Thank you for this! I'd been looking for a run-down of the history of the music scene on 6th and this was pretty good! I'm really enjoying your articles.
I have a correction for you- The story about Driskill losing the hotel in a card game is a bit of a legend. It's repeated by sources that seem trustworthy, but it most likely falls into the category of local mythology. Even if he did lose it in a card game, it couldn't have been 10 years later since he would have been dead for 7 years by then.
That's a good correction. I checked my book version which is more accurate: "A late spring freeze killed 3,000 of Driskill’s cattle in 1888 and wiped him out financially, forcing him to sell the hotel. Or he lost it in a card game, the version favored by those who believe the colonel haunts his namesake hotel to this day."
Thank you for this! I'd been looking for a run-down of the history of the music scene on 6th and this was pretty good! I'm really enjoying your articles.
I have a correction for you- The story about Driskill losing the hotel in a card game is a bit of a legend. It's repeated by sources that seem trustworthy, but it most likely falls into the category of local mythology. Even if he did lose it in a card game, it couldn't have been 10 years later since he would have been dead for 7 years by then.
That's a good correction. I checked my book version which is more accurate: "A late spring freeze killed 3,000 of Driskill’s cattle in 1888 and wiped him out financially, forcing him to sell the hotel. Or he lost it in a card game, the version favored by those who believe the colonel haunts his namesake hotel to this day."
I remember hearing the music from La Plaza when going to the original Antones. The area wasn't very active back then.
Special arrangement for White people.