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Page 6 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1976 Good place for cold heer, music Dixie Chicken popular bar ♦ *& M.*Ke By LISA JUNOD Battalion Campus Editor ^ I liL Dave, an employe of the Dixie Chicken well-known to customers, shows off a souvenir available at the Dixie. LAKEVIEW CLUB 3 Miles N. on Tabor Road Saturday Night: Country Music Revue From 9-1 p.m. Ladies $1.00 Men $2.00 (ALL BRANDS BEER 40 cents) Every Tuesday Nile LADIES $1.00 MEN $2.00 All Brands Beer 40c 8-12 Dance every Tuesday and Thursday The mournful strains of a Willie Nelson tune and the smell of stale beer and crackers fill the air at Dixie Chicken, one of the few air- conditioned bars in town with sw inging front doors. The rustic saloon-style bar is lo cated at 307 University Drive, on the fringes of the north dorm area of the Texas A&M campus. The Chicken (as it is called by most Ag gies) is separated from the hustle and bustle of University Drive by a ! hitching rail, and is packed on the inside with antique signs, ceiling fans and dozens of thirsty students. Although it’s only three years old, the Chicken has developed quite a following among Aggies, and on a typical weekend night is filled with beer-guzzling, toe-tapping Aggies looking for some good music and a cold beer. The decor is primarily rural, and the wooden walls are adorned with stuffed deer heads, old license plates and rusty shovels and plows. The front of the building is filled with dozens of tables and chairs, but the back is where most of the action is — a couple of large outdoor speakers spout hours of soothing progressive country music, while tall, lanky Texans lean against their pool cues or play the pinball machines or foosball tables that line the walls. - -— -- -— Chicken, can often be found stand ing behind the antique cash register at the bar or leaning against a wall talking with customers. Canter points proudly to items he and his partner have collected for the Chicken, including an old coal, oil and wood burning stove that stands in the center of the building and the old-fashioned mirror and bar at the front of the Chicken. Canter takes a special pride in Dixie Chicken, since he and his partner, Don Anz, built the place themselves. They saw the need for a place like the Chicken, “a good clean place where people could sit and drink a beer and listen to some music,” while they were students at A&M, and started looking for the right location for their business ven ture. “My partner likes music and I like beer joints, so we decided to open a bar,” Canter said. Canter and Anz wanted a place close to the A&M campus, and felt fortunate when they found the old Aggie Den, a pool hall built in 1968 that had fallen into a state of disre pair from too many rowdy crowds. “The place was a dump when we started working on it; it took forever One day WANT AD RATES 10c per Wore! Minimum charge—$1.00 Classified Display $1.65 per column inch each insertion ALL classified ads must be pre-paid. DEADLINE 3 p.m. day before publication BATTALION CLASSIFIED THE GRADUATE COLLEGE Final Examination for the Doctoral Degree Name: Pennington, Hurm Dale Degree: Ph. D. in Soil Chemistry Dissertation. EVALUATING METHOD TO PRE DICT POTASSIUM LEVELS TO OPTIMUM GREENHOUSE TOMATO PRODUCTION. Time: June 9, 1976 at 2:00 p.m. Place: Room 402 in the University Library George W. Kunze Dean of the Graduate College SPECIAL NOTICE THE GRADUATE COI.LEGE Final Examination for the Doctoral Degree Name: Friend, Arnold Luther Degree: Ph.D. in Meteorology Dissertation: NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDIC TION USING A COMBINATION OF ISEN- TROPIC AND SIGMA COORDINATES. Time: June 17, 1976 at 2:00 p.m. Place. Room 811 in the Oceanography/Meteorology Bldg. George W. Kunze . Dean of the Graduate College SUMMER SALE The Plaster Nook 2010 S. College 20% off all unfinished plaster June 7 through June 12 12611 THE GRADUATE COLLEGE Final Examination for the Doctoral Degree Name: Skow, Loren Curtis Degree: Ph.D. in Wildlife & Fisheries Science Dissertation: BLOOD PROTEIN VARIATION IN EIGHT STOCKS OF CHANNEL CATFISH. Time: June 4, 1976 at 1:30 p.m. Place: Room 211 in Nagle Hall George W. Kunze Dean of the Graduate College Service For All Chrysler Corp. Cars Body Work — Painting HALSELL MOTOR COMPANY INC. Dodge Sales and Service Since 1922/ 1411 Texas Ave. —823-8111 FOR SALE OR RENT THE GRADUATE