February 2018 – Hidden Histories

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February 2018: “Long Gone Music Venues of San Antonio”

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Featured Music

Spot Barnett, “20th Century”

Sunny and the Sunglows, “Talk to Me”

Sweet Smoke, “Morning Dew”

ZZ Top, “Francine”

Historical Archives:

Curley Mays, performing at the Eastwood Club.

Johnny Cockerell with legendary saxophonist Vernon “Spot” Barnett

Michael Ann Coker and Johnny Cockerell with Curley Mays, Spot Barnett, and Arturo “Sauce” Gonzalez of the Westside Horns

Dancing at Patio Andaluz

Advertisement for 1964 “Teen Fair”

Logo for Downtown SA’s Pusi-Kat Club

Pusi-Kat Girls

Ticket stub for Eric Burdon and the Animals show, 1967

“Swingtime,” a popular teen dance show that aired on KONO-TV in the 1960s

Sweet Smoke, house band at the Love Street club

Teen Canteen

Sam Kinsey, Owner of Teen Canteen

Pre-Monkees Mike Nesmith (second from left) performing at Teen Canteen

Lord August (Augie Meyers) and the Visions of Light, houseband at the Pusi-Kat Club

The Outcasts performing at Teen Canteen

The Laughing Kind

The Laughing Kind

Gene Coleman, Drummer for The Laughing Kind

Christopher Cross (left) also performed at Teen Canteen

The Moving Sidewalks, featuring Billy Gibbons (right), who would later go on to form ZZ Top

Checks paid to Teen Canteen bands by club owner Sam Kinsey

Pubio Casillas and Harvey Kagan of Lord August and the Visions of Light

Susan and Linda, original Pusi-Kat girls at PK Reunion, 2010

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