Austin | Historic Images & Postcards - Page 27

KevinFromTexas · #**521** Posted **Aug 21, 2014, 8:45 AM**

There are some interesting images on this page including plans for old parks projects around downtown and the river.

1984

I'm pretty sure these cranes were working on the Capitol Tower and the Omni Hotel.

http://larryspeck.com/building/town-...ehensive-plan/

KevinFromTexas · #**522** Posted **Aug 22, 2014, 8:55 PM**

The 600 block of Congress Avenue. This is where the One American Center is. All of the buildings facing Congress were demolished for it except for the one on the far right.

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

KevinFromTexas · #**523** Posted **Sep 4, 2014, 9:55 PM**

Notice they hadn't yet added the 9th floor of the Littlefield Building. Originally the building had a rooftop terrace in its place.

Austin Public Library - https://www.facebook.com/AustinLibra...type=1&theater

jg6544 · #**524** Posted **Sep 5, 2014, 6:05 PM**

Great picture!

corvairkeith · #**525** Posted **Sep 5, 2014, 6:38 PM**

The ATX · #**526** Posted **Sep 5, 2014, 7:23 PM**

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I don't even know where to begin.

The ATX · #**527** Posted **Sep 5, 2014, 7:36 PM**

There's a good chance this was already posted. But here's a photo collection of 6th St through the years.

http://www.austinlibrary.com/ahc/streets/6th.htm

Near 6th & Brazos in 1866. Wow. Just wow.

The ATX · #**528** Posted **Sep 5, 2014, 8:12 PM**

From the side of Mt. Bonnell looking toward the site of all those future million dollar homes along Lake Austin:

http://library.austintexas.gov/ahc/favorite-27-53243

priller · #**529** Posted **Sep 6, 2014, 3:40 PM**

Neill deGrasse Tyson, UT grad student, 1980.

priller · #**530** Posted **Sep 6, 2014, 3:47 PM**

UT women's track team, March 1964.

sammyk · #**531** Posted **Sep 6, 2014, 4:45 PM**

How much did the beehive affect her time?

jg6544 · #**532** Posted **Sep 6, 2014, 8:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by Hill Country

From the side of Mt. Bonnell looking toward the site of all those future million dollar homes along Lake Austin:

http://library.austintexas.gov/ahc/favorite-27-53243

Those "million dollar homes" trashed this view.

KevinFromTexas · #**533** Posted **Sep 23, 2014, 8:05 PM**

http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/675...ustin,%20texas

jg6544 · #**534** Posted **Sep 24, 2014, 5:26 PM**

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http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/675...ustin,%20texas

Wow! The campus when "the 40 acres" really was just 40 acres. This must be from when, right around 1940?

Mopacs · #**535** Posted **Sep 24, 2014, 5:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by jg6544

Wow! The campus when "the 40 acres" really was just 40 acres. This must be from when, right around 1940?

Might be even earlier? It doesn't look like any of the "six-pack" buildings along the South Mall were built yet. I believe most came along in the mid-late 30s.

Amazing picture!

MichaelB · #**536** Posted **Sep 24, 2014, 6:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by Mopacs

Might be even earlier? It doesn't look like any of the "six-pack" buildings along the South Mall were built yet. I believe most came along in the mid-late 30s.

Amazing picture!

I was under the same impression... but I just did a quick search of UT building dates.
The tower was open in 1937. the 6 pack was built between ( approx) 1951-1956!
Not much else was built between those years. ( War...etc I suppose)
The cars are hard to read but do look 30s/40s.

So, take a year or so off the 1951 date for site prep and construction and the photo is somewhere between 1937 and 1949/50.

!!

KevinFromTexas · #**537** Posted **Sep 24, 2014, 7:30 PM**

I love these. Here's another. Look at the stadium!

This was taken at least after 1939 since you can see the Texas Memorial Museum above the power plant in the upper left.

http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/675...?q=ut%20campus

May 26, 1955. The Capitol looks huge here.

http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/675...?q=ut%20campus

jg6544 · #**538** Posted **Sep 24, 2014, 7:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by MichaelB

I was under the same impression... but I just did a quick search of UT building dates.
The tower was open in 1937. the 6 pack was built between ( approx) 1951-1956!
Not much else was built between those years. ( War...etc I suppose)
The cars are hard to read but do look 30s/40s.

So, take a year or so off the 1951 date for site prep and construction and the photo is somewhere between 1937 and 1949/50.

!!

I judged around 1940 because I think the streetcar tracks on the Drag were torn up around then and I think I can still detect them in this photo. The "six-pack" buildings weren't started until the early 50s and construction on the last one began in 1965 (if I remember correctly) and wasn't completed for a year or more.

jg6544 · #**539** Posted **Sep 24, 2014, 7:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

I love these. Here's another. Look at the stadium!

This was taken at least after 1939 since you can see the Texas Memorial Museum above the power plant in the upper left.

http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/675...?q=ut%20campus

May 26, 1955. The Capitol looks huge here.

http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/675...?q=ut%20campus

The endzone-endzone stands in Memorial Stadium were elevated sometime between the time this picture was taken and 1963, my first year at The University. Lights for night games were also added in 1955 or so. The south-facing picture is what the south mall looked like when I was in school. And the Kappa Sig house was on 19th Street, facing the tower. Anyone else remember the annual "Kappa Sig Revolt" on March 2 of every year?

KevinFromTexas · #**540** Posted **Oct 6, 2014, 1:51 AM**

1987

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

2014

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