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Austin Found PodcastEp. 87 She Broke the Good Ol' Boy Network With a SmileJacquelyn McGee - a former star athlete, outstanding teacher, and the first woman to run a large urban high school in Texas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-08-0816 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 86 Zach Theatre at 99The standard history - which Zach has touted and which we have repeated - states that Austin's regional theater was born in 1932. Not so it turns out. According to contemporary stories in newspaper archives now easily available online, what eventually became Zach premiered as the Austin Community Players in 1921. That troupe turned into the Austin Little Theatre in 1927. It took the name Austin Civic Theater in 1949 and Zachary Scott Theater Center in 1967. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-07-2515 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 85 Austin Symphony at 109Among the secrets to the Austin Symphony's longevity: Its fiscal austerity, its capable leadership, and its willingness to disappear for a long period of time. Here we dig into the history of the Austin Symphony and its survival, including the last couple of years of the pandemic and its impact. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-07-1915 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 84 The Neill-Cochran House Museum Pt. 2West Campus-area house constructed by Austin master builder Abner Cook — since 1958, it has been preserved and operated by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Texas. Museum director Rowena Dasch shares with us the history of one of Austin's oldest homes, some stories from a living resident, Mary Cochran Bohls and updates us on the happenings as a museum including a recent discovery that it might include Austin's only intact slave quarters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-07-1135 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 83 The Neill-Cochran House Museum Pt. 1West Campus-area house constructed by Austin master builder Abner Cook — since 1958, it has been preserved and operated by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Texas. Museum director Rowena Dasch shares with us the history of one of Austin's oldest homes, some stories from a living resident, Mary Cochran Bohls and updates us on the happenings as a museum including a recent discovery that it might include Austin's only intact slave quarters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-07-0531 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 82 We Turn the Clock Back 20,000 YearsIn Florence, on the border of Bell and Williamson counties, is the Gault Site, a vast archaeological treasure trove that dates back some 20,000 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-06-2714 min
A 'Bad' SchoolUPDATE: A New DirectionThere's a shakeup at Iroquois' culinary program, which has caused senior Zyrann Hibbitt to reconsider his future plans. And on graduation day, he doesn't seem to be his usual self. Meanwhile, Jefferson County Public Schools is on the brink of making history. Will a new student assignment plan make a difference for "bad" schools like Iroquois?2022-06-2231 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 81 The Lego State CapitolIn August of 2019, Pflugerville residentBen Rollman and a team of Lego enthusiasts arrived at the Texas State Capitol visitors center to deliver a Lego Masterpiece replica of our State Capitol. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-06-2014 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 80 Land, love, work, family and loss made Salt Lick barbecueWe've all been there, love it, and share with pride Salt Lick barbecue with friends visiting Austin. You might be surprised and just how far back it goes and the history and traditions of this hill country landmark. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-06-0714 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 79 Volume 4 of Indelible Austin has arrivedWe are excited to announce that Volume 4 of "Indelible Austin" by Michael Barnes has made it to publication, which is not only great for Austin preservation, but for sharing many great stories in upcoming episodes of Austin Found. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-04-2018 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 78 Iconic Austinite - Lonnie Limón Pt. 2Lonnie Limón could have worked anywhere in the country after graduating from the University of Notre Dame. But eventually, Limón moved to back to Austin, where he is closer to relatives — more than 3,500 of them. The Limóns and the Estradas — the latter is his mother's family — have lived in Central Texas since the late 19th century. More than 100 years ago, some members of the two clans moved into Austin proper, where they labored as cab drivers, shop clerks, and domestic workers before starting businesses and turning out community leaders. The two famil...2022-03-2827 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 77 Iconic Austinite - Lonnie Limón Pt. 1Lonnie Limón could have worked anywhere in the country after graduating from the University of Notre Dame. But eventually, Limón moved to back to Austin, where he is closer to relatives — more than 3,500 of them. The Limóns and the Estradas — the latter is his mother's family — have lived in Central Texas since the late 19th century. More than 100 years ago, some members of the two clans moved into Austin proper, where they labored as cab drivers, shop clerks, and domestic