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  1. 9 hours ago, bigshark88 said:

    Nice sneks fellas.

    On a tangent: LOL at Colt for making nice guns that guys covet and pay premiums for and still having to file for bankruptcy every year or so.

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    Colt first went bankrupt in 1842. Their management has sucked starting with Sam himself.

  2. Steve Wynn took delivery of his 301' superyacht Aquarius in 2016. Now that he's been booted out of his business I wonder if he will ever get to sail on her again? Must be nice to have access to a slick ride like this:

     

  3. 1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    I ushered for 2 seasons. That guy would give all of us all the weather report before the gates opened.  His report never caught me by surprise. 

    Well, I just look at the sky or my phone for the weather - not much noisy interruption there.

  4. On ‎4‎/‎5‎/‎2018 at 5:06 PM, Godzillatron said:

     

     


    A lot of the general fan base still likes Mack. The old $$ likes Mack. Hermann likes Mack. May agree with you, but will not be surprised if Mack is back.



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    I was still a Mack fan up until the time he said on TV that Earl was "still welcome on our campus" (after Earl had said it might be time for some changes). That was as bad & unforgiveable as Kurt Bohls not voting VY for the Heisman, IMO.

    Then he went on his embittered mission to torpedo the recruiting class to "help them if they wanted to go somewhere else". (the complete opposite what he told the Tarheel recruits when he left NC for Texas).

    I've never heard him apologize for that unethical & presumptuous bullshit, so I have no desire to ever shake his hand again.

    The Benedict Arnold of Texas Football is an apt description.... again, JMHO.

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  5. 4 hours ago, Gardner Barnes said:

     

     

     

     


    Looking at this pic - I think the city and state missed a huge opp to have a national mall style expanse from the tower to the capitol.

     

     

    Too bad the old Kappa Sig house down at 19th next to the Cambridge Tower Condos was torn down. On Texas Independence Day they'd get drunk, put on serapes & sombreros and shoot back at the ROTC cannon salute up on the South Mall. I think they even had a small cannon themselves.

    Edited to add picture of said scene - just took it from my 1963 Cactus (page 130):

    Note that they caught their own front lawn on fire from their little black powder cannon blast. lol

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  6. 13 hours ago, Paco said:
    20 hours ago, Armybrat said:
    Must've been after my time in South Austin (moved out in 1967).
    Spent my high school weekend nights cruising the Pig Stand at Live Oak & Congress and the Holiday House on Barton Springs Road in the late '50s &early '60s.

    Brat I'm sure you ran into my Dad at some point. Seems like 90% of his stories start at the Pig Stand. He was Travis class of '62.

    It's possible. I was St. Edward's HS Class of 1962. We were envious of the Travis High guys who got to go to school with chicks - hence the cruising of those venerable venues.

    "Do you mind if I dance with your date?" 

  7. 4 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said:

    I have these......

     

    e5ca1548b280dac6bceda2970c8ec3c9--texas-

    Gas stations used to give those white glasses away with a fill up. I've got a dozen or so of them - along with that many from the 1965 Orange Bowl championship (beat Joe Namath's Bama).

    See them at "antique" stores now & then for $10 - $20 each.

  8. Thanks for posting. Too bad about the Bio Bay.

    When we lived in San Juan, we visited Phosphorescent Bay on the south side a couple of times while driving around the island perimeter during summer vacations & to stay with friends who owned a plantation near Ponce.  Took a fantastic tour at night in a glass bottom boat.

  9. 1 hour ago, Extra Anejo said:

    $100 bills were in the street shoes in the lockers, not just laying around...

    If you want to be specific. I don't think the "donor" was going to leave them in plain sight.

  10. 2 hours ago, Wally Pryor said:

    Man, someone needs to help me remember the name of the cafe in that little strip center at the SE corner of Oltorf and South 1st.  Early 80's. 

    My dad used to take me in there pretty often and I just remember the burgers but not the name. 

    Must've been after my time in South Austin (moved out in 1967).

    Spent my high school weekend nights cruising the Pig Stand at Live Oak & Congress and the Holiday House on Barton Springs Road in the late '50s &early '60s.

  11. 33 minutes ago, Thiefery said:

    If College Football got itself corrected and shared one big pie, I wouldn't mind if they re did divisions and brought the old SWC back

    But Humble Radio's Kern Tip voice ain't ever coming back unfortunately.

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  12. We got a lot more bang for the buck back then, and a REAL college game day experience. Not a gottdamn annoying weatherman, jetpack guy, or Taco Bell gong anywhere near Memorial Stadium.

     

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  13. 1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

     

    EVERYONE, with the possible exception of Rice, was paying their players back then.  Even UT.  If you don't understand that, then you've got your head buried in the sand.

    SMU's problem is that they were far more coordinated in the scheme and they were a small school like the NCAA likes to make examples of.  (Of those two, the coordination involving their Board of Regents was far more important.)

    And when SMU turned in TCU for paying Kenneth Davis and Jim Wacker said he knew nothing about it... that was one of the biggest lies ever told. 

     

    DKR wasn't paying anyone and hated the cheating alums. As AD, he once threatened to kick all the BB booster club officers out of Texas athletics and ban them from the campus for as long as he was at UT. Got that straight from the club's treasurer (my brother), who said they had been considering (until Royal got wind of it)  buying a used car for a basketball player in need.

    There were plenty of $100 handshakes going around and $100 bills left in lockers during home games, or so I was told.

  14. This SBH .44 Mag. was my last big bore Ruger. It was too much for casual shooting for me so I gave it to one of my sons as a trail gun when he's hiking/camping in New Mexico & Colorado.

    Edited to remove pic - already had posted it near the top of the page.

  15. Following the waterfront is pretty common.

    The view of downtown from the MoPac bridge over LB Lake is kind of startling, da or night - packing the high rises all together from that angle.

    Same from the East:

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  16. 1 hour ago, Steamboat1874 said:

    The discount store just north of where Highland Mall was built was called Sage.

    Yep, that was it.

    Oldest strip center in South Austin was Twin Oaks at Oltorf & S. Congress. In North Austin I think the oldest was the Violet Crown on Lamar near Airport - where Stiles Switch BBQ is now.

    Capital Plaza was a late-comer, not built until the early 1960s. I remember when an aggy was farming that plot of land, the same at the NE corner of I-35 & 290.

  17. 6 hours ago, Modessit said:

    The rules for freezers are a little different than refrigerators if it's already frozen when put in there. Plus, he's not in a commercial setting.

    You are correct. Everything is washed, wrapped in plastic & frozen on trays prior to  being placed in freezer bags inside the storage boxes. No raw meats are ever stored openly in that freezer, nor in our fridge. We've got containers for everything, and plastic film to seal those like a gasket.

    That ain't no springhouse.

     

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