Don’t forget about Leslie Cochran

We viewed the 2024 Eclipse at Dixie Dude Ranch. The sky was cloudy with moments that we glimpsed the beginning of the eclipse. The effect of the Totality was astounding the sky went completely dark.

i moved to austin in 1960 when the population was 125k. a paradise....now lost.

austin since 1934

Anyone remember the planes landing on top of your car when the airport was off of 35 and 52nd st

Arrived @ Ft Hood in late73 Austin a couple times a week depending on who was playing. Every weekend staying @ the motor-courts in South Austin, out of the Army, and living permanently in Austin in mid 75. AKA "The right place at the right time." Thanks for the memories.

Great video. Thanks for sharing it.

The earliest movie I can remember seeing was The Poseidon Adventure at the Chief Drive In. Not long after, it was torn down and re developed as a business park. I have a lot of memories of a pizza place called Scampi’s Organ Palace that opened at that location. Had a huge pipe organ and was similar to a Show Biz pizza.

I remember pretty much all of these... and miss them. They forgot to mention Mad Dog and Beans. The Holiday House and Taco Shack on Airport Blvd., Players on 15th, Sound Exchange, The Varsity Theater, Les Amis, Wyatts Cafeteria, Majic Time Machine on Reeferside, and Bernards Breakfast Tacos on South Congress and Ben White... quite possibly the first breakfast tacos known to mankind. Then there was the bars.... The Backroom, Cardis, The Silver Dollar, The Lumberyard,San Antonio Rose/North Forty/New West, The Green House, Valentines, Chipendales Disco/Cody's/North Forty, The Party/Sundowner, and of course Dallas... before the hot tub place next door was acquired and turned into the most danced on floor in town.

Amazing :P

I remember “The Drag” was the happening place back in the 70’s

I've said that if you go to church every Sunday, tithe and are good to your neighbors, when you die you get to go to Austin circa 1968.

Hey, Schultz’s Beer Garden!!!

Yes and l miss it!! Oh yes the Dry Creek Saloon!Bring back the empty if you want another beer!! Love it!

Ok boomer 😂👌

Who is the singer, and what are the chords please. Great song !!

Hell ya I do! The Stallion, the Big Wheel...Congress street...all of y'all. Hey howdy!

Great retrospective! I lived in Austin from '81 to 2000; so many spots I remember.

I arrived in Austin in 1981. Got addicted to Austin music in 1983. Been crazy ever since.

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I'm UT Class of 1990 and hell YES, I remember most of these things!

That was the Austin I remember.

I lived this!

Vulcan Gas Company, Woody Hills, Good Food, the Garden, Salvation Sandwiches, Les Amis, Walkin the metal steps of death down to Hamilton pool at 3am, Barton's nekkid at midnight, Club Foot, Liberty Lunch, Arron's Rock& Roll, Violet Crown, Martin Brothers, Egg Roll Stands, Soap Creek with Delbert, Jimmy...giving Glastron workers a ride home- who smelled like solvent, Drinkin' beer on the WAY to the club, a $15 oz, Aquafest on town lake, Only two big buildings, one gold and one black, Student co-ops, John Ailee for 40 years, Hansel & Gretel's, A Lethal -dose chicken fried steak at The Stallion, Big Boy's at Raul's, Jimmy Gilmore at the Alamo Hotel, the Doll House, Seis Salsas, West Lynn Grocery, dirt roads in Clarksville, Crash ANY party if you got a guitar and 6 pack 'o shiner...and most important, girls who would smile at you for no reason at all.. OMG, I spent the best years of my life there during Austin's time of innocence.

Yeah those were the good ol day's - now Austin is an over-priced shit hole with every foreigner from who knows where. Pretentious Californicators have over taken the city along with all kinds of other obnoxious transplants. Downtown is littered with a bunch of ugly sky-scrapers and construction everywhere - I hate it and plan on moving out of here soon!

I’m sad watching this video because the young adults born in the 80’s and 90’s will never know what it was like. And how many people in Austin today, even those over 40 that have lived in the city their whole life, actually have Texas accents? Richard Linklatter somewhat buried the Texas stereotype with Dazed and Confused and Boyhood.

I loved Davis Hardware, they had everything. Rode the kiddo train at the Chief Drive In. We were too poor to buy snacks so we took in mayonnaise jars of iced tea. Lived next to the cemetery on Hancock and we would walk down the cemetery wall to the Stop N Go to get Dr. Pepper Icees. Austin had a character all it's own then. Now it's high rise condos for rich people and huge buildings with Google logos on them. You can't even see the Capitol except on Congress Avenue. I wish someone would hurry up and invent a time machine.

