User:Cris57helpme/Sherwood cryer

Sherwood Cryer was born in east Texas on September 2,1939,he grew up going to school with his brother Gean Cryer.His father and mother were local boot leggers holding down part time work.After spending a short time in the war Cryer moved to Pasadena Texas.He started running vending machines,then moving on to local clubs,convenient stores,and he even started the idea for the mechanical bull which was and still is very successful.He was married twice,and has two sons and three daughters,Shelly Cryer,Cherri sue,Crystal,Jr and Cliff.He started the club Shelly's and became close friends with Mickey Gilley.Gilley said to Cryer you put my name on this club and I'll make it famous he had local country singers performed regular every night at Gilley's with bull rides and video games,pin ball machines,test your strength punching bag,arm wrestling game,with pool tables,it also made the Guinness world records.Many country singers were Johnny page check,Hank Williams JR,Charlie Daniels,Mickey Gilley,Jerry Lee Lewis,Johnny Lee.The movie Urban cowboy with John Travolta was made around Gilley's and a couple that spent their weekends there with Bud saving the place from getting robbed,Sissy was also a non fictional character also.Around 1989 Cryer and Gilley called it quits local people said it was messy divorce.Cryer went into hiding,Gilley sued him and won,Cryer stayed in Pasadena living close to his family he continued to work up until his death on August 17,2009 at bay shore hospital.He leaves behind G's ice house,after the fire of the biggest honky tonk he stayed to himself in Pasadena his first name start with Charles but he liked to be called Sherwood.