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Arkey Blue is a Bandera icon. He has owned and operated the Silver Dollar Saloon on Main Street for over 45 years. Arkey Blue and the Blue Cowboys perform at the Silver Dollar almost every Saturday. He has been honored as an inductee into the Bandera Music Hall of Fame twice, receiving the Living Legend and Song Writer awards.
The actual building has been here since 1921 and operated as The Fox Hole until the 1940s, when it became the Silver Dollar. Then in 1968, the Silver Dollar was purchased by local musician Arkey Juenke, who later changed his name to Arkey Blue. The Silver Dollar has hosted a veritable hall of fame of country musicians over the years, including ...
The city is home of Arkey Blue's Silver Dollar, a famous Hill Country honky-tonk, and was included in the 1975 horror film, Race with the Devil. On Sunday mornings, Bandera is a popular destination for motorcyclists from San Antonio, known as the Bandera Breakfast Run.
Honky-Tonk Heaven. If indeed Bandera is the “Cowboy Capital of the World,” then one of the key contributors to that reputation is Arkey Blue’s Silver Dollar, touted as the oldest continuously operating honky-tonk in Texas. A red door at 308 Main St., leads to a wooden stairway that takes fun-seekers down to the basement of the Bandera ...
Arkey Blue. Profile: Bandera, Texas artist. He has owned and operated the Silver Dollar Saloon on Main Street for over 45 years. Arkey Blue and the Blue Cowboys perform at the Silver Dollar almost every Saturday. He has been honored as an inductee into the Bandera Music Hall of Fame twice, receiving the Living Legend and Song Writer awards.
Arkey is Arkey Charles Juenke, one of the characters that defines Bandera’s honky-tonkin’ image; he’s gone by Arkey Blue since he started playing guitar and writing songs as a teenager in the 1950s. When he bought the Silver Dollar in 1968, the place had already taken decades of abuse by boots and bottles. “It was a mess;’ he says.
Aug 24, 2014 · The Hall of Fame proclaimed Arkey Blue’s Silver Dollar Saloon to be a “Legendary Venue” in 2012. Named one of the top three honky-tonks in the state by Texas Highways magazine, the saloon celebrated its fiftieth anniversary as Arkey Blue's Silver Dollar Saloon in 2018 and has remained a popular live music venue for locals and tourists ...
