Farm Luck opened in 2016. We are housed in the old Waxahachie Bank & Trust building which was built in the late 1800s. The county bought the building in the 1980s and made it the county clerks office. Many Farm Luck customers fondly recall getting their marriage license here but don't quite recognize the layout. In 2013, the Jim Lake company bought the building and began restoring it. The penny tile floor is original to the building as is the safe which houses the Farm Luck kitchen. Speaking of the safe, go down the hallway at Farm Luck and check out the safe door. It weighs as much as a F-150 pick-up truck. The wood floors in the candy store are original to the building.

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The bar is not original to the building. It was built around the 1930s by San Antonio's Friedrich Refrigeration company. Originally, the bar was a butcher counter with a refrigerated top, the first of its kind. When you visit Farm Luck, look closely at the middle of the bar and you'll see the Friedrich logo. Texans might recognize the Friedrich name because they were pioneers in refrigeration as well as the original designers of longhorn chairs. The owners of Farm Luck found both the bar and the mirrors in a barn in Poetry, Texas. The bar and mirrors had 6 layers of paint on them and took 6 months to fully restore. 

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Other historic elements that can be seen in Farm Luck are the front window bar, copper scale, and windmill.  The window bar is constructed of 200 year old wood. The wood was part of the upstairs flooring from a historic building. The copper scale over hanging the retail area came from Brazil and was used to weigh coffee. The windmill hanging behind the bar originated in the pan handle of Oklahoma. If you look closely, you can see were someone used the tail of it for target practice.

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