Chicken Ranch (Texas)
Coordinates: 29°54′48″N 96°50′05″W / 29.91339°N 96.83475°W / 29.91339; -96.83475
The Chicken Ranch was an illegal but tolerated brothel in the U.S. state of Texas that operated from 1905 until 1973. It was located in Fayette County about 2.5 miles east of downtown La Grange. The business was established by Miss Jessie Williams, and was the basis for the 1978 Broadway musical and later movie The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
Read more about Chicken Ranch (Texas): Early History, Miss Jessie Williams, Edna Milton, Closure, Legacy
Famous quotes containing the word chicken:
“Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn’t roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get a chance, because if you don’t want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain’t ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn’t want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)