Austin | Historic Images & Postcards

[BevoLJ]

What Hill Country said. Cheers for sharing that Kevin.

[KevinFromTexas]

There's another one at the link, too. It's neat because it gives you an idea of the scale of the statue.

[KevinFromTexas]

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[jg6544]

Originally Posted by LoneStarMike

These photos (and descriptions) are all from the Portal to Texas History's website.

http://texashistory.unt.edu/

November 23, 1956 - Aerial view of St. David's Hospital showing building, parking lot and part of the grounds.




January 25, 1957 - Exterior view of The Alamo Hotel at 400 W. 6th Street. Kash-Karry Grocery sign is visible in background at left. Wesley's Distinctive Dry Cleaning storefront is visible to the right of the hotel. The cleaners was located at 606 Guadalupe.




November 11, 1942 - Bands marching up Congress Avenue in the Armistice Day parade.




The next three photos of the TEC Building all have the same date - January 1, 1958, but they obviuosly weren't all taken on the same day.


Aerial shot of cranes and scaffolding at TEC construction site



Aerial shot of steel frame structure of TEC building



Aerial shot of finished TEC Building




June 22, 1947 = Exterior view of The American Statesman building which was located at 7th and Colorado Streets in 1947.




December 3, 1954 - Interior of the Stephen F. Austin Hotel showing the entrance to the hotel and the reception area.



Interior of the Stephen F. Austin Hotel showing the lounge.



Interior of the Stephen F. Austin Hotel showing the lounge with unidentified guests of the hotel.




February 25, 1948 - Austin National Bank Building on Congress Ave.




February 26, 1957 - Austin Skyline (more distant view) from the south on I-35



Link to large version of the above photo is here


February 26, 1957 - Austin Skyline (closer view) from South of Colorado River on I-35



Link to large version of the above photo is here

What an incredible thread! My great-grandfather brought his family to Austin in 1883; he was a carpenter and there was a lot of work in Austin since the city was experiencing something of a boom. He built the family home at 30th and Speedway (now site of a condo complex) and it is that house I remember as "home". Someone once wrote of San Francisco that it is never as wonderful as it was when you knew it when you were young. I think the same is true for Austin. The view from the south approaching on the Interregional Highway is the one I remember; it is the Austin I will always love. No criticism of the modern city - the one so many people love today - but it's not Austin anymore, at least as far as I'm concerned.

[KevinFromTexas]

May 4, 1922 tornado damage of Holy Cross Hall at Saint Edward's University. It was the same tornado in that famous photo with it around the Capitol dome.

http://omeka.stedwards.edu/items/show/114

[the Genral]

The construction methods don't appear to have changed much over the last 70 plus years, but thank goodness the exterior designs have. I'm guessing they were designed to keep out the heat and the sun. Also, its nice to see posts that pre- date me...

[AustinBob]

That picture of the old Statesman building above is interesting. I never realized that the UT System Colorado Building had originally been built as a three story building and then had three more floors added at later some point in time.

[KevinFromTexas]

All photos are from the South Austin Memories Facebook page

Congress Avenue from sometime in the 50s.



Check out the old Austin National Bank building. Notice that the Bank of America Center hadn't even started yet. This photo was probably taken around 1972.







The caption says it was taken from the Stephen F. Austin Hotel in 1973.



City Coliseum being torn down. Butler Park and the Long Center replaced it of course.









The caption says 1976.

[KevinFromTexas]

All photos from the Austin History Center Facebook page[/b]

[migol24]

Would have been cool if Alamo Hotel was never knocked down.

[KevinFromTexas]

http://www.statesman.com/news/lifest...-celebr/nXMdB/

Posted: 12:00 a.m. Tuesday, April 16, 2013
A decade after leaving Austin, Adams Extract celebrates its 125th birthday

By Addie Broyles
American-Statesman Staff

John A. Adams might not recognize much about the Adams Extract Company today.
First off, it’s in Gonzales, 60 miles south of Austin, which is where he left it when he died in 1938.

By 1917, Adams’ sons Fred and Don were preparing to take over the business, and in 1922, the second generation decided to move it to Austin, where Fred Adams had been among the first graduates of the University of Texas’ business school.

The Austin facility remained at the corner of 22nd and San Gabriel streets until 1955, when Fred Adams and his son, John G. Adams, World War II veteran, UT chemistry graduate and inventor of the company’s four-pack of food coloring, moved the company once again, this time to a striking mid-century modern building south of Austin near Onion Creek and the town of Manchaca.

That futuristic art deco structure and bright red-and-blue neon sign were hard to miss. The building sat on a hill just west of the highway that would soon become Interstate 35, and it wasn’t just the Adams factory; it was one of the most famous buildings designed by Austin architect Leonard Lundgren, who also designed the round Holiday Inn on Lady Bird Lake.

Adam's Extract

[lzppjb]

My uncle worked there as the plant maintenance guy.

[KevinFromTexas]

Does you 'member when? Austin, Texas Version - Via Facebook

[MichaelB]

Cool pic! Note the Mobil Hourse!

The cars , though hard to see, look late 30....early 40s.
What year was the tower for the Driskell Hotel built? looks like it is there just to the right of the Stephen F.

[KevinFromTexas]

1930. Someone was suggesting this was from the early 50s. From this angle the Perry-Brooks Building should just be visible I would think, but it isn't. So I'm wondering if this might be earlier than that. Perry-Brooks was built in 1951. That's a Ford dealership to the left of the fireman's practice tower on Cesar Chavez.

[LoneStarMike]

Just to the left of the fireman's practice tower, there appears to be a church off in the distance. What church is that? Also, you can see the Brown Building and I think it was built in 1938, so this photo is later than that.

[KevinFromTexas]

I also see the Ernest O. Thompson Building to the right and behind of the Brown Building. That building was built in 1940. My guess is the Perry-Brooks Building wasn't built yet. It's from 1951, and I'm not sure if you'd be able to see the Commodore Perry Hotel from this angle. It's located a block north of the Perry-Brooks Building. Both of those buildings are still around and have been redone with new facades. The Commodore Perry was redone in the 1980s into an office building, and a few years ago it was redone again and is now lofts. My guess is this is from sometime between 1940 and 1946 or so.

[KevinFromTexas]

1983

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mgraboi...n/photostream/

1985 - Notice the crane finishing the Hobby Building (right). Also check out the three cranes working on the Omni Hotel. And there's two cranes on the Capitol Tower to the left also. This was early 1985 since the Omni hadn't gotten up into the air yet.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oz4cast...n/photostream/

1985

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oz4cast...n/photostream/

Bonus, can anyone guess what city this is? Don't cheat and click on the link!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oz4cast...n/photostream/

[wwmiv]

My mother is from there and was born in that time period. There are pics of that city in our house during the time she grew up. I won't give it away, though.

[austlar1]

I'm guessing Corpus, but that one building with the partial green mansard roof sure looks a lot like the old departed Shamrock Hotel at Main and Holcomb in Houston.