Dixie Chicken's roof collapsed

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https://www.kbtx.com/content/news/Roof-collapses-at-historic-Dixie-Chicken-in-College-Station-570820461.html

2020 just keeps on hitting...
TAMU1990
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2020 blows
TAMU1990
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2020 blows
TAMU1990
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2020 blows
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Word on the street is the rattle snake is MIA...
atm86
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Not according to KBTX.
FamousAgg
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Ah, they just updated the story
Smeghead4761
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Anyone know how old that building is?
trouble
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Was it anything before the chicken? If not, 1974.
Builder93
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Damn, I must be historic too.

Smeghead4761
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trouble said:

Was it anything before the chicken? If not, 1974.
It might have been. The way the wiki article is written, that the Chicken founders were renting the building, implies that the building was there already.
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Watch out for scammers making fundraisers "for Dixie Chicken", I've seen three of them already.
EliteElectric
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Yeah they have already said publicly several times "There is no official fundraiser for DC"
bobinator
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They very much did not say that. They linked to one in their announcement on Twitter.
EliteElectric
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That must have been this AM because last night they were saying the opposite, they must have set one up today.

****ETA**** or after I went to bed last night
justcallmeharry
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trouble said:

Was it anything before the chicken? If not, 1974.
Pretty sure it was The Aggie Den before it became The Chicken.
trouble
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I wouldn't have a clue. The Chicken and I are the same age.
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trouble said:

I wouldn't have a clue. The Chicken and I are the same age.
The Aggie Den was originally located at Culpepper Plaza, then moved to its location which The Chicken subsequently took over.

The Aggie Den was a pool hall and sold pron...

I have about 22 years on you...

ETA: "Jackson's father, Don Ganter, opened the bar inside the former Aggie Den with business partner Donnie Anz on June 15, 1974 and it grew to become an institution in the college town. Ganter died in 2004, months after the bar celebrated it 30th year feeding and boozing Aggies. He also owned many other haunts in College Station, so he was a notable figure in that town's nightlife."
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They own multiple bars and they've been in College Station for decades. The Chicken is the last place that needs a Go Fund Me page.
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texasaggie04 said:

They own multiple bars and they've been in College Station for decades. The Chicken is the last place that needs a Go Fund Me page.
Between this, and talk literally a few days into the virus that they were struggling mightily something tells me its not exactly the most well oiled business machine.
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Why a need for a Go Fund Me? Wouldn't the insurance cover it? Or is the GFM to assist employees?
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Langenator said:

Anyone know how old that building is?
Dixie Chicken is composed of two buildings, the Aggie Den on the left (slightly newer) and Miranda's on the right (slightly older). At some point, Miranda's was absorbed into Dixie Chicken and sealed off the exterior entrance.
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texasaggie04 said:

They own multiple bars and they've been in College Station for decades. The Chicken is the last place that needs a Go Fund Me page.

Agreed. It's not a good look.
95_Aggie
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Agreed. It's not a good look.
I'll bet they'll get a bunch of people to donate because ... Dixie Chicken. Just look at the pinned article at the top of the page.
bobinator
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It's already raised over $25,000. Just ridiculous.
bobinator
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Hell, why stop at $50,000.
Jimmy Conway
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So leme get this straight the owners will simply pocket the extra cash they take in from the GoFundMe? This is all so bizarre. And that so many suckers seem ok with it is perplexing.
DadAG10
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Looks like multiple gofundme's:

https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=homepage_norma/search&term=Dixie%20Chicken
MaroonBloodedAg2010
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They were struggling long before Covid or the roof collapse. I worked there almost 10 years ago and they were struggling then.
bobinator
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It's one of those things that just doesn't sit right with me for some reason, but if that's what people want to give money to who am I to tell them not to.
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95_Aggie
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Not wishing for any kind of damage to any local business, but that area of Northgate would be improved by several renovations.
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This is something I'd like to see KBTX follow-up on. How much of the money raised from a Go Fund Me goes to roof repair, how much of it goes to the average employee, how much of it is returned to donors (if rumors of a new roof donation are to be believed), and how much of it just disappears when people forget this ever happened...
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