workers before starting businesses and turning out community leaders. The two famil...2022-03-0926 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 76 The Trick to a Fruitful Life - Ramón GalindoOne secret to Galindo's success had nothing to do with sleight of hand. One of the founders of the Mexican-American Chamber of Commerce, founder of Ace Tailors, and downtown landowner, Galindo left quite a footprint in shaping Austin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-02-2712 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 75 An Outlandish PoetRobert Lord was "the somewhat outlandish 'poet' who had a column in the Austin American Statesman back in the late 1960s and early '70s. Google has not turned up anything on this man. Interviewing Statesman colleagues from that era turned up nothing. Who was this mystery poet? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-02-1610 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 74 Iconic Austinite - Shannon Sedwick - Esther's Follies Pt. 2Co-founder and performer since the very begging of Esther's Follies unique sketch comedy troupe, Shannon Sedwick joins Austin Found to share their story. You might also be surprised at how many iconic places she has been a part of, including Liberty Lunch and The Tavern. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-02-0420 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 73 Iconic Austinite - Shannon Sedwick - Esther's Follies Pt. 1Co-founder and performer since the very begging of Esther's Follies unique sketch comedy troupe, Shannon Sedwick joins Austin Found to share their story. You might also be surprised at how many iconic places she has been a part of, including Liberty Lunch and The Tavern. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-01-2421 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 72 LBJ's Congressman and JudgeDid you know that exactly one native Austinite was nominated for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court? And not that long ago, historically speaking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-01-1711 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 71 Austin before IBMDuring the early 1960s, before the arrival of IBM in 1967, the entire workforce in Travis County hovered around 80,000. Today, the tech industry alone employs more than 120,000 workers in Central Texas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-01-0218 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 70 Iconic Austinites - Harrison Eppright pt. 2Manager of Visitor Services/Tour Ambassador at Visit Austin, Harrison discusses growing up in East Austin and shares his passion for Austin architecture and it's history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-12-1928 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 69 Iconic Austinites - Harrison Eppright pt. 1Manager of Visitor Services/Tour Ambassador at Visit Austin, Harrison discusses growing up in East Austin and shares his passion for Austin architecture and it's history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-11-2834 minA 'Bad' School6: The QuestionIs Louisville ready — and willing — to change the way it treats its "bad" schools?2021-11-1732 minA 'Bad' School5: 'I Am Iroquois'At the school year's end, an unexpected loss hits Iroquois High School. Note: This episode includes profanity and descriptions of violent acts. It may not be suitable for younger listeners. 2021-11-1032 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 68 The Klan was not always undergroundThe Ku Klux Klan has emblazoned a long historical scar on Texas. At one point during the 1920s, the group was almost a daily fact of life. It took an effort by crusaders such as future Texas Gov. Dan Moody to quell the tide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-11-0816 minA 'Bad' School4: What 'Good' Looks LikeInside duPont Manual High School, things are far from perfect. Note: This episode involves discussions about mental health, including suicide. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a hotline for individuals in crisis or for those looking to help someone else. To speak with a certified listener, call 1-800-273-8255. The Crisis Text Line is also available for emotional crisis support. To speak with a trained listener, text HELLO to 741741. Both services are free, available 24/7, and confidential.2021-11-0336 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 67 Lighting the Tree for Over 50 YearsAccording to a 1967 article, the Zilker Christmas Tree was concieved by Mrs. Alden Davis, special chairwoman of Yule Fest, which, along with Trail of Lights, celebrated its 50th in 2014. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-10-2719 minA 'Bad' School3: The OutsideGun violence was already a problem for Iroquois. Then, the pandemic hit. Note: This episode involves discussions about mental health, including suicide. