Vulcan Gas Company
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Location: Austin, Texas VULCAN GAS COMPANY. This popular Austin night club, located at 316 Congress Avenue, opened on October 27, 1967, and closed around July 1970, one month before the opening of the Armadillo World Headquarters. Houston White, Gary Maxwell, Don Hyde, and Sandy Lockett originally opened the club, and Jim Franklin joined them in October 1967. Franklin, a noted poster artist, lived in the building—winters on the ground level behind the office, and summers in a loft near a skylight that opened onto the roof... Click here for full text of article on the Handbook of Texas Online, courtesy of the Texas State Historical Association. |




