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Originally Posted by THE PILGRIM
Phil - are you sure you walked into a bar in Kingsville, 1956?
Kleberg County was dry back then.
I recall going up from Harlingen to visit a Lady attending Tex A&I.
You had to drive into the next county to buy booze.
Just across the line There was a junky looking building with dozens of cars going-coming.
Holster?
This rig sold for over $1K!
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Yeh, I'm pretty sure. It could have been 1957 but it was 56 or
57. I was working for a security outfit and only worked for them
about last half of 56 and first half of 57. Maybe dry allowed beer,
that's all I remember having.
Elvis Presley and his band had been in Kingsville not too long
before I was there, and I remember a roadhouse on the outskirts
of town where they took a wall out and put a bandstand outside
because some of the group was not of age. Maybe Elvis wasn't
even 21 when they were there. Thinking about that, I'm more
sure it was 1956 because Elvis would have been 21 in January
of 1956, and it seems the event was fairly recent at the time.