First broadcast out of the Driskill Hotel in 1952, Austin's longtime local television channel KTBC was the city's first TV station, holding down channel number seven and owned for many years by none other than Texas royalty Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson. The station, primarily a CBS affiliate until its switch to Fox in 1995, is an essential background element of the city's past ...
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Austin’s Swinging ’60s Survive Behind Stucco at the Downtowner Motor Inn
At first glance, the most interesting thing about the La Quinta Inn at the corner of East 11th and San Jacinto Streets is the fact it's still standing, renting likely the cheapest rooms in downtown Austin only a stone's throw from the Texas Capitol out of a building that doesn't look much at all like downtown. Unlike the similarly nondescript Extended Stay America ...
Atlanta Might See This Austin Tower Before Austin, Somehow
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT UPDATE: In a classic twist of dramatic irony, mere hours after publishing this article the Republic tower project showed its first city permit activity in roughly two years -- if we didn't know better, we'd think it had something to do with us pestering the folks at Lincoln for this story all week. This new permit doesn't contain much beyond a description of ...
See Austin Condo Tower Construction Up Close With ‘Beyond the Fence’ Episode 2
Construction outfit Flintco, currently putting up developer Intracorp's 44 East Avenue condo tower in the Rainey Street District of downtown Austin, is giving us another episode of its documentary series "Beyond the Fence" -- providing an unusually inside look at the kitchen-sink process of developing a 49-floor building. Episode 2 of the series, "Harmony by Design," ...
The TOWERS.net 2020 Austin Gift Guide
As the holiday season approaches and Amazon shipping windows begin to slide shut, the ambient state of panic already in the air thanks to the pandemic has become electrified. Maybe you bought all your gifts months ago -- maybe your 2020 has been different than ours and you're using this time to get organized. Maybe. For the rest of us, these last-minute gifts are available for ...
Going Up With Austin’s Elevator-Riding Enthusiasts on YouTube
You ever take a few wrong clicks and find yourself on a completely unrecognizable side of YouTube? That's the basic story of how we came to enjoy the videos of the elevator enthusiast community -- a group of like-minded fans that, unlike many of us, appreciate elevators a lot more than the buildings they're inside. None of the downtown Austin condo, apartment, or office towers ...