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>People forget that South Congress was grungy for awhile. When the porn theatre was renovated into office space...who knew that was the turning point.
by clavalle 6y ago
>People forget that South Congress was grungy for awhile.
When the porn theatre was renovated into office space...who knew that was the turning point.
- goodmattg 6y agoMy parents still remember when this happened! For me it was losing Magnolia Cafe at the Lake
- kemitchell 6y agoWhat???
- dfee 6y agoI’ve been gone too long. When did that happen?
- goodmattg 6y agoCOVID. they closed the Lake Austin location. There's still one on Soco
- ghaff 6y agoThis is true of a lot of cities of course. You have 42nd Street in NYC, the Combat Zone in Boston... Through really, people complaining that it's not like the old days either didn't live there then or they're looking back through very rose colored glasses.
- yao420 6y agoCase in point, the old adult theatre the parent is talking about was flush with pimps, prostitutes, and drugs along with the rest of south Congress street. It was not somewhere you would walk during the day, much less at night. Yet people are remembering it fondly.
- clavalle 6y agoOh, let me be clear, I was a teenager when that thing was around. I'm not remembering it fondly...I just remember it and thought it was funny that it was being renovated into an office at the time. If I'm going to remember something fondly it will be the smaller music venues like Liberty Lunch and old Emo's. Honestly...most of the changes are good. More smart people is always good. More VC attention is (mostly) good. Some of the new buildings are good. What I don't appreciate: People that can't stop talking about how awesome SF or NYC is. Cookie cutter condos. People that don't appreciate what they're moving to and trying to get the best parts shut down -- i.e. Don't move to a condo next to a well known live music venue and try to get it shut down or at least quiet after 9 pm. Not cool. Cheap places to live are disappearing for people who don't make a lot of cash. Straining already struggling infrastructure (traffic and water, in particular). Lame cookie-cutter architecture in general being thrown up as quickly as possible. And, generally, bringing bad attitudes into what has been a very chill, very accepting culture. But those are small things, all things considered. Most of the people moving here are smart, cool people that acclimate quickly. To them, I say Welcome! To the others I say...maybe Dallas or Houston would be a better fit.
- todd8 6y agoOh that brings back a memory, I looked at that space just after renovation as a place for our new office.