Old Austin Gone Forever (Houston, Dallas: hotels, buy, to live)

[JT-3]

Well Top Notch is still there, I miss that smell.

Hard to believe Threadgills down the street is closed, with their gospel sunday brunch. it's rather sad but there's always change.

[ScoPro]

Originally Posted by JT-3

Well Top Notch is still there, I miss that smell.

Hard to believe Threadgills down the street is closed, with their gospel sunday brunch. it's rather sad but there's always change.

Yeah, I went to Threadgill’s to see Janis Joplin play 60 years ago when it was just a seedy old honky tonk dump recently converted from a gas station.
My UT girlfriend at the time was a schoolmate of Joplin’s, and went there at her request.

[Ivory Lee Spurlock]

Remembering how life was in Austin 40 years ago makes me long for my youth and I realize the old adage "youth is wasted on the young" is very much true.

[atxcio]

Originally Posted by ScoPro

Yeah, I went to Threadgill’s to see Janis Joplin play 60 years ago when it was just a seedy old honky tonk dump recently converted from a gas station.
My UT girlfriend at the time was a schoolmate of Joplin’s, and went there at her request.

So what was it like when just a year or two later she was a celebrity and being interviewed on Dick Cavett? Must have seemed rags to riches coming from then-podunk little Austin. People were still on about it when I moved here in the late 80s.

[ScoPro]

Originally Posted by atxcio

So what was it like when just a year or two later she was a celebrity and being interviewed on Dick Cavett? Must have seemed rags to riches coming from then-podunk little Austin. People were still on about it when I moved here in the late 80s.

Never saw her after that one evening.
Broke up with the girlfriend a few months later. She was a wild ride.

[JackGriffin]

Originally Posted by PhinneyWalker

I was thinking tonight about Austin the way it used to be prior to the end of the 1980s after it began to sprawl and could easily be mistaken for almost any other city of the same size in this country. I miss the old Austin. Everyone wanted to live in Austin back in the day. It had a certain je ne sais quois that was lost long ago now. Anyone know what I mean? It will never be the same. Alas, it is true; you can never go home again. {{{HEAVY SIGH}}}

Yes.

[FreeVilley]

Originally Posted by ScoPro

“Old Austin gone forever”

I said the same thing when the hippies took over City Hall and transformed old Austin with their funky culture in the late 1960s.
I’m sure the Indigenous locals said something similar when Jacob Harrell built his log cabin by the Colorado River over 180 years ago.

Old Austin is when that Cannon Lady was alive lol

[FreeVilley]

Old Austin, when the UT tuition was $50 a semester.

[ScoPro]

Originally Posted by FreeVilley

Old Austin, when the UT tuition was $50 a semester.

Yep, my first semester (1962) was about $90 for tuition, fees, and books from the Co-op.

[Trainwreck20]

Originally Posted by ScoPro

Yep, my first semester (1962) was about $90 for tuition, fees, and books from the Co-op.

Heck, my first semester in the 80s my fee bill was still only $96, but that was not books. $4/semester hour + parking fee ($6?), and sports fee ($20 or so?). Sports fee got you in to all the football games and most other sporting events.

Books were about $125 to $150 a year.