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a hotline for individuals in crisis or for those looking to help someone else. To speak with a certified listener, call 1-800-273-8255. The Crisis Text Line is also available for emotional crisis support. To speak with a trained listener, text HELLO to 741741. Both services are free, available 24/7, and confidential.2021-10-2732 minA 'Bad' School2: Culture ShockIn 1970s Louisville, school integration was working. That was the problem.2021-10-2031 minA 'Bad' School1: The 'Dirty I'For every "bad" school, there's a "good" one.2021-10-2027 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 66 Over 50 Years of High StandardsKMFA, which is not over 50 years old, was built on high standards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-10-1814 minA 'Bad' SchoolIntroducing — A 'Bad' School PodcastComing to a platform near you, Oct. 20!2021-10-0903 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 65 An Austin Gallery since 1993Stephen L. Clark Gallery, a story that reaches back to 1993. Clark, former owner of the Waterloo Ice House group, opened the spot that pulls together so many strands of Austin Culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-10-0714 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 64 Biggest of the Big TimeA populist palace from the beginning, the Paramount was the biggest of big-time venues in Austin, at least from 1915 until late in the 20th century. As the theater has since passed 100 years old, it is crucial to recall that the grande dame of Congress Avenue--frequented by all social and economic classes, although in segregated seating for its first 50 years--hosted some of the top showbiz names. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-09-2119 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 63 Murder, Suicide, and a Historic Juror"Virgil Oliver---first Negro in the South to serve on a jury." Could that possibly be true? Did Austin play such a dramatic role in the struggle for civil rights? Well, yes and no. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-09-1313 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 62 Josefina Zamarripa, mother of 14, raised her children while advocating for East AustinA little over a month after they said goodbye to their mother, 10 of the Zamarripa children gathered in their childhood home on Tillery Street. Now in their 50s, 60s and 70s, they showed two guests the spots in the house that made family history. One sibling might disagree with another, but with so many eyewitnesses to that history, a shared narrative emerges. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-08-2517 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 61 Meet Mary Arnold, the godmother of Austin's green movementAlong with allies such as Shudde Fath, Roberta Crenshaw, Dorothy Richter, Scotty Sayers, Ben Crenshaw, Bill Bunch and others, Arnold showed that steady, smart and well-informed environmental and neighborhood activism can change the city forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-08-1617 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 60 Faith Kept for 150 YearsThe legacy of an Austin church. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-07-2013 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 59 The birth, growth and history of LakewaySurprisingly, Lakeway has been well documenting and preserving it's short history. A west Austin hotbed for retiree's and now young prosperous families, we give you a brief history of Lakeway, Tx. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-07-1413 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 58 Iconic Austinites - Eddie Wilson Pt. 2Eddie Wilson was the founder of the legiondary Armadillo World Headquarters that shaped Austin as a music town. After AWH he purchased Threadgill's which continued the music heritage of our city. We run through a listener submitted list of great Austin restaurants that are now gone and gather Eddie's thoughts and memories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-07-0728 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 57 Iconic Austinites - Eddie Wilson Pt. 1Eddie Wilson was the founder of the legiondary Armadillo World Headquarters that shaped Austin as a music town. After AWH he purchased Threadgill's which continued the music heritage of our city. We run through a listener submitted list of great Austin restaurants that are now gone and gather Eddie's thoughts and memories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-06-2834 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 56 Life Down at the Poor FarmWhat we know know as Tarrytown was once a poor farm in the late 1800's. It was for paupers, convicts, and farmhands, some looking for work, some looking for food in tough times. It was even used for some criminals to pay off debt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-06-1012 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 55 No, It's the Heat!As much as we love Austin, dealing and adjusting to the heat is a very real consideration, especially with so many moving here. Can you handle it? Not sure? Give this a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-06-0212 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 54 The Mystery of the Downtown Castle on the HillThis Victorian mansion, known as Chateau Bellevue, is home to the Austin Woman's Club, formed by female leaders in the 1920's. However, not the only castlelike structure in Austin, we explore more in the Austin surroundings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-05-2213 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 53 Sex, Drugs, and JazzBetween World War 1 and the Great Depression, the Jazz Age picked up where Guy Town's vices left off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-05-0321 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 52 Recent passing of iconic Austinites that shaped our city and cultureTeresa Lozano Long, major philanthropist, longtime educator and community leader, died at age 92. Austin civil rights pioneer, school namesake, church co-founder, business leader and lifelong educator Bertha Sadler Means died at age 100. