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Jette on Austin history

As part of Austin BlogSwap, here's the guest blog entry from Jette of Celluloid Eyes.

And you thought N. Lamar was just another dull stretch of road in North Austin: A History of North Lamar Blvd. uncovers some surprising facts. A zoo, a club where Elvis Presley and Hank Williams played, an alleged house of ill repute -- and now we have Eckerd's and Dreamers, and barely a trace of this history on the road itself. (Part of the Copperfield/Northeast Austin History site. Warning: It's on Tripod, pop-ups may appear.)

See, South Austin isn't the only colorful part of town. Look for "78757" bumper stickers any day now. But if you're feeling left out, you can always look at lovely vintage postcards and photos of downtown and South Austin on AustinPostcard.com. No movie theaters, but we can't have everything.

Thanks, Jette! Look for more BlogSwap entries at AustinBloggers. My own BlogSwap entry is posted at Tilted Wisdom. "BlogSwap -- it's like mate-swapping, but with blogs."

Interesting, and well-done.

Man oh man, Jette has a lot of readers! I'm getting more hits from a little marginal link on today's page at Celluloid Eyes than any other single source.

So, Jette-fans, welcome. Set yourselves down. Take your shoes off. Take a look around and see if there's anything else here at Aprendiz de todo that interests you. Y'all come back now, hear?

I don't really have stats for my own site, so I had no idea I'd boost traffic. Cool!

In the late 70's, there was a gas station on N. Lamar at the entrance to the boarded up Coxville Zoo (the zoo sign was still visible among the brambles and barbwire fence--I mean 'bobwar'---where two guys who looked like Kenneth Threadgill served up Elgin sausages on 'lot whot bread' and Lone Star longnecks from a cooler. I don't remember working gas pumps, but I do remember the sausage!

Burnet Road used to be rather different too...a drive-in, the Stallion, the Chicken Shack. And what about South Congress and the house of ill repute for the legislature?

sigh.