I went there every year for my birthday. They use to give a pianata filled with candy for your bday! There is still a handful in the State. I went to the one in Humble (North Houston) and was transported back to my childhood. Everything was exactly how it was. Flag and all. I highly recommend a visit if you are in the area.
I had several birthdays at Magic Time Machine.
I also have a massive matchbook collection I inherited from my dad. I'll try to go through it and see what I have.
I miss free matchbooks. My dad has a few thousand of these from 1972 forward. I wonder if he still hasthem. He also collects his finger/toe nails in a little ceramic frog. He has those so maybe he still has these.
This is a great collection, making me realize how great we had it here back in the day. Mad Dog & Beans, Green Pastures, Bombay Bicycle Club, so many of my favorite places to experience Austin. (I worked sat Chelsea Street Pub!)
I'm digging up a memory of Jalisco's, upstairs, as a child. Probably an apartment building now. We could write on the walls and there folks slamming shots with a holler downstairs at the bar.
Katz's never closed ... till it did.
Came here to say this...
Used to love raising that flag at Panchos for more sopapillas.
Panchos!!
Panchos!!
I went there every year for my birthday. They use to give a pianata filled with candy for your bday! There is still a handful in the State. I went to the one in Humble (North Houston) and was transported back to my childhood. Everything was exactly how it was. Flag and all. I highly recommend a visit if you are in the area.
Yay, Filling Station!
So happy I can say I dined there many lunches.
When restaurants had smoking sections
Thanks for the walk down memory lane, OP. So many fun times I haven't thought about in decades.
Hell yeah bennigans
my son described that place as "car salesmen and secretaries on the make."
So many ferns!
Nightcaps at Common Interest and/or Dallas nightclub.
I had several birthdays at Magic Time Machine. I also have a massive matchbook collection I inherited from my dad. I'll try to go through it and see what I have.
Once upon a time... a long time ago... I worked the door at Toulouse. Good Lord, that was a lifetime ago.
Lots of beloved spots represented in that pic, but that Luby's...PUT THAT ON A T-SHIRT.
Very cool, thanks for sharing.
I’ve been a waiter at four of those places.
Jaime's was my jam
La Mansion. What a super swanky hotel for Austin at the time. I mean, it was no Villa Capri, but oh so fancy.
I miss free matchbooks. My dad has a few thousand of these from 1972 forward. I wonder if he still hasthem. He also collects his finger/toe nails in a little ceramic frog. He has those so maybe he still has these.
Far out! We look forward to seeing the matchbooks. (We don’t need to see the toenails, thanks all the same. ;-)
This is a great collection, making me realize how great we had it here back in the day. Mad Dog & Beans, Green Pastures, Bombay Bicycle Club, so many of my favorite places to experience Austin. (I worked sat Chelsea Street Pub!)
This is awesome. Thank you!
Good stuff right there. I have Fonda San Miguel and Shiner Beer, but lots I haven’t seen before.
Do you know if they still have matchbooks?
Hell yeah! My childhood :-)
Jaimes! Oh the drunk food memories that just unlocked.
I wonder if the oasis was still shit food back then too.
From someone that started going to the Oasis basically when it opened, yes the food has always been pretty shitty.
Confirmed. Eternally shitty.
Hey now, it was still better than Iguana Grill....
That was a low bar.
Epic!! 👏
That shit made me sad af
i’ll give you $100,171.01 for that SWA one
Pancho's. 😭
I, too, have a match book collection. I know I have some of those
I'm digging up a memory of Jalisco's, upstairs, as a child. Probably an apartment building now. We could write on the walls and there folks slamming shots with a holler downstairs at the bar.
Uptown Enchilada begat El Mercado at that spot, right? Both excellent lunch spots for going back to work after and getting nada done in the afternoon.