Texas Highways Magazine

Flying the Coop

sk a Texan if they know where La Grange is and they’ll probably tell you one of two things: “I’ve driven past there,” or “Like the ZZ Top song?” Yes, La Grange’s claim to fame is the Chicken Ranch, the famed brothel with “a lotta nice girls,” as ZZ Top mumbles in the song that shares the town’s name—the same brothel that the movie is based on. But the town has a rich history beyond the Chicken Ranch. Its growth was fueled by an influx of Czech

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