#23 The Old Opry

Nashville Meets Small Town Texas

If I had lived in Nashville in 1957, I might have gone to the Grand Old Opry on a Saturday night. If I'd lived in small town Llano, I might have put on a western shirt and taken in a movie at the fine LANTEX theatre. This past Saturday night, I got to combine both outings. I put on my cowboy boots and joined quite a crowd of locals at the Lantex for an Opry Evening that included 81 year old Stonewall Jackson.  He sang some of the hits that put him on the charts back in the fifties in Nashville.  I nibbled my popcorn in the old theatre seats that were mostly occupied by the very folks who sat in them as teens in the 50's.  What a hoot!