OT: Austin

[FlourBluffHorn]

How many of ya remember Bruce's Fried pies? About the best pie in town?


Ferrari's subs on South Lamar

El Toro Mexican food on Guadalupe

The Toddle House at 19th and Guadalupe

And Airport Donuts on Airport Rd

East Avenue Pool

Shipe Pool

Stacy pool

Holidayt House Flame Burgers


Hook'em

 

[oldhorn2]

Van's Pancake house at 19th and Guadalupe....The bathroom graffitti was so good people came in just to read it.....men, women, couples....great stuff!

 

[FlourBluffHorn]

Van's Pancake house at 19th and Guadalupe....The bathroom graffitti was so good people came in just to read it.....men, women, couples....great stuff!

Wasn't that west of the Toddle House Old? The Toddle House was at the curve on Guadalupe across from Connelys Florist


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[Son of Wasatch]

God Bless getting old.

You can't remember what you did yesterday, but you remember everything about Austin 50 years ago.

 

[oldhorn2]

No FB....Vans was on 19th exactly at Guadalupe. It was a big place. It was open all night I think. The Toddle House was different.

 

[hillcountryhorn63697005]

The Stallion - $1 chicken fried steak, green gravy and fixin's.

 

[FlourBluffHorn]

The Stallion - $1 chicken fried steak, green gravy and fixin's.

and a six pack of beer brought to your car by a waitress outside



Hook'em

 

[FlourBluffHorn]

God Bless getting old.

You can't remember what you did yesterday, but you remember everything about Austin 50 years ago.

That's cause times where good then and now they are like shit! and no one wants to remember shit...LOL! Football was different than than now..standing room only at Memorial Stadium and smash-mouth football with honest to God Tackling instead of this bump shit they do now and Frat parties all down Nueces street and Rio Grande and the drag so full on Football nite after a win , ya couldn't drive down it...the diff is that

Plus you remember who the assholes where and where they are now...
Hook'em

 

[Dogged Horn]

How many of ya remember Bruce's Fried pies? About the best pie in town?


Ferrari's subs on South Lamar

El Toro Mexican food on Guadalupe

The Toddle House at 19th and Guadalupe

And Airport Donuts on Airport Rd

East Avenue Pool

Shipe Pool

Stacy pool

Holidayt House Flame Burgers


Hook'em

A friend of mine was shot dead at that Toddle House. I still think about it every time I drive by there.

My daughter still has my old Swelty's Guide to Austin - printed around 1969-1970 as I recall.

 

[oldhorn2]

There was a small after hours place behind the 7-11 at Guadalupe and 29th that as far as I remember only had 2 pool tables....and I dont remember one other thing in that place.....no reason to go there.....except it had the best big money pool games after midnight that I knew of in Austin. I went there often to watch "Smokey" and "Cowboy" shoot some epic matches of 6 ball and 8 ball......Cowboy had the backers, but Smokey had the game.

 

[elcapitan009]

That's cause times where good then and now they are like shit! and no one wants to remember shit...LOL! Football was different than than now..standing room only at Memorial Stadium and smash-mouth football with honest to God Tackling instead of this bump shit they do now and Frat parties all down Nueces street and Rio Grande and the drag so full on Football nite after a win , ya couldn't drive down it...the diff is that

Plus you remember who the assholes where and where they are now...
Hook'em

 

[clob94]

Sing it for me FBHorn......


"I wanna go home with the armadillo......

 

[FlourBluffHorn]

Sing it for me FBHorn......


"I wanna go home with the armadillo......

Well, when you're down on your luck and you ain't got a buck
In London you're a goner
Even London Bridge has fallen down and moved to Arizona
Now I know why

And I'll substantiate the rumor that the English sense of humor
Is drier than than the Texas sand
You can put up your Dukes, and you can bet your boots
But I'm leavin' just as fast as I can

I wanna go home with the armadillo
Good country music from Amarillo and Abilene
The friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever seen

Well, it's cold over here, and I swear
I wish they'd turn the heat on
And where in the world is that English girl
I promised I would meet on the third floor

And of the whole damn lot, the only friend I've got
Is a smoke and a cheap guitar
My mind keeps roamin', my heart keeps longin'
To be home in a Texas bar

I wanna go home with the armadillo
Good country music from Amarillo and Abilene
The friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever seen

Well, I decided that I'd get my cowboy hat
And go down to Marble Arch Station
'Cause when a Texan fancies, he'll take his chances
Chances will be taken, that's for sure

And them Limey eyes, they were eyein' the prize
Some people call manly footwear
And they said you're from down South and when you open your mouth
You always seem to put your foot there

I wanna go home with the armadillo
Good country music from Amarillo and Abilene
The friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever seen

I wanna go home with the armadillo
Good country music from Amarillo and AbiLene
The friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever seen

I wanna go home with the armadillo
Good country music from Amarillo and Abilene
The friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever seen

I wanna go home with the armadillo
Good country music from Amarillo and Abilene
The friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever seen

I wanna go home with the armadillo
Good country music from Amarillo and Abilene
The friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever seen



Yee Haw!



