The demolition of the longtime McDonald's location at 1209 Barton Springs Road last week really had some of us going for a minute. You'll find a number of locals on Reddit and Nextdoor mourning the passage of this building as the end of an era, which is probably the least sympathetic variety of Austin nostalgia but also understandable for a fast food franchise that's occupied the site since 1978 -- some of these people's childhood birthday parties at Peter Pan Mini-Golf ended up here, it seems.
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