Austin | Historic Images & Postcards - Page 10

KevinFromTexas · #1 Posted **Mar 23, 2013, 5:09 AM**

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

migol24 · #2 Posted **Mar 23, 2013, 6:15 AM**

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

KevinFromTexas · #3 Posted **Apr 16, 2013, 11:39 PM**

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

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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 · #4 Posted **Apr 17, 2013, 12:03 AM**

My uncle worked there as the plant maintenance guy.

KevinFromTexas · #5 Posted **Apr 30, 2013, 6:25 PM**

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

MichaelB · #6 Posted **Apr 30, 2013, 11:57 PM**

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 · #7 Posted **May 1, 2013, 12:05 AM**

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 · #8 Posted **May 1, 2013, 1:53 AM**

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 · #9 Posted **May 1, 2013, 4:02 AM**

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 · #10 Posted **May 24, 2013, 5:18 PM**

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 · #11 Posted **May 24, 2013, 5:35 PM**

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 · #12 Posted **May 24, 2013, 7:41 PM**

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.

KevinFromTexas · #13 Posted **May 25, 2013, 2:53 AM**

Yeah, it's Corpus. That white building with the green mansard roof is actually still there, but they renovated it in the 70s. They pretty much ruined it by covering the facade. It's now the brown Wells Fargo Tower. Also I think that old building in the lower right is gone. That photo is probably from the mid to late 60s.

Homecreek · #14 Posted **May 25, 2013, 5:47 AM**

I think this is close to where the picture was taken
http://goo.gl/maps/rK2Bz

LoneStarMike · #15 Posted **May 25, 2013, 3:57 PM**

In 1969, there were plans to demolish a highrise downtown, and this would have gone up in it's place:

The proposed tower was never built and the tower that was to have been demolished remains to this day. Can anyone guess what the old tower that remains today is called?

KevinFromTexas · #16 Posted **May 25, 2013, 4:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by Homecreek

I think this is close to where the picture was taken
http://goo.gl/maps/rK2Bz

Yep, that looks about right. And on second thought, that white building in the old photo is still there.

Quote:

Originally Posted by LoneStarMike

In 1969, there were plans to demolish a highrise downtown, and this would have gone up in it's place:

The proposed tower was never built and the tower that was to have been demolished remains to this day. Can anyone guess what the old tower that remains today is called?

I know exactly where that is and what building. I've read about that proposal, but never did see a rendering of it. Where did you come across it?

I won't spoil it in case someone else would like a chance. That rendering is showing it from the north. It would have been an office building.

LoneStarMike · #17 Posted **May 25, 2013, 5:06 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

I know exactly where that is and what building. I've read about that proposal, but never did see a rendering of it. Where did you come across it?

It was in a scanned newspaper article and was included in one of the backup files at a Planning Commission Meeting. I'll post a link to the backup file in a day or two after others have had a chance to guess.

LoneStarMike · #18 Posted **May 28, 2013, 4:25 AM**

OK - the answer to the trivia question in reply# 203 was the Driskill Hotel Annex.

http://www.austintexas.gov/edims/document.cfm?id=143901

The above has lots of interesting info on both the original Driskill and the annex. The article with the rendering of the proposed office tower is on page 11 and came from a June 6, 1969 article in the Austin American Statesman.

I loved the story about the judge in one of the other articles:

Quote:

Judge 'Unseated'

Old-timers remember when Chief Justice Reuben R. Gaines was host at a formal five-course dinner party. As a young lady entered the room, the judge, a true gentleman, stood up. The waiter, trying to anticipate his every move, thought that he was going to carve the turkey. Quickly and quietly he pulled the chair back to give the judge more room. The young lady seated, the judge sat down, too - pulling the cloth, food and silverware with him.

KevinFromTexas · #19 Posted **Jun 9, 2013, 7:21 PM**

Michael T. Belvin - via South Austin Memories on Facebook

corvairkeith · #20 Posted **Jun 9, 2013, 7:28 PM**

Hey, I restored that car for a retired APD officer who wanted to recreate the car he drove when he joined the force back in '73.

This is what it looked like when I got it.

And this was taken about a month ago at a car show in Smithville.

There are a ton of pics of the restoration here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...2374583&type=3