July 20, 20187 yr After the original building (b&w photo) burned, the restaurant reopened in the "new" Mediterranean structure that currently occupies the lot. The reincarnation only lasted a few years and was vacant until converted to an office space. Am not sure when that happened. The very first Nighthawk was opened by Harry Akin before WWII. I don't know where that was, and never saw it. Didn't care much for the new one on the Drag, but the Holiday House next door was a favorite spot.
July 20, 20187 yr On 3/27/2018 at 9:49 AM, Red Five said: I’d love to see some video of old Austin 30-50 years ago. Does anything like that exist? Even just someone driving around with an old camcorder would be cool to see. Cue "Rock the Casbah" video from The Clash. Bumping this awesome thread.
July 20, 20187 yr Thursday Night Longhorn Night... $1 bottle beer, dancing, tons of hot coeds. Life stopped being worth living after they closed. It was nickel draft beer night when I was at UT from 80-84.
July 20, 20187 yr After the original building (b&w photo) burned, the restaurant reopened in the "new" Mediterranean structure that currently occupies the lot. The reincarnation only lasted a few years and was vacant until converted to an office space. Am not sure when that happened. The very first Nighthawk was opened by Harry Akin before WWII. I don't know where that was, and never saw it. Didn't care much for the new one on the Drag, but the Holiday House next door was a favorite spot.It was already the new building by the time my dad was taking me there in the 80s. They had a fire and just never reopened.
July 20, 20187 yr 3 hours ago, ShaggyBevo RIP said: After '84 or '85 as we'd go there as HS seniors. It was after the Drag location closed in '80. Sat in traffic, North bound Congress, on the way to Barton Springs and watched the Night Hawk burn. Was either a HS Junior or Senior, I don't remember. /csb
July 20, 20187 yr So the second restaurant building burned too? Somehow I missed that - but was living in far north Austin off Braker Lane then, so we rarely ventured that far south to eat out.
July 20, 20187 yr 39 minutes ago, Armybrat said: So the second restaurant building burned too? Somehow I missed that - but was living in far north Austin off Braker Lane then, so we rarely ventured that far south to eat out. Looks like I was mis-remembering based on this article. https://www.austinchronicle.com/food/2001-01-26/80300/ Burned in 1985. Re-built. Closed in 1989.
July 20, 20187 yr It appears I mis-remembered the time of the Number 1 restaurant fire at S. Congress & Riverside by about 10 years. lol
July 20, 20187 yr Cool piece on the history of the Hyde Park neighborhood. Spoiler -- only "White People" allowed. https://austin.towers.net/you-are-here-hyde-park/
July 20, 20187 yr 3 hours ago, Armybrat said: It appears I mis-remembered the time of the Number 1 restaurant fire at S. Congress & Riverside by about 10 years. lol I watched that fire happen from my office at the American Bank/MBank/Chase Bank/221 West 6th Tower. Seems like it was on a Saturday afternoon. Lots of black smoke. That view has changed a bunch since then!
July 22, 20187 yr I’d love to see some video of old Austin 30-50 years ago. Does anything like that exist? Even just someone driving around with an old camcorder would be cool to see.
July 22, 20187 yr I went to Pearl Jam in 1999 (I think) at Southpark Meadows. Gents, this thread is fucking awesome.They played there September 1995.
July 22, 20187 yr Ah, Boats in the Barrio. Drag boat racing on Town Lake. This photo never disappoints. A slew of Justice Sticks, Skoal Brother, displaced priest on a Sunday afternoon, Paul Hernandez finding glee in the moment, unfazed and stoic sign-toting, and Joe Friday on the Grassy Knoll taking it all in.
July 22, 20187 yr Took my kids to Barton Springs pool today and the playground. I realized today that we hadn't seen Zippy the Clown there in a few years. The guitar guy is still down the railroad tracks though. For your nightmares:
July 23, 20187 yr 57 minutes ago, Wally Pryor said: Ah, Boats in the Barrio. Drag boat racing on Town Lake. This photo never disappoints. A slew of Justice Sticks, Skoal Brother, displaced priest on a Sunday afternoon, Paul Hernandez finding glee in the moment, unfazed and stoic sign-toting, and Joe Friday on the Grassy Knoll taking it all in. I don't get it. Was the priest there for last rites?
July 23, 20187 yr 19 hours ago, dcbc said: #4 with a Cookies & Cream Milkshake, please. #8 for me. Same milkshake. When I lived in the Castillion, I must have eaten here every other day or so. I miss the shit out of that place.
July 23, 20187 yr 19 minutes ago, Rollo Tomassi said: #8 for me. Same milkshake. When I lived in the Castillion, I must have eaten here every other day or so. I miss the shit out of that place. My sister was at UT in the early 80s and I'd go to MD&B every visit. When I started at UT in 92, it was my first stop for dinner. It closed not long after that. That was a bummer.
July 23, 20187 yr My sister was at UT in the early 80s and I'd go to MD&B every visit. When I started at UT in 92, it was my first stop for dinner. It closed not long after that. That was a bummer.Right there with you friend. I had a couple friends about a year ahead of me and they took me when I went to orientation. Serious bummer.
July 24, 20187 yr 20 hours ago, dcbc said: My sister was at UT in the early 80s and I'd go to MD&B every visit. When I started at UT in 92, it was my first stop for dinner. It closed not long after that. That was a bummer. Owners were laundering drug money. That was why the food was so good for the price. They needed students paying in cash.
