Gruene (pronounced "Green") Hall

Stopped over in New Braunfeld on my trip between San Antonio and Austin to see Gruene Dancehall "The Oldest Dancehall in Texas"... Great building, it would have been marvellous to have seen Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis or The Fabulous Thunderbirds here; it was fine seeing this Elvis cover artist



But the building deserves better. Gruene itself is proud to announce that it has been "gently resisting change since 1872" but what it has really been doing, at least for the last 20 years, is pickling itself in sickly sweet aspic... Pretty though.