Austin Nostalgia Picture Thread

[Guitarman 28]

12 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Best I can do. Liberty lunch makes an appearance. 

 

Jesus that was heartbreaking to watch.

[DaggerHorns 3102]

8 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Well, basically the entire movie is great to feed your 90s nostalgia. Which I love since it’s my version of Austin. Funny thing about that scene, they stop in front of my old efficiency at Rio Grande and 22nd, then the couple walks through my “backyard” right next my sliding glass door. They head towards the house just north on the same plot where my older brother lived in 93-94 and the myself and younger brother lived in in 1998. /csb 

The 90s Austin was the one I fell in love with. Life was so simple back then and such a bad ass city. Old country, quiet hippies, and a mass amount of enjoyable sluts. I’d pay billions for a repeat or a time machine.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

50 minutes ago, DaggerHorns said:

The 90s Austin was the one I fell in love with. Life was so simple back then and such a bad ass city. Old country, quiet hippies, and a mass amount of enjoyable sluts. I’d pay billions for a repeat or a time machine.

Absolutely. My brother started at Texas in 91, so that is when I started hanging out in Austin. Then I started in 1995. It was a great decade. Hell, armybrat probably has great memories of the 1890s. 

[nycHorn 3049]

Kinda off topic, but Shorpy is amazing.  Crazy archival images.  

Not much from Austin, with except of lots of Moon Towers (alright, alright, alright) purchased/transplanted from other parts of the country.

 

I did find this gem of a HoJo.

[Dude65 0]

20 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Best I can do. Liberty lunch makes an appearance. 

 

Appears to be early 80’s

[Dude65 0]

19 hours ago, Chet Steadman said:

This is one of my all-time favorites.  All the historical documents I've seen identify this site what is now the NEC of Koenig and Burnet but I'm 90% sure that's incorrect and it's actually the NWC of 2222 and Balcones/Parkcrest opposite of the vacant gas station and Jack Brown cleaners site. 

The sign in the foreground is advertising new lots for sale in which would become the Allandale and Highland Park West neighborhoods.

If you look closely right behind the stop sign it almost looks like the street sign says Burnet

[Hornius Emeritus 12495]

The Vigues family outside their home in Austin, early 1940s.

 

 

1956 Anderson High Yellowjacket Cheerleaders






Barton Springs, 1860s:

Edited March 28, 2018 by Hornius Emeritus

[TtomTerrific 200]

Wow at Barton Springs during the Civil War!

[Armybrat 40945]

No, I'm not in that picture.

[DaggerHorns 3102]

27 minutes ago, TtomTerrific said:

Wow at Barton Springs during the Civil War!

Yeah dude. That’s just crazy

[Hornius Emeritus 12495]

55 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

No, I'm not in that picture.

 

That's because you took it.  

[TXLNGHRN10 341]

Anyone have any pics of the old Tumbleweed? 

 

[tamlin 1]

Fox 7 has a bunch of their old videos on their youtube channel.

[Hornius Emeritus 12495]

I-35 in Austin, 1970s.






Famed Bootmaker Charlie Dunn, 1980:






A VERY early photo (1860s) of Congress Ave. in Austin looking north toward the old capitol building, which burned in the early 1880s.. Note the foot bridges crossing the street. Those were to keep the mud and slop off of people as they crossed. It was subsequently bricked over and then, in the early 1900s, paved.






 

[TtomTerrific 200]

so, they've kept the exact same on-ramp since?

[ShaggyBevo RIP 3868]

10 hours ago, Dude65 said:

Appears to be early 80’s

Early 90s. Tower Records was the Varsity up to '89-90. Plus the Tower ad for CDs.  CD players didn't became mainstream until the late 80s.

Edited March 28, 2018 by ShaggyBevo RIP

[ShaggyBevo RIP 3868]

^^^

Looking at the cars that is mid 90s.

[Bernard 879]

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Appears to be early 80’s

Tower Records didn't appear before 1989(ish). So it has to be after that.

Bernard

[PatSolitanojr 518]

On 3/27/2018 at 10:21 AM, Patricio Swayze said:

Best I can do. Liberty lunch makes an appearance. 

 

Man, that is truly awesome 

[South Austin 52673]

12 hours ago, Dude65 said:

Appears to be early 80’s

The title of the video is "A Drive Through Austin - June 1996."  That may be a clue.

