Trivia

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

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.

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

Had three brothers (William Guinan, Walter Harry Guinan (died in infancy), and Thomas Guinan) and one sister (Pearl Guinan).

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

Notorious in the eyes of the feds, who wanted to stop her flagrant violations of Prohibition laws, she fervently denied that her joints sold liquor despite abundant evidence to the contrary. She avoided lengthy time behind bars and had all charges subsequently dropped because the feds could not prove she owned the routinely raided clubs. The Depression took a real bite out of her profits and she passed away in 1933, not the wealthy girl she used to be.

Following her death, she was interred at Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York City. Her family donated a tabernacle in her name to St. Patrick's Church in Vancouver, British Columbia for Father Louis Forget's attentions during her last hours.

She was posthumously awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1765 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.

While performing in Chicago in 1933, she contracted amoebic dysentery from an epidemic outbreak at the Congress Hotel during the run of the Chicago World's Fair. The epidemic was traced to a bad water supply. She subsequently fell ill while in Vancouver, British Columbia, and died there, one month before Prohibition was repealed.

Her mother, Brigid Duffy, was 101 years old when she died in 1959. Her father, Michael Guinan, died on May 14, 1935 aged 79 years old.

Several movie characters are based on Texas Guinan; among them are Panama Smith in The Roaring Twenties (1939), Miss Missouri Martin in Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989), and Dallas Wayne in Winchell (1998).

Her family resided in Waco, Texas, at least until 1891. Texas, her sister and three brothers were all born in Waco, Texas, between 1882 and 1891.

Hostess at Larry Fay's El Fey club, the 300 Club, the Club Moritz, the Salon Royale and the Club Argonaut.