Austin | Historic Images & Postcards

[kingkirbythe....]

Originally Posted by Armybrat

Yep, but my older brother just calls it the Colorado River.

Touché!

[Sigaven]

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid...75562525847330

Link isn't working for me

[KevinFromTexas]

Originally Posted by Sigaven

Link isn't working for me

They must have deleted it. I don't even remember what photo it was, but I'm not seeing one that I posted more recently than the last one I did. I guess the link just automatically redirects to the page whenever a photo gets deleted. Weird.

[The ATX]

Poultry Processing sometime before 1944:


https://www.austintexas.gov/edims/do....cfm?id=391751

[Maximusx1]

Cool pic! Is that St. Ed's in the background?

[The ATX]

Originally Posted by Maximusx1

Cool pic! Is that St. Ed's in the background?

Yup. St. Eds. must have been out in the country back in the day.

[H2O]

Originally Posted by The ATX

Yup. St. Eds. must have been out in the country back in the day.

Austin was out in the country back in the day.

[Mopacs]

Scanned in from an old magazine. 1984 Austin area map with various tech companies plotted.



Austin metro was 1/3rd its current size. Back when Slaughter and Parmer were only 2-3 miles long and didn't intersect with 35.

[MBAus]

Howard Ln. east of 35 was known as West Dassau back then and there was an airport there? Interesting.

[KevinFromTexas]

Originally Posted by MBAus

Howard Ln. east of 35 was known as West Dassau back then and there was an airport there? Interesting.

That airport is still there today.

https://www.austinexecutiveairport.com/

[MBAus]

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

That airport is still there today.

So they just put it in the wrong place on that map?

[Armybrat]

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

That airport is still there today.

https://www.austinexecutiveairport.com/

No it isn’t. That little executive airport next to I-35 was closed decades ago.
There are a couple of the buildings still there and the runway no longer exists, and was located roughly along what is now McCallen Road running south of Howard Lane.
The new recently built Executive Airport you linked to is located east of Texas 130.
That one was originally Birds Nest Airport east of Pflugerville. It was bought by an out of town company that expanded it a few years ago after they purchased a lot of the surrounding acreage from the owner of Parker Electric (a family friend).

Here is a crude video of the old Birds Nest Airport which was redeveloped as the new Austin Executive Airport in your link…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF7djKgS6IM

[EagerTurnip]

Originally Posted by MBAus

So they just put it in the wrong place on that map?

Looks like the airport on the map is the Austin Executive Airpark which closed in 1999. Now we have the Austin Executive Airport. Very confusing haha

[KevinFromTexas]

Ah, ok. Blame it on a South Austin Austinite trying to figure out where something is in North Austin. I think what threw me off is the exit sign for Austin Executive Airport is along I-35, which made me think it was close to there. That and I assumed they renamed it to make it sound more modern.

[Armybrat]

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

Ah, ok. Blame it on a South Austin Austinite trying to figure out where something is in North Austin. I think what threw me off is the exit sign for Austin Executive Airport is along I-35, which made me think it was close to there. That and I assumed they renamed it to make it sound more modern.

I used to live in the Four Seasons neighborhood off East Braker Lane 1976-1995 and Windsor Hills 1971-1976. Before that we had an apartment in the Santa Maria Village complex at 183 & North Lamar 1969-1970 before we bought our first house off the newly paved East Rundberg Lane.

[Mopacs]

Also notice that 620 crossed on top of Mansfield Dam (and well into the 90s). That crossing was NARROW, with no shoulders to speak of.

[Armybrat]

Originally Posted by Mopacs

Also notice that 620 crossed on top of Mansfield Dam (and well into the 90s). That crossing was NARROW, with no shoulders to speak of.

But there was a small parking “lot” close to the center of the top of the dam for maybe 4 or 5 cars.

[LoneStarMike]

Inner Sanctum Records: From 1970 to 1982

(48-minute documentary)

On August 28, 1970 Joe Bryson opened Inner Sanctum Records located in Bluebonnet Plaza, Austin. This film contains interviews with many of the staff who helped make the store a success. These include Steve Goodwin, James "Cowboy" Cooper, Richard Dorsett, Kirby McDaniel, and Neil Ruttenberg.

This was in the same complex where Les Amis was. It's a Starbuck's now, and what was Inner Sanctum records is now a Smoothie King. Both are slated to be demolished for more campus housing.

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[migol24]

Originally Posted by LoneStarMike

Inner Sanctum Records: From 1970 to 1982

(48-minute documentary)



This was in the same complex where Les Amis was. It's a Starbuck's now, and what was Inner Sanctum records is now a Smoothie King. Both are slated to be demolished for more campus housing.

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This is really cool, man. I didn't live through this era. But in my younger years, in the mid 90s through the early 00s, I still got to experience that part of Austin when it was still cool like this. This is nostalgic in some strange way, even though I didn't live through it.

I won't miss Starbucks or Smoothie King though. Lol

[Mopacs]

https://vimeo.com/665024744

The Cutting Edge - July 1985, Austin Tx

I.R.S. RECORDS’ THE CUTTING EDGE - THE AUSTIN SHOW AUGUST 1985

Originally airing on MTV in August 1985 this episode featured the Austin music scene. Hosted by The Fleshtones’ Peter Zaremba, the episode showed only local bands, most unsigned. A testament to the strength of the under-rated music scene there, then. Includes rare live performances and interviews by Daniel Johnston, Timbuk 3, Zeitgest, Joe King Carrasco, Glass Eye, Dino Lee, Poison 13, Dharma Bums, Tailgators, True Believers with Alejandro Escovedo, poet Biscuit Turner and more.