Remembered for the live recording by Blaze Foley, the Outhouse lasted all the way into 1995.Ībout a decade after he shot this, Ken Geiger won the Pulitzer Prize for news photography. It is a serious bonus that the guy in the “it’s Miller time” t-shirt is indeed drinking a Miller. The bar scene in Austin seemed to skew much older back then. It’s a safe bet that they are not singing “Convoy” or “Redneck Mother.” There are probably places across the state that look much the same as this today. Things are still pretty much like this, right?Īll those electrical cords in a wood building is giving me the heebie-jeebies. I haven’t been to Sixth Street in a long time. I felt a great kinship for many of these places, but as an Aggie, this wasn’t one of them. The May, 1983, edition of Texas Monthly has a much more flattering shot of Knebel’s Tavern in its “89 Greatest Texas Bars” article.
Some were marked that there were intended for use with Kelso reviews, some not. B&W printed photographs, spilling out of a half-dozen folders. Lots of photos all taken around the early-80s era of Kelso’s Bar Trail column. Kelso even paid a visit to emmajoe’s, about a year before it closed, and pointed out the place named after radicals Emma Goldman and Joe Hill was the kind of club “that would make a Republican itchy.” Must have been the “Stripmining is Forever” bumper sticker.įROM OUR ARCHIVES: Read three of John Kelso’s early Statesman columns And he describes the jukebox at Flossie’s at 1920 S.
He shares Aggie jokes from “Snuffy’s Place” in Hutto, where the beer was a cheap 75 cents in 1982. Kelso critiques the “flashy” Hamm’s Beer sign at Adeline’s in Round Rock.
Sadly, the “bars” file in the archives only contained seven reviews from that series. RELATED: John Kelso, longtime columnist who kept Austin chuckling, has died
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So when old-timer Gardner Selby mentioned to me that Kelso also did a series called “John Kelso’s Bar Trail,” I figured to tap that well, too. And it was popular, particularly here in the office where the former columnist’s recent passing has feelings and memories freshly stirred up. When I stumbled upon old clips of John Kelso’s Barbecue Trail articles, I knew I had a story. Im from the eastcoast and let me tell you all if you come to vegas its a must that you visit this club after 2a.m.