[AGL] Monday was nickel beer day

[Gerry]

40 years ago, hmmm, seems like only yesterday. I heard something about a
sniper on the radio but understood that the ordeal was over. So I drove over
to meet my wife who worked on campus for lunch. As I drove down the narrow
street that led to the Gregory Gym area I saw students cowering up against
buildings and peeking up at the tower from safe positions. Then I saw some
shots glancing off concrete nearby. The wife was OK and we ate inside at a
cafeteria. On the way out I drove rapidly by the space between buildings
where I was briefly exposed to the line of fire. There were cop cars parked
along the campus streets and they were shooting at the tower top.

When I got home (I lived across the street from Pease Park) I took a
portable radio and binoculars outside to a good vantage point and
listened/watched the tower. Couldn't see much but an occasional puff of
smoke. Eventually there was one grand fusillade with much smoke and noise as
the cops charged Charlie and put an end to it all. What a trip! It will
forever be "The Whitman Tower" to me.
G


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele at ando.pair.com>
To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"
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Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 6:45 AM
Subject: Re: [AGL] Monday was nickel beer day


> Slight correction: Longnecks at Scholz' were 40 cents then.
>
> We missed the hole thang, drat!
>
> We were in Italy on our honeymoon and stopped
> for coffee on the Autostrada, the newspapers in the
> newspaper rack read FOLLE EX-MARINE TUE 15,
> looking a little closer we read Austin Texas. Holy Shit!
>
> Bill Helmer our local gun nut said he had to run as fast
> as he could TOWARDS the tower and was lucky enough
> to catch some of the action
>
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harry Edwards" <laughingwolf at ev1.net>
> To: "ghetto survivors" <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 7:08 AM
> Subject: [AGL] Monday was nickel beer day
>
>
> > Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Charles Whitman shooting
> > gallery. What some of you might not remember is that that day was also
> > the 100th anniversary of Scholz Garten. To commemorate, Scholz's was
> > offering nickel beer. I rode in from Lake Austin in mid-afternoon to
> > encounter a truly bizarre and chaotic scene at Scholz's. Whitman was
> > dead by then and everyone was trying to somehow deal with the
> > immensity. Suds were being drained at a phenomenal rate by faculty  and
> > students alike. I remember drinking with some art department types, Vic
> > Babu of ceramics, Bill Walsh, sculpture, Jobn Lednicky, metalsmithing.
> > They ran out of tap beer fairly, unprecedented on any  other day.
> > Six-packs were then sold for 30 cents apiece. As most of us know, beer
> > is a sloppy anesthetic, but it was the best we had on August 1, 1966.
> >
> > twisty dodds
> >
> >
>
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