This was posted on Shaggy. That first high-rise boom in the mid 80s was actually pretty decent - at least in terms of quantity if not quality. A couple of these didn't happen due to the onset of that savings & loan meltdown. That recession was worse for Austin than the Great Recession or the dot com crash from what I recall.
http://www.shaggytexas.com/board/sho...rojects/page40