Vintage Austin

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 ...

This 1916 Vintage Austin photo includes Building 41, the State Arsenal, at Camp Mabry. The building is still there, but looks a bit different because ...

It's been chilly the past few days but at least it hasn't been snow-on-the-Capitol-grounds chilly like in this #VintageAustin photo from 1967....

In this Vintage Austin photo from 1938, we can clearly see Barton Springs Pool, Zilker Park, and several of the park roadways. While the park is how ...

The Alamo Hotel can be seen in this Vintage Austin photo from 1947.  The 80-room hotel opened to the public in 1925 and sat at 6th and Guadalupe....

This Vintage Austin photo features the participants of the Dairy Princess contest of 1959.  Since 1937, June has been designated as National ...

The home of author William Sidney Porter is in this Vintage Austin photo being moved from its original location at 308 East 4th Street to its ...

In 1981, on it’s way to Cape Canaveral to be prepared for its third orbital flight, the space shuttle Columbia made a refueling stop at ...

What would you do for a traffic-less drive on I-35 like in this Vintage Austin photo from the 1960s? Looking north from Riverside Drive, if you look ...

This Vintage Austin from 1883 shows the west wing of UT’s original main building. Construction began in the fall of 1883 and finished in the ...