COLLEGE Final Examination for the Doctoral Degree Name: Cole, Randy Drue Degree: Ph.D. in Educational Psychology Dissertation: INCREASING READING AND TEST-TAKING SKILLS WITH HYPNOSIS AND SUGGESTION Time: June 11, 1976 at 1:00 p.m. Place: Room 7016 in the Harrington Tower George W. Kunze Dean of the Graduate College BELAIR Mobile Home Park 5 minutes from campus Swimming pool, TV cable, all city utilities,' large lots. * S22-2326 or 822-2421 Get the Best for Less 394tfn FOR RENT THE GRADUATE COLLEGE Final Examination for the Doctoral Degree Name: Barfield, Carl Stephens Degree: Ph.D. in Entomology Dissertation: TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT DEVELOPMENT AND FECUNDITY MOD ELS FOR BBACON MELLITOR SAY, PRIM ARY PARASITE OF THE BOLL WEEVIL. 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Call D.R. Cain Co. 693-8850, or after 5, 846-8145 or 822- 6135. 124tfh» Summer apartments for two. $90, boys only. Call 846-5132 after 6:30. 126t3 For Battalion Classified Call 845-2611 Efficiencies, $95, bills paid, $35 deposit. Quiet fur nished. 822-3078. 125t2 FOR RENT HELP WANTED Horse pasture and stalls, 846-7015. 117t8 Houston Chronicle needs re sponsible person with good motor vehicle to deliver paper route. $300 monthly salary plus $150 per month car allow ance. Must have afternoons free. Call Julian McMurrey, 693-2323 or 846-0763. 126tl FOR SALE Need someone with good credit to assume low balance on like new 1976 organ. Has drums, cymbals, guitar, automatic rhythm, automa tic bass, magic fingers, two keyboards, pedals, beautiful church organ sound, and all ex tras. Must have good credit. Call Mr. Wills, person-to-person col lect at 512-282-2256. 12612 EXECUTIVE SECRETARY- BOOKKEEPER: Top skills (no shorthand) needed in this varied and interesting position involving artistic and educational activities. Good salary, fringe benefits, at tractive working conditions (8:30- 4:30). Send resume by June 12 to Arts Council Enrichment Prog ram, 3202 S. College, Bryan. 126U Bring your bikes to White’s Auto > Store, College Station, your oldest and most dependable store, for parts, repair or trade and prices you like. Men’s bike. 10-speed, new tires, 27 inch wheels, 22 inch frame, very good condition, $50. 693-4261. 126tl • i FOREMAN, General Job Shop- Oilfield Equipment repair shop needs foreman to schedule and supervise production, control quality. Engineer ing background, welding or machine shop knowledge helpful. Benefits. Wood George & Co., Inc. Houston, Texas 713/672-9491. 125t4 JOB OPPORTUNITIES BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Would you like a business op portunity of your own? 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Clothes taken on consignment. 779-1731 AUTO INSURANCE FOR AGGIES: Call: George Webb Farmers Insurance Group 3400 S. College 823-8051 APARTMENT PLACEMENT SERVICE 3200 South College 823-7506 Reserve your apartment now for the Summer or Fall Semester before the prices increase. We W/7/ Show You a Wide Selection of Apartments in the B-CS Area. OUR SERVICES YOU FREE TO Cynthia Jensen 779-2047 Murray Sebesta 693-8950 Jenny Pitts 846-1924 J. Glenn - Broker ft fort , 0 our nich the " early ( :ws is ' i exf thin imn expe m me be able iread- lurth i *ir" On most early afternoons, it is fairly easy to find a pool table. But, by early evening. it is usually almost impossible to find even the door. just to haul all of the junk out of here,” Ganter said. Early in 1973 the partners began remodeling the building, a job which took five months to complete. While the men sawed and ham mered at the bar, their wives worked to support them until the business could start bringing in some money. Anz and Ganter did nearly all of the work themselves, including the bricklaying. “There are exactly 6,500 bricks in the back of this building,” Ganter said sadly, glancing at his hands. Ganter said that he and Anz wanted to create a downhome, easy-going rural atmosphere, and they felt that the best way to do that was to pull their furnishings out of authentic rural settings. “We tried to make Dixie Chicken look like a grocery store in the Texas Hill Country,” Ganter said. “We tore down five houses in I Bryan for lumber,” he added, point- |ing to the walls covered with weath ered wood. “The floor in this place must be 50 years old. It came out of an old dorm on the A&M campus,” Ganter added. Ganter said that he and Anz col lected many of the antiques