Eddie Wilson was the founder of the legiondary Armadillo World Headquarters that shaped Austin as a music town. After AWH he purchased Threadgill's which continued the music heritage of our city. We run through a listener submitted list of great Austin restaurants that are now gone and gather Eddie's thoughts and memories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What we know know as Tarrytown was once a poor farm in the late 1800's. It was for paupers, convicts, and farmhands, some looking for work, some looking for food in tough times. It was even used for some criminals to pay off debt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As much as we love Austin, dealing and adjusting to the heat is a very real consideration, especially with so many moving here. Can you handle it? Not sure? Give this a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This Victorian mansion, known as Chateau Bellevue, is home to the Austin Woman's Club, formed by female leaders in the 1920's. However, not the only castlelike structure in Austin, we explore more in the Austin surroundings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Between World War 1 and the Great Depression, the Jazz Age picked up where Guy Town's vices left off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Teresa Lozano Long, major philanthropist, longtime educator and community leader, died at age 92. Austin civil rights pioneer, school namesake, church co-founder, business leader and lifelong educator Bertha Sadler Means died at age 100. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Texas is home to just three surviving small reservations, two of which, the Alabama-Coushatta in East Texas and the Kickapoo on the Rio Grande, were set aside for immigrant Native Americans, meaning the remnants of tribes what were forced into Texas from their original homelands in the eastern United States What happened, then, to the Caddos, Comanches, Wichitas, Kiowas, Apaches, Karankawas, Tonkawas, Coahuiltecans, Jumanos and other indigenous Texas tribes? Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...
During the 1960's, Austinites, found themselves in a unique position. Many remained loyal to the man who had served as their congressman, senator, vice president and president. Others, played a part in the local protest movement against the war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
You know one — the French Legation — as the “oldest house in town.” Locals and tourists love this Creole-style home that rests on a steep crest; it was built for Alphonse Dubois de Saligny, France’s chargé d’affaires to the new Republic of Texas. You are probably familiar with the other handsome house — Boggy Creek Farm — because of its organic foodstuffs rather than its history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Austin leaders wanted more integration in the 60’s and didn’t know where to find black owned business and started a black registry. In 1973, the Villager was born. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Any alert observer passing along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near Chestnut Avenue in East Austin inevitably notices two revolutionary sites. One is the David Chapel Missionary Baptist Church with its dramatically escalating roofline, color-block windows and soaring modernist steeple. The other is the radically geometrical and cantilevered residence located a bit to the east of the landmark church at MLK and Maple Avenue known as the Phillips House. John Saunders Chase Jr. — the first licens...
The story of Deaf Smith, a war hero and the fight to preserve the Texas School for the Deaf, the oldest continuously operated school in the state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
You've heard the stories of the legendary Armadillo, where hippies and rednecks co-mingled... oh, and ballet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
German settlers in Austin formed a traditional singing group as early as 1852. The tradition continues today at the Saengerrunde Hall at 1607 San Jacinto Street, adjacent to Scholtz Garden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Known for comfort food such as beef tips, chicken-fried stea, chicken and dumplings, and icebox pie, the Frisco Shop was part of the Night Hawk chain, which Harry Akin, mayor of Austin from 1967 to 1969, started in 1932. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
During the past 30 years, TreeFolks has set down more than 2.8 million trees in the Austin area. Tree Folks now works with a 1.2 Million dollar annual budget planting trees around Austin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Buford Tower conceals three secrets. The graceful, six-story Italianate structure poised above Lady Bird Lake is a fire tower without any fires to fight and a bell tower without any real bells. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Over the course of more than a century, Austinites have known Benson as many things. Among them: adventurous youth, World War II veteran, textbook publisher, thoroughbred breeder and polished social dancer. Yet it has been his legendary golf game that has followed Benson through much of his life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Some citizens are honored merely for reaching the centennial mark. The Bastrop-born-and-reared Shudde Bess Bryson Fath has been spearheading causes for more than half her life, even before the fire station plan sparked her public outrage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Little-known fact: One of the earliest space travelers from Earth was an Austin Native. Sam the Space Monkey was born in 1957 at the Balcones Research Center. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We look back at parties that altered our fair city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Austin doesn't have--never had--a true "gayborhood," defined as a district with a high density of LGBT residents, businesses, and street life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A watercolor portrait of Austin's landscape would start with a green wash. Then add splashes of white (limestone) and blue (creeks, rivers, and lakes). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mark Erlewine is known in Austin and elsewhere as a master of making and repairing guitars. He has created or repaired guitars for Jerry Garcia, Albert King, an dOtis Rush. He has created or repaired custom guitars as well for John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Elvis Costello, Bo Diddley, Johnny Winter, Joe Walsh, John Fogerty, Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
When did the Shaw-Pease sale take place? Folklore- along with some surviving newspaper articles and other sources- tell us that Gov. Shivers took possession of Woodlawn from the Pease family and moved in exactly 100 years after the Pease family. Hmmm. Not so fast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
H.E.B. is celebrating 80+ years of selling food in the Texas capital. With two dozen stores in the area, H.E.B. has earned about 60+ percent of the grocery market in Austin. We've gathered dozens of facts, history, and did-ya-knows about one of Texas' iconic brands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
For a place with a reasonable reputation for public safety, the Austin area has produced some of the most traumatic and sensationally reported crimes in American history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Austin’s music posters — especially the psychedelic ones that promoted shows at Vulcan Gas Company, Armadillo World Headquarters and other venues — resembled some of the posters produced in San Francisco at the time. Some of the most rudimentary pen-and-ink techniques were used in part because they were the least expensive methods at the time and the most easily reproduced. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Started by the Chamber of Commerce In 1962, Austin Aqua Festival, long before the advent of South by Southwest (1987) or the Austin City Limits Music Festival (2002), it included parades down Congress Avenue and on Town Lake, boating races and skiing showcases, beauty contests and decorated floats, community games and fishing contests, wandering entertainers and craft sellers, food booths and nightly concerts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
You've seen St. John's street just off I-35. There was once an orphanage for African Americans and host to the St. John's encampments and the St. John's circuit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
