Yeah, snakes in a bar. I don't know why there are rattle snakes in the bar, but there are and have been for a long time. They are caged behind glass in a special aquarium in the wall.
You can see the bar in some of Rose's pictures in the background. The full name is the Dixie Chicken, "The Chicken" for short. Everyone down there knows what you mean when you just say The Chicken. It's right across the (very busy) street from the university.
Well...it's different! Some places have fish, but...hm. Interesting.
You know... in a place like that you could have a lot of fun with a rubber snake.
We went to the website for the Dixie Chicken and a T-shirt says they were established in 1974. That was the time were at A&M. I don't recall us going there but we could have. We weren't much for the college bars or bars in general in those days. We were flat broke grad-students.