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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 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]
It is the late 1970s, and a brothel has been operating outside of fictional Gilbert, Texas (based on La Grange) for more than a century.It is currently under the proprietorship of Miss Mona Stangley, who inherited it from original owner Miss Wulla Jean.
Also known as the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the La Grange Chicken Ranch made headlines after Channel 13's Marvin Zindler had it shut down. ABC13 revisits the Chicken Ranch decades later [Video]
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. It also served as the basis of the song "La Grange" by ZZ Top. The ...
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The current Fayette County Courthouse in La Grange was finished in 1891. ... Fayette County is the location of the real Chicken Ranch, ...
The band performed in La Grange at the Fayette County Fair on September 5, 2015. [11] The Chicken Ranch also served as the basis for the 1978 Broadway musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and its 1982 movie adaptation. [12] In 1974, a little league team from La Grange won the Texas state championship.