floor.
His later restaurant on the corner of Broadway and Hildebrand needs no explanation. It is no longer there having been replaced by a high rise condominium building.
With Martha Lorena Abel he had one son, Earl Able, Jr. to which refer in these pages.
Abel later returned to San Antonio in the late 1920's to play the Wurlitzer pipe organ at W. J. Lytle's new Texas Theater. It was Abel that introduced the concept of the audience singing as he played the organ.
When movies began to talk, Abel was out of a job and opened his first restaurant on Main Avenue just across from McKinley Elementary School. The family lived in quarters on the second floor.
His later restaurant on the corner of Broadway and Hildebrand needs no explanation. It is no longer there having been replaced by a high rise condominium building.
With Martha Lorena Abel he had one son, Earl Able, Jr. to which refer in these pages.
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