Austin Nostalgia Picture Thread

[Chet Steadman 940]

HEB at Burnet & 2222:

Fifth and Lamar (year unknown):

Capitol grounds:

Hancock bridge being built prior to Mopac construction (compliments of Deej on the old site):

Mopac & 35th n 1910 (?):

Austin kids of the 80s and 90s will remember:

[Rollo Tomassi 80]

I wasn’t skating at Northcross Mall, but I was at the Gold Mine. 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Surly rep (because I already hit my limit for the day). Was a great thread in the old country. 

[HOOKEM4 4869]

Holy shit I forgot about pandamonium. That place had to be a parents nightmare. Going into a maze of screaming kids hopped up on sugar climbing all over hell.

+rep (f this limit)

[PatrickMcHorn 376]

8 hours ago, Rollo Tomassi said:

I wasn’t skating at Northcross Mall, but I was at the Gold Mine. 

Northcross had Tilt as I remember it.   I remember a goldmine,  but in my head that was a different mall (highland,  maybe?)  Am I not remembering right?

[PatrickMcHorn 376]

I had never seen that camp Mabry pic.   That's all kinds of badass. 

[HOOKEM4 4869]

I know Northcross had Tilt. Not sure where goldmine was. Didn't spend too much time at Highland mall. 

[Armybrat 40464]

1 hour ago, PatrickMcHorn said:

I had never seen that camp Mabry pic.   That's all kinds of badass. 

That building is still there, or part of it is.

[Armybrat 40464]

Gotta repost this oldie for this thread.... Cousin Joann at I-35 & Elmhurst - Summer, 1959 (on a Saturday at Noon):

Edited March 27, 2018 by Armybrat

[Red Five 40108]

Pretty sure it was a Goldmine at Northcross. Used to hit that after Luby’s every Wednesday circa 1982. 

[HOOKEM4 4869]

Ok I think you are right the more I think about it. Where was tilt then?? Maybe it changed names at some point? 

 

Found this random picture I-35/Ben White

[TtomTerrific 200]

what the fuck goes on at Camp Mabry anyway?

 

[Red Five 40108]

I’d love to see some video of old Austin 30-50 years ago. Does anything like that exist? Even just someone driving around with an old camcorder would be cool to see.

[TtomTerrific 200]

some video of Tricky Mickeys, Papers and the Chelsea Street Pub

[1978horn 864]

40 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Pretty sure it was a Goldmine at Northcross. Used to hit that after Luby’s every Wednesday circa 1982. 

Yes, Goldmine was at Northcross.  It was near the theater in the 80's and when it closed Tilt opened up on the other side of the skating rink.  I believe there was a Chick-fil-A between the theater and Goldmine.

Highland mall also had a Goldmine, but i don't recall where it was in the mall.

Edited March 27, 2018 by 1978horn

[Red Five 40108]

User name checks the fuck out.

[1978horn 864]

15 minutes ago, Red Five said:

I’d love to see some video of old Austin 30-50 years ago. Does anything like that exist? Even just someone driving around with an old camcorder would be cool to see.

There was a video that someone posted on TOS about a year ago.  I don't remember the decade that it was filmed in though.

[Deej 76080]

11 hours ago, Chet Steadman said:

Hancock bridge being built prior to Mopac construction (compliments of Deej on the old site):

 

Nice. Thanks for bringing that one over to our new digs. 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

31 minutes ago, Red Five said:

I’d love to see some video of old Austin 30-50 years ago. Does anything like that exist? Even just someone driving around with an old camcorder would be cool to see.

Best I can do. Liberty lunch makes an appearance. 

 

[Red Five 40108]

Thanks. 

Some of y’all may not know this but the guy recording that later went on to do the cinematography on Cloverfield.

[Handcruser 2799]

Thanks for starting this. Always enjoyed it on shaggy. 

[Chet Steadman 940]

This is one of my all-time favorites.  All the historical documents I've seen identify this site what is now the NEC of Koenig and Burnet but I'm 90% sure that's incorrect and it's actually the NWC of 2222 and Balcones/Parkcrest opposite of the vacant gas station and Jack Brown cleaners site. 

The sign in the foreground is advertising new lots for sale in which would become the Allandale and Highland Park West neighborhoods.

[TPCJ007 48]

1 hour ago, Chet Steadman said:

This is one of my all-time favorites.  All the historical documents I've seen identify this site what is now the NEC of Koenig and Burnet but I'm 90% sure that's incorrect and it's actually the NWC of 2222 and Balcones/Parkcrest opposite of the vacant gas station and Jack Brown cleaners site. 

The sign in the foreground is advertising new lots for sale in which would become the Allandale and Highland Park West neighborhoods.

Chet, I think you are correct. I grew up down the street from Deej and I would say that this pic is from 2222 and Parkcrest.

[1978horn 864]

You would think that if it was 2222 and Parkcrest then we would see some hills?  What direction are we looking?

