Sunday, August 26, 2012

From Dave Price

BucklesFredr by bucklesw1
BucklesFredr, a photo by bucklesw1 on Flickr.

White Elephant Saloon. 246 E. Main St, Fredericksburg, Texas
I had noticed this building when driving through Fredericksburg years ago so googled its history and got this:
"Famous for its elephant relief parapet and rich iron cresting, the native limestone building was constructed in 1888 by John W. Kleck. Originally part of a chain of gentleman's resorts, the building was operated as a saloon until Prohibition."
By the way, in the sixties there was a great little German restaurant in Fredericksburg, right across the street from the old Nimitz Hotel.

Posted by Buckles at 8/26/2012 05:26:00 AM

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

From a gentlemen's resort to a boutique. Sacrilege !

All best O W,

Paul

26 August, 2012 15:05
Chic Silber said...


Isn"t "gentlemen"s resort" just

a polite term for a notch joint

26 August, 2012 15:35
Ole Whitey said...

Paul: Didn't I tell you the world is going to pot?

Chic: I must defer to your superior knowledge of such things.

26 August, 2012 18:23
Chic Silber said...


Ralph Allen who wrote Sugar Babies

& was a producer as well as taught

theater at Knoxville also wrote

much about Vaudeville & Burlesque

One book was titled "At My Mother's

Knee & Other Low Joints"

26 August, 2012 18:58
Dick Flint said...

At Lincoln Center in 1977 there was an academic conference, the first ever, on popular entertainment history organized by the late Brooks MacNamara and sponsored by the American Society for Theatre Research and the Theatre Library Assn. One of the papers was Ralph Allen’s “At My Mother’s Knee and Other Low Joints” and that was what launched “Sugar Babies.” I gave a paper on the circus but was not as fortunate in having any producers in the audience see possibilities with my work! There were a few show business veterans who gave presentations as well—Morton Minsky and Mae Noell—and a spry Joe Smith of the original team of Smith & Dale revived some of their vaudeville skits with a young partner. The event was held in the Vivian Beaumont theatre and that was probably the only time a striptease was ever demonstrated at Lincoln Center. It was a great credit to Brooks and to some otherwise stuffy academics at the time. There was a book published with all the conference papers.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

26 August, 2012 23:20
Chic Silber said...


After several years of having their

productions either brought in by or

put together by outside production

folks Roger Stevens the founder of

The Kennedy Center in DC brought in

Ralph Allen to produce their own

shows & Ralph hired me to become

the production coordinator

Ralph was a fun guy & a terrific

storyteller with great knowledge

of the history of show business

27 August, 2012 07:56

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