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Back when leotards told the story
Thanks to my inimitable friend Joseph, who has a penchant for finding all the weirdest crap that youtube has to offer, I have now watched this 1980 WFAA-TV (Dallas/Fort Worth) promo video eleventy times.
It is nuts how in 1980, mustachioed men in leotards were simply “court jesters” that told the story of TV ratings success, and […]
A drive down Austin memory lane
Austin has grown fast, but it has grown from a tiny urban core — meaning that we have less pre-World War II buildings than probably any other city our size in the South. Many neighborhoods quite close to downtown were developed in the 1960’s or later — the city basically ended 3 miles in […]
Terms of endearment for Houston
I can’t be mad at Houston, for I don’t think most people consider how liberally its name has been affixed to what might be “Elsewhere” in other states or countries. After all, if other cities in the US had developed with such limitless extra-territorial jurisdiction as Houston had, then we would see a Miami […]
Austin from alternate angles
From Zilker Park, the Mopac main lanes, and Riverside Drive at Ben White.
I don’t know about you, but I need to get out of town; I am getting so tired of photographing the same things over and over!
July 2009: Photographic month in review
It looks like I was jetsetting in the insular Club Med that is Travis County, but in reality, it was one of the most difficult months of my entire life.
Extracting all taste from architecture
Can you believe this building was bulldozed?
I don’t even like to drive down to San Antonio anymore, for half the reason I enjoyed it was seeing the Adams Extract building all alone on the prairie, commanding a strong presence with its post-war industrial optimism. It must have been demolished sometime after 2003, because if […]
Rutledge Elementary
Apparently there’s a Rutledge Elementary in far northwest Austin, in the Avery Ranch subdivision. I am guessing it has something to do with the road “Rutledge Spur” which is about a mile south of the school. Just so you know, I’m unrelated!
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Their mascot is the “Ranchers”. Definitely unrelated.
Make The Sunshine indeed
That was a drawing of mine from 1990 or so, back when everything had spiky hair, sunglasses and earrings. And back when Texas had normal temperatures. Or did it?
For example, on July 16, 1990, the high temperature in Austin was 78, and the low was 68. That’s actually well below normal, but then again, […]