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This is basically my exact position as a native austinite - personally the transformation was complete for me when Magnolia's on Lake Austin blvd closed. Now i

• fintechjock 4y ago
  Nothing like Magnolia’s after midnight when you’re a high schooler and have nowhere else to go And they shut down the wrong Magnolia’s!
  • 71a54xd 4y ago
    They also used to hire a hippy to do groundskeeping who would come around with a 5gal bucket (painted with dinosaur stencils) and carrying his pet Bearded dragon named Greg. I ran into him one time meeting a business associate at Mags on Saturday. I initially just saw Greg, and exclaimed "wow who's lizard got loose" and this guy just came out of nowhere and said "oh, that's greg we do landscaping around here - he just likes to take in the sun while I pickup leaves" and proceeded to talk my ear off about how we needed to go "solar as a society" and how he disliked Donald Trump. It's by far the most "austin" thing to happen to me in recent memory, incredibly wholesome and positive and it all happened on the side of Mags with the big Limestone pavers in 2019. Good times.