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Austin, Texas (April 5, 2019) Debra and I paid a visit to the Bullock Texas State History Museum this afternoon. It was a wonderful experience! We worked up an appetite, which we satisfied at Threadgill’s, an Austin institution.
Kenneth Threadgill, a welder and bootlegger, opened a Gulf gas station in 1933 – about the time when Prohibition was repealed. Soon he applied for and received the first beer license in Travis County...and quickly converted the gas station into a namesake beer joint. The rest, as the saying goes, “is history.” Threadgill’s, which became a favorite of traveling musicians, entered American musical history in the 1960s when a rebellious coed who attended the University of Texas in Austin began singing there on Wednesday night folk sessions. She had a rich voice and superb phrasing, and “put on a big show.” Her name? None other than Janis Joplin, THE headliner at Threadgill’s who went on to become one of the most successful music stars of her era! Debra and I had catfish with two sides for dinner and homemade pie for dessert, while we listened to a live band play country music. The food was delicious, and the music was foot-stomping good! |
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