DO YOU REMEMBER AUSTIN (BACK IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS).avi

[@aepow1956]

At 1:06, that's me! And my little brother. We were seeing my dad off to Spain at the airport. Probably about 1969. My mom took the picture.

[@vshcvsh98]

Anna Powell wow!!!!

[@alexmorton4991]

Hello Anna, how are you doing?

[@michaelallen8381]

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

[@militarymania]

lived in Austin since 1966 at age of 12,,,still live there 46 years later,,,Oh the memories this video brings back,,,terrific,,,,Robert class of ' 72 Crockett High

[@dianepenn89]

Mel Pennington is my grandfather! Love this song! Thank you for remembering him!

[@joelsimms4636]

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

[@bethelshiloh]

That was the Austin I remember.

[@alexmorton4991]

Hello Truthseeker, how are you doing?

[@yamahasuperbike2202]

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

[@sandrak39]

Beautiful memories - I miss Austin the way it was back then

[@alexmorton4991]

Hello Sandra, how are you doing?

[@micheleguthrie6891]

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.

[@alexmorton4991]

Hello Michele, how are you doing?

[@yellowdoggranny]

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

[@dk7245]

Oh how I miss the old days. Remember when my neighbor and I would ride the bus from North Austin to downtown to the movies at the State or Paramount when we were around 12 or 13. Kids can't do that now days. When I graduated from H.S. in 1960, Austin's population was only 121,000.

[@cmladenka]

"I like it, I love it...I want some more of it!" I miss AWESOME AUSTIN from the 'Good Ole' Days'!

[@proliximus]

Delicious! Brought a tear to my eye.

[@stevec5375]

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". :(

[@Justbeingpeg]

What great memories!!!! I miss those days...

[@alexmorton4991]

Hello Peg, how are you doing?

[@velvetstar81]

Great memories from the 1960s! God bless Austin Tx!

[@alexmorton4991]

Hello Margaret, how are you doing?

[@bobo420TX]

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.

[@nilesfuller979]

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

[@Wharfomatic]

WOW!! Now I have a tear in my eye...

[@flashlk]

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.

[@donniedayp]

This was when it was the best!

[@captdevindersingh2672]

Wonderful

[@alexmorton4991]

Hello Donnie, how are you doing?

[@rdnms1009]

What great memories !!

[@10stringmaster]

I miss the old Airport i used to live by highland mall and the neighbor hood was right on the flight path, the house used to shake every time a DC-10 would take off !!

[@phatcrayonz]

This needs to be saved for Austin history....

[@georgeturner8686]

Had the honor and privilege to hear Don at Treadgill's several times, OMG, talent beyond description....

[@MichaelStrong0112]

Worked at the Villa Capri for 3 years. Great job on the composition. Wish they could have gotten a snapshot of "The Stallion" on North Lamar - incredible chicken fried steaks for cheap for years.

[@trishburnett-corrigan606]

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

[@DonnaCase66]

I nearly started crying while I watched this...

[@alexmorton4991]

Hello Donna, how are you doing?

[@KestralWolfe]

Nice to see some of what I grew up with memorialized. I've lived here from the ripe age of 'just born' in 1977, can't seem to leave even if most of the things I remember are long gone, and the feel of the city has changed so very much since then. Cheers y'all, thanks for makin' this and thanks to my mom for emailing me the link.

[@Races2U]

Wow! 183- Suicide alley! There's a term I haven't heard in decades, and it's probably more appropriate now. So many wrecks at the last off-ramp at Lakeline Mall. I miss Northcross, when the skating rink was the center of everything.

[@islemhennous108]

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

[@txtabby]

Just about all of these are gone now, Thanks so much for posting! My old aunt Emily would of loved this video...god rest her soul.

[@rayspeir8984]

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!

[@Setebos]

+Ray Speir I had an aunt and uncle and cousins who lived on C Street off Koenig. Always passed by the Chief (and also occasionally the Burnet Drive-In) when visiting them.

[@JeffLauraVoorhis]

My husband is an Austinite and remembers being on the Uncle Jay show.

[@lizpritchettt829]

I lived this!

[@avidman]

I moved to Austin 10 years ago, found this video and I wish I had been here years and years ago.

[@Blueberryfarm]

This is a great reminder of how Austin is no longer nearly as cool as it once was.

[@jeffw235]

IH-35 looked so empty back then. I know the newer folks knock the natives for always thinking Austin's finer days are gone. If the new folks stick around long enough, they'll be missing the good ol days when it only took an hour or two to get to work and you didn't need to be in the top 1% to afford rent or a home. Bottom line: Too many damn people in this town! If it was up to me, we would have seceeded from Texas and erected a border around the city in the mid to late 80's to keep folks from moving here.

[@joelsimms4636]

AGREED SIR!!!

[@wdnew]

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.

[@sailor44444]

Excellent! It is mostly gone now..Paved over.