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-04-2218 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 51 What happened to the Native Americans in Texas?Texas is home to just three surviving small reservations, two of which, the Alabama-Coushatta in East Texas and the Kickapoo on the Rio Grande, were set aside for immigrant Native Americans, meaning the remnants of tribes what were forced into Texas from their original homelands in the eastern United States What happened, then, to the Caddos, Comanches, Wichitas, Kiowas, Apaches, Karankawas, Tonkawas, Coahuiltecans, Jumanos and other indigenous Texas tribes? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-04-1518 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 50 The Vietnam War Split Austin Wide OpenDuring the 1960's, Austinites, found themselves in a unique position. Many remained loyal to the man who had served as their congressman, senator, vice president and president. Others, played a part in the local protest movement against the war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-04-0212 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 49 Two of Austin's oldest housesYou know one — the French Legation — as the “oldest house in town.” Locals and tourists love this Creole-style home that rests on a steep crest; it was built for Alphonse Dubois de Saligny, France’s chargé d’affaires to the new Republic of Texas. You are probably familiar with the other handsome house — Boggy Creek Farm — because of its organic foodstuffs rather than its history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-03-2617 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 48 “Forty Years of East Austin Evolution” about Black East Austin newspaperAustin leaders wanted more integration in the 60’s and didn’t know where to find black owned business and started a black registry. In 1973, the Villager was born. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-03-1812 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 47 ‘A natural-born progressive’: Enter the modernist world of Texas Black architect John S. ChaseAny alert observer passing along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near Chestnut Avenue in East Austin inevitably notices two revolutionary sites. One is the David Chapel Missionary Baptist Church with its dramatically escalating roofline, color-block windows and soaring modernist steeple. The other is the radically geometrical and cantilevered residence located a bit to the east of the landmark church at MLK and Maple Avenue known as the Phillips House. John Saunders Chase Jr. — the first licensed Black architect in Texas and, in 1952, the first African American to graduate from University of Texas’ School of Architecture — designed all three strik...2021-03-1420 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 46 A Holy Land, Deaf Smith and the Texas School for the DeafThe story of Deaf Smith, a war hero and the fight to preserve the Texas School for the Deaf, the oldest continuously operated school in the state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-03-0216 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 45 Ballet at the Armadillo World HeadquartersYou've heard the stories of the legendary Armadillo, where hippies and rednecks co-mingled... oh, and ballet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-02-1916 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 44 116 Years of German-Austin Music. The Saengerrunde HallGerman settlers in Austin formed a traditional singing group as early as 1852. The tradition continues today at the Saengerrunde Hall at 1607 San Jacinto Street, adjacent to Scholtz Garden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-02-1018 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 43 Closing up shop. The Frisco ShopKnown for comfort food such as beef tips, chicken-fried stea, chicken and dumplings, and icebox pie, the Frisco Shop was part of the Night Hawk chain, which Harry Akin, mayor of Austin from 1967 to 1969, started in 1932. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-02-0212 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 42 How did 2.8 Million trees get planted around Austin?During the past 30 years, TreeFolks has set down more than 2.8 million trees in the Austin area. Tree Folks now works with a 1.2 Million dollar annual budget planting trees around Austin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-01-2517 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 41 Secrets of the Buford TowerThe Buford Tower conceals three secrets. The graceful, six-story Italianate structure poised above Lady Bird Lake is a fire tower without any fires to fight and a bell tower without any real bells. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-01-1910 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 40 From golf to racehorses: The many lives of Austinite Walter Benson, 103Over the course of more than a century, Austinites have known Benson as many things. Among them: adventurous youth, World War II veteran, textbook publisher, thoroughbred breeder and polished social dancer. Yet it has been his legendary golf game that has followed Benson through much of his life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-01-0917 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 39 Austin activist Shudde Fath over 100: A life well spentSome citizens are honored merely for reaching the centennial mark. The Bastrop-born-and-reared Shudde Bess Bryson Fath has been spearheading causes for more than half her life, even before the fire station plan sparked her public outrage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-12-2914 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 38 Sam the Space MonkeyLittle-known fact: One of the earliest space travelers from Earth was an Austin Native. Sam the Space Monkey was born in 1957 at the Balcones Research Center. