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Cedar Crest Night Club
Emmett Shelton, Sr. on the changes that came to Westlake Hills in the 1930s — the end of Prohibition, the paving of Bee Cave Road, the arrival of electricity, and the rehabilitation of the old Moose Head Lodge as a Prohibition-era nightclub with Mervin Ash, the king pin of Austin gamblers.
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Cedar Crest Night Club
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A timecoded transcript will appear here once the archive's transcription pipeline is in place. Recordings will be transcribed via Whisper and the result reviewed by a curator before publication.
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This recording is part of the Our Westlake podcast series of oral histories given by Emmett Shelton, Sr. (1905–2000), original developer of Westlake Hills, criminal-defense lawyer, political operative, and storyteller. Compiled by Cynthia Shelton.
A timecoded transcript will be added once the archive's transcription pipeline is in place.
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