[@hollyrgregor]

Wow!!!!! I loved the video. Sweet, wonderful, funny, great memories!!!! We were all blessed to experience such great times!

[@gsfdallas3464]

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.

[@AlbertNurick]

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

[@grantb301]

Great video, like others here, I have lived my entire life here since the early 50's. Been to many places in the video, and watched Austin change so much. Great to watch, and step back in time.

[@docmcwane]

I remember that railroad crossing back in the early 70's. I had a 68 Corvette then and hated those tracks. I do remember having to stop or twice on I 35 to let a train cross. I was going with a girl from North Austin and drove from Bergstrom to her house several times a day it seemed. Thanks for reminding me of that.

[@karengallagher2413]

So much fun to watch this! When I moved to Austin after graduating from Boston College in 1981, it looked a bit more updated but those days on Sixth Street and the Kirby Cafe were memorable, not to mention my great colleagues at KVUE-TV--we had a lot of fun working together!

[@ClubRegistration]

That is my father's place (Hector's Taco Flats) mentioned at 0:26. He actually started the jalapeno eating contests way back in the day. Glad to see they are still around.

[@Troy_nov1965]

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.

[@99redcentaurs]

Great video. Thanks for sharing it.

[@GeorgiaNoelGonzalez]

It's not forever lost...I still remember.

[@veronicaswhisper]

Oh yeah..as one of the KOKE-FM DJ's during the 70's, I managed to frequent most of the places in the video. Joe Gracey..RIP. After my bartending shift at Mike n' Charlies..I would stop by the Pizza place around the corner to hear Stevie Ray..playing for tip's at the door. I even sang with "Steam Heat" at the AWHeadquarters one night! Austin is not the same..but, nothing is. Great memories..thanks for sharing!

[@alexmorton4991]

Hello Veronica, how are you doing?

[@gatorblue]

Overwhelming memories. Taco Flats-- if Ur old enuf 2 drive up U could buy a quart of Old Milwakee- 63 cents-- a good buzz for $2 when Ur broke. jams at Armadillo & Soap Creek -- Freddie King, Bugs Henderson, Doug Sahm. Great BBQ & Mex food, parties at the Pier and Dry Creek Saloon. Watchin Fab Thunderbirds at One Knite, watching Stevie become a monster guitarist. Being the only white guy playing at East Austin's Devil's Playpen I could not have been blessed with better memories of a town.

[@cmboze]

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH FOR SHARING THIS WITH ME...ALL OF US!! I HAVE THE BIGGEST GRIN BECAUSE I'VE BEEN TO EVERYONE OF THOSE PLACES!!!

[@surfstrat59]

what? no LOVE button? almost made me cry..........

[@56bhernandez]

Wow I was on Uncle Jay and pulled packer jacks beard. Monster cookies and beans and rice at the Dillo. Cured those cosmic munchies!

[@schibi16]

Great walk down memory lane, but didn't see the Vulcan Gas Co., where I spent many nights listening to Shiva's Headband and other great bands! The light bulb joke is so true...the best part about the growth in Austin is that we now have so many more restaurant choices, but the traffic really sucks.

[@DebieMcFerrin]

Do ya'll remember Christie's Seafood? This was fun and awesome!

[@alexmorton4991]

Hello Debie, how are you doing?

[@bobo420TX]

My ex worked there around 75 or 76

[@docmcwane]

That sure is true!! I lived in Austin from 1969 to 1975 when I moved to Virginia. I returned to visit in 1985 and was surprised to find that the traffic had gone crazy and the people had changed so much. It was not the Austin that I had fallen in love with only ten years before. I'm sure Austin is still a great place to live but if you missed the early 70's, you missed the best times of all.

[@johngdoty]

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.

[@zabadazidit]

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

[@nathanharris4105]

I moved to Austin in 1998 but even in the short time I've been here, it's changed so much, remember when traffic at Anderson Mill and 620 wasn't that bad? or all that trouble they had trying to build the toll road. Time moves fast doesn't it.

[@select_from_users5842]

Amazing :P

[@TheGrinningGrammy]

This video shows two of the important places in my life, but you almost miss one of them. It mentions Bergstrom AFB where I lived off and on from the age of 10 and shows a quick picture of the Skating Palace. It also shows Barton Springs near the end where my hubby and I spent some fun hours when we were dating. He and I met at the Skating Palace, where I was captain married at the Bergstrom Chapel and our son was born on the base hospital there. We left there in 1962.

[@alexmorton4991]

Hello Brenda, how are you doing?

[@1agavegreg]

Still the best place in the USA to live.

[@waldenair]

LOVE IT!

[@yetanother12]

@ClubRegistration, I absolutely loved your Dad. I remember the original place, before the expansion, just a tiny shack. I'd tell you some stories only it would get both of us in trouble :-). Wonderful, wonderful person!

