Welcome to Austin's Collective Memory Bank

As time passes, it becomes clear that we need to capture the many things that made Austin what it is today. This experiment is to do so by capturing snippets of memory and letting the community add and comment at will. The result should be a social memory bank about Austin and how we lived and loved our city. You'll find a decidedly counter-cultural theme in these pages. Whether you acknowledge it or not... that attitude is one of the primary forces that shaped Austin. It emerges today as a "Keep Austin Weird" slogan. This site is dedicated to the things which that slogan strives to keep. Come on folks... you lived it. Write it down. Click a category and get started or just browse around and remember the way it used to be.

Here's what's new on the site:

the Magic Time Machine and others      by JenniW

Balcones Fault      by eddiesee20

Remembering Ken Featherston      by patrickpoet

Texas Sun      by clex

Coors Beer      by eddiesee20

Davis Hardware on Congress Avenue      by tuckspop

Oak Hill Bars in the 60's      by tuckspop

Hattie Valdez and Waldo Harper      by tuckspop

Hattie Valdez      by tuckspop

Squirrel's Inn      by tuckspop

Famous Austin Cartoons!      by clex

Rusty Wier      by clex

The Day John Lennon Died      by clex

Austin's Famous Mexican Restaurant      by Andrea Sidor

WurstFest - New Braunfels      by Andrea Sidor