[Old School Hound]

The old Maverick Club in Richmond. Had a bit of a rough reputation. Knifings, shootings, lots of titties...   It was established in the 1960's and was known to host a number of country music artists, especially the outlaw guys, like David Allen Cole(see the billboard in the pic),  Johnny Paycheck , Keith Whitley, George Jones, and more.   Jones was scheduled to play there one night , and as he was apt to do in those days , he showed up late and was dog drunk. He was so drunk that they couldn't get George out of the car.  From what I know, they took George to a local Richmond motel and dried him out. He came back, sometime between 11 and midnight and took the stage, still buzzed,  but at least able to stand up.  

The original name of the bar was The Bull's Horn. Brock Monroe bought the building and renamed it the  Maverick Club, after the TV show, "The Maverick." Brock was assassinated in 1987, when a sniper, supposedly perched in a tree near Monroe's residence, shot him through his bedroom window. Some say Monroe had ties to the mafia. Like I said, the Maverick Club had a rough reputation, but hosted some of the big name outlaws in country music. I was always kinda scared of the place when I was a kid.


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