The stretch of Sixth Street running east of Congress Avenue in downtown Austin has enjoyed many colorful lives over the 180-odd years since the city's founding -- periods of boom and bust motivated by surrounding growth and changing transportation systems have taken this street from an enclave of minority-friendly immigrant-owned retail stores all the way to the present bar and entertainment district we've known since roughly the late 1980s, patron to get the full story and gain access to TOWERS' archive. (Sign-in)
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