Austin Found Podcast

We look back at parties that altered our fair city.

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Austin doesn't have--never had--a true "gayborhood," defined as a district with a high density of LGBT residents, businesses, and street life.

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A watercolor portrait of Austin's landscape would start with a green wash. Then add splashes of white (limestone) and blue (creeks, rivers, and lakes).

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Mark Erlewine is known in Austin and elsewhere as a master of making and repairing guitars. He has created or repaired guitars for Jerry Garcia, Albert King, an dOtis Rush. He has created or repaired custom guitars as well for John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Elvis Costello, Bo Diddley, Johnny Winter, Joe Walsh, John Fogerty, Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson.

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When did the Shaw-Pease sale take place? Folklore- along with some surviving newspaper articles and other sources- tell us that Gov. Shivers took possession of Woodlawn from the Pease family and moved in exactly 100 years after the Pease family. Hmmm. Not so fast. 

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H.E.B. is celebrating 80+ years of selling food in the Texas capital. With two dozen stores in the area, H.E.B. has earned about 60+ percent of the grocery market in Austin. We've gathered dozens of facts, history, and did-ya-knows about one of Texas' iconic brands.

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For a place with a reasonable reputation for public safety, the Austin area has produced some of the most traumatic and sensationally reported crimes in American history. 

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Austin’s music posters — especially the psychedelic ones that promoted shows at Vulcan Gas Company, Armadillo World Headquarters and other venues — resembled some of the posters produced in San Francisco at the time. 

Some of the most rudimentary pen-and-ink techniques were used in part because they were the least expensive methods at the time and the most easily reproduced.

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Started by the Chamber of Commerce In 1962, Austin Aqua Festival, long before the advent of South by Southwest (1987) or the Austin City Limits Music Festival (2002), it included parades down Congress Avenue and on Town Lake, boating races and skiing showcases, beauty contests and decorated floats, community games and fishing contests, wandering entertainers and craft sellers, food booths and nightly concerts.

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You've seen St. John's street just off I-35. There was once an orphanage for African Americans and host to the St. John's encampments and the St. John's circuit.

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