Disigerent and Hillbilly Homicide Highlight Live Music at Hopkin’s Icehouse

Hopkins Icehouse in downtown Texarkana has some great live music lined up for the weekend.

Friday night, Disigerent are scheduled to take the stage and Saturday night is Hillbilly Homicide Band.

Here is a little history of Hopkin's Icehouse:

This building was built in early 1900s. Legend has it that it was a Ford dealership and you are sitting in the “showroom.”  Roy D Hopkins Feed & Seed began business here Jan 2, 1936 and closed in 2007, that’s when George Dodson and David Jones purchased the property. For 18 months at nights and on weekends the proprietors worked to build Hopkins Icehouse as you see it.

Almost 100 percent of the work was performed by George and Dave, from cutting the concrete then jack hammering it out, scraping and painting the ceiling, hanging the sheetrock then painting it, building the walk in cooler, bar and kitchen. Original items are the tin ceiling, transoms, doors, floors and the glass windows.