Austin | Historic Images & Postcards - Page 28

midtownstarbucky · #**541** Posted **Oct 6, 2014, 8:55 PM**

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1987

https://www.facebook.com/ScottPrinse...type=1&theater

2014

https://www.facebook.com/ScottPrinse...type=1&theater

I like the differences, Kevin. Thanks for the share.

KevinFromTexas · #**542** Posted **Dec 24, 2014, 7:15 PM**

1975

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater

1947

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater

Early 90s, I think?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater

KevinFromTexas · #**543** Posted **Jan 9, 2015, 1:59 PM**

This website is a treasure trove of information. The Austin Public Library has partnered with the Austin American-Statesman and other publications to allow library card holders to access old newspaper articles.

http://library.austintexas.gov/datab...sman-1871-1975

I simply logged on and typed in "tower" to see what I'd get. One article is a story about the old control tower at Bergstrom back when it was an air base.

Anyway, I don't if this link will work without a card or not. The article is from November 18, 1973, and shows a photo of the tower. It says it was 119 feet tall. I didn't realize it was that tall.

http://www.austinlibrary.com:2400/hn...accountid=7451

KevinFromTexas · #**544** Posted **Jan 9, 2015, 4:51 PM**

An article about the Bank of America Center's construction with the original rendering included.

http://www.austinlibrary.com:2400/hn...accountid=7451

And another one.

http://www.austinlibrary.com:2400/hn...accountid=7451

Here's an article from 1934 on the plan for the UT Tower. This one is neat because it shows some heights of some of the existing buildings at the time. it also mentions a 236 foot smoke stack at the power plant on the UT Campus. The tallest height I'd seen for that plant was 205 feet.

http://www.austinlibrary.com:2400/hn...accountid=7451

Downtown_Austin · #**545** Posted **Jan 9, 2015, 5:23 PM**

Good guerrilla marketing for the Austin Public Library, Kevin. Guess I'm gonna have to get my library card now!

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

An article about the Bank of America Center's construction with the original rendering included.

http://www.austinlibrary.com:2400/hn...accountid=7451

And another one.

http://www.austinlibrary.com:2400/hn...accountid=7451

Here's an article from 1934 on the plan for the UT Tower. This one is neat because it shows some heights of some of the existing buildings at the time. it also mentions a 236 foot smoke stack at the power plant on the UT Campus. The tallest height I'd seen for that plant was 205 feet.

http://www.austinlibrary.com:2400/hn...accountid=7451

KevinFromTexas · #**546** Posted **Jan 9, 2015, 10:26 PM**

Yeah, it's neat. I found an article from 1971 that had a rendering with it for a proposed 12-story state highway office building that was planned for the block bounded by 10th, 11th, Congress, and Colorado Streets. The building wasn't built of course. The article states they had planned to incorporate the Lundberg Bakery.

http://www.austinlibrary.com:2400/hn...accountid=7451

Here's another aerial rendering of it. It was a big building. Probably 175 feet or so, and it ran the full length of the block on the south side of it.
http://www.austinlibrary.com:2400/hn...accountid=7451

I'm not sure if that link will work without you being logged in.

KevinFromTexas · #**547** Posted **Jan 10, 2015, 4:26 AM**

I found this, too. This was a planned office building at 12th & Lavaca. The caption for this says it was planned with 13 floors at first, but that the developers later added 8 more floors to the plan. Of course it wasn't built. It was also supposed to have a helicopter pad on the roof. Anyway, the article was dated 1955. I'd say this would have been a pretty cool looking building.

http://www.austinlibrary.com:2400/hn...accountid=7451

KevinFromTexas · #**548** Posted **Jan 12, 2015, 10:40 AM**

http://www.statesman.com/news/news/l...moan-st/njmBQ/

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Menchaca descendants gather to celebrate, bemoan street name
6:51 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015 | Filed in: Local

In a small elementary school in an unincorporated part of Travis County named after their family patriarch, the great-great-great-great-grandson and great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Jose Antonio Menchaca met for the first time on his 215th birthday.

Menchaca’s family has spread across Texas and the country from San Antonio since the mid-1800s after Menchaca, the namesake of Austin’s Manchaca Road, wrote his name in state history as one of the heroes of the 1836 Battle of San Jacinto.

lzppjb · #**549** Posted **Jan 12, 2015, 12:41 PM**

This is so stupid it pisses me off. The school is not named for their patriarch! It was first named Manchaca Elementary, after the town, which was named after the local spring. AISD changed the name years ago because they got a hair up their ass, and didn't even bother to get input from the locals.

