Austin | Historic Images & Postcards - Page 53

urbancore · #**1041** Posted **Mar 30, 2020, 5:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by MichaelB

It's incredible to note how small Austin was and how the Capitol was surrounded by so many homes and older buildings that were wiped out by parking garages!

I remember reading somewhere that the residential population of 78701 exceeded 40k....much more than now. Don't remember the date, but I seemed to think it was prewar.

MichaelB · #**1042** Posted **Mar 30, 2020, 5:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by urbancore

I remember reading somewhere that the residential population of 78701 exceeded 40k....much more than now. Don't remember the date, but I seemed to think it was prewar.

Thats interesting and makes sense. Thanks

Armybrat · #**1043** Posted **Mar 31, 2020, 12:11 AM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

Note the Moonlight Tower.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...&theater&ifg=1

I remember that old depot building well.

KevinFromTexas · #**1044** Posted **Mar 31, 2020, 3:17 AM**

Jimmie Vaughan and I believe Stevie Ray Vaughan's wife, and mother during the dedication of the SRV statue in 1994. It also looks like there may be some construction equipment on the Chase Bank Tower.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

We vs us · #**1045** Posted **Mar 31, 2020, 1:17 PM**

What a quaint little city.

jg6544 · #**1046** Posted **Mar 31, 2020, 4:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by Armybrat

I remember that old depot building well.

The Katy Depot, even though the sign said "Southern Pacific".

The ATX · #**1047** Posted **Mar 31, 2020, 4:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by jg6544

The Katy Depot, even though the sign said "Southern Pacific".

The link indicated that the depot had more than one name. "Southern Pacific" was apparently the later name.

KevinFromTexas · #**1048** Posted **Mar 31, 2020, 8:55 PM**

January 1, 1937. Check out the streetcar on Guadalupe in the lower right.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

KevinFromTexas · #**1049** Posted **Apr 5, 2020, 6:12 AM**

View from the Capitol of the Old Main at UT. This was prior to 1899 since the east wing of Old Main hadn't been built yet.

https://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/ut-la...dings/old-main
https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/chem/history/oldmain.html

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

Jester Center. You can also see the old Brackenridge Hospital in the background.

https://jimnicar.com/2017/02/10/the-...mous-building/

jg6544 · #**1050** Posted **Apr 5, 2020, 10:49 PM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

The link indicated that the depot had more than one name. "Southern Pacific" was apparently the later name.

By the time I was old enough to be aware of it (early 1950s), the SP no longer served Austin. I know that there was train service to and from Houston, probably on the SP, until the late 1940s or thereabouts, but once that ended, the only trains through the depot were the northbound and southbound Katy trains.

jg6544 · #**1051** Posted **Apr 5, 2020, 10:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

January 1, 1937. Check out the streetcar on Guadalupe in the lower right.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

The streetcars were phased out by 1940 or thereabouts. The rails were taken up an sold as scrap metal - much of it to Japan.

KevinFromTexas · #**1052** Posted **Apr 5, 2020, 11:03 PM**

Looking northeast from the capitol. The only building in the photo that's still there is the Sweatt Complex next to the Erwin Center.

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

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...&theater&ifg=1

The caption says this is from Riverside from 1981. I'm not real sure what building that is under construction.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

H2O · #**1053** Posted **Apr 6, 2020, 2:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by jg6544

By the time I was old enough to be aware of it (early 1950s), the SP no longer served Austin. I know that there was train service to and from Houston, probably on the SP, until the late 1940s or thereabouts, but once that ended, the only trains through the depot were the northbound and southbound Katy trains.

Passenger service was relocated to the Missouri Pacific (MOPAC), now Union Pacific with a new station west of Lamar (current Amtrak station) in 1948.

jg6544 · #**1054** Posted **Apr 6, 2020, 5:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by H2O

Passenger service was relocated to the Missouri Pacific (MOPAC), now Union Pacific with a new station west of Lamar (current Amtrak station) in 1948.

The MoPac moved its passenger depot from the sw corner of Congress and Third in 1948 and it is today's Amtrak depot, but the Katy continued to serve the SP depot until 1964 or thereabouts. I boarded the northbound Texas Special at that depot a few times.

The ATX · #**1055** Posted **Apr 6, 2020, 5:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

The caption says this is from Riverside from 1981. I'm not real sure what building that is under construction.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=3&theater

I would say that's One American Center, and the photo is late 1982. That was my hood in 1982, and that Safeway was my grocery store.

KevinFromTexas · #**1056** Posted **Apr 7, 2020, 12:07 AM**

Where was that Safeway exactly?

I thought it was the One American Center in the photo, too, but I was using Google Earth to do a "line of sight" line, and the One American Center seemed too far south and left for it to be visible that close to the federal building.

The ATX · #**1057** Posted **Apr 7, 2020, 5:39 AM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

Where was that Safeway exactly?

I thought it was the One American Center in the photo, too, but I was using Google Earth to do a "line of sight" line, and the One American Center seemed too far south and left for it to be visible that close to the federal building.

It's this Bingo place now. But a site plan was filed a week or two ago that will replace the shopping center with a seven-story apartment project.

KevinFromTexas · #**1058** Posted **Apr 7, 2020, 5:55 AM**

This is probably the same 7-11.

https://www.google.com/maps/@30.2443...7i13312!8i6656

smith_atx · #**1059** Posted **Apr 7, 2020, 12:45 PM**

The Bingo hall on Riverside and its side of the parking lot were taken down late Feb/early March.

Urbannizer · #**1060** Posted **Apr 7, 2020, 10:01 PM**

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Originally Posted by The ATX

It's this Bingo place now. But a site plan was filed a week or two ago that will replace the shopping center with a seven-story apartment project.

Site prep is already underway (the surface area in the foreground), Bingo portion is gone.