As a bright-eyed new resident of South Austin, my search for all things local nostalgia is ongoing. My latest obsession? Imagine cruising through 1970s Austin in your Oldsmobile station wagon, windows down, hot roast beef sandwich in hand. At 4411 South Lamar Boulevard, in the southeastern corner of the snarl where Highway 290 meets Highway 71, you’ll find the oldest of ...
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Austin Curiosities: Hyde Park’s Historic Blue Bonnet Court
Blue Bonnet Court, an unassuming building at 4407 Guadalupe Street sandwiched between the Cottonwood Condos and Shanghai Kate’s tattoo shop, is easy to miss unless you look twice. Still, over the last few years the little complex hidden in Hyde Park kept catching my eye, so I decided to get to the bottom of its secrets once and for all. Here's what I found. As ...
It’s Mueller Time, Baby!
Austin's Robert Mueller Municipal Airport closed in 1999. The Mueller planned unit development that would transform the site's 700 acres into a new neighborhood and city district broke ground in 2007. Time flies, huh? Now that it's 10 years later, what's going on at Mueller? The district isn't completely finished, but it's certainly well on its way, with roughly 75 percent ...
