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  1. 2 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    1995 maybe, but 1994 sounds too early.  I dunno.

    I went there with one of my roommates on a really cold November or December night in 1996 and he was saying how new it was (his dad did some work for HEB and wanted to see what he thought of it as a young hipster).  So yeah late 1995 is probably right and we were there a year later.  I grew up on Dominick's in Chicago, and had been to some HEB's in Austin.  I didn't realize what Central Market "was" for a few more years in terms of offerings and target market.  Only thing I remember from walking around was how purposely convoluted the aisles were (by design, obviously).  I didn't step in one again for probably a half decade.  

    Speaking of old Austin and C/M's.........what used to be down there at the Westgate shopping center before it became that strip center?  By the time I ventured down there, it was close to being totally built out but that was in the late 90's.  What was there just before that?  

    An old Statesman article pegs the opening date as January 22, 1994 -- but to quote a former First Lady -- at this point, what difference does it make?

    Don't know about Westgate much -- thought that it was just a basic 1970s mall, but that part of town was never in my strike zone.

  2. 1 minute ago, Lobo said:

    I think it was later than that.  I wanna say Winter of 96/97, no?  And it wasn't 45th Street, it's between 35th & 41st.  

    Errbody knows that Wikipedia is always right, but I'm feeling lazy tonight: 

    The original store opened in 1994 in the Central Park Shopping Center on North Lamar Boulevard in Austin, Texas.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Market_(Texas)

    It is located right across the street from 2-J's and the Original Colonel Sanders Fried Chicken Restaurant in Austin -- that dates me, as well.

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  3. 16 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

    Here’s the thing about Oz: it holds up.  80 years later and if you show to somebody for the first time, they will  cheer for Toto to escape the witch, gasp when the door opens into color, be terrified when the monkeys fly, and cry when Dorothy gets home. We’ve all seen it dozens of times, and I will toss the remote away the moment I stumble on it and watch it to completion.  
     

    It’s one of the greatest movies ever made.  

    Those flying monkeys still scare the hell out of me, some 50 years after the first time I saw them.

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  4. This bourbon/pecan/cornbread dressing is even better with some crumbled ground pork sausage or bacon (insert why not both gif here!) in it.

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    Toasted Cornbread-Pecan Dressing (or, Stuffing, for Yankees)

    Ingredients

    6 cups coarsely crumbled cornbread
    3/4 cup pecans
    1/4 pound bacon, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
    2 tablespoons butter
    2 tablespoons olive oil
    2 cups finely chopped onions
    3/4 cup finely chopped celery
    1 tablespoon fresh thyme leaves or 1 teaspoon dried

    1 tablespoon minced fresh sage, or 1 teaspoon dried 
    Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
    4 tablespoons bourbon
    1 cup chicken stock
    1/2 cup minced flat leaf parsley

    1. Heat over to 350F. Spread crumbled cornbread onto a baking sheet. Coarsely chop pecans and add to cornbread. Toast in oven for 25-30 minutes or until cornbread is golden, tossing the crumbs once or twice during toasting. Cool and place in a large mixing bowl.

    2. Cook bacon over medium-high heat in a saute pan of skillet. Remove bacon with a slotted spoon to bowl with cornbread and pour off all but 1 tablespoon of drippings. Add butter and olive oil to skillet and when butter has melted add onion and saute for 5 minutes over medium heat. Add celery and saute another three minutes. Stir in thyme and sage and salt and pepper to taste. Add to cornbread.

    3. Turn up heat under saute pan and add bourbon. Stir vigorously for 2 minutes with a wooden spoon, scraping the bottom of the pan. Add chicken stock, cook for 1 minute, and add mixture to bowl. Add parsley to bowl and adjust seasonings.

    Makes about 10 cups, and it tastes even better if you make it the day before Thanksgiving and let it sit overnight.

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/worlds-best-cornbread-dressing/

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  5. 1 minute ago, williemackgarza said:

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    Roughed it on our trip to/from yearly panhandle hunt. Was crazy hot and windy. Deer just werent moving. I didnt get on a big one and passed some good deer holding out. Buddy shot a monster.
    Now on to the mexico lease.

    Nice deer.  Slumming it on a turbo-prop, I see.

