[AGL] Austin Lake Estates

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Gerry,

While she was bring up her kids, Paula had a house close in
in West Lake Hills with a pool. Beautiful view of the city. And
lots of good parties there. She was taking a master's in Sociology
at UT and was doing her thesis on police work.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerry" <mesmo at gilanet.com>
To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"
<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: [AGL] Austin Lake Estates



> Mike,

> No, I don't have a photo of the gate. Yes, the estates for a short time

were

> kind of a hippy heaven. But all that changed drastically when the land

> became valuable and near enough the city limits for builders to speculate.

> Paula Sarnoff was one of the first real estate agents to capitalize on the

> area. When I was hanging out there for a time in the late '90's it was

just

> another expensive suburb and most of the hippy pads were either modernized

> and brought up nearer code or destroyed to make way for new construction.

> G

>

> ----- Original Message -----

> From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <mike.eisenstadt at gmail.com>

> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"

> <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 4:43 PM

> Subject: [AGL] Austin Lake Estates

>

>

> > Gerry,

> >

> > Talking of Austin Lake Estates, do

> > you (or does anyone) have a photo of

> > the steel entrance gate with "Austin Lake Estates"

> > in spidery letters written on the gate's arch?

> >

> > For those who have never been there,

> > this was/is a sort of colonia with no

> > building restrictions, hippies welcome,

> > so there were some very odd estates:

> > homebuilt and "alternative" houses.

> >

> > In my mind, the gate was emblematic

> > of what was to be found in Austin Lake

> > Estates, but that might be pure projection

> > on my part.

> >

> > That Willie Nelson lived there when he

> > first moved to Austin was no accident.

> >

> > Mike

> >

>