Old Austin photo from 1959..

I-35 from 1st to 19th Street was called East Avenue (before 35 was completed thruogh there in about 1961}.

In this photo looking south, you can see old Brackenridge Hospital with the old Bickler School building (site of the Capitol Marriott Hotel) behind it:

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Actually the ball park where the Austin Senators played (next to the old City Auditorium) was called Disch Field. It pre-dated UT's Disch-Falk Field. There is a reference to it in this article about a 1958 game:


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It's sorta sad to look @ "East Avenue" & see what they could have done with the interstate with just a bit more foresight... But, it's all about the expense of a "now vs. later".

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these are absolutely my favorite kind of threads

I could read this kind of thing all day.

Thank you for y'alls imput.

I got here 25 years later for school and had forgotten about many of the things that are there in those pictures.

City Collusieum being first among them.

I forgot entirely about that place
 
Great stuff. Any old pics from the area bordered by Bull Creek Blvd/Shoal Creek Blvd and 45th St and 38th? Currently, TXDot is using some old buildings that used to be a school. Also on the grounds are the remnants of an old horse racing track. At least that is what I've been told by peolpe who I've met hiking around there.
 
The Gondolier was indeed greeted with much fanfare. Austin had now gone "High Tone." There was a party room, or ball room on the ground floor with big sliding glass doors that opened onto the grounds, leading to the lake. My band was playing a high school prom there, and on a break Skeeter Davis and her band came in and played a set. They had played at Municipal Auditorium, I think, and were staying there. I remember thinking she was pretty, but sort of "worn out." 'Course I was a kid, and she was probably 35.

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Sounds like a bunch of us have different recollections, but it looks like Pam and Les are closest to the actual opening event.

After all, it's been 45+ years.
 
Again, sorry the pics are so big, but here's another view of south Austin looking west towards Zilker. In the photo, the baseball field is listed as Disch Field. Photo taken in '54
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this thread is awesome. i've never seen these pics before.

my neighbor built his house in 1950 at the corner of windsor and pecos (he's 96). he tells me stories all the time about how windsor was a dirt road and pecos ended at the windsor intersection. talks about a huge oak tree that was down the hill where pecos currently runs north and said he used to take his pistol out for target practice. wish i could have been around to experience some of this.

town lake looks crazy!
 
Mesohorny,
Are any of those places still around today? I can't place any of them.. Maybe the bowling alley is that one off Koenig near McCallum HS?
 
I believe that bowling alley was on S. Lamar just South of Barton Springs Road but hard to be sure. If so, the building is still there. If it's the place I'm thinking about, I bowled at that Bowl-O-Rama in the late 1970's.
 
The last time I was in the New Orleans Club (1966) it was a bad expenience (puked under the table). Blind George used to play the piano there, as did that cool black woman who was a great Blues/jazz talent - her name escapes me now.
The old stone building is a part of the Symphony Square "complex" on Red River now.

The old Stallion....ate many chicken frieds w/yaller gravy in that old dump.
 
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