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The Chicken Ranch was an illegal brothel in the U.S. state of Texas that operated from 1905 until 1973 in Fayette County, about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of downtown La Grange The business was notably dramatized in the 1978 Broadway musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas , adapted into a 1982 film of the same name .
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is a musical with a book by Texas author Larry L. King and Peter Masterson and music and lyrics by Carol Hall. It is based on a story by King that was inspired by the real-life Chicken Ranch in La Grange, Texas .
The Chicken Ranch is such an institution that the winner of the annual football rivalry between the University of Texas Longhorns and the Texas A&M Aggies on Thanksgiving Day traditionally comes to "celebrate" its victory as arranged by the alumni association of the winning school. Thorpe's negative publicity, coupled with the footage of Ed ...
Chicken Ranch may refer to: Chicken Ranch (Texas), a former brothel in Texas; Chicken Ranch (Nevada), an operating brothel in Nevada, inspired by the original Texas brothel Chicken Ranch, a 1983 documentary film about the brothel in Nevada; Chicken Ranch Rancheria, an Indian reservation or rancheria in Tuolumne County, California
Fayette County is the location of the real Chicken Ranch, ... Texas – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category ...
The song’s title and lyrics refer to a brothel on the outskirts of La Grange, Texas (later called the "Chicken Ranch"). The brothel is also the subject of the Broadway play and film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. The first time ZZ Top played the song in La Grange, Texas, was during the Fayette County Fair on September 5, 2015. [6]
The Chicken Ranch story was featured in a 1973 edition of Texas Monthly magazine, [6] two 1974 issues of Playboy magazine, was the basis for the Broadway and film musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, in which the character of Melvin P. Thorpe was based on Zindler.
The Chicken Ranch, which had operated for decades with the knowledge of state and local authorities, was finally closed in 1973 by these same authorities after a scandalous report by Houston reporter Marvin Zindler. [80] The Ranch's notoriety following the scandal made it one of the most famous brothels in U.S. history.