On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:48:49 -0500, Gae Xavier wrote:

Like Rusty, I was a child of the '60's -- you know, just in diapers at
the Vulcan Gas Company. LOL

The Austin club scene was really great back then but I did not get
much gardening done! Of course I was not supposed to. Vulcan died
early and I heard it was reincarnated as the Armadillo WHQ. I got
into parenting about the time all of these started passing away (i.e.
Soap Creek Saloon) and I have not had time to reintroduce myself to
the newer genre of Austin's night life. But whatever it is today, it
would have a really hard time competing with the period between when I
got here in 1967 and up to say 1978 when I wandered into parenting.

I will mention one place, though, that I continued to frequent up
until it closed circa 1980, the Sugar Shack. It used to be out in
Westlake Hills, say the 3500 block of Bee Caves Rd and was on my route
home from work. It was a combined local meeting place, pool hall,
night club, topless bar, and "no-name band" music scene. You could
stop by for a few beers, flirt with the waitresses, shoot some pool,
listen to some tunes, and talk politics while playing Dominoes with
the local retired cedar choppers.

Not that was Austin Eclectic at it's purist!

Rusty Mase