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Which Texas brand is the most iconic? This March Madness, Texas Monthly is asking readers to cast their votes.A few years ago, I got some of my family’s videotapes converted to digital files. One of the bits of resurrected footage was of my little sister’s third birthday party, at a Chuck E. Cheese on Austin’s Louis Henna Boulevard. She looked sweet, with her shy grin and halo of short curls, but a little oblivious to the chaos surrounding her. I held court, dancing around the table, urging my sister to blow out her candles, and cohosting. At nine years old, I was already an expert at the Chuck E. Cheese birthday party, a rite of passage for any child of the nineties in America.Being at…

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