‘Austin Trivia’ Posts
Nov
23
2010
Austin has always been weird. Hex rally began in 1941.
It was 1941, and the Longhorn football team had not beaten the Aggies at Kyle field for many years.
UT students asked Madam Agusta Hipple for help. She put a curse on the Aggies and told the students to burn red candles. Austinites burned candles all over town throughout Thanksgiving week. All the stores ran out of red candles.
The [...]
Austin has always been weird. Hex rally began in 1941.
Nov
16
2010
VY Steakhouse is nice, needs a few tweaks
Bevo, coated in shiny pennies, greets you in the foyer. There’s plenty of space so you can take pictures of the whole gang with him. The interior is bathed in a sea of burnt orange, but they pull it off without looking like a sports bar. Turn the corner into the main dining area and [...]
VY Steakhouse is nice, needs a few tweaks
Oct
1
2010
Top 5 things about being in Longhorn Band.
Nope, it’s not the standing ovations in Memorial Stadium AND on the road. Free entry to every game? Those things are nice, but here are best things about being in the Longhorn Band:
1. The traditional pre-game BBQ.
2. You can come back any year and march at Alumni Band Day, no matter how old you get.
3. [...]
Top 5 things about being in Longhorn Band.
Sep
29
2010
When you overhear tourists, and they have the info wrong, do you tell em? Man tells wife current Whole Foods was the orginal. The real story…
John Mackey and his partners opened the first Whole Foods Market on September 20, 1980 with 19 employees. The store was located on North Lamar about six blocks north and on the opposite side of Lamar from the current flagship location.
On Memorial Day in 1981, the worst flood in 70 years devastated the city [...]