This is not a complete history of Oak Hill, but it will give you a flavor of how I saw it over the past 50 to 55 years. Please share how you saw and experienced Oak Hill. I originally wrote … Continue reading The Old Oak Hill, Texas
Oak Hill was quite a place in its day. I suppose it’s lost most of it’s charm with all the building and a freeway running through the middle of it. I think of the place it was in the 60s … Continue reading Remembering Oak Hill, Texas in a completely different time
The spring of 1971 found me and my friend Jimmy in Austin one Friday afternoon. Probably for no other reason than hoping to find some excitement. I had a new Chevrolet pickup and we decided a drive down to The Drag. We got as far a 34th street on Guadalupe, heading south when we encountered a red light. A couple of pretty young UT types were in the car in right lane, with us in the left lane. Paying more attention to the girls than to driving, when the light changed as they eased off, so did we. The only … Continue reading Cruising The UT Drag
Travis and Bastrop Counties, and Weatherford, Texas HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) 3/05/2022 — Rocker Steiner may look intimidating in his red leather, but he’s also just a teenager (at the time of this article) on a road trip with his family. If … Continue reading Five Generations Of Steiner’s In The Rodeo Business
I ate many a meal in this place. Back in the 70s and 80s it was always on my way to somewhere. Anyone remembering Austin back then, when mostly all major roads ran north and south, so 38th street was a good cut-across. The day I most remember going there, there was a very special visitor. She was the most petite little thing, just as cute as a button. Accompanying her were several (four I think) big UT Football players. I’m not sure each one was huge, but in her company they seemed even larger than normal. They weren’t far … Continue reading The Marimont Cafeteria
One of my sons (he was about 11 or 12 at the time) and I visited Furr’s Cafeteria on South I-35 at St. Elmo Road in South Austin. This would have been in about 1989. We got our trays and found a table up close to the front door. Within the next few minutes an elderly fellow came in, with someone helping him to carry his tray. He saw me and told the young gal that he’d sit with us. I was delighted to have him. I had known him casually in my younger days and we had even done … Continue reading A Meal At Furr’s Cafeteria
Some of my first cowboy boots were bought at Capitol Saddlery in the late 50s. The sign still remains, even though the business has long since relocated. I think I was told that the location on Lavaca, between 15th and … Continue reading Buck Steiner and Capitol Saddlery
My wife and I moved to Austin in the fall of 1972, after marrying a year earlier. We rented a mobile home just out of Oak Hill, about a mile west of the Y. Life was very simple. She shopped for groceries at HEB, the store at South Congress and Oltorf. That was the nearest larger supermarket to us and the one she enjoyed going to. When I think back to the next 13 years we lived in 3 different locations, all in far South Austin, a real building boom happened. Safeway built at William Cannon at Manchaca Rd., a … Continue reading Austin Really Was An Uncomplicated Place, Once Upon A Time
Early Rodeo Promoter and Ranch Hand on some of the big Ranches. He also went by “Cowboy” and “King“. http://cowboyandarenachampions/ Continue reading Austin F. Doolittle
Angora Chronicles 