The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, June 09, 1976, Image 6

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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1976
Good place for cold heer, music
Dixie Chicken popular bar
♦ *& M.*Ke
By LISA JUNOD
Battalion Campus Editor
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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
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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-
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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
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2010 S. College
20% off all unfinished plaster
June 7 through June 12
12611
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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
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THE GRADUATE COLLEGE
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Dean of the Graduate College
New duplexes located one block north
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All electric furnished kitchens, central
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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
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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,
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kinds of people pass throughtk
swinging doors of the bar
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“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...”
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place, Ganter said. “I just
that someday the state puts a 1
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