The Aztec Theatre opened on June 4, 1926 — a Mesoamerican movie palace dropped into the middle of a Texas downtown. In the basement was a café called Old South. Southern-style home cooking. Ten tables. A back door onto Commerce Street.
Nobody wrote it down, but Prohibition lasted until December of 1933 — and for seven of those years, the Old South served a lot more than coffee.
A hundred years later we’re still here — same basement, same bricks, better bourbon. The door still doesn’t have our name on it.
If you know, you know.