  6. 16 minutes ago, HOOKEM4 said:

    I have never seen a deer (in person) with a rack as crazy as most of the ones posted on this page. One time on a managed ranch I saw some...on a video of someone else shooting a cull.  I am still going to post my little hill country free range. I love seeing what is possible. My spot, if you see a 4yr old 8, you are lucky. I shot 2 5yr old 8's one year.  There is legend of an old 10pt roaming but he doesn't look anything close to the stuff yall see. Daaangit. Maybe I will get lucky this year and go to south Texas for a big boy.

    This is our first year on this ranch.  It's over 10 sections, and we haven't fully scouted it, but we are covered up in mature-ish nice 4 to 5 year-old 8-pointers that folks on many places would likely shoot on sight.  We are trying to let all of them grow up and see what a couple of more years of growth will do. 

    But that 28 pointer is way out of the norm, so I understand why he was taken. 

  7. 2 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

    I'm trying to figure out where this place was.  17th street ... but where?



     

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    There was a lot of stuff that got razed in that area to make way for "progress" in the 1960s and 70s.

    I remember a La Fiesta on North Loop in the 1960s, another on Far West -- maybe late 1970s, early 1980s, and another, much later, in Cedar Park.  Gallegos family, I think.  Small guy, Lee, and big guy, Fred, were the long-time waiters that ruled the North Loop location.  I've read both of their obits in the Austin paper in recent years.  The North Loop store had some cool wall-sized hand-painted murals of the Battle of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto.  I wonder what happened to those murals?

  8. 1 minute ago, Both Tacos said:

    Certainly not downing your buddy for taking him, but that deer could have been tremendous over the next couple of years. Beautiful buck either way.

    Agreed.  That looks to be a younger buck than we normally take.  I think that he was taken in by all of the hardware the buck was sporting.

  9. 52 minutes ago, 686 said:


    Nice, Any history with the buck?

    Nope.  He'd not been on anyone's radar before.  One of our lease members was driving mid-day between blinds on a remote part of our ranch and jumped him.  He ran a bit and then stood in some brush thinking that he was hidden.  He wasn't.

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  10. 5 minutes ago, Both Tacos said:
    13 minutes ago, DalTxHornFan said:
    Perhaps they/their/them identified as a doe?

    That's what I told the Game Warden about the 2nd buck I shot in a 1 buck County. I told him that if he didn't believe me, just ask the deer.

    My first "doe" was a button buck -- back when I first started hunting.  I caught a lot of shit from the guys (deservedly so) around the hunting campfire that night.

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  11. 14 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Yeah....we're going to try the customer service call route one last time next week, but otherwise, this is our plan -- pay off our TXTAG account, close it and pull our tags, and sign up with one of the other authorities.  Is NTTA the best to go with?  Don't they all have statewide applicability?

    Anything other than TxTag.  The underlying issue is that TxTag is actually run by TxDOT.  State bureaucrats doing State bureaucrat things like State bureaucrats do.

  12. 12 hours ago, AUS-97HORN said:

    so I called TxTag and they told me that my account had a backend "glitch" that was causing the account to not register properly.  in the words of Office Space, they fixed the glitch. 

     

    and I was able to finally start from the beginning, click on the reactivation link and it finally accepted my email and allowed me to change my password

    I fixed the TxTag glitch with a NTTA Tolltag.

  13. 20 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

    I think Robert Duvall is one of the best actors of all time. Godfather series, apocalypse now, the great santini, To kill a mockingbird, the natural, and a bunch of other small parts like that one I just posted in a civil action that most never saw. Dude always killed it. 

    Get Low, The Apostle, Lonesome Dove.  The list goes on and on.

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  14. 5 hours ago, Okie State said:

    This thread prompted me to finally switch. Is EZTag any better? I'd prefer to use them since they're 'local' and all the options seem to work on all toll roads in Texas/Oklahoma these days.

    Don't forget about Kansas (as we told Charlie and Sark).

  15. 6 minutes ago, Lerka Lerka said:

    Ok, so I’m giving up on TxTag. Beyond ridiculous. Credit card won’t auto replenish and I’m having to pay CTRMA separately with fees and non toll tag rates.  Or dispute with TxTag so they can tell CTRMA it was their fault. Maddening. TxTag has basically given up and told me it’s my problem.  So stupid. 
     

    btw - here’s a better number to contact TxTag - it’s the violation enforcement team: (512) 874-9500. 
     

    So has there been a general consensus on which other toll company to switch to?  NTTA? EZTAG?

    TIA

    I had the same problem.  I moved over to NTTA.  Very easy to do online.  No problems thus far.

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