Austin | Historic Images & Postcards - Page 55

KevinFromTexas · #**1081** Posted **Apr 13, 2020, 11:40 AM**

Yeah, count me in as loving Austin no matter what decade you're talking about. It's why I love finding all these photos of the past. It's a part of Austin I didn't get to see, so naturally, I'm curious about it.

Anyway, yeah, that's East Avenue. I think the photo was likely taken from the bluff near the dog park on Riverside just about where the bridge is now.

That little cove in the river at the foot of East Avenue is still there.

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

the Genral · #**1082** Posted **Apr 13, 2020, 3:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

Yeah, count me in as loving Austin no matter what decade you're talking about. It's why I love finding all these photos of the past. It's a part of Austin I didn't get to see, so naturally, I'm curious about it.

Anyway, yeah, that's East Avenue. I think the photo was likely taken from the bluff near the dog park on Riverside just about where the bridge is now.

That little cove in the river at the foot of East Avenue is still there.

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

I really appreciate this thread. I took a ton of videos on VHS format that are pretty much useless now, and not too many actual photos, so this is a good place for reminiscing. I know somewhere in my house, I have tapes of the raft races, Bergstrom air shows, presidential motorcades, first building boom construction of the 80s, the statue removal and reinstallation on the Capitol Bldg, yeah I taped both of those events, I even have a bunch of footage of my drives up and down I35 through downtown throughout the 80s and early 90s showing all the progress. Someday I hope to find those missing tapes and make use of them again.

jg6544 · #**1083** Posted **Apr 13, 2020, 4:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by paul78701

This is pretty offensive. Even if you hadn't stated the date, it certainly makes it clear that you haven't been to Austin in quite a long time.

By choice.

shoreditch · #**1084** Posted **Apr 13, 2020, 4:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by jg6544

By choice.

Would you like a medal?

Mopacs · #**1085** Posted **Apr 13, 2020, 9:32 PM**

Found on a Facebook group. Club Foot, E 4th St, 1981-ish.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/670563642983299

ahealy · #**1086** Posted **Apr 14, 2020, 2:37 PM**

omg. I have a Club Foot shirt on my wall lolll (my dad's). This is great!

urbancore · #**1087** Posted **Apr 14, 2020, 3:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by Mopacs

Found on a Facebook group. Club Foot, E 4th St, 1981-ish.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/670563642983299

Is that the old Ruta Maya/Saba corner?

edit: prolly not given where the buildings are in the background.

The ATX · #**1088** Posted **Apr 14, 2020, 4:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by urbancore

Is that the old Ruta Maya/Saba corner?

edit: prolly not given where the buildings are in the background.

That's 4th & Brazos - Brazos Hall.

KevinFromTexas · #**1089** Posted **Apr 25, 2020, 9:45 PM**

The view from the UT Tower. The date listed with it says 1954, but I think it's a bit later than that because I can see the Sam Houston Building northeast of the Capitol, and it was built in 1959. It also looks like they were doing site prep for the Cambridge Tower at 18th & Lavaca, which was finished in 1965. I also see the Tom C. Clark Building and it was finished in 1960. And you can see the edge of the Penthouse Condominiums, which was finished in 1964. So, I think this is as late as 1964. Missing from the photo is the Westgate Tower, which was finished in 1967. The Holiday Inn Capitol Tower is also missing, and it was finished in 1967. It would have been in the upper left where you can see the I-35 S-curve.

https://twitter.com/JimNicar/status/...170306/photo/1

the Genral · #**1090** Posted **Apr 25, 2020, 9:54 PM**

Kevin, your eye for detail is impeccable.

jg6544 · #**1091** Posted **Apr 26, 2020, 9:58 PM**

1964 sounds about right. I took that same view from the top of the Tower the summer I left (1965) and by that time, the apartment building next to the old Kappa Sig house was under construction.

Armybrat · #**1092** Posted **Apr 27, 2020, 6:04 PM**

Speaking of the old Kappa Sig house on 19th Street.... took a pic of a pic in my 1963 Cactus yearbook:

Armybrat · #**1093** Posted **Apr 27, 2020, 6:07 PM**

West Campus from the Tower in 1963:

jg6544 · #**1094** Posted **Apr 27, 2020, 6:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by Armybrat

West Campus from the Tower in 1963:

I remember it well!

Armybrat · #**1095** Posted **Apr 27, 2020, 6:22 PM**

Bet some of those Kappa Sigs are still hung over. Lol

urbancore · #**1096** Posted **Apr 27, 2020, 7:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by Armybrat

Bet some of those Kappa Sigs are still hung over. Lol

What was “....no good.....at the Alamo”?

My Texas History quotes are rusty.

Armybrat · #**1097** Posted **Apr 28, 2020, 12:04 AM**

“There was no good posse in the Alamo” is what it said.
A bit of risqué innuendo, it appears.

urbancore · #**1098** Posted **Apr 28, 2020, 12:29 AM**

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Originally Posted by Armybrat

“There was no good posse in the Alamo” is what it said.
A bit of risqué innuendo, it appears.

Oh I get it. Thanks.

I too love some risqué innuendo and even more, some good posse. I would never travel without it, certainly not to the Alamo.

Speaking of the Alamo, y’all heard of this kid Charlie Crocket? If not, check him out.

KevinFromTexas · #**1099** Posted **Apr 28, 2020, 3:28 AM**

^Wow, he's actually related to Davy Crockett. Wild.

jg6544 · #**1100** Posted **Apr 28, 2020, 4:52 PM**

I don't know when it all began, but the ostensible reason was that there was always a Texas Independence Day ceremony in front of the Tower that involved firing an artillery salute in the general direction of the Kappa Sig house, so one year, the guys decided to fire back. They probably were hung over, since they usually were.