Photos: Eating at This Piney Woods Joint Feels Like Stepping Into 1963

Colonial Williamsburg is a living museum in eastern Virginia where actors dress in period clothing and perform the tasks of average citizens in an eighteenth-century American colony. An equivalent experience can be had for barbecue in East Texas with a meal at Pat Gee’s, east of Tyler. The sign out front reads “Pat’s Barbecue,” but everyone calls it Pat Gee’s, after late owner Mack Henry “Pat” Gee, who opened the place around 1963 with his wife, Vida. He passed away in 1999, and Vida followed in 2010. Their sons Arthur Gee and Billy Walker have run it together ever since. Visiting here is like stepping into a smoked-meat museum, with the brothers as your docents, serving up old-school barbecue sandwiches on white bread Friday through…

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