The Austin Chronicle Physical memories of violence might not seem like something that would draw crowds into a bar, but a bullet hole at the Butterfly Bar offers a historic story. Here in Austin, Texas, the lonesome bullet hole in the Butterfly Bar happened in the seventies and people travel here just to have a drink where a part of history was made.
There's a bullet hole in the gorgeous wooden bar between the stools and the mirror-backed, bottle-stocked shelves.
There's a bullet hole and there's a story that goes with the bullet hole, and Bonnie Cullum – artistic director of Vortex Repertory Company, owner of the multipurpose Vortex compound near where Chestnut Avenue intersects the restaurant-studded stretch of Manor Road – Bonnie Cullum is telling me that story.
"It happened in the Seventies," she says. "This bar was at The Landing on San Antonio's Riverwalk. And the story goes, there was a cat burglar who kept coming and breaking the pane of glass, opening the door and coming in and taking all the money out of the cigarette machine. Read More on austinchronicle.com
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