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January 1, 1937. Check out the streetcar on Guadalupe in the lower right.


https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater
The streetcars were phased out by 1940 or thereabouts. The rails were taken up an sold as scrap metal - much of it to Japan.
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View from the Capitol of the Old Main at UT. This was prior to 1899 since the east wing of Old Main hadn't been built yet.

https://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/ut-la...dings/old-main
https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/chem/history/oldmain.html



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Jester Center. You can also see the old Brackenridge Hospital in the background.

https://jimnicar.com/2017/02/10/the-...mous-building/
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Jester Center. You can also see the old Brackenridge Hospital in the background.

https://jimnicar.com/2017/02/10/the-...mous-building/
I can see my freshman year dorm room!
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Looking northeast from the capitol. The only building in the photo that's still there is the Sweatt Complex next to the Erwin Center.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Au...!4d-97.7430608


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

The caption says this is from Riverside from 1981. I'm not real sure what building that is under construction.


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The caption says this is from Riverside from 1981. I'm not real sure what building that is under construction.


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I would say that's One American Center, and the photo is late 1982. That was my hood in 1982, and that Safeway was my grocery store.
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Where was that Safeway exactly?

I thought it was the One American Center in the photo, too, but I was using Google Earth to do a "line of sight" line, and the One American Center seemed too far south and left for it to be visible that close to the federal building.
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Where was that Safeway exactly?

I thought it was the One American Center in the photo, too, but I was using Google Earth to do a "line of sight" line, and the One American Center seemed too far south and left for it to be visible that close to the federal building.

It's this Bingo place now. But a site plan was filed a week or two ago that will replace the shopping center with a seven-story apartment project.

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It's this Bingo place now. But a site plan was filed a week or two ago that will replace the shopping center with a seven-story apartment project.
Site prep is already underway (the surface area in the foreground), Bingo portion is gone.
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Site prep is already underway (the surface area in the foreground), Bingo portion is gone.
There may be two seven-story Apt. projects going up here. Documents show the site split in half for one project with a Riverside address and one with a Parker Lane address.
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The Bingo hall on Riverside and its side of the parking lot were taken down late Feb/early March.
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https://www.statesman.com/NEWS/20170...n-in-the-2010s

Pickle Building under construction.

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The downtown Austin skyline in January 1964. Austin History Center, Austin Public Library AS-64-43972.

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Is that the foot of East Avenue? I thought IH-35 was built in 1960. This view of the shoreline looks positively country bumpkin.
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Yes it is. I-35 is out of the picture to the right.

When the first stage of 35 was constructed in 1957-58 it veered off to the east starting southbound around 1st Street (C. Chavez). That was to avoid building the interstate bridge directly into the steep stone bluff on the south side of the Colorado River across from the foot of East Avenue. The path of least resistance, so to speak.

The second stage of 35’s construction in 1960-61 then filled in the stretch from 1st up to 19th (C. Chavez) to connect with the Interregional highway which had been built first four or five years prior.

As I recall, until 35 was built all the way through, the 1st-19th stretch of old East Avenue was where the main rush hour traffic was concentrated for about 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes in the afternoon due to state employees all keeping the same hours.
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As I recall, until 35 was built all the way through, the 1st-19th stretch of old East Avenue was where the main rush hour traffic was concentrated for about 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes in the afternoon due to state employees all keeping the same hours.
Same as it ever was - except that rush half-hour is now most of the day. Trying to get to or across 35 in that same stretch can take 45 - 60 minutes between 4:00 - 7:00 PM for the same reason.
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The difference being, East Avenue was just about the only part of the entire city that had bumper to bumper traffic at the abbreviated rush hours.
Maybe some on Congress and The Drag, but that was it.

On a Friday evening at 7pm I could drive from my parents’ home near I-35 & Woodland (southeast Austin) up to my gf’s house at 5010 Shoal Creek in less than 20 minutes.
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Maybe you guys have some idea of why those of us who lived in Austin in the early-mid 60s are so nostalgic about it!
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Maybe you guys have some idea of why those of us who lived in Austin in the early-mid 60s are so nostalgic about it!
I don't know. I grew up in a place that was and is still described the same way. That is why I left. It is pretty boring. When I visit, and people say "I don't know, I like it here. I can travel anywhere in town in 20 minutes." I always think that is just a description of how boring it is.

I've lived in Austin for 20 years, and the traffic has gotten worse and worse, but the city overall has gotten better. I'd much rather live in a city with a good pedestrian environment and bike facilities and a wide variety of things to do and see than a city that is easy to drive in.
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Maybe you guys have some idea of why those of us who lived in Austin in the early-mid 60s are so nostalgic about it!
People are usually nostalgic for their most formidable years (teens, 20s). They typically hold fond memories of those times and look upon them with rose colored glasses. It's human nature.
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