What was it like here in the 70s??

@@StreetUrchin4Life Amazing and affordable. Great small clubs and a Punk Rock scene that lasted through the 80's.

@@monabonejakon2797 really sounds & looks like a great time, especially in revolution

I went to Austin from Houston on school field trips in the 50s. We traveled from Union Station by train early in the morning, visited the state capital for a tour, and returned home late afternoon. We also did the same tour to San Antonio to tour the Alamo...

@@monabonejakon2797 I remember. Sigh.

You were born the year I moved here from San Antonio, after high school.

glenglo same here

Rondie Rice and now

Would’ve eventually been destroyed to put in an expressway or parking lot

@@Aaronhouston33 Well... my grandchildren would of been wealthy!🤠🤑

Imagine buying property 3 years ago when you wrote that comment! A LOT has changed since then. 2017/18 was the death knell for anything affordable in Austin.

Thank you for pointing that out! Wow! An interesting thing is there may be more green space like that with the I-35 cap and stitch coming up in the next decade.

No no "the wives assistant" smh

DK Giante Oh. Still it’s funny

I know the tree but it looks too close to the capitol

Is it still there? Imagine talking to trees about how they have seen time pass

The TREATY tree is there but mostly ignored because sprawl and big city buildings now block it's view of the river. It is surrounded by ugly shopping and a fence to keep you out. A sad old relic that lives but isn't remembered by today's youth.

Vincent, lol I’m all the way in Jarrell now! Raised in Austin in the 70s. Sigh. Spent my childhood in Zilker Park. Tried to raise my daughter there too, but could no longer swing it. Sad 😢 But we love to visit when we can.

@@nomore1980dumb comment

@@nomore1980 How IGNORANT and RACSIT of you ur the reason why people are so culturally divided in the city with that ideology

Youluvimani the black people are the real racists, I'm just saying something in response. Just pay attention to sometime what the results of a large white group vs a large black groups, interacting and how littered the area gets.

@@Youluvimani You are one to talk!! You post antisemitic and anti israel comments all over youtube. Hypocrisy.

Relative statement, coming from the east coast... people are way nicer here.

Noticed when he talked about the segregated churches of black and white and not once did you see an African American in the film, because of the laws put in place in to separate people of color back then… so it wasn’t a shining city for everyone not for the people who’s life’s were harder just because of the color of their skin

@@josuevaldez2247 yes, indeed. Until the civil rights era, blacks were only allowed to own properties on the east side. At the time of this filming, a man named Richard Overton was fighting in WW2 and just after the war was over, had a home built for him on Hamilton Ave. He lived in the same home another 70 plus years enjoying a simple life of a delivery driver and state employee, cigars, coffee, whiskey, and lived to be 112.

@@josuevaldez2247 pls.. and what have they given to us by now? Crime, shootings downtown. What a great contribution!

No they did not.

All that ‘equal opportunity’ made it seem bigger than it is.

KitaKat Yikes!

Instead of segregation, they should have been shipped back were they could be happy of no one suppressing them--West Africa.

No More wow, dude.

No More check liberia

@@nomore1980 How else were you to lynch them or steal their labour if you shipped them back?

When I was young and even not so young when in High School, I never dreamed Mount Bonnell would one day be developed......who would wish to live on the side of a hill....I went up Mount Bonnell many times on my motorcycle and later an automobile when it looked just like it did here in this film.....

I loved to visit Barton Springs when I was a kid in 1950s.

@Enmanuel sort of. How quickly things change. Its the first time ive experienced such a rapid and radical one. Ive honestly found it difficult to adjust

@Enmanuel Too true. It isn't Austin anymore. It is a suburb of Los Angeles. It is a wasteland now. There is nothing special about living in Austin. It's all gone now.

I moved here in the 70s and yeah, people were easier to talk to, but I have had this feeling even back then that a lot of groups of people were too full of themselves. That attitude was already here long before now. I never felt like I got noticed, even hanging around a group, and I'm counterculture.

Probably. You didn’t have no I-35, Mopac, 360, or 183 to get around town. North and South Lamar were the only way in and out of town north snd south back then.

Yes , with a lot of horses and buggies .

1943 was too early for that.

1943?!!!

I know lol. Now in Austin you see those girls covered in make up dressed like sluts

My opinion too! That's Betty.

@For Truth they are either in the nursing homes or dead as of 2020. 1943 if they're let's say 16 then by 2020 they should be 93 years old.

Say it again! Not one shot of how the "colored" folk lived. But this is what how they did things back then and now...

@@jeremyjones5140 Did you know west downtown used to be a brown neighborhood before being gentrified and pushed to the other side of the new 35 Highway? Until they decided they wanted that too, And it's all by design years in the making.

Austin is still largely segregated. We need to get rid of I35 and bring the city back together.

That means low crime!

Segregated? Or people stayed w the cultures they were happiest with?

It’s been like that since the 60s. Where have you been?

michele valykeo hi 👋🏼 I’m here. I was born here and still live here. 🤙🏼🤘🏼good day 😘

WAS?

Boo-hoo

​@@anon2143right I have been here for about 5 miserable months and CANT WAIT to be away from the disgusting racist people who reside in this weird bland shithole

​@@anon2143right I have been here for about 5 miserable months and CANT WAIT to be away from the disgusting racist people who reside in this weird bland shithole

I did not have those feelings until I was discriminated for being white by Blacks and all the rest of the mutations

J em60 Mphy Mutations? The first human was black you idiot.

You don't know that? there is no proof the first human was black - that's just a theory.

J em60 Mphy We'll have to disagree on that as DNA evidence has found it to be so but no matter. And then to your same logic, the first humans weren't white as there isn't proof.

J em60 Mphy Number one: the Africans were lied to by the settlers- sure slavery existed in the world. The white Romans practiced it, Mesoamericans, and yes the Africans. This is not a defense but a fact in case you are oblivious to this. In regard to the settlers, the conquered Africans, debtors, criminals, and "disgraced peasants" were sold for weaponry to become INDENTURED SERVANTS like as they were in Africa. They were ignorant to the matter that the whites did not see them as human. Number two, yes the earliest human we have record of being the "first" was found in Africa and after advanced DNA and forensic evidence, was in fact black. You racists can't seem to wrap your heads around this but it's scientific fact. Number 3, where in my comments was I talking about slavery? Black slavery in America was a deplorable part if history but nonetheless a part of it that cannot be forgotten. Forgiven, yes, but forgotten no. Racism is evil; whites aren't the only people who practice it, but for those who defend it deserve the same punishment inflicted onto its victims. Number 4, I'm white you idiotic bum.