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Welcome to Austin's Collective Memory Bank

Submitted by clex on Fri, 02/24/2006 - 9:22pm.
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:

Dodge City Steak House
     by BadBuzz
SAHARA MOTEL
     by squirrel
In My Heart
     by Deborah
Music second to none!
     by chezmom
Swedish Hill Bakery on 6th
     by chezmom
The Treehouse Restaurant
     by brg404
Texas Tavern
     by tedp
Lavender Hill Express
     by farnham
The Jasmine Isle in Buda
     by farnham
Nothing Strikes Back Ice Cream Shop
     by Sher
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
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Thanks for the place

Submitted by farnham on Wed, 09/10/2008 - 8:54pm.

Good place to exercise my brain cells and shake out some of the times back when. If the good, bad and ugly of history is 'time and place', then Austin '67 to '80 was a golden era. Can't go back, and don't want to go bowling with you guys, but swapping digital doobies is definitely a trip. Thanks

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No complaints

Submitted by texansbr on Tue, 03/11/2008 - 3:19pm.

Austin in the '60s and early '70s was IT for me. Living in San Marcos, Buda and Kyle and playing in bands in Austin was the time to be there. I can't go back, but I can enjoy the memories and the photos I have. Now, it's too big, too urban-suburban for me. Not laid back anymore. Feels like a mini-Houston. Some players are still around of course but things change. I'm sure it's perfect for lots of people who live there now and they will remember fondly their favorite haunts.

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Jasmine Isle

Submitted by BadBuzz on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 1:27pm.

You remeer a restuarant called jasmine Isle or the likes back then?
Jack Buzzy Gibson
The road goes on forever .....and the party never ends!

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Jasmine Isle in Buda

Submitted by farnham on Sun, 04/04/2010 - 8:59am.

Jasmine Isle in Buda - Wahoo! Long before Buda was the center of the universe and popularized on the "You Won't Believe This Sh*t!" TV crime show, with wives killin' husbands and stuff, it was a tiny near-ghost town relic of old time Texas.

In '72 or there abouts, a bunch of hippies who had enough money to travel to Java or some such far off hippie place (maybe India), came back to Travis County and decided (probably in the throes of some un-Christian drugs or Eastern philosophy), to start a hippie restaurant in bootiful downtown Buda, in the top floor of an old hardware store.

Whoa! Shades of Alice's 'you know what', and doggone it, the food was great, and the ambiance was straight out of Pier One (maybe The Cadeau), with tied dyed bedspreads for drapes, and giant wire spools for tables, etc.

Me and Charles John Quarto went there several times and had good food and good vibes, you know?

Just another Bozo on this bus...

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