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New LG Meat Market Taking Shape With a Little Help from the Prauses

  • Decades of accumulation from barbeque smoke coat the walls at the old Prause Meat Market in La Grange. Tony Hinojosa, left, is part of the family who purchased the historic business last year to create the new Texas Prime Smokehouse and Meat Market there, but the Hinojosas are relying on the expertise of people like Gary Prause, right, to help them get started. Photo by Jeff Wick
    Decades of accumulation from barbeque smoke coat the walls at the old Prause Meat Market in La Grange. Tony Hinojosa, left, is part of the family who purchased the historic business last year to create the new Texas Prime Smokehouse and Meat Market there, but the Hinojosas are relying on the expertise of people like Gary Prause, right, to help them get started. Photo by Jeff Wick
  • New LG Meat Market Taking Shape With a Little Help from the Prauses
    New LG Meat Market Taking Shape With a Little Help from the Prauses
  • Top: Work is ongoing on the canopy above the sidewalk in front of the meat market. Bottom: A look at the inside of the old Prause market as it looks amidst renovation. Photos by Jeff Wick
    Top: Work is ongoing on the canopy above the sidewalk in front of the meat market. Bottom: A look at the inside of the old Prause market as it looks amidst renovation. Photos by Jeff Wick
When Prause Meat Market closed last summer and the family sold the business and the building – it ended four generations of Prause meat and barbeque in downtown La Grange. Or so it seemed. But last Friday morning – while renovation work was going on at the corner of Travis and Main St. to remake Prause Meat Market into the new Texas Prime Smokehouse and Meat Market – there was Gary Prause in…

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