Who We Are
The Bellaire Club is a non-profit organization whose mission is provide a safe and secure environment for 12 Step meetings, groups and members. It is a center for spiritual exchange and fellowship to facilitate the recovery of alcoholics and like minded individuals.
The Bellaire Clubs doors are open to anyone who needs help or knows someone who does. When an alcoholic or a family member reaches out for help, the Bellaire Club is there.
The Bellaire Clubs doors are open to anyone who needs help or knows someone who does. When an alcoholic or a family member reaches out for help, the Bellaire Club is there.
A Brief History of the Bellaire Club
The old AA adage that states all you need for a new meeting is a resentment and a coffee pot certainly applies to the Bellaire Club.
The club grew out of the Triangle Group that met in the old Houston-Western Club then housed on the second floor of the Triangle Building, which still stands.
When the Houston-Western Club moved, the Triangle Group voted to stay behind and rented church space. The reason offered was that the move would take them further from the VA Hospital which then had a large alcoholic treatment program. The Triangle Group took on a Wednesday night meeting there as well and provided transportation for patients to outside meetings.
The Triangle Group met in a church while plans for forming a new club were made. Finally, on Saturday, April 18, 1981 the first meeting was held in the new, one-room Bellaire Club on Cedar Street. This would become the old, old, old Bellaire Club to old timers.
The Thursday night Triangle Group meeting was always packed, the subject was always the first three steps. Many a newcomer’s first active service work was picking up patients at the VA hospital to bring to the meeting. Many of them stayed on to become vital members of the club. This outreach to newcomers characterized most meetings at the club.
The club soon outgrew its first location and moved around the corner to another place in the same building, “across from Bert Wheeler’s!” From the front door, besides the liquor store one would see a hospital and a funeral home. An ever present reminder of our options.
When that location grew inadequate, the club moved across the street next door to the old Pancho’s on Bissonette.
The club then moved to Dunlap "behind Walgreens!"
The final move to its present location on Beechnut has provided the most space the club has ever known.
Come by and see what is going on. If you like what you see, you are welcome to stay.
Bellaire Club
5625A Beechnut
Houston TX 77096
The club grew out of the Triangle Group that met in the old Houston-Western Club then housed on the second floor of the Triangle Building, which still stands.
When the Houston-Western Club moved, the Triangle Group voted to stay behind and rented church space. The reason offered was that the move would take them further from the VA Hospital which then had a large alcoholic treatment program. The Triangle Group took on a Wednesday night meeting there as well and provided transportation for patients to outside meetings.
The Triangle Group met in a church while plans for forming a new club were made. Finally, on Saturday, April 18, 1981 the first meeting was held in the new, one-room Bellaire Club on Cedar Street. This would become the old, old, old Bellaire Club to old timers.
The Thursday night Triangle Group meeting was always packed, the subject was always the first three steps. Many a newcomer’s first active service work was picking up patients at the VA hospital to bring to the meeting. Many of them stayed on to become vital members of the club. This outreach to newcomers characterized most meetings at the club.
The club soon outgrew its first location and moved around the corner to another place in the same building, “across from Bert Wheeler’s!” From the front door, besides the liquor store one would see a hospital and a funeral home. An ever present reminder of our options.
When that location grew inadequate, the club moved across the street next door to the old Pancho’s on Bissonette.
The club then moved to Dunlap "behind Walgreens!"
The final move to its present location on Beechnut has provided the most space the club has ever known.
Come by and see what is going on. If you like what you see, you are welcome to stay.
Bellaire Club
5625A Beechnut
Houston TX 77096
