Talking with my friend Casey today we discussed whether anyone in my family was still in Austin. I said we had all moved from there after 1990 and he said "right about the time it changed".
True words were never spoken. Many of the things we associate with Austin now just didn't exist then:
South by Southwest
ACL Music Festival
The Food Scene/ Whole Foods
Dell Computer
Keep Austin Weird
Live Music Capital of the World
Of course, like Silicon Valley, many of the seeds and building blocks were already there with the country music scene of the 70s, the University and the chip makers (IBM, Samsung). Pretty cool to think how it just popped.
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