in the bar themselves, but that some deco rations are brought in by customers who “just want to see their stuff bangin’ up on the walls.” “Look at these deer heads,” Ganter said, waving his arm at the dozens of mounted heads that line the walls of the bar. “One old boy brought a bunch of them in here and hung them up just so people could see them. I only shot four of the deer in this building, but I’m so proud of those four deer...” Ganter and Anz also own the business adjoining Dixie Chicken, Farkelberry’s Pool and Domino Par lor, but their main interest is the Chicken, where each day the stu dents flock to escape the summer’s heat or the winter’s cold, or simply to escape. The Chicken serves nine kinds of beer including Dos Equis, an im ported Mexican brand, but the bar tenders say that the most popular brands are Coors and Lone Star, old Texas favorites. “We buy lots of beer, hut we try to get everything in a long-neck bot tle,” Ganter said. The Chicken also serves wine coolers, soft drinks, cheese and tamales, and keeps jars full of jalepeno peppers and free crackers sitting on the bar. Although the Chicken is listed in the Bryan phone book as a restaur ant, its biggest drawing card seems to be its ice cold beer. Night manager Stuart Speck said that many times people call or come by Dixie Chicken to place their or ders for fried chicken wings and breasts. “During football season each year a few little old ladies will hobble in SAN vas arn rict Co fa wal lea op 'hich g here, fumbling in their pursesb wo yea change and looking for drumstiA on the menu...” Ganter said, ling. SAN line he The ladies may not fiii ityling ELG at we day i tl drumsticks, but they’re sure to s«i few legs around the Chicken, sim the predominant mode of dressi “extremely casual.” Dixie Chicken regulars sportlm feet and puka shell beads, wtu cowboy hoots and Stetson hatii even dress for a night ofta hopping in corduroys andneal Sheriff pressed shirts. Ganter believes that oneoftk best things about Dixie Chicken! the diversity of people the placet tracts, people from all walks of4 ranging in age from 6 to 60. “About 95% of our customers re students at A&M, butwegd everyone in the world in hereosj terday; in a while, Ganter said, Sam Moltz, an A&M studentik filth, ir works part-time at the Chickendi-; torenr ing the summer, savs thatheawil kinds of people pass throughtk swinging doors of the bar “YVe get grandparents, stwM kids, kickers, freaks, jocks, vetsli in( l th dents - all kinds of people, ”Mdk ) | easec said. chi Club t Saturda GAL made o leys in which careles: k “Nev the dri of peris AUS" dispa The Bacardi Driver. Zippier than a screwdriver. Easy as 1,2,3. Pour 1V2. oz. Bacardi light rum over ice in a tall glass. Pour on ice cold orange juice. Squeeze and drop in a lime or lemon wedge. Now you’re ready to sip some zip. Because Bacardi and that hint of lime or lemon really turn on theOJ! BACARDI^, rum. The mixable one. ® 1975 BACARDI IMPORTS, INC., MIAMI, FL. RUM 80 PROOF. BACARDI" AND THE BAT DEVICE ARE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OF BACARDI & COMPANY LIMITED. “Everybody in the whole school was in here an houragf j Ganter added. “Those boys are in here every! ternoon - most of them are customers,” Ganter said. Although the entire vet sell student body could not fit id Chicken at once, the capacityi] generous 250. On busy place gets really crowded, withj and backpacks and people cova the floors, and before the ownenf stalled four “smoke eaters’ the! could get pretty thick. “I was scared to death I wasg to get lung cancer,” Gantersaii| But Ganter loves the much to let a little smoke chasets| away, and hopes that Aggi tinue to people the saloon. “We’re having a big birthi party next Wednesday on JuneBj we’ll be giving away free selling cheap beer, and I hope' see a lot of people here, weai their Dixie Chicken T-shirts] Ganter said. “This will make our th'uiy* here. I wish we could say werff here for sixty years, but were! going to try...” “I wouldn’t take a thing fort place, Ganter said. “I just that someday the state puts a 1 ical marker on it.” cted ork \ dvant; [admit. BEL j“Beac( acres c (town a it in c« [is aboi ere. ] since t BUI jnow th rryir AD> lonly $ have r lern Hi ant ro< [last a 1 tions f m Now Better Than Ever. You Will Be r Pleased With These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods. 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