There was a shack out by the race track in the late 70's to early 80's called "Lady T's". It was a "massage parlor". The talk was that it was a latter day version of the CR. I saw old Lady T once and she was skanky to the max.

Then there was Potato Woman who hung around campus. I'm not sure about her MO but I'll bet some of you do. Finally there was Highway Fay, and I did know her, but not in the Biblical sense. I knew her from church when she was young but obviously it didn't take with her. I was told all you had to do was ask... I never did, though. Anyone else familiar with any of this?

"I'd rather be a Texas Aggie"

La Grange, 1 hour drive

I've never been to the Chicken Ranch and I'm never going back.

jmtamu

Here you go brother.

I went with some buds back in '69. We had to chip in to raise $6 so one guy who was a virgin could go. The rest of us sat on the couch up front and looked at the merchandise while he was in the back.

76Ag.

I have, for better or worse, a first-hand knowledge of Lady T's. I visited it once in 1983, my soph year.

Guess I wasn't so conservative in my younger days...

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/ysc1.html

History lesson.

I remember reading this thread while goofing off from studying last semester's finals. I wanted it to come back to life, because I was literally dieng laughing in the library after reading this thread.

Anyone have any more good stories?

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I bet if CMP was in Texas then he would have gone.

Aggie02,

Chicken Ranch was in La Grange, Texas.

My grandfather, yell leader '56, has his name carved on the walls there...he tells me that there are former TX governors and US senators names carved there as well as one former President of the US....ive heard some great stories from him!

LaGrange and the fee was 10-20 dollars depending on your particular tastes. 1970.

LaGrange and the fee was 10-20 dollars depending on your particular tastes. 1970.

LaGrange and the fee was 10-20 dollars depending on your particular tastes. 1970.

Any Dallas historian types know if the building is still in Dallas? The Texas Handbook article stated that most of the Chicken Ranch and it's furnishings were moved to Dallas in the 1970s and a restaurant called The Chicken Ranch was in business for a short period of time.

Is the building still there and operating as an antique store or something, or was it torn down or moved to another location after the restaurant failed?

The reason I'm asking is because if it in fact still there I would like to drive by the next time I'm in Dallas.

Sealy was by far better. The only thing great about the Chicken Ranch, was the name. The Broken Spoke, just past the 24 pump Key Station on I-10 at Sealy....Oh, my. Glad I'm not that young and foolish any more. Much better ways to spend your money.

Chicken Ranch instead of wasting $50.00 on a bad date spend $3.00 on a good ****.

that house on 6 is the old Pink House, now a trailer park. there were holes in the walls and lots of other weird stuff.

damn marvin zindler.

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ttt

Alot of curiosity about the legends of this place took me and a few buddies on a road trip to La Grange in the mid 80's. We asked around and finally got some rough directions out to the site where the building once stood. Posing as reporters for our local town paper (extremely unbelievable I'm sure), we knocked on a few doors and found an elderly black woman at one house who would talk to us She said she worked there as a maid. We also went to the public library in town and found a few newspaper articles from the time it was shut down (locals and librarians did not take too kindly to us and were not very helpful either). What we learned was that the building was moved to Dallas in 77 to open up a restaurant but it failed about a year later and was dismantled, much to our dismay, in something like 1984. We wanted a board or a brick for a souvenir.

Now who has any stories on the mexican blackbird????

Marvin Zindler is a gay man and I mean that literally. Don't think closing it down was just for fame and attention.

Wasn't "We've Never Been Licked" filmed at the Chicken Ranch?

It is said that Linda Lovelace got her first taste of show business at Nezzie's.

Gig 'em, FAST FRED '65.

Before the world wide web, village idiots usually stayed in their own village.

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FAST FRED

You have, by far, the best signature on this forum. Cracks me up every time I see it.

Guess Mike Price made it there once too many times.

I don't remeber exactly where we were but when I was still in grade school I remeber riding around out in the country with my grandmother somewhere betweeen Round Top and LaGrange and she popinted out where it used to be. I can tell you it didn't look anything like what's pictured in the movie. Looked like a couple of trailer houses amongst some chicken coups.

In '68, it was $6 for a "straight", $20 for a "round the world", and $50 for "all night". I could only afford the first one.

PS...my name is on the bathroom wall

I played music at Nezzie's and The Hitchin' Post several times while in school.

Nezzie's was on the NW corner of the Hwy. 6 - Hwy. 21 intersection, if I remember correctly.

Pretty big dance floor, old rundown tourist cabins out back.

I've heard Lefty Frizell, George Jones, Mel T-T-T-T-Tillis, Hank Thompson, etc. played there back in the day.

There wasn't much of a music scene around B/CS when I was in school, since there were few cars on campus and no girls at Aggieland.

That lack of temptation gave me plenty of time to study, if I was at modern Aggieland I would have to make some tough time management decisions.

So I indulged my musical Jones in the summertime and on weekend field trips during the school year.

If you went to Austin there was Threadgill's or the Broken Spoke for C&W, Charlie's Playhouse for Soul Music and The Vulcan Gas Company for Roky Ericson and the 13th Floor Elevators, etc.

Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston each had branches of The Cellar, where you could find music, female companionship or an ass whipping with equal ease.

They kept going after hours until dawn on Fridays and Saturdays with rock music and beer behind doors that were closed and locked at "last" call.

The last semester of my Senior year, I had my final class of the week at 11:00 Thursday morning and nothing much on the schedule until a loosely attended Biology seminar Monday afternoon at 4:00.

I spent many long, counter-culture weekends with musician friends in those other Texas cities cruising, playing, crashing and hanging out.

There were lots of dudes and dudettes back then who, if they've long ago forgotten my name, might remember a bass player with decent chops and the shortest haircut to be found in that entire scene.

Of course, there were lots of folks from back then who can't remember any of it, but I managed to keep enough brain cells intact to see me through.

After all I was still under contract in the Corps of Cadets and had been accepted to enter Dental School in the Fall.

Occasionally that Spring I rolled into Aggieland just in time to shave, dress, burp and be in formation for chow on Tuesday morning.

But I always got there.

Good times.


Gig 'em, FAST FRED '65.

Before the world wide web, village idiots usually stayed in their own village.

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High School 1957 and the price was $5.

No co-eds in sight.

After entering A&M, found that the girls at Sealy were younger and still $5.

Easy money was to hold a Sealy trip raffle. 100 tickets, 1 cent to $1. Takes in $50. Transportation and a $5 lay for the winner. Always a sell out.

Just wanderin' if Mike Price or Larry Eustachy ever knew about this place................

A "piece" of history, here

This is great.

I'm from La Grange. My grandparents have owned a fried chicken restaurant that's been around for 40+ years and they remember when all of the ladies from the CR had to come into town once a month to visit the Doctor. This was part of the agreement the CR had with Sheriff Flournoy...he agreed to let them stay open as long as the ladies were kept in good health and continued to be helpful with information about criminal elements that may have been passing through the area.

Anyways, my grandparents said one of the CR staff would always come pick up boxes of fried chicken for all of the ladies when they were headed back to the ranch after doctor-day...

This is a great thread! Thanks for the bump!