912 RED RIVER HISTORY, AUSTIN TX

Posted by ARTSTRADA MAGAZINE July 04, 2025

912 RED RIVER HISTORY, AUSTIN TX

Red River: Street on the Edge

Before Stubb's, the Mohawk, and Elysium, there was the One Knite, El Charro and Snoopers Paradise

https://michaelcorcoran.substack.com/p/red-river-street-on-the-edge

The most notorious tenant at 912 was the Caucus Club, also private in the beginning (1977) because they had high stakes poker in the back room. Building owner John Joseph was a convicted gambler, and the Caucus was investigated after the 1979 suicide of Triumph Motors owner Roy Burton, Jr., who defaulted on bank loans totaling $140,000 to cover gambling debts. The club came back with “new owner” Donald Sconci, Joseph’s nephew.

The third iteration of the Caucus Club came in the ‘90s, during the martini/cigar bar craze, when new owner Daniel Foreman went after Cedar Street Courtyard, which was selling more booze than even the “gentlemen’s” clubs. In that era, former roots musicians started playing swing music and jump blues in retro bands like Lucky Strikes and the Recliners because that’s where the money was. Even shock-rocker Dino Lee, the “King of White Trash,” became saloon crooner Mr. Fabulous, opening the swanky Oceans 11 club on Red River.

The building at 912 was home for several short-lived clubs: Legends sports bar, Auntie’s Mame’s gay bar, Le Privilege French disco (with Hot Freaks upstairs) and the Velvet Spade, James Moody’s hangout, which he cashed in his 401K to buy....

https://michaelcorcoran.substack.com/p/red-river-street-on-the-edge

A new Covid-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, or Nimbus, represents about a third of new US Covid-19 cases.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/19/health/virus-covid-variant-summer-wellness

The Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act of 2003 is a United States federal law enacted as a rider within the PROTECT Act on April 30, 2003. A substantially similar Act was proposed during the previous Congress as the Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act (RAVE Act).[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illicit_Drug_Anti-Proliferation_Act

Austin Tx ! on $40! In 2003

https://youtube.com/watch?v=O1sJ0OTo-O8&si=LNJIMDG6iQMVnLIe

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