The Wedding was performed in the Park by Rabbi Clyde T. "Mickey" Sills. As a student, I remember him giving a sermon about the wedding scene at the Hillel. He was a wonderful story teller and was one of the 16 Rabbis arrested in 1964 with Martin Luther King In St Augustine, Florida for Swimming in a pool with blacks. The sheriff poured acid into the pool.
In any event, he gave a wonderful sermon in about 1969 about performing a wedding next to the Courthouse which must have also housed the jail. As I recall, it was about creating a joyful and solemn occasion in the park under the Wedding Canopy (Huppah) while the prisoners were entertaining themselves heckling the wedding.
Woolridge Park is located between W 9th Street and W 10th Street on the West Side of Guadalupe St. The Travis County Courthouse address is 1000 Guadalupe Street. The current "high rise" county jail is adjacent to the county courthouse. The address is 509 W. 11th. I believe that it moved there after the movie was filmed.
Rabbi Sills now leads a Congregation in Oregon.
In any event, he gave a wonderful sermon in about 1969 about performing a wedding next to the Courthouse which must have also housed the jail. As I recall, it was about creating a joyful and solemn occasion in the park under the Wedding Canopy (Huppah) while the prisoners were entertaining themselves heckling the wedding.
Woolridge Park is located between W 9th Street and W 10th Street on the West Side of Guadalupe St. The Travis County Courthouse address is 1000 Guadalupe Street. The current "high rise" county jail is adjacent to the county courthouse. The address is 509 W. 11th. I believe that it moved there after the movie was filmed.
Rabbi Sills now leads a Congregation in Oregon.