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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.
These days, it holds the title of "The Cowboy Capital of the World," due to its role as a staging area for the last great cattle drives of the late 1800s. And it has a storied country music heritage, largely because it's home to Arkey Blue's Silver Dollar, one of the finest honky tonks in the world. When you see the gold, you've found El Dorado.
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.
Aug 24, 2014 · 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 into the 2020s.
Apr 12, 2018 · Arkey Blue’s Silver Dollar Saloon is open every day by 11 a.m. Beer, wine, and setups are sold. If there isn’t a band playing or pickers strumming, a fantastic jukebox will be on. Bring cash, your friendly Texas attitude, and keep an eye out for the table in which Hank Williams, Sr. carved his name.
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.
