AUSTIN | Photos & Videos Thread

[austin242]

Agreed.

[myBrain]

Originally Posted by texboy

Man... hate to sound like an old timer, but those first few... That time period in Austin just hit different. Was still laid back and unpretentious. The Austin I like to remember. Great shots.

The thing about Austin is that you show a picture from 10 years before this and someone will say exactly the same thing... on and on again for every decade.

[bilbao58]

Originally Posted by myBrain

The thing about Austin is that you show a picture from 10 years before this and someone will say exactly the same thing... on and on again for every decade.

Yep.

[the Genral]

Originally Posted by myBrain

The thing about Austin is that you show a picture from 10 years before this and someone will say exactly the same thing... on and on again for every decade.

I'm one of them. But I wouldn't go so far to think Austin will ever be pretentious no matter how big it gets. Not with all the issues such as homelessness, traffic, cost of living, lack of decent mass transit, abundant urban sprawl, lack of profession sports (except Austin FC). Austin in the 80s was awesome, which is why I moved here. But as much as we loved Austin in the past, I think many of us were secretly wishing it would eventually grow into the city it is becoming today which at the time didn't seem possible.

[Armybrat]

Originally Posted by the Genral

I'm one of them. But I wouldn't go so far to think Austin will ever be pretentious no matter how big it gets. Not with all the issues such as homelessness, traffic, cost of living, lack of decent mass transit, abundant urban sprawl, lack of profession sports (except Austin FC). Austin in the 80s was awesome, which is why I moved here. But as much as we loved Austin in the past, I think many of us were secretly wishing it would eventually grow into the city it is becoming today which at the time didn't seem possible.

We were ready to move out Of Austin in the mid-1980s, but procrastinated until I retired in 1995.

[urbancore]

Originally Posted by the Genral

I'm one of them. But I wouldn't go so far to think Austin will ever be pretentious no matter how big it gets. Not with all the issues such as homelessness, traffic, cost of living, lack of decent mass transit, abundant urban sprawl, lack of profession sports (except Austin FC). Austin in the 80s was awesome, which is why I moved here. But as much as we loved Austin in the past, I think many of us were secretly wishing it would eventually grow into the city it is becoming today which at the time didn't seem possible.

Bingo.

I feel the exact same way. I always wanted Austin to grow bigger, more diverse. Honestly, by far, most of the pretense I’ve witnessed came from NIMBYS.

[mercury6]

Originally Posted by the Genral

I'm one of them. But I wouldn't go so far to think Austin will ever be pretentious no matter how big it gets. Not with all the issues such as homelessness, traffic, cost of living, lack of decent mass transit, abundant urban sprawl, lack of profession sports (except Austin FC). Austin in the 80s was awesome, which is why I moved here. But as much as we loved Austin in the past, I think many of us were secretly wishing it would eventually grow into the city it is becoming today which at the time didn't seem possible.

nah, the 80s is when my grandparents saw gentrification creeping into their neighborhood, wouldn't say it was awesome. According to them, the 60s is when Austin peaked.

[KevinFromTexas]

Originally Posted by myBrain

The thing about Austin is that you show a picture from 10 years before this and someone will say exactly the same thing... on and on again for every decade.

Yeah. My quip about stuff like that is I'm sure there was some guy in the 1950s driving along in a dusty old farm truck whistling Hank Williams and shaking his head at some new housing development being advertised that was "Coming in 1960!"

Originally Posted by the Genral

I'm one of them. But I wouldn't go so far to think Austin will ever be pretentious no matter how big it gets. Not with all the issues such as homelessness, traffic, cost of living, lack of decent mass transit, abundant urban sprawl, lack of profession sports (except Austin FC). Austin in the 80s was awesome, which is why I moved here. But as much as we loved Austin in the past, I think many of us were secretly wishing it would eventually grow into the city it is becoming today which at the time didn't seem possible.

I've never lived anywhere else, so it was always hard for me to imagine a "big Austin". I was mostly wishing for a few more tall buildings and maybe even a new tallest, but I had no idea it would grow the way it has. You have to remember Austin has really grown disproportionately relative to our size. Even the other Texas cities have not grown as much as we have relative to their size. Dallas and Houston have been big for a long time, and San Antonio also. If someone had told me we'd be what we are now, as big as we are and all of the big city stuff we have, I would have thought they were nuts. It really is one of those cases of not being able to see into the future and understand what it would truly be like even though you were trying to imagine it. It's kind of strange really, especially when you look back at old photos and ones that aren't even that old and realize just how far we've come in what is really a short amount of time.

[ski-man]

Originally Posted by bilbao58

Austin After a Heavy Rain on Flickr

You know there was heavy rain and/or flooding when Town Lake/Lady Bird Lake is brown........

[corvairkeith]

This popped up in my facebook memories today. Going ALL the way back to 2014. A lot of change in not many years.

[KevinFromTexas]

https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/3800...n-TX/17412422/

Midtown and The Domain.


https://images1.loopnet.com/i2/0xvyC...Definition.jpg

Downtown and The Domain.


https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/4400...n-TX/22175907/

[drummer]

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/3800...n-TX/17412422/

What a fantastic shot! Indeed almost looks purple with the light in that shot. And I'm impressed by the progress of the former Concordia campus development. Haven't paid much attention to that.

[We vs us]

Pic #1: The March of the Texas Donuts.

[KevinFromTexas]

There are a lot of great aerial photos on there showing big views of the city.

https://www.loopnet.com/search/comme...pt4zgsJ-h45h1H

[Geckos_Rule]

Strange that the south end-zone of DKR isn't particularly visible from this angle....

It will be interesting when the Frank Erwin Center (as a kid in the 90's, we always called it the "superdrum") gets torn down. I suppose there will be med school buildings there, but it will definitely seem empty for a while.

[drummer]

Originally Posted by Geckos_Rule

Strange that the south end-zone of DKR isn't particularly visible from this angle....

It will be interesting when the Frank Erwin Center (as a kid in the 90's, we always called it the "superdrum") gets torn down. I suppose there will be med school buildings there, but it will definitely seem empty for a while.

Yeah, I went to the DKR thread to look at the photos after your post. You can see a bit of the green from construction but it's definitely not as high as you would think it is. The upper deck on the north and east sides seem higher from this angle.

Originally Posted by Syndic

[Riverranchdrone]

I always wanted to fly from the north side like that. Cant find a good park to take off from. Love the dense look Austin has from the north.

[Riverranchdrone]

[Riverranchdrone]

[KevinFromTexas]

Dude! Those are beautiful! Nicely done.