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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:

The Green Spot
     by clex
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
     by clex
memories
     by CarlaL
Uncle Nicks Pizza
     by Steel Player
Sept 1970
     by chiefbromden
Split Rail and Disch Field
     by dgodina
Club Foot Poster
     by KBurges
Spiral Staircase
     by centralaustinmc
SXSW
     by clex
Hamburgers by Gourmet
     by Mary in Austin
Lamar Savings
     by clex
The Rome Inn
     by sargedog
Waylon Jennings show
     by TejasMike
Liberty Hill "75"
     by danamae
Clubs not mentioned
     by TejasMike
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Old Austin

Submitted by William Flahie on Tue, 10/02/2012 - 12:09am.

I can remember when down town and many roads of the University were stil dirt roads, Does anyone remember the RAW DEAL steak house on 6th,
Or Club Foot Where locals played their stuff, and let us not forget the Amadillo World Headquarters. I played most of these places with the Berzerko bros. I CAN'T THINK OF THE NAME OF THE PLACE BUT IT WAS ON 400 E 6TH STREET. Don't forget Jalapeno Charlies,How about the Paramount on 6th street, and the Hole in the wall. and Eats cafe, headliners east, Dobie screens 1&2, salvation sandwhiches, and Macombini hot dogs. Mad dog & beans I ran that for 4 years. Gordos where you could enjoy a quiet game of pool

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Thanks for the memories!

Submitted by caterladyjoni on Sun, 07/08/2012 - 12:29pm.

I am an original Austinite...been here since 1962. I was a teenager in the late 70's and it is really fantastic to journey back in time, when Austin was the greatest city on earth!
So looking forward to hearing KOKE on the air again!!

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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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Jasmine Isle...

Submitted by NickWallingford on Sun, 08/29/2010 - 2:08am.

Yes, I remember it - but only vaguely...

Would have been about 1972 - driving down to Buda, several of us in the bed of an old Chevy pickup, huddled under a blanket.

I remember a very nice meal - but it may have been a result of the times and the company...

Nick

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