Hook'em

 

[FlourBluffHorn]

" Onward thru the Fog"!






Hook'em

 

[TX1972]

I arrived in Austin fall of 68. Last year of old redneck Austin. Scholzs served pitchers to freshmen withhout ids. Great graffiti: Scholz doesn't sellbeer, they rent it! Cabrito at San Jac cafe. Then the whole campus turned on. Everybody was a hippy. Jeff Jones bbecame student body president on the sds tickket. Big hippy party north of campus w 22 kegs. But the biggest riot was to celebrate the Arkansas game 1969. Good times.

 

[magnahorn]

I remember going to Matt's El Rancho when it was on 1st street. It was about the size of a small house and on Saturdays there would be a line around the corner.

I remember when DKR was holding court with Willie and the boys at a "special room" at the Villa Capri Motor Hotel. My dad used to work there when he was in college. I got to meet James "Slick" Street and Steve Wooster there that Championship season.

I remember seeing "Slim Pickens" eating lunch beside us at the Old Driskill Hotel before it was renovated. Dad worked there also.

I remember when The Night Hawk restaurant was on "The Drag". At one time they were so successful they sold TV dinners all the way in Houston.

I remember Clarke Field, when The Drum was built, and registering for classes in The Drum by standing in line for an IBM punch card for EACH CLASS.

 

[utexex]

What you guys remember amazes me. Old clubs- The Id on 24th two blocks fr the Drag, Vulcan Gas of course, Castle Creek, Crazy Horse, many more.

 

[oldhorn2]

The Pink Lizzard on Guadalupe maybe about 24th or so close to the A-Bar Dorm.Thats where you played shuffle board and drank pitchers on a bet.

 

[utexex]

magna, I remember a Matts that I think was the original...before 1st St. Can't recall where, but it was in the same general area...4th or 5th St?

 

[clob94]

I just have one question for the silver haired in here (translation: you old farts)---

Be honest---- raise your hand if you ever went to the Chicken Ranch...........

 

[oldhorn2]

well....yeah!...Honest to God....one time we were on retreat and one of our guys had a bus liscense...we rented the bus from ...hell....whoever ran the busses for the school...and we went right in there....it barely cleared the sides on the cattle guard! I can tell you a lot about that place if anyone cares.


Another true story about that place....one time we were having a party and we called La Grange information and asked for the chicken Ranch...They put us right through. We asked if they could send us a few girls for our party....and they quoted the rates....too rich for us, but who would have believed that?

 

[CoachEmUp64]

well....yeah!...Honest to God....one time we were on retreat and one of our guys had a bus liscense...we rented the bus from ...hell....whoever ran the busses for the school...and we went right in there....it barely cleared the sides on the cattle guard! I can tell you a lot about that place if anyone cares.


Another true story about that place....one time we were having a party and we called La Grange information and asked for the chicken Ranch...They put us right through. We asked if they could send us a few girls for our party....and they quoted the rates....too rich for us, but who would have believed that?

Greatness

 

[oldhorn2]

I am the only one?....I dont think I kept em in business by myself!...Hell....if that was the case they would have sent a car for me.

 

[FlourBluffHorn]

I just have one question for the silver haired in here (translation: you old farts)---

Be honest---- raise your hand if you ever went to the Chicken Ranch...........

you mean to see Aunt Hattie in La Grange? Hell, I drank a beer with the Sheriff while i was waiting for the girl I liked..


FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Ranch_(Texas)


Hook'em

 

[FlourBluffHorn]

 

[clob94]

Oldhorn, I'm in bed sick today with allergies and crap in my chest and when I read your posts- let's just say I owe you for helping me laugh so hard that I hacked up half the crap in my chest.

I've heard some of the stories about it, seen the movie of course, but it just seems like it was the opposite of seedy. My generation didn't have brothels that were considered sort of "socially acceptable"---if I can state it like that. My momma would have fried me in hog fat if she knew I'd gone to the donkey show in boystown. Plus Nuevo Laredo was so seedy/dirty that I never wanted to partake.

The stories I've heard about the chicken ranch were like "Oh ya, the co-eds from aggy and Texas would work summers there to make tuition......etc etc". Just real matter of fact. And apparently the sheriff literally, like FBHORN said, would protect the place and girls would inform on clients who came in their and bragged about illegal activities like drug running or booze running etc.

