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Sam's Town Point
Backyard honky-tonk roadhouse with live country music, tucked down a hard-to-find wooded turnoff.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Sam's Town Point, a backyard roadhouse in South Austin, opens with a disagreement even the record can't settle: was the bar founded in nineteen eighty-one or nineteen eighty-six. It follows founder Penny Grossman, from Chicago dreamer to Austin institution, her son Wally Junior, and the struggling singer, Ramsay Midwood, she eventually handed the place to. Along the way it untangles a persistent myth about where the bar's name really comes from. Listen for the line where the parking lot and the bar itself once sat in two different jurisdictions.
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