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    • Nov 14, 1961
    Wynn Stewart and businessman Don Spafford open a Las Vegas club, Nashville Nevada. They call attention to the club's hours--it's open 24-hours-a-day--by dropping the key to the front door from an airplane into the desert
    May 23, 1963
    Gene Autry cuts the ribbon on the Hotel Continental, a 13-story building at 8401 Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles
    Jul 4, 1963
    Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys are the first country act to perform at Fort Worth's Panther Hall. The venue later becomes the recording site for live albums by Jerry Lee Lewis and Charley Pride
    Dec 20, 1964
    The Derry Down opens in Winter Haven, Florida, with a concert by Gram Parsons and his band, The Shilos. The club was established by Parsons' stepfather specifically to showcase his talents
    Mar 29, 1965
    RCA celebrates the grand opening of RCA Studio A, later known as Music City Music Hall and Javelina. Among the records made there: Lee Ann Womack's "I Hope You Dance," George Strait's "Unwound" and Kacey Musgraves' "Merry Go 'Round"
    Apr 9, 1965
    Houston opens the Astrodome, the later site of a live Sonny James album, and the long-time home of the Houston Livestock & Rodeo
    May 16, 1965
    The Jimmie Davis Tabernacle, a non-denominational place of worship named after the "You Are My Sunshine" singer, is dedicated near Jonesboro, Louisiana
    Jun 24, 1965
    Kenny Rogers opens Act Three on Main Street in Houston. The club is sold by the end of the year
    Oct 22, 1965
    The $500,000 Columbia Recording Studio A is dedicated in Nashville. Little Jimmy Dickens sings "May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose" at the event, attended by Cliffie Stone and Columbia execs Don Law and Goddard Lieberson
    Jul 4, 1966
    George Jones opens his first amusement park--the George Jones Rhythm Ranch, in Vidor, Texas--and begins a friendship with guest performer Merle Haggard



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