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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas
Our neighborhood was in the boonies back when it was built in the 60s. We're south of Ben White, a block south of Stassney. When our neighborhood was built, Stassney was a two lane street with nothing on it. Our neighborhood was the only new subdivision south of Ben White. William Cannon didn't exist, and South First Street still had low water crossings at Williamson Creek and no storm drains. My mom remembers them riding their bikes as kids down South First riding way down the hill where it crosses the creek. The vacant field behind our neighborhood was owned by a man who kept cows and horses on it. It's funny, though, because while the area was still mostly rural, just a few years later, in 1969, Crockett High School was built, Odom ES in 1970 and the Manchaca Branch library in 1974. So as far back as then we had all those things within a quarter mile. A grocery store was still farther. The nearest one was at Ben White and Manchaca Road. Now our neighborhood is considered to be fairly central since we're between Congress and Manchaca (which aligns with Lamar south of Ben White). ACC also built their South Austin campus on Stassney across the street from Crockett and near the library.
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When I was at St.Edward's High School in the early '60s, a classmate lived on Stanley Avenue (off Manchaca, south of Garrison Park). There were very few houses in that area & no schools, mostly ranchland. We went dove hunting along Manchaca a few blocks south of his house.
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