It's just hard for me to visualize this house out in a pasture chocked full of all these gorgeous co-eds drinking beer with you and wearing out your lower back. Hell it was hard enough for me to make it to class between trips to the yellow rose, sugars, and the South Austin ballet.

 

[oldhorn2]

Thanks for the kind words Clob...hope you soon recover. I was surprised when FB said he was drinking a beer with Big Jim. Not that Big Jim wouldnt be there elbowing with the patrons....it was just that I seemed to remember no alcohol being allowed in the place. Seems like I remember that they sold cokes there for $1.00, and you were expected to buy one.

It was respectable. You had to knock on the door. They opened it and there were two very large (and intimidating ) black women standing at a podium like the matre'D uses in a restuarant. ...you had to pass muster with them or go home. No drunks or loud mouths allowed.there was this big room with red velvet wall paper with chairs all along the wall. You took your place there, and as the girls came out you told the 2 women who you wanted and they called you when your turn was up.

 

[clob94]

So it was like a parade progression sort of. Bring the girls down, they pose, they leave, you tell the house mother who you want and she sends you up to room X.... so was there like a menu? Or like a rate sheet? Or did each girl charge different rates? Obviously you weren't paying top dollar for a sweat hog.... how'd that work?

 

[Bottomsuppizza]

How many of ya remember Bruce's Fried pies? About the best pie in town?


Ferrari's subs on South Lamar

El Toro Mexican food on Guadalupe

The Toddle House at 19th and Guadalupe

And Airport Donuts on Airport Rd

East Avenue Pool

Shipe Pool

Stacy pool

Holidayt House Flame Burgers


Hook'em

Cherry cokes at tarry town pharmacy. Kid stuff.

 

[FlourBluffHorn]

Nuevo Laredo was so seedy/dirty that I never wanted to partake.

Don't bad-mouth Papa-G's....LOL!


Hook'em

 

[FlourBluffHorn]

I was surprised when FB said he was drinking a beer with Big Jim.

Well, to clarify that old, my Daddy was a Sheriff in another county around there and knew him from way back and working together, and they talked quite often so I always talked to him every-time I went down and I drink Lone Star outa a cup, you know how it was back in them days, it was who ya knew not what ya had so you are right about the Coca Cola, but out in parking lot it was diff, I was there all thru 63-66, we shoulda shot Marvin before he left Houston..


Hook'em

 

[FlourBluffHorn]

I just have one question for the silver haired in here (translation: you old farts)---

Be honest---- raise your hand if you ever went to the Chicken Ranch...........

I know Nothing!

Hook'em

 

[oldhorn2]

Ok Clob...since you asked....but first......

SPOILER ALERT!!!
If you dont want your bubble burst about all those romantic stories you heard about the chicken Ranch just stop reading now.











I would not call the Chicken ranch seedy nor high class. It Was located in a pasture after all. Any story you heard about college girls was urban myth. I never saw any girl working there under 30. I wouldnt call any of them "slump busters" but no beauty queens either.You have to understand I was 19 to 21 ...You know how women look when you are that age. There was no upstairs.....no menu that I knew of...All money was discussed in the room with the girl. The two "bouncers" at the door just asked if you had a preferred girl....otherwise, you took who was there when they called your name. You could pass and wait....but I did say I was 19...I couldnt pass any better than Heard.....the girl gave you a more rigorous exam than any Doctor...If you couldnt ride the full 8 seconds you might be done right there. I was given the choice of straight up...half and half or 25$ for "around the world"...I never had that much money

I also never thought the Boys town places were all that seedy either.

 

[clob94]

I was given the choice of straight up...half and half or 25$ for "aroundthe world"...I never had that much money

There is so much awesomeness in that quote I don't even know where to start.

So lemme try and translate this here- "straight up" I assume is the normal, regular roll in the hay. Where you lose me is half and half. Was there a 2% and skim option as well? Metcalf, you ever hear of "half and half"? I'm guessing maybe that's a "blow and go" or a "chuck and duck". Could just be a pickle tickle.

Around the world I assume is anything goes. But $25 bucks back then, hell that was a couple days pay for you wasn't it?

I'm still dying over the half and half. Literally I'm passing myself with laughter!

 

[oldhorn2]

Clob....it's like this.....have you ever wished you could go back in time to either do something that you didnt....say something that you wouldnt.....or just flat out go a different way than you did?..I was 19....in the lair of an older woman...one of us was more experienced than the other....I wish I had had the money...I didnt...for 50 years I have puzzled over that very thought.....Perhaps the mystery is the best thing.


Also...MM...I apoligise if I have over stepped proper decorum....