[@jaburns2001]

Wow, totally remember that!

[@lisa1952]

Thanks for sharing this; it really brought back memories. I'll probably play it a few more times to get the most out of it. Those photos are so on target and the song...well, that is quite amazing also.

[@alexmorton4991]

Hello Lisa, how are you doing?

[@kenwood3516]

I came to Bergstrom AFB in 1963. Been here ever since. I wish you had shown the only place in the US where train tracks crossed an interstate highway, like they did by Hancock Center. !

[@artmv11]

Nice, being from San Antonio, I think of Austin as my beloved second home. I didn't know you guys had an old Butter Krust plant like we did. Cool video.

[@aepow1956]

Does anyone know who put this video together? My brother and I are shown at the airport at about 1:08. My mother took the picture. I would like to know how they got it.

[@marktorrey]

Commendable piece !!! and it must have been very tough to decide which to include ...

[@fresco7087]

I remember Dirty Sarah at Dry Creek. She had a menu with sandwiches, burgers and other items, but she only cooked burgers. "Did you bring your bottle back?" She wouldn't sell you another beer until you did. Her name was Nina until she decided she was Sarah in the 50s. Alas, most of us here today were once interlopers.

[@mf5989]

i have lived here since 1969, and agree with everybody, "i miss the old Austin".The original Jorges Mexican restaurant, the Stallion, friendly Texas drivers. All lost to time.

[@sandrak39]

Me too - their chicken fried steaks were to die for!

[@alebertfama]

Great memories, yes. Good work. But Austin today is a vastly more interesting & creative place, despite the traffic and high prices.

[@yamahasuperbike2202]

alebertfama unfortunately folks like you are the reason austin sucks now.

[@tom6294]

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.

[@mediaz7]

El Rancho is still here! Just moved to a bigger, better location on South Lamar. Celebrating its 60th anniversary this year.

[@alexmorton4991]

Hello Esther, how are you doing?

[@JimHoward]

I remeber all of that!

[@RICHARDBCURLEE]

KNOW used to play a song recorded locally...something like "Austin, My Hometown". Does anybody have an mp3 of that?

[@rschmot]

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

[@cargirlie8402]

It is. It is a MOST excellent video...

[@rschmot]

We need a sequel!

[@Yavor54]

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.

[@Estaven57]

Great images. Truly enjoyed seeing them. I recognize this music. The tune is a rip off from an old cowboy song called "When The Work's All Done This Fall." It is actually a good song.

[@WBlainePennington]

@jaytlr9 It was a great theater, jaytir9, I stood in the line around the building for the first Star Wars movie, and many others... my faves in Austin were The Varsity, the Americana and Dobie.

[@BoomerDJs]

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.

[@velvetstar81]

Oak Hill the best memory of all!

[@diannewilbur4614]

Here since '68!! What about Holiday House on Barton Springs with Charlie the alligator??? And Mi Casa es Su Casa where Carmello's is now?? Bull Creek Inn where County Line on the Lake is??? And Kiddie City on Burnet Rd?? And then in the 80s the bumper sticker that was popular......"Pray for me I drive 183...Suicide Alley"

[@michaelsimpson6970]

Carmelo's is gone too now.

[@alexmorton4991]

Hello Dianne, how are you doing?

[@WBlainePennington]

@MrSlowkid Had many a good taco and warm beer there, cheap!! Taco Flats and The Stallion kept me alive!

[@lshocket]

Why would I go anywhere? I'm already here.

[@TheSaneHatter]

They still do.

[@Cruzmac]

I miss the old drive-in @ ben white & i-35 where the walmart is now ,Jim's , Woolworth 6th&congress northwest corner

[@alexmorton4991]

Hello Marc, how are you doing?

[@Setebos]

Oh God, the Chief Drive-In!

[@Setebos]

@Country Boy Roy Saw Hey There, It's Yogi Bear, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Jason & The Argonauts and a slew of others.

[@Driskill50]

Love this ! Although it sure would have been nice to have Joyce Isaacs along with Mel Pennington.

[@sandrak39]

We LOVED Taco Flats!!

[@alexmorton4991]

Hello Sandra, how are you doing?

[@allenells6431]

Blaze Foley @ 2:17!!! Right On!!! :)

[@WBlainePennington]

@pmwidener Loved that!

[@inandaround4667]

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

[@WBlainePennington]

@marygeil830 Hi Mary, thanks for that. (it would have been nice if bro in law said howdy and a tip of the hat before he took photos) I'm overall pleased to be a part of the video, because old Austin (and the Americana) meant a lot to me... it's just hard these days to protect what happens to the pix we post on line. Thank you very much for your response and your hard work in putting this vid together.... great song too! I bet we were standing in the same line that day!!

[@sailor44444]

@028sammi I do remember Mel. He was the face of Austin for quite some time!

[@davidlaurence4323]

Hey, Schultz’s Beer Garden!!!