July 24, 20187 yr On 7/22/2018 at 1:55 PM, luke duke said: Beans and rice at Lazy Ass Me(a reference to the staff) when you had less than $3 was a staple of the late 80s- early 90s. Edited July 24, 20187 yr by ShaggyBevo RIP
July 24, 20187 yr 23 hours ago, Wally Pryor said: A deeper dive in to the drag boats on Town Lake and related protests. Hernandez was a real dipwad. He went to St. Edward's HS for a semester or two in the mid 1960s, then later described it to the reporters as a rich white boy boy school. Ignoring the fact that plenty of East side & South Austin "Hispanic" kids were there on scholarships, not to mention it had been fully integrated before WWII. One of our student body presidents was a popular black kid (1960). Most of the white boys were from the St. Ignatius & St. Louis Parishes - hardly upper crust. Even had a few cedar chopper types. Just a handful of kids from the west side of town. Austin cops learned to hate him though when he became a Chicano activist (in the '70s?). One time when the Klan came to town for a rally "parade", the counter demonstrators outnumbered them hugely and started the usual pushing & shoving shit. The cops zeroed in on Hernandez to separate him & his compadres from the kluckers. Somebody with a camcorder got video from an overhead window showing ol' Paul on the ground surrounded by a ring of cops all pounding on him with nightsticks. Looked exactly like a Mack Sennett Keystone Cop silent movie scene. All that was missing was a frantic piano soundtrack. lol (at least one of the cops was African-American). Anyway, the City Council eventually bought him off by putting him in charge of an East Austin housing renovation program for the poor, funded by a substantial federal grant. A couple of years later an AAS reporter discovered that hundreds of thousands of $$$ had disappeared from the program's funds, and only two or three old houses had been halfway fixed up. The feds then demanded that the city repay the money. Hernandez faded from the "activist" scene after that embarrassing episode. And so it went in nostalgic Austin. lmao Edited July 24, 20187 yr by Armybrat
July 24, 20187 yr 2 hours ago, ShaggyBevo RIP said: Owners were laundering drug money. That was why the food was so good for the price. They needed students paying in cash. Is that why the milkshakes were so good?
July 25, 20187 yr 13 hours ago, ShaggyBevo RIP said: Owners were laundering drug money. That was why the food was so good for the price. They needed students paying in cash. Why do you think sixth street back then was dollar shots and dollar long necks. All cash. The no cover was so people would show up in droves. And no cover means nobody can ever prove how many people showed up that night. Edited July 25, 20187 yr by JimmyJames
July 26, 20187 yr On 4/1/2018 at 8:34 AM, Deej said: Correct. Gibson's was on the lot that now houses Tuesday Morning and Taco Deli. Loved going there as a kid. Anyone remember Winn's stores? They were everywhere. Bought my first Star Wars action figures at the one on Hancock the day they were released. This is correct. Right across from where Greenlawn Pkwy runs into Burnet Rd. I remember you could look across Burnet while waiting to turn from Greenlawn and see the Gibsons parking lot. I don’t think the light existed at that intersection until after Gipsons built there. Sorry for the necro bump. I just discovered this thread. Thread makes me feel old. Might as well give a delayed geezer response. #go back to sleep grandpa#
July 26, 20187 yr On 4/1/2018 at 8:34 AM, Deej said: Top it it off with double post. #go back to sleep grandpa# Edited July 26, 20187 yr by Oakbrook
August 2, 20187 yr 19 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said: What are we looking at? That looks kind of like the kiddie park that was right next to Butler Pitch and Putt.
August 2, 20187 yr 13 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said: That looks kind of like the kiddie park that was right next to Butler Pitch and Putt. Yep. I remember that boat ride. Went to several birthday parties there back in the day.
August 2, 20187 yr On 3/27/2018 at 9:49 AM, Red Five said: I’d love to see some video of old Austin 30-50 years ago. Does anything like that exist? Even just someone driving around with an old camcorder would be cool to see. Can't give you 30-50 years ago, but how bout some student films from 2000-2001? "Manifest Destiny" was mostly shot inside an old house a little NW of UT. Only a few outside shots, but lots of demonic hand-puppet:
August 2, 20187 yr "Occam's Razor" was shot all over Austin and in some hills just to the west. Probably better for somebody looking for vanished places: Edited August 2, 20187 yr by RDCanecutter
August 2, 20187 yr 46 minutes ago, Wally Pryor said: I recall this being farther west on Barton Springs Rd. About where Treadwell intersects with Barton Springs, but I do vaguely remember a playland being close to Butler.
August 2, 20187 yr On 7/22/2018 at 12:55 PM, luke duke said: Was that in Hyde Park? There was some wanna-be French place there around 2000, and the little bartender girl would pour Ricard in a glass like it was draft beer.
August 2, 20187 yr 41 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said: Was that in Hyde Park? There was some wanna-be French place there around 2000, and the little bartender girl would pour Ricard in a glass like it was draft beer. No, it was in West Campus.
August 2, 20187 yr 4 hours ago, Biff Tannen said: What are we looking at? Kiddieland. Barton Springs & Lamar. Kiddie Acres was way north, Howard Lane.
August 2, 20187 yr 23 minutes ago, luke duke said: No, it was in West Campus. Ah yeah. Back behind Tower. I think I ate there once before they did away with it.
August 2, 20187 yr I saw the 80s tourism promotional video on page 1, but skimmed through and wasn't sure if this had been posted? It won't embed, but there's a tourism video from 1955 at the link. http://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php/Our_Town_Austin
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