[TPCJ007 48]

1 minute ago, 1978horn said:

You would think that if it was 2222 and Parkcrest then we would see some hills?  What direction are we looking?

South East

Edited March 27, 2018 by TPCJ007

[1978horn 864]

2 minutes ago, TPCJ007 said:

South East

Ok, thanks.  That would make more sense

[SW Horn 7]

Very cool. Thank you op.

[Deej 76080]

That's got to be correct, looking SE from 2222 and Parkcrest. I remember the city limits sign just a few hundred feet down 2222. 

[Kavinsky 417]

 

[Red Five 40108]

I’m pretty good at guessing these things. I’m gonna say that video was made in... 2016.

[ShaggyBevo RIP 3825]

2 hours ago, TPCJ007 said:

Chet, I think you are correct. I grew up down the street from Deej and I would say that this pic is from 2222 and Parkcrest.

There is definitely the start of a hill in the bottom right corner which isn't possible at Koenig and Burnet.  Also the above Allendale HEB shot shows the field on the NW corner(Lamar campus) without brush and there is plenty of brush in what would be the same spot in the other shot.

Without those things pointed out I'd swear it was the NE corner of Burnet and Koenig.

Edited March 27, 2018 by ShaggyBevo RIP

[bolverk 28885]

5 hours ago, Red Five said:

I’d love to see some video of old Austin 30-50 years ago. Does anything like that exist? Even just someone driving around with an old camcorder would be cool to see.

At a conference on a mobile, but I saw some old videos posted a couple years ago from 50s and 60s. If I had to guess, I think they were posted on the Texas State Historical Association website. If I'm right, they have a treasure trove of old videos and photos.

[Deej 76080]

Anxiously awaiting Armybrat to post some daguerreotypes of Comanches along Shoal Creek.

[Bottlecap 1515]

5 hours ago, Red Five said:

Thanks. 

Some of y’all may not know this but the guy recording that later went on to do the cinematography on Cloverfield.

Actually that dude is a lawyer in Austin now and writes a pretty interesting blog

[smokebomb 347]

7 hours ago, Armybrat said:

Gotta repost this oldie for this thread.... Cousin Joann at I-35 & Elmhurst - Summer, 1959 (on a Saturday at Noon):

Notice that I-35 still has the same number of lanes for the last 60 years...

[sidis 9608]

mopac

 

norwood tower still there.

 

from the capitol

 

[D_Goose 474]

In November 1918 the UT football team played and defeated the Camp Mabry football team, 22-0.

Interestingly enough, earlier in October of the same season they twice played and defeated the “Penn Radio School” 

https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/schools/texas/1918-schedule.html

Penn Field - 1918

[burntorangebongos 10641]

Haha. We got scoreboard on Penn Field!!!

[Armybrat 40464]

Another view of Penn Field (just south of St. Edward's University):

http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth125173/m1/1/

[Deej 76080]

Now a self storage.

 

 

 

 

[Armybrat 40464]

Wore out the back seat of my Dad's '61 Chevy Impala in that place.

[NIUHuskies 486]

[Deej 76080]

Woolworth's on Congress.

 

 

 

 

 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

28 minutes ago, NIUHuskies said:

Damn. That’s exactly the kind of place I love to find abandoned to take photos of. Then hope it gets restored. Too bad here in Texas we love knocking down old, cool looking buildings. 

[squanchy 11]

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Just now, squanchy said:

Well, basically the entire movie is great to feed your 90s nostalgia. Which I love since it’s my version of Austin. Funny thing about that scene, they stop in front of my old efficiency at Rio Grande and 22nd, then the couple walks through my “backyard” right next my sliding glass door. They head towards the house just north on the same plot where my older brother lived in 93-94 and the myself and younger brother lived in in 1998. /csb 

[squanchy 11]

def a cool story. my local film csb is from office space when they were driving down metric. apparently they shut down the street right in front of my old apartment because it kept popping back up in the scene for about 10 blocks of driving. acc northridge was also in that shot.

[tx 3 putt 74759]

great pics. glad cousin joann made it over here 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

36 minutes ago, squanchy said:

def a cool story. my local film csb is from office space when they were driving down metric. apparently they shut down the street right in front of my old apartment because it kept popping back up in the scene for about 10 blocks of driving. acc northridge was also in that shot.

Cool.  Oh yeah, the girls on bikes at Trophy's, one of them was a professor of min in 1998.  Rachel Tsangari I think is how it was spelled.  Dazed and Confused is another one that is great for sneaking peeks of how Austin looked.

[Gardner Barnes 1559]

10 hours ago, Chet Steadman said:

This is one of my all-time favorites.  All the historical documents I've seen identify this site what is now the NEC of Koenig and Burnet but I'm 90% sure that's incorrect and it's actually the NWC of 2222 and Balcones/Parkcrest opposite of the vacant gas station and Jack Brown cleaners site. 

The sign in the foreground is advertising new lots for sale in which would become the Allandale and Highland Park West neighborhoods.

Did that 7-11 have Karate Champ like the one by my house in Dallas?