The road is NOT NAMED AFTER MENCHACA. They need to get that through their thick skulls and knock this crap off.

wwmiv · #**550** Posted **Jan 12, 2015, 1:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by lzppjb

This is so stupid it pisses me off. The school is not named for their patriarch! It was first named Manchaca Elementary, after the town, which was named after the local spring. AISD changed the name years ago because they got a hair up their ass, and didn't even bother to get input from the locals.

The road is NOT NAMED AFTER MENCHACA. They need to get that through their thick skulls and knock this crap off.

What is the local spring named after?

lzppjb · #**551** Posted **Jan 12, 2015, 1:26 PM**

Nobody can prove either way. It's named Manchac Springs (no A at the end). They will claim Menchaca and his men camped there. I have not found any proof of that. They were supposed to patrol the area around San Antonio. The name Manchac has roots in Louisiana with an area, a town and a 16th century fort of the same name. I believe the root is Manchac, and that's why the pronunciation has lasted till this day.

lzppjb · #**552** Posted **Jan 12, 2015, 1:27 PM**

Honestly, if anything, it should be Manchac Road. Not Menchaca Road. But, the community decided long ago to go with Manchaca. The road is named for the place it terminates, thus Manchaca Road. The road was not named after a person. That's the rub. It's not a clerical error from a misspelled surname. It was named for the community that the road took you to.

MichaelB · #**553** Posted **Jan 12, 2015, 5:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

I found this, too. This was a planned office building at 12th & Lavaca. The caption for this says it was planned with 13 floors at first, but that the developers later added 8 more floors to the plan. Of course it wasn't built. It was also supposed to have a helicopter pad on the roof. Anyway, the article was dated 1955. I'd say this would have been a pretty cool looking building.

http://www.austinlibrary.com:2400/hn...accountid=7451

Oh yeah!!!!! That would have been great. So many building in Austin that were built at that time were not well funded and so we have a low inventory.... and many are not great representations of the era.

jg6544 · #**554** Posted **Jan 12, 2015, 5:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by lzppjb

Honestly, if anything, it should be Manchac Road. Not Menchaca Road. But, the community decided long ago to go with Manchaca. The road is named for the place it terminates, thus Manchaca Road. The road was not named after a person. That's the rub. It's not a clerical error from a misspelled surname. It was named for the community that the road took you to.

How about "hwadaloopey" instead of "gawdaloop"?

KevinFromTexas · #**555** Posted **Jan 12, 2015, 6:05 PM**

It's kind of a funny a street named Guadalupe and being mispronounced "loopy" also being nicknamed "the drag".

Anyway, I've been listening to these guys the last couple of days. I found this interview of them outside Liberty Lunch in 1991.

These guys are cool. They're based in San Francisco, but one of the members is from Austin, and the old band he was in was started here.

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lzppjb · #**556** Posted **Jan 12, 2015, 6:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by jg6544

How about "hwadaloopey" instead of "gawdaloop"?

haha That's just a pronunciation problem. No spelling "error."

Downtown_Austin · #**557** Posted **Jan 12, 2015, 8:05 PM**

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interesting to see Cesar Chavez St in the background.

Mopacs · #**558** Posted **Jan 13, 2015, 5:25 PM**

Don't know if this has been posted, but you all will probably find this page really interesting. It shows current pictures of filming locations in the movie Slacker, dating back 1-2 years prior to the 1991 release.

http://endofaustin.com/2014/05/22/th...5-years-later/

Shots in the vicinity of Liberty Lunch on W 2nd Street. Now completely transformed.

Old McMorris Ford can be seen across Lamar from the GM Steakhouse...now Whole Foods

EDIT: Google Map pinpointing selected filming locations: https://mapsengine.google.com/map/u/...s.kmW0z3VvDICc

jg6544 · #**559** Posted **Jan 13, 2015, 6:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by lzppjb

haha That's just a pronunciation problem. No spelling "error."

Somewhere, probably on Facebook, I saw a piece on unique Austin pronunciations. Quite funny.

sammyk · #**560** Posted **Jan 13, 2015, 7:47 PM**

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Somewhere, probably on Facebook, I saw a piece on unique Austin pronunciations. Quite funny.

Was it this?

http://m.chron.com/news/local/articl...es-5986103.php