Recent news of the demise of the bar that currently occupies the space had prompted me to do another full rewrite of this post, which previously hadn't seen much updates in over a decade.
The earliest reference I can find is 1956 with the opening of the new A&M Grill near Holick's at 108 College Main. (They mention Bob Martin and Carl Martin. I wonder if they were related to the Ken Martin restaurant group), but by 1961 this had given way to White's Auto Store. This was the sister location to one downtown at 216 North Main opened in 1947, part of a larger chain of stores based out of Wichita Falls (which by the 1950s had expanded beyond automotive parts).1 Here in the Battalion they're selling radios.
By 1974 this had disappeared and replaced with the new location of News Office Supply, a local store that had existed for almost forty years in Bryan (and evolved from a early newspaper in the county) but had added a second location in Northgate to better serve its main customers. In January 1978, the Northgate location rebranded as The Drafting Board to focus on engineering supplies, and around 1987 it closed, being replaced with A&M Steakhouse in 1988 (a diner-style operation, it appears, it served breakfast but also hamburgers), which operated until 1992. Condom Station opened in 1993 (it didn't sell just condoms, according to this newspaper article) but it only operated until spring 1994.
In March 1995, Dead Lazlo's Coffee Pub opened, a Gothic-themed coffeehouse decorated with a coffin and obituary sections on the walls. A comment from the old comments section (by Mike Teks) had this to say about it— Just wanted to confirm that Dead Lazlos was owned by the same people that owned Sweet Eugene's (back when coffee came in ceramic mugs/cups and not paper cups with lids). College Main was closed due to a major reconstruction project during its first year of being open which hurt business. After its biggest supporter among the owners of Sweet Eugene's left (he used to part his Motorcycle inside Eugene's when he worked there, cool guy) they turned it into the Copacetic Cafe (or so pathetic Cafe as we called it) Same owners and coffee, but no longer had a Gothic feel to it and it soon after I 'm told. Best 2 years of my life in BCS was spent at Dead Lazlo's. Non-smoking section was in the back and the Coffin by the bar. Good times.
In December 1995, Dead Lazlo's closed for the season, but instead of reopening it for the new semester, it was retooled as Copasetic Cafe, with different decor, a new menu, and a new ambience (and notably focusing on non-smoking). It closed in 1998 and reopened as a nightclub, Patagonia, in 1999, which became Soho Lounge in early 2001. This closed and gave way to The Groove (logo was a Comic Sans-esque "G") until the end of 2006, then in the late 2000s up to around 2011 it was Lux, and I believe Foundation Room came in in fall 2011, because it was open in January 2012. By 2015 it had become Foundation Lounge and later still became Foundie's, which closed in August 2025 after a long run, and is currently vacant.
1. There was another White's Auto Store in Bryan, but it became Mathis Home Appliance in early 1953, and was located a few doors anyway.
UPDATE 08-10-2025: Rewrote post with all tenants and accounted for current closure.
