i’m finally getting around to some austin lifestyle pics. just for fun i interspersed them with shots of dancing to Alvin crow and the pleasant valley boys at the broken spoke, one of the few remaining real deal texas honky tonk dance halls. an interesting place. ya’ll enjoy, pardners.

http://www.brokenspokeaustintx.com/

 

 

requisite shot of downtown from south congress

 

 

babe’s owners hanging out on south congress & guero’s taco bar

   

 

 

 

Hey cupcake! Austin’s entry in the urban cupcake bakery craze

http://www.heycupcake.com/austin_cupcake_story.htm

 

 

The mighty allen’s boots western wear shop

http://www.allensboots.com/site/page/pg1736-pn_Cowboy_Boots_and_Western_Wear.html

 

The helpful staff at allen’s is…pretty good

 

 

Bull-riding downtown at the scholz beer garden (it’s the oldest business in texas 1862)

http://www.scholzgarten.net/

 

 

 

 

the missing people on the earlier austin construction thread have been located!  :laugh:

this is downtown around the heart of new development construction along 2nd street

 

 

Mmm mmm.  machaca & mushroom breakfast tacos w/ homemade iced tamarindo, tortillas & salsa at chango’s outside of downtown on south lamar

 

speaking of tacos, here’s a tortilla delivery to taco express -- also on south lamar

 

^new apts next to taco express

 

 

local shops along south congress

 

last time i was here this was a car dealership

 

the early south congress gentrifier -- jo's coffeshop

 

 

out in the ‘burbs -- views over lake travis from the iguana

 

here they are texas two-stepping at the 'spoke

 

still more south congress

 

b*tchin wheels

 

(Colorful delivery vans are my new obsession)

 

fyi -- typical south austin/travis hts neighborhood bungalow style homes

 

lots of free transit via the armadillo trolleys

 

finishing up with more music at the continental club

 

 

toni price -- every tuesday afternoon

 

Free vanity show by jill hennessy of tv’s crossing jordan….of course it sucked.

 

so long from the broken spoke

 

*** that’s what’s up out & around austin***

 

I always dug the vibe of Austin (almost ironically anti-Texas) but I never cared for the city.  Nice shots though!

Good stuff! A lot different flavor from many of the Austin photos we see on the forums.

Nice! I love how Austin really has that liberal vibe, yet still is very much a Texan city.  UT really adds a lot to the town in this regard, I'm guessing.

 

One thing I do like a lot about Texas is that each of the cities have very different feelings to them, and all have different attractions.  San Antonio with the Riverwalk, Alamo, and the Mercado feels very Mexican, Austin's got the hippy vibe, Dallas is pretty down to business and big city, and Houston...well it's Houston. 

The new stuff on South Congress reminds me a lot of the new stuff in Midtown Atlanta.  Fun/cool vibe, but not exactly my idea of urbanism.