While watching this I thought of a hundred stories I could tell about growing up in Austin, and about all those places. Thanks for putting this together; what a nice trip down Memory Lane.

Unfortunately our beloved Austin will never be the same. Wish all of these people would move somewhere else.

I'm in Love With this song since 2012😍 İ'm form Algeria 😊

Does it mean your really old if you remember every one of these....this was definitely done by a baby boomer....good old days....

They forgot to mention Yarings Department stores..but did include Scarborough's !

My family stayed at the Villa Capri motel in 1972. Yep, right under the highway. I ate at Night Hawk and 2-Js (great hamburgers!). Listened to KOKE (even before they adopted their “Sterling County” campaign) and KNOW and Penny Reeves & Bob Cole. Watched Phil Miller and Vic “The Brick” Jacobs for sports news (Brick? Brick? You got the brick!). Went to the movies at FOX Theater and the Americana. Great memories and a great video.

Nice to see - moved here in 1984 as I was stationed at Bergstrom AFB until 1986. Bought a house here, could not sell it and moved back in 1991. The good old days are gone - now it is extremely expensive, over bloated, ultra liberal and horribly crowded.

LOL my step dad worked at Butterkrust and my sis-in-law worked at Glastron. In fact we lived near Butterkrust and i would hang out at Taco Flats. Up the road was The Stallion and we used to eat there often. I remember when the Austin pop. signs were just over 100k. I was actually born at the old Bergstrom Air Force base because my real dad was in the military. The Aqua Fest was the best and the old speed boat races on Town Lake. Does anyone remember The Skyline located way out on North Lamar? it was a cool place to go see live music and dance.

So cheesy! ;)

Hippie Hollow...been there, but did not participate in the 'clothing optional' aspect of it.....lol...

This is really great, but the sources for all the great images are not credited. All the musicians are credited, why not the archives? Archivists and librarians work hard to preserve this stuff for you and their institutions deserve proper credit.

Someone just sent this video. EXCELLENT! EVERYONE that lived there will say "it was better back then." Music at The Pier, KOKE-FM, Austin Sun newspaper, ARMADILLO, Soap Creek Saloon, all the bands, I saw them all! BARTON SPRINGS, Hippy Hollow, where the fajita originated around '80.(maybe not). WILLIE NELSON'S AUSTIN OPRY HOUSE.(got in a fight there). the scenery, driving legal with open containers. the HIPPY GIRLS!! I'm missing Austin since I heard about the 18 year old girl, freshman dancer Hasuka Weiser from Portland, getting murdered Sunday. I used to drive that exact area dozens of times always thinking how beautiful it was on the UT campus. I know where it happened very well. right next to the football stadium. Hallowed ground. gyms, stadiums, auditoriums and bars all around. I spent quite a bit of time there in the 70s. RIP

Youngbloods Fried Chicken, Kiddie Acres Kiddie Park across the street from the Split Rail, Willie playing a free show at the car lot on 5th and Lamar, KRMH radio station, Griffin's Western Wear, The Barn and the Silo steakhouses, Christie's Seafood, the Stallion, the After Hours Club, the Rome Inn. And Flapjack Canyon on South Lamar was the only place open after the bars closed to get food so you'd see many musicians there after their gigs. But the best hamburgers were at the Holiday House where you could see Charlie the Alligator. And you could always tell when UT wasn't in session because there wouldn't be any traffic....sigh. How I long for those good old days....

What about Blaze Foley? Anybody remember him?

Frisco, Joske's, Hancock and Highland Mall.

Mrs. Johnson's Donuts, the Superior Dairies milk carton water tower on the north shore of Town Lake, the giant glowing-eye insect outside the Terminex, the little grotto on the Capitol grounds, the free public pool at Patterson Park, Mi Casa Es Su Casa and Pancho's Mexican Buffets, fireworks at Capitol Plaza, the Holiday House restaurant . . . ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!Anybody got a time machine in their back pocket?

Oh God, the Chief Drive-In!

Is that Steven Fromholz singing?

lived there in the 50's and the 70's...miss it .wouldn't live there now for all the money in the world.

Nice

Grew up behind the Chief drive in. They would change the decor every three or four years or so. Artists would work under tarps until unveiling night...searchlights and all. Grew up in the 50's & 60's and get real misty when I see this. Shared almost every one of them at one time or another. Then, we became a "sanctuary city" and all the rest. Alas!

OMG! I moved to Austin in 1980 and remember much of what was in the video. I must be getting old because I loved Austin so much more back then. Not so much now... They call it "progress". :(

Armadillo World Headquarters?! Re - do this classic, please.