Judge Roy Bean, here’s the old coot himself.  As you can see, he doesn’t look much like Paul Newman, a nod to one of Paul’s movies of many years ago.

Roy might have been the first work from home guy.  He lived, sold likker, and passed out his unique and legendary brand of  justice right here in this establishment.

The saloon and the town were named after renowned actress of the day, Lilly Langtry.  This is it in it’s preserved state today, and here it is in a photo showing the Judge “holding court”.

The rules of behavior were clear and the Judge didn’t hold to no cuttin’ up in his place of business.  Legend has it that the Judge himself was pretty prone to allowing himself to be an exception.

Phantly (yup) Roy Bean was born in 1828 in Kentucky,  He died in 1903 and is buried in Del Rio, TX.  His colorful life is almost not to be believed, and his “heyday” in the area of what now is Langtry was in the last quarter of the 1800s.