[Seger78 258]

21 hours ago, Guitarman said:

Jesus that was heartbreaking to watch.

Just Waterloo and Dog and Duck by themselves are a punch in the dick. Then add in Liberty Lunch, Players, Gattis, and the complete lack of traffic and this video becomes a real tearjerker.

A tearjerker is also what I call masturbating while watching Terms of Endearment.

Edited March 29, 2018 by Seger78

[Dude65 0]

31 minutes ago, South Austin said:

The title of the video is "A Drive Through Austin - June 1996."  That may be a clue.

All the vehicles looked like they were from the 80’s. Hell whada I know

[Dude65 0]

2 hours ago, ShaggyBevo RIP said:

Early 90s. Tower Records was the Varsity up to '89-90. Plus the Tower ad for CDs.  CD players didn't became mainstream until the late 80s.

I was mainly looking at the vehicles

[Armybrat 40945]

6 hours ago, TXLNGHRN10 said:

Anyone have any pics of the old Tumbleweed? 

 

My niece & nephew were waiters at the Tumbleweed - nephew wore a gun & did some kind of fake cowboy shootout shows there.

[Biff Tannen 45760]

1996 you jackholes

[Iowa Horn 55]

On 3/27/2018 at 11:08 AM, Chet Steadman said:

This is one of my all-time favorites.  All the historical documents I've seen identify this site what is now the NEC of Koenig and Burnet but I'm 90% sure that's incorrect and it's actually the NWC of 2222 and Balcones/Parkcrest opposite of the vacant gas station and Jack Brown cleaners site. 

The sign in the foreground is advertising new lots for sale in which would become the Allandale and Highland Park West neighborhoods.

I agree with you, Chet.

I can see how someone would think it is the NEC of Burnet & Koenig because that pic shows a 7-11, and there is one there now too.  But what gives it away is the terrain/hillside on the far right of this pic.  Nothing like that ever existed at Burnet & Koenig - the land slopes the other way.

[DanRydell 799]

Looking south from about Airport at I35 being built in 1954. The red arrow is pointing to what was then my grandparents’ house on 43rd, which backed up to the Hancock Golf Course back nine before it became Hancock Center.

 

 

[Stunns38 3610]

def a cool story. my local film csb is from office space when they were driving down metric. apparently they shut down the street right in front of my old apartment because it kept popping back up in the scene for about 10 blocks of driving. acc northridge was also in that shot.

Yeah, I saw that. I remember the gas station at the NE corner of Cedar Bend and Metric being used as the staging area.


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[PatrickMcHorn 376]

Need help from the olds. My mom's side came to Austin in the mid sixties for my grandpa to manage a Gibson's. I think it was somewhere in the Crestview/ Allendale area. Anyone know what it is now, or where it was if the building no longer exists?

[HOOKEM4 5054]

 

https://geemail.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/its-pics-from-the-past-of-hometown-austin-texas/

 

 

[Paco 1934]

Hope this works

[Red Five 41024]

Looking south from about Airport at I35 being built in 1954. The red arrow is pointing to what was then my grandparents’ house on 43rd, which backed up to the Hancock Golf Course back nine before it became Hancock Center.
 

 

Damn that enormous red arrow must have driven them crazy.

[HOOKEM4 5054]

That was just an elaborate hit piece on Clarence Phillips. "Clarence has been vomiting for several hours and he also has diarrhea"  Put his shit on blast.

[Bottlecap 1523]

11 hours ago, DanRydell said:

Looking south from about Airport at I35 being built in 1954. The red arrow is pointing to what was then my grandparents’ house on 43rd, which backed up to the Hancock Golf Course back nine before it became Hancock Center.

 

 

oh wow. so, hancock used to be a full 18 hole course? pretty interesting. Crazy how the terrain between the two nines is so different. the original back nine looks like a links course.

[1978horn 896]

1 minute ago, Bottlecap said:

oh wow. so, hancock used to be a full 18 hole course? pretty interesting. Crazy how the terrain between the two nines is so different. the original back nine looks like a links course.

I think that Hancock used to be the old Austin Country Club.

