🎧 The Texas Chicken Ranch: Famous Brothel to Broadway
🎧 American History Hit • 27m
When it closed in 1973, the Texas Chicken Ranch was the oldest continually operating brothel in the United States. Why was this brothel able to survive for so long? Who were the women at work there? And where did it get its name?
In this episode, Don explores the brothel behind the Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds musical with Jayme Blaschke, author of Inside the Texas Chicken Ranch: The Definitive Account of the Best Little Whorehouse.
Produced by Sophie Gee. Edited by Siobhan Dale. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.
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