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Location of site[edit]

Does anyone seriously know where this place was? I mean really, all I see here and on the Internet are a lot of vague references to "outside of La Grange". One story here http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=stationinfo&id=3300910 says "They then drove down county gravel road 130 and around the bend just outside La Grange in Fayette county to the notorious Chicken Ranch" -- CR 130 in Fayette County is way north, near Ledbetter (E of Giddings), about 20 miles north of LaGrange. Some other stories say that Texas A&M students and soldiers [presumably from Fort Hood] would line up there -- this supports the idea of it being near Ledbetter rather than LaGrange. Can we get this LaGrange myth cleared up, or validated? -Rolypolyman 22:10, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, 4 years after posting that I see these guys successfully located the Chicken Ranch site: http://www.twtex.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9728 . This places the coordinates at 29.91339,-96.83475, and correlates with the articles I found in Google newspaper archives. I am updating the article. Glad to see this piece of history did not fade into oblivion. Interestingly older USGS quad maps show that the Chicken Ranch house was linked to Hwy 71 via a north-south dirt road starting near the old/new US 71 interchange (leading north-northeast from 29.9088,-96.8368), so this would have been just past the "bend" of old US 71 when driving east from La Grange. My guess is that customers probably drove into Chicken Ranch via this north-south road rather than using Truesdale/Rocky Creek Rd. -Rolypolyman (talk) 20:06, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Marvin Zindler's death[edit]

The date of Marvin Zindler's death is irrelevant to the article. --unsigned

URL Update[edit]

I don't know how to edit the reference list, but the link to number 2 (the best little secret) needs to be changed to: http://209.189.226.235/aandmnews/anniversary/2chickenranch.htm The current link is no longer valid. -Karinagw (talk) 19:41, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I fixed the link. Jacksinterweb (talk) 22:01, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Chicken Ranch was near La Grange, NOT Ledbetter. There is a reason the rock group ZZ TOp's song was called La Grange. My family lived near La Grange while the Ranch was open in the early 70's. Call the La Grange Chamber of Commerce and someone will be glad to tell you exactly where this brothel was. Practially everything the La Grange Chamber has on their walls is related to the Chicken Ranch legacy. The ranch of course, is gone. after its closing it was moved to Dallas to become a restaurant, then it burned down. And Marvin Zindler passed away in 2007, for those interested.-Thanks, Virginia, Fort Worth, Texas —Preceding unsigned comment added by Marky12 (talk • contribs) 03:00, 9 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Helicopter transportation[edit]

In the ==Edna Milton== section it mentions that "One base supplied a helicopter for soldiers to use for transportation to the ranch". I realize this is quoted/cited from the "Handbook of Texas", but is there anything else that can back this up? I just seems a bit unreasonable that the government would use helicopters to transport soldiers to the "Chicken Ranch". Not that it couldnt happen, but I just can't picture this happening. Any comment?Bgautrea (talk) 05:53, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Location of Chicken Ranch, Fayette County, Texas[edit]

The article contains the statement, "Williams sold her house and purchased eleven acres just outside the city limits of La Grange, and only two blocks from the Houston-Galveston highway." Color emphasis added. A quick look at a Texas map shows this to be a most dubious statement, probably based in geographical ignorance. This would also not be a logical erotic detour when traveling either direction between Houston and Galveston. Galveston had its own well-known and well-defined red light district, at least into the mid 1950's, the last time I was there. Old tar (talk) 00:34, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good point... I found the location of the ranch, so I will look the article over and see if those errors are still in there. -Rolypolyman (talk) 20:06, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Who is 'James'[edit]

In Section "Closure" a character James is mentioned as calling Zindler. However James was never introduced. What is missing? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.188.35.132 (talk) 12:02, 29 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

politician joke?[edit]

May I quote from the article: "...her house was respectable by admitting politicians" is that a real statement or some kind of wicked joke? -93.197.101.33 (talk) 08:18, 4 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Chicken Ranch, Pahrump Nevada[edit]

Should the existence of the of the Chicken Ranch (Nevada) be included as part of the legacy section? It doesn't appear the be a direct continuation of the business, but it is clearly using the history of the Chicken Ranch in its marketing, if nothing else. https://chickenranchbrothel.com/chicken-ranch-history/ --BookJuggler (talk) 22:17, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The history in the link certainly gives the impression that the Nevada ranch was a continuation of the Texas one. "In 1975, an enterprising capitalist bought the rights and established a legal licensed brothel in the town of Pahrump" seems to give enough of a link to add the Nevada brothel into the legacy section. --John B123 (talk) 17:27, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]