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Austin Tourist InformationAustin
Convention and Visitors Bureau
201 East 2nd Street, 1-800-9262282
http://www.austintexas.org/index.php
Visitor Information - 866-GO-AUSTIN
The
Greater Austin Chamber -
Lakeshore Tower building
210 Barton Springs Road, Suite 400, Austin, TX 78704.
Telephone: (512) 478-9383 Fax: (512) 478-8819
www.austin-chamber.org/
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Austin
as Texas’ Capital
by Mike Cox
All elections are important in a democracy, but early-day Austinites
went through two elections that could have turned their city into a ghost town.
At stake was whether Austin would remain Texas’ capital...
Austin, Texas Chronicles The
Deadly Tower
by Murray Montgomery
One of the saddest days in Texas history occurred August 1, 1966. On that day
a crazed man started firing from the observation deck at the University of Texas
tower — picking random human targets on the ground and hitting them with
deadly accuracy... Ben
Thompson's Tombstone
by C. F. Eckhardt
When the old Iron Front Saloon on Congress Avenue in Austin,
Texas was torn down in the 1920s, a most peculiar object was found in the basement.
It was a fine marble tombstone—but there was no inscription on it...
Fruit
Tree Ramsey
by Clay Coppedge
When Frank T. Ramsey was 16 years old, he quit going to school
and became a partner in his father’s nursery business in Burnet County. His father,
Alexander M. Ramsey, wrote down a list of fruit tree varieties that he had for
sale and put his son and business partner on a horse. Frank traveled all over
Texas, taking orders for trees and collecting native flora along the way... Pig
War by
Clay Coppedge
As a Republic, Texas was hard to get along with. The Mexican
government already knew this, of course, but the French would find it out soon
enough when they sent Alphonse Dubois de Saligny to Austin in 1840 to help determine
if France should recognize the young upstart Republic. He wasn’t a Count but he
called himself one so we will too. Ironically, in light of his general snootiness,
Saligny – or rather The Count – is known to history as a prime participant in
what came to be called the Pig War. A
Hanging in Austin by
Mike Cox
Forty years ago, the late Edmunds Travis of Austin told me about a
hanging he reluctantly covered for the Austin daily he edited in 1913... Thurber
Brick by
Mike Cox
The momentous event that signified Austin’s transition from hick town
to city.
Austin
Mystery Murders by Mike Cox
Only
a village with a few hundred residents in 1841, Austin experienced at least a
couple of homicides that year that by today’s standards read more like big-city
whodunits. The
Great Treasury Raid of 1865
by Mike Cox
The
First State Capitol
by Mike CoxAustin
Happenings 1902 by
Mike CoxJohn
Ringo by
Mike Cox
O.
Henry and the Shoal Creek Treasure
by C. F. Eckhardt
Austin
Grade School by
Mike Cox
Athens
by Mike Cox
Bevo,
the UT's longhorn mascot
by Mike Cox
Hudson
Bend by
Mike Cox
Barbecue
Bust by
Mike Cox Stagecoach
Holdup
by Mike Cox Austin's
Mystery Cafe, 1955 |
About
Austin If
you complement Austin to any long-time resident, you have an excellent chance
of hearing "you should've seen it in the 60s" or " 70s" - or any of a number of
variations on that theme. In fact it's become a sore point with a lot of younger
Austinites who have grown tired of hearing it. Nevertheless, it's true. The Austin
lifestyle has always been more "laid back" over other Texas cities - and to a
certain degree it's still true... more
Street
Name Trivia
by Joe Foster
Downtown Austin streets running north and south (skipping Congress
Avenue) are named for Texas rivers... more
Austin
Tidbits
by C. F. Eckhardt
Lovers' leap, Interstate System, and Footbridge at Waller
Creek |
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