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UCCess has a great story behind it and McClard's Bar Arkansas is no exception. Just a few Bar-B-eat 505 taurant in Hot Springs, blocks west from the current lo
CATion of McClard's Albert Pike, Alex and Gladys McClard owne d Westside Tourist Court B-
TRAVELER could not come up in the twenties When a down-and-out with the $10 he owe d for his two-month stay, he asked the couple to sauce". Since bar-b-que instead accept a recipe for "the world's gre something was better than nothing, the couple accepted the recipe. To their great surprise and delight, they tasted the truth in the traveler's goat as its star In 1928, the Westside Tourist Court began menu attraction! In 1942, McClard's moved into the current location a white-washed stucco building. For many years, drive-in service was provi ded for a hom toot or blinking lights. Carhops hung trays of ribs and sandwiches on a
UTOmobile doors while the driver dialed in the radio to catch the tunes from the neon jukebox inside.Today goat has disappeared from the menu, and the carhops from the curbside. In the kitchen is still the McClard family: 2nd, 3rd, and 4th generations of McClards continue the traditions set by Alex and Gladys. Each week they serve 7,000 pounds of mouth-watering hickory-smoked beef, por and ribs. Alongside go 250 gall ons of spicy bar-b-que beans, 250 gall ons of cole slaw, 3,000 hand rolled hot tamales and 3,000 pounds of fresh cut potatoes french-fried to perfection And over the crusty-on-the-outside, fall-away-tender-pink-inside smoky bar-b-que, in handy bottles on the side. is the sauce. The famous sauce that started it all.The priceless sauce whose $10 r now sits locked away in a safe deposit box in downtown Hot Springs. Currently Phillip McClard, Scott McClard, and John Thomason all run the business
