![]() Lots of photos all taken around the early-80s era of Kelso’s Bar Trail column. B&W printed photographs, spilling out of a half-dozen folders. Some were marked that there were intended for use with Kelso reviews, some not. The May, 1983, edition of Texas Monthly has a much more flattering shot of Knebel’s Tavern in its “89 Greatest Texas Bars” article. I felt a great kinship for many of these places, but as an Aggie, this wasn’t one of them. I haven’t been to Sixth Street in a long time. Things are still pretty much like this, right?Īll those electrical cords in a wood building is giving me the heebie-jeebies. ![]() 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. The bar scene in Austin seemed to skew much older back then. It is a serious bonus that the guy in the “it’s Miller time” t-shirt is indeed drinking a Miller. 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.
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