Little known Austin area trivia....

[ScoPro]

Anybody remember Crumley's Grocery on US 81 (now I-35) and how it was the flashiest Christmas light display in the Austin area?

 

[TxStHorn]

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[GGI]

He was to speak at the Palmer Auditorium. A friend of mine has two framed tickets, which were his mothers.

What are those worth?

 

[led224]

The Victory Grill on E 11th is still around and the new owner has donated the space to act as Barak Obama's Austin campaign headquarters.

 

[dallas_the_tiger]

here's an Austin quiz for those of you who've lived here for a while. I've only been living in Austin 10 years, so I had no clue on most of these...

Austin Trivia

 

[DRAG69]

I took that Austin Trivia Quiz and got 15 out of 20.
The e-mail I got said I was the only one who got that many but he also wondered why that site had so many hits.

I told him.

 

[Math Mudrat]

I sure remember Crumley's...when I was a kid I played baseball at Kitchens Fields in Manchaca, sometimes we would stop at Crumley's and get Gatorade. I loved his Christmas lights. I think park of the sign is still there??

Growing up I lived next door to the drummer of the Dangerous Toys, an Austin heavy metal band, back when Kevin Fowler was their lead singer. They were always polite and would stop practicing at 8 or 9 so they wouldnt disturb the neighbors

 

[Austin_Horn]

I was at Murchison on this fateful day.......

Murchison Junior High School, Austin, Texas

Thursday, May 18, 1978

George Christian, former press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson, had an honor student in his son John, 13, at the elite Austin junior high school. This morning, John arrived late to school, around 8:45 a.m. and walked into his eighth grade English teacher's classroom on the first floor with a .22-caliber rifle. He had gotten the rifle from his home. Wilbur (Rod) Grayson, Jr. was a first year teacher and only 29-years-old. Wilbur was sitting on a stool conducting class when John pointed the rifle at him. The students in the room, there were 30 of them, distinctly heard this phrase, "The joke is over." before John pulled the trigger three times. However, they were unsure if John or Wilbur spoke those words. Wilbur was struck in the right side of his head, chest and right arm. John fled the room and dropped the rifle at a bike rack. He was caught by athletic coach Larry Schirpiek, who held the boy against a fence until the police arrived. Wilbur was rushed to Brackenridge Hospital where he died. John was taken to the Gardner House, a juvenile home until everything could be sorted out.

Source: Austin American-Statesman - Teacher Shot Fatally in Classroom

 

[ScoPro]

I later heard that John Christian was sent to a clinic in Dallas for a while, then stayed with a friend of the family to complete high school in Dallas.

Don't know if that is true or not.

My nephew was in a classroom down the hall when that happened.

 

[TomTerrific]

Jesus.

I have never heard anything about that before.

That is horrible.

 

[El_Guapo]

Me neither. I never heard that story. George Christian's son? Wow. And at Murchison, no less. Just... wow.

 

[TXSNOS]

The building at the corner of E 38th Street and Cedar Sreet (that houses the Austin Groups for the Elderly) used to be the Confederate Woman’s Home. The last three confederate women moved out of the Home in 1964.

 

[dallas_the_tiger]

Shoal Creek around 35/38th street used to be a resort. Seiders Springs, as it was called, was created by damming (sp?) Shoal Creek. George Custer and his troops camped there as well.

Seiders Springs