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-12-2110 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 37 17 parties that altered AustinWe look back at parties that altered our fair city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-12-1427 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 36 Why no Gayborhoods in Austin?Austin doesn't have--never had--a true "gayborhood," defined as a district with a high density of LGBT residents, businesses, and street life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-12-0713 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 35 The Watercolors of AustinA watercolor portrait of Austin's landscape would start with a green wash. Then add splashes of white (limestone) and blue (creeks, rivers, and lakes). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-11-3019 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 34 Making Guitars for the GreatsMark 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-11-2311 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 33 Unlocking West Austin HistoryWhen 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-11-1622 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 32 Texans love their H.E.B.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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-11-0920 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 31 Before the Bombings of 2018For 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-11-0218 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 30 A golden age: When concert poster art explained Austin musicAustin’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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-10-2217 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 29 Austin Aqua Festival 1962-1998Started 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-10-0719 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 28 An Orphanage for African Americans. St. John's NeighborhoodYou'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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-09-2413 min
Austin Found PodcastEp 27 Changing faces of the TonkawaYou always hear about the Comanches, but the Tonkawa’s were a big part of Austin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-09-1814 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 26 Did you know that the world’s oldest Lion’s Club is in Austin?What was the Lions club in Austin and how it shaped some places and things we are familiar with today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-09-0813 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 25 Reborn Green PasturesBuilt in 1895 and became a dining spot in 1946 in South Austin just a couple miles south of Downtown, it has been serving dinners and cocktails to Austinites for more than 70 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-09-0113 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 24 Really Underground Austin. A Fallout Shelter in Rollingwood untouchedA Rollingwood resident has preserved an underground nuclear fallout shelter that remained sealed and untouched for 50 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-08-2416 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 23 American Statesman at 150The first edition of what would become the Austin American-Statesman was published 149 years ago today. Over the next year leading to our sesquicentennial, we will periodically look back at the newspaper’s history and its role in Austin’s rise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-08-1014 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 22 The Story behind El Azteca53 years of serving steak a la Mexicana, chicken mole, soft tacos, menudo and barbacoa de cabeza on East 7th St. This is the story of Jorge Guerra and a welcoming East Austin family owned restaurant that was welcoming and shaped and improved this part of East Austin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-08-0614 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 21 The Roles of the Palm SchoolThe Swante Palm School is downtown Austin's historical ghost ship. Most Austinites remain unaware of its past as a Republic of Texas ,Confederate, and United States military base and armory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-07-2716 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 20 How to read Austin Cemeteries"A Cemetery is like a book, you just have to learn how to read it." - Karen Thompson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-07-2024 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 19 Brack gave Austin 133 years of medical serviceThe old City-County center was the first such public hospital in Texas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-07-1320 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 18 The fight over MLK Jr. BoulevardHard to believe now that it took such an effort to rename 19th street Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-07-0713 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 17 The person who discovered the origins of writing lives right here in Austin.Denise Schmandt-Besserat’s theory that it started out with counting still holds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-06-2912 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 16 Where did we eat out 45 years ago in Austin?Turns out there was more than steak, barbecue, Tex-Mex and fried chicken: Austinites were a bit adventurous in the 1970s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-06-2224 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 15 East Avenue was "La Calle Ancha” - where Austin cultures metNow impenetrable Interstate 35, it was a wide, parklike avenue around which white, black, Latino and Asian communities clustered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-06-1512 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 14 Hyde Park was Austin’s first masterplanned suburb.Speedway and streetcars connected this Victorian village to Austin’s center. