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Riley’s Tavern in Hunter, TX
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Riley’s Tavern

Hunter, TX

The story

In September 1933, seventeen-year-old J. C. Riley rode to Austin in a Model T to get a beer license. The tavern says he waited overnight at the Capitol and was first in line. Riley ran the Hunter bar until 1991; the building earlier housed the Galloway Saloon.