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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 the menu bar to the left to select a category and get started.

No complaints

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.