Swimming leads to snacking. That's been a fact of life at Austin's Barton Springs Pool for at least a century, with the first mention of concessions served to bathers at the spring-fed swimming pool -- "hamburger and the like" -- appearing in the Austin Statesman in 1918. But in 2016, the Zilker Cafe at Barton Springs closed and stayed closed. Turns out the pool's 1960s-era concessions building was "in shambles:"
Forget a new coat of paint; the cafe, built in the 1960s, needs pretty much everything, said Marty Stump, assistant director of . . .