[TPCJ007 48]

2 hours ago, PatrickMcHorn said:

Need help from the olds. My mom's side came to Austin in the mid sixties for my grandpa to manage a Gibson's. I think it was somewhere in the Crestview/ Allendale area. Anyone know what it is now, or where it was if the building no longer exists?

I used to shop at a Gibson's on Burnet road. It was just North of where the old Dallas nightclub used to be. 

[TtomTerrific 200]

Hancock was definitely the Austin Country Club...it's where Harvey Penick began his career.  Hyde Park was the end of the earth...a ritzy neighborhood "Way out north"

Speedway was the only road between Austin and Round Rock and it took all day by horse and buggy, navigating the washouts and the boulders in the road.

[1978horn 896]

Just now, TtomTerrific said:

Hancock was definitely the Austin Country Club...it's where Harvey Penick began his career.  Hyde Park was the end of the earth...a ritzy neighborhood "Way out north"

Speedway was the only road between Austin and Round Rock and it took all day by horse and buggy, navigating the washouts and the boulders in the road.

Armybrat sock?

[TtomTerrific 200]

kind of...he and I have discussed this before somewhere.  I am an old Austin city nerd and I love that shit...particularly Hyde Park.

Here is the old "Austin Rapid Transit Company" in 1892 on a lake in Hyde Park that ran through Austin Country Club

[DanRydell 799]

Hancock was definitely the Austin Country Club...it's where Harvey Penick began his career.  Hyde Park was the end of the earth...a ritzy neighborhood "Way out north"
Speedway was the only road between Austin and Round Rock and it took all day by horse and buggy, navigating the washouts and the boulders in the road.

Yeah, Austin Country Club moved from Hancock to Riverside in the late 40’s IIRC.

[South Austin 52673]

Where was there a lake in Hyde Park?

[TtomTerrific 200]

"Southeast Corner" apparently.

"By 1892 a pavilion operated by the Austin Rapid Transit Company had been built in the resort area located at the southwest corner of Hyde Park. Next to the lake, it provided an ideal location for summer entertainment such as concerts, plays, and dances."

[TXLNGHRN10 341]

I might be a little slow, but I didn't realize that Rock The Casba video was filmed in Austin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9r8LMU9bQ

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

A little slow? Naaaaah.

[Chet Steadman 940]

47 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Where was there a lake in Hyde Park?

I believe it was just east of Guadalupe near 40th where the current AISD Baker building resides.

[Deej 77012]

1 hour ago, Bottlecap said:

oh wow. so, hancock used to be a full 18 hole course? pretty interesting. Crazy how the terrain between the two nines is so different. the original back nine looks like a links course.

You really had to be careful not to hit it into the tree. 

[gsoda3 3284]

1 hour ago, Bottlecap said:

oh wow. so, hancock used to be a full 18 hole course? pretty interesting. Crazy how the terrain between the two nines is so different. the original back nine looks like a links course.

i think part of the 9 they took out is now the HEB and that complex.

[bolverk 29780]

3 hours ago, Paco said:

 

 

Hope this works

 

You have now entered the Twilight Zone.

Nice that they promoted the delusional survivability notion with wild recovery optimism and a dash of cowardice morality shaming.

Other comments:

That June 1996 video was take the month I moved here for grad school. It was definitely a different place than today.

All the really old B&W photos show a pretty fucking barren landscape. Was that because of the prevalence of (over) grazing at the time?

That 1860s Barton Springs shot is just incredible. Hornius always knows how to bring it.

[bolverk 29780]

Now that I've had a moment to relax, here's a ton of archival videos of old Austin that I mentioned up-thread:

http://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php?title=Special:GSMSearchPage&processor=search-mobile&location=Austin

Edited March 29, 2018 by bolverk

[Armybrat 40945]

2 hours ago, South Austin said:

Where was there a lake in Hyde Park?

There was also a horse race track in Hyde Park.  Take a close look at E. 39th Street - it is curved because that is where the south end of the race track was located. The street just followed the curve after the track was done away with and the land plotted or more new homes.

. I bet most residents in that area aren't aware of it at all.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hyde+Park,+Austin,+TX/@30.300728,-97.7312494,322m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x8644ca710dd9e5b5:0x526d78512aa5b73c!8m2!3d30.305177!4d-97.731512

Later on they ha auto races on the track:

Edited March 29, 2018 by Armybrat