Texas Guinan

Texas Guinan

Family lived in Waco, TX at least until 1891, Texas, her sister and three brothers were all born in Waco, TX between 1882 and 1891.

In 2004, Madonna was set to play her in a biographical movie of her life, "Hello Suckers". However, the project was indefinitely shelved.

Met her first husband, newspaper cartoonist for Rocky Mountain News John J. Moynahan at the home of her cousin, Katie Hoban in Idaho Springs, Colorado.

Mother, Brigid Duffy, was 101 yrs, 6 mos, and 19 days old when she died in 1959. Father, Michael Guinan, died in 1935 aged 79 yrs, 8 mos.

Notorious in the eyes of the feds who wanted to stop her flaggrant violations of 'prohibition' laws, she fervantly denied that her joints sold liquor despite contrary evidence. She avoided lengthy time behind bars and had all charges subsequently dropped because the feds couldn't prove she owned the routinely-raided clubs. The Depression put a real bite in her profits and she died in 1933, not the wealthy gal she used to be.



The character "Guinan", bartender of the Ten Forward lounge on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) played by Whoopi Goldberg, was named after Texas Guinan.

Three brothers, William Guinan, Walter Harry died infancy, Thomas Guinan. One sister, Pearl.

Was future journalist/producer Lowell Thomas's Sunday school teacher when Thomas was a boy in Victor, Colorado. They remained lifelong friends even after her latter-day notoriety.


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