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-06-0821 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 13 When Waller and Shoal creeks collidedA big storm in 1915 sent waves roaring through the populated canyons of the two creeks, wreaking destruction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-06-0123 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 12 San Antonio was not the only town with Spanish missions. Think Austin.In 1730, three Spanish missions were planted on the Colorado River near what is now Austin. But where? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-05-2615 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 11 It’s not about the chicken fried steakOr is it? Austinites tend to remember the dish at places such as Raw Deal and Texas Tumbleweed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-05-1715 min
Austin Found PodcastEp. 10 Dives and greasy spoons: Stallion Drive Inn and Soap Creek SaloonAustinites cherish their memories of funky old spots for eating, drinking, picking and dancing. Even if the places were less than ideal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-05-1120 min
Austin Found PodcastEp.09: In 1922, twin tornados slammed into AustinThe mystery behind a family cemetery plot in southwest Austin led to riveting stories about a double tornado that hit Austin on May 2, 1922. We also discovered how it affected the Bargley family, which was especially hard hit by this natural disaster that killed 13 people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-04-2709 min
Austin Found PodcastEp.08: Tree rings of Austin growth unite the cityAustinite’s generally divide the city between east and west, or less frequently between north and south. What if, instead, we visualized the city as united by circles of historical growth? We could read our past in these tree rings of building trends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-04-2125 min
Austin Found PodcastEp.07: Six days in April 1964 changed Austin foreverAustin never experienced the race riots or other major racial violence of other American cities in the late 20th century, but its road from segregation to civil rights was marked instead by steady, valiant leadership from some pioneers whose names should be better remembered. They were opposed by some people whose names should be remembered for other, less admirable reasons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-04-1426 min
Austin Found PodcastEp.06: Did you ever think of Austin as a border town?It’s not obvious to the fresh newcomer, but Austin is a border town. It lies on the boundary between the wet farmlands and forests of the East and the dry ranch lands and scrub hills of the West, and a lot of the city’s culture is derived from that contrast, as well as its position between the Catholic and Lutheran South and the Baptist and Methodist North of Texas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-04-0613 min
Austin Found PodcastEp.05: What a character: World War I hero Buck SimpsonYou’ve heard of Sergeant York, the most decorated American veteran of World War I. After all they made a hit movie with Gary Cooper as York. But what about Private “Buck” Simpson, an Austin cedar chopper and the second most decorated American veteran from that war? Turns out, he was a character in a family of Central Texas characters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-03-3017 min
Austin Found PodcastEp.04: The 1918 pandemic that hit Austin in three waves“We’ve been here before. In 1918, city officials shuttered Austin for almost a month during the worst pandemic in modern times. We look at how folks are responding locally to the coronavirus crisis and what they can learn from the past." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-03-1917 min
Austin Found PodcastEp.03: Three cops who navigated Austin’s segregated police forceThere was a time, not long ago, when all African-American police officers in Austin served on a separate and definitely not equal East Austin squad patrolling East 11th and 12th streets, mostly on foot. Officers Mal Wiley, Leonard Flores and Ernie Hinkle all served during the 1950s and ‘60s when Austin was a very different city. And they tell their engrossing police stories from very different perspectives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-03-1721 min
Austin Found PodcastEp.02: 1960s fish kill was our own ’Silent Spring’One of the most spectacular fish kills in history hit the Colorado River in 1961 was traced to an East Austin “insect powder” factory. Green activist Rachel Carson told the basic story in “Silent Spring,” but it has been lost to popular memory even as Austin became an environmental mecca. Until now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2020-03-1116 min