I found this image of the Chicken Ranch in 2005. There are similar pictures by others. Apparently (from article and pictures) the Chicken Ranch Restaurant merely relocated the main house building to Houston. The rest was left thereand still serves as a site for tourists to La Grange.

"We wanted to make all the costumes true to the time period and work with the very distinctive 1970s Texan look. There are a lot of cowboy hats and boots, Western-cut shirts, and jeans for the men, and the Chicken Ranch girls all wear garments of shorter length and bright colors with varying styles to reflect their individual personalities.
"It was important to us that the girls didn't look trashy, since the Chicken Ranch is a place where Miss Mona and the girls have control, and they have to maintain Miss Mona's standards for how the business is run. It was great to get to design for such a wide variety of characters, from prostitutes to tacky businessmen to pink gingham-clad chorus singers, and the fact that it's in 1973 added to the fun of it."

There are many practices of the Chicken Ranch that are mentioned in the beginning of the show. Let's explore them and more!

Miss 'Wulla Jean' and perversions - Miss Jessie, the real counterpart to Miss Wulla Jean, did not care for anything more exotic than the missionary position and would throw customers out if they asked for more.

precloital genital washing - this was really practiced in the Chicken Ranch. Entry elaborates.

not going into Gilbert - the girls of the Chicken Ranch would not have been overly welcome in the city of La Grange. As Texas Monthly puts it, the girls would not be invited to community bar-b-ques, but would be given leftovers.

coming at the sound of the bell - this is a common practice for brothels. The girls are expected to show up, no matter the time of day, when customers show up and the bell is rung. The idea is that the girls are always available.

set price for sex - unlike the brothels of Nevada, the Chicken Ranch really did have set prices for their time and acts (fellatio being added in the 1960's). This tended to range from $3-$40 under Miss Jessie.

Aggie discount - there seems to have been an $8 Aggie discount in place for students of Texas A&M. Aggies have been known to, upon finding out that a peer is a virgin, tie him up and take him to the Chicken Ranch.

regular medical checks - the girls of the Chicken Ranch had mandated bi-weekly medical checks to make sure they were healthy and clean. Local officials knew about this and recieved a twice yearly report of the status of the Chicken Ranch from the Sheriff.

girls from far away - as a matter of course the girls at the Chicken Ranch were not local girls. This allowed for there to be female and spousal support of the business (for keeping rape from happening) after it was exposed on television.

Image property of Corbis

Edna Milton, or Mona Stangley in the musical, was the madam of the Chicken Ranch from 1952 until its closing in 1973.

She worked for Miss Jessie for a very short time before buying the land and house from her. Her history before showing up at the Chicken Ranch in unknown.

Edna continued many of the practices that Miss Jessie had started, continuing the amiable relationship between brothel and local government and community support.

After the Chicken Ranch closed, she moved to east Texas and married a restaurant owner. When the Chicken Ranch Restaurant opened in Austin, she became its hostess. After that closed she went on Broadway as Miss Wulla Jean and a consultant to the musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

A fun anecdote about how Edna left the show:
One night, as she was saying goodbye to the stage manager, he said he'd see her tomorrow. She said, "No. I'm goin' home," and left. Of course they expected her to show up the next day, not having talked about leaving with anyone. But sure enough, she did not return the next night and had, in fact, left and gone home to east Texas.