Vintage Austin

This Vintage Austin image is of the Butler House. In late 1887, Michael Butler moved his family into this home, designed by his friend from Arkansas, ...

This Vintage Austin photo features the home of John H. Houghton. Born in 1847, Houghton began his career traveling to-and-from the railhead in ...

Photo Credit: Austin History Center, C00123 Photo Credit: Austin History Center THC_06-0027 These Vintage Austin photos feature the Millett Opera ...

Photo Credit: Austin History Center, PICA 00111 This Vintage Austin photos features the 1970 National Water Ski Kite Flying Championship! The 1970 ...

Photo Credit: Austin History Center ASPL_AR-2000-024-040 Today, near Austin’s airport, sits a circular Hilton hotel.  In this Vintage ...

Photo Credit: Austin History Center, PICA06094 & ND-48-A001-01 This Vintage Austin photo from the 1940s includes Jack Knott, Hank Oana, and ...

The ButterKrust Bread facility is seen in this 1949 Vintage Austin photo, located at 3rd and Lamar along the railroad tracks, near the Colorado River....

​This Vintage Austin photo is from the ​ceremony to celebrate the completion of the Air Conditioned Village​. I'm not sure what they're demonstrating ...

Photo Credit: Austin History Center, ASPL_AR-Y-005-1761 This Vintage Austin photo from 1935 features Anderson Mill, which you can still visit today. ...

This Vintage Austin photo dates back to 1886. From a 1945 American-Statesman article, George Knight claims to be the boy sitting in the upstairs ...

This undated aerial photo includes Red Bud Trail Bridge, a flooded Red Bud Isle Park, and the Tom Miller Dam.  The dam forms Lake Austin, was ...

The Queen Theater sat at 700 Congress Avenue, now home to The Contemporary.  In 1920, George Littlefield purchased the Queen Theater and the ...

The Avenue B Grocery is seen here in 1975, but the modest grocery has been there much, much longer.  Located in Hyde Park, the grocery opened in ...

This 1907 Vintage Austin photo includes Reasonover's Barber Shop, advertising hot and cold baths for $0.25.  The shop, located in the Driskill ...

The Montopolis Bridge, in east Austin, is seen in this 1934 Vintage Austin photo. In the summer of 1935, flooding destroyed the Montopolis Bridge, ...

This Vintage Austin photo features Austin’s most famous tree, the Treaty Oak. The Treaty Oak is the last surviving live oak of the Council ...

In 1961, drive-ins were all the rage. Pictured in this Vintage Austin photo is the Jet Drive-In, it sat across from Bergstrom Airforce Base (now ...