Theater
Historic Scoot Inn
Railroad-era saloon turned live music venue behind a modest brick facade with a bootlegging past.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Historic Scoot Inn in Austin traces the building at 1308 East 4th Street from an eighteen seventy one railroad depot store, through a German immigrant's saloon and a Prohibition-era bootlegging house, to the day in nineteen forty when a man everyone called Scooter gave it the name it still carries. Along the way it asks why this self-proclaimed oldest bar in the city holds only the fourth oldest liquor license on record. Stand near the marquee and you are looking at the same brick that once hid card games from the police.
This audio guide was created using AI.