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The Sign that 'Twerbled'...

Submitted by NickWallingford on Tue, 12/26/2006 - 6:58pm. Things

Somewhere up past 24th Street on the Drag as some sort of big roadside sign, on the west side of the road, and somehow I think there may have been a pizza place nearby? Anyway, this sign was held by a massive steel 'H' beam, big enough to back into and almost be completely hidden.

And someone, probably many of us, discovered what an amazing sound it made if you backed up into that way, then kicked backward with your heel! It must have been something to do with the height and size and harmonics or who knows what - but everyone agreed that the correct description of the sound it made was "twerbling"...

I'm sure it must have driven the local shops mad, with loud and rowdy groups of drugged out hippies, walking up to the sign at all hours of the day and night, kicking it and laughing...

Update! Zanthan was there...

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Too Much Smoke

Submitted by farnham on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 2:51am.

Hey you guys were doing too much of that awesome $10 standard weed that memory serves was de rigor during most of the 60's-80's. When a special batch came up the road, even the artificial moon towers seemed like giant tent posts... people only blog about this stuff today...boo hoo. It is amazing to me how deep a hole I would be thrown in today if any of the stuff we chat about here were done these days. Lurking and biking around downtown Austin in the middle of the night...Getting loaded and going to the Americana to see this great new scifi flick called what? Oh yeah, Star Wars, or not being able to move after sitting through 3 showings of '2001' at the Varsity. Oh, Wow!

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oops

Submitted by farnham on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 2:49am.

oops

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I remember clanging that

Submitted by Nemesis980 on Fri, 07/13/2007 - 2:25pm.

I remember clanging that sign's poles with a rock. I recall it sounding just like the phasers from Star Trek (the original version).

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Lone Star Beer!

Submitted by clex on Wed, 12/27/2006 - 8:37am.

That would have to be the Lone Star sign in the parking lot of the Conan's Pizza parlour. That sign presided over another Austin landmark... Raul's was literally in it's shadow. I'm sure that many a dazed punk took a sharp turn into that parking lot and 'twarbled' that sign just like their Hippie brethren.

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Lone Star Beer sign

Submitted by chasrich on Tue, 05/25/2010 - 4:50pm.

Too bad they took it down!

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