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Jul 2, 1978
What's left of the Chicken Ranch in La Grange, Texas, is auctioned off. The brothel was closed in 1973, but had become the subject of a Broadway play--and future Dolly Parton movie--"The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas"
Oct 14, 1978
At odds with ex-business partner Webb Pierce over a guitar-shaped swimming pool on Music Row, Jim Donoho tells The Nashville Banner he plans to turn the pool into a pond: "The catfish will draw more people in here than Webb Pierce ever did"
Mar 7, 1979
Webb Pierce's controversial guitar-shaped swimming pool on Music Row is sold at auction. Top bid: $150,000 from Pierce's former business partner, William Donoho
May 7, 1979
George Jones' Possum Holler opens on Nashville's Printers Alley, just down the street from his former club, the World Famous Possum Holler, sold to Kenny Rogers
Jul 14, 1979
Portland, Tennessee, renames Main Street the Ronnie McDowell Parkway
Oct 4, 1979
Barcelona Apartments in Nashville files a suit against George Jones for $500 to recover two months of unpaid rent. Jones moved out of the building earlier in the week without leaving a forwarding address
May 1, 1980
Jack Clement Studios become the Sound Emporium. Clement's studio was the site for such recordings as Kenny Rogers' "Lucille," Ray Stevens' "Everything Is Beautiful," Waylon Jennings' "I've Always Been Crazy," Don Williams' "Tulsa Time" and Todd Rundgren's "We Gotta Get You A Woman"
Jun 25, 1980
Reba McEntire and her husband, Charlie Battles, purchase a 215-acre ranch in Stringtown, Oklahoma
Jul 18, 1980
William Lee Golden buys the 200-acre Golden Era plantation north of Hendersonville, Tennessee. He puts two 23-foot teepees on the property outside of his house
Oct 14, 1980
Barbi Benton receives a $1-milllion home in Aspen, Colorado, from husband George Gradow for their first anniversary
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