Word: edna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before Edna's time, the place was as much a part of the community as the general store. During the Depression, farm boys with no money paid with chickens - hence the bordello's name. In more prosperous times, the house was good for the town's econ omy. Says Lester Zapalac, publisher of the La Grange Journal, the town's only newspaper: "The girls bought all their clothes here, their eats. It brought busi ness for the community." When the town would hold a big barbecue, the girls at Edna's, of course, were...
Probably the strongest supporters of Edna's were the college students, par ticularly from the Bryan campus of Texas A. & M. The school was all male until recently, and a Houston girls' school, a strict Roman Catholic institution, offered small solace to the lusty...
...Ranch became an accepted extracurricular activity - and the scene of some rites of passage. "If we found out somebody was a virgin," says one A. & M. graduate, "we'd kidnap him, tie him up on the floorboard, and take him to the ranch." So routine were evenings at Edna's that the school began to provide penicillin free...
...prescription is more likely to be a cold shower or a trip to nearby Austin. For this month the Chicken Ranch was closed by official fiat from the state capital. The 16 girls are gone, and no one knows where Edna...
...signed, responding to the old argument that morality aside, the house had provided a necessary outlet that protected respectable girls from rape. Flournoy supported the petition drive and even considered a personal appeal to Bris coe. But in the end he did his duty with a telephone call to Edna that ended 130 years of tradition in La Grange...