We used to park in those green medians on University Ave in the late 80's....I may have been one of them....a couple of times. IIRC, it was motorcycle parking for awhile.
Was the 1st Street Bridge built mid-block because the UT tower was in perfect alignment? I was going through the old posts and was struck with this photo. Does anyone have any info on the subject.
Was the 1st Street Bridge built mid-block because the UT tower was in perfect alignment? I was going through the old posts and was struck with this photo. Does anyone have any info on the subject.
I always just assumed it was an easy symmetrical answer to having Lavaca and Guadalupe being one-ways on the street grid in that area.
Going thru some of my dads photos and found this one. It was taken right after I-35 or as it's officially known as The Inter-regional Highway opened in the early 1960's. Looking north the bridge in the foreground is Riverside Drive. Note there are only two cars on the road and how the State House dome dominates the sky.
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Going thru some of my dads photos and found this one. It was taken right after I-35 or as it's officially known as The Inter-regional Highway opened in the early 1960's. Looking north the bridge in the foreground is Riverside Drive. Note there are only two cars on the road and how the State House dome dominates the sky.
I took this photo of my cousin in the summer of 1959. IIRC, it was around noontime on a Saturday. My parents had recently bought a new house on Elmhurst one block east of this point off the frontage road.
My cousin doesn't look the same these days either.
This is from sometime between 1967 and 1973. Note that the Lakeside Apartments are there (1967) and the Radisson Hotel (1965). What's missing is the Bank of America Center that would have appeared on the right hand side behind the Littlefield Building.
Was browsing the Portal to Texas History (texashistory.unt.edu) for downtown photos. Found some. I didn't go back through 35+ pages of this thread to see if they've been posted.
192x Aerial
Downtown between 1882-1888 (Capitol under construction)
1916 View down Congress
May 4, 1922 Tornado
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Photograph of the May 4, 1922 tornado in Austin, Texas, as seen from a rooftop on downtown Congress Avenue. Visible in the foreground are: the Queen Theater at 700 Congress Avenue, the Walter Tips Building at 708-710-712 Congress Avenue, and the F. W. Woolworth & Company at 800-802 Congress Avenue. The side of the Paramount Theater is also visible. There is a painted sign, on a building in the foreground, for Maxwell House Coffee. The tornado is clearly visible in the dark sky to the northwest of downtown.
1930 Downtown
1940 Last day for street cars (read the caption written on the photo)
It would be awesome to have a streetcar or trolley these days, running from the Capitol, down SoCo, and even S. Lamar to Ben White. Then have another trolley or streetcar running down E. Riverside to Pleasant Valley or Montopolis.
Traffic would be better and south and southeast Austin would be much more walkable to and from downtown.
It would be awesome to have a streetcar or trolley these days, running from the Capitol, down SoCo, and even S. Lamar to Ben White. Then have another trolley or streetcar running down E. Riverside to Pleasant Valley or Montopolis.
Traffic would be better and south and southeast Austin would be much more walkable to and from downtown.
Agreed.
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It would be awesome to have a streetcar or trolley these days, running from the Capitol, down SoCo, and even S. Lamar to Ben White. Then have another trolley or streetcar running down E. Riverside to Pleasant Valley or Montopolis.
Traffic would be better and south and southeast Austin would be much more walkable to and from downtown.
We had a street car circulator that covered these very routes. It was called the 'Dillo. Even when it was free, nobody rode it so they shut it down in 2009.
For so long Austin's "skyline" was limited to a line along Congress Ave and a few blocks east and west. Also, few pics can really depict the true massiveness of the Capitol Bldg. The last picture does just that. Did not know 'canned meat' was an award for good deeds. Seems more like a punishment. Did we not have a/c in our cars in '61? Lots of windows open. If we still had 7 choices at the gas station, I would still pick the cheapest. The Sheritan Crest Inn looked so much bigger then when it was all alone down by the river as shown in Kevin's 6/25 post.
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