[AGL] Picadilly gone and best forgotten

[Fontaine Maverick]

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From: michele mason <m_11 at att.net>
To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Sent: Sun, July 18, 2010 3:41:01 PM
Subject: Re: [AGL] Picadilly gone and best forgotten

WOW WOMAN When you're hot & so on.  mm



On Jul 17, 2010, at 8:59 PM, Fontaine Maverick wrote:

It lasted til 2004 when a vegan landlady wouldn't renew the lease.

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>From the Chronicle:

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>Holiday House

>For the first time in 50 years, Austin is without a Holiday House restaurant, 

>the family-friendly, dine-in hamburger joints created by longtime local 

>restaurateur Ralph Moreland. Locations on Barton Springs Road and Airport 

>Boulevard have been closed for quite some time, but the original Tarrytown 

>outlet lasted 50 years at the heart of that West Austin neighborhood. In 

>anticipation of losing the lease in the Tarrytown Center, Moreland opened a new 

>Holiday House in West Lake Hills last fall, but the business didn't survive the 

>move and closed recently. Score another kill for animal activist Jeanne Daniels, 

>who inherited the Tarrytown Center at Windsor and Exposition several years ago 

>and has systematically ousted every business that sold meat products from her 

>property. Repeated efforts to contact Moreland have been unsuccessful, but we've 

>heard from Tarrytown residents of all ages who are grieving the loss of a 

>business that was an anchor in their community.

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From: Fontaine Maverick <fontainem at att.net>

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

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

>Sent: Sat, July 17, 2010 6:52:33 PM

>Subject: Re: [AGL] Picadilly gone and best forgotten

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>Holiday House! There's an Eye-talian place there now called Vinny's. 

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

>To: Michele Mason <m_11 at att.net>; survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto 

>Daze in the 60s <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

>Sent: Sat, July 17, 2010 1:35:47 PM

>Subject: Re: [AGL] Picadilly gone and best forgotten

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>i forgot the plants. werent there plants on the divider between

>the line for the food and the tables to eat it at? unhappy dark

>green stunted plants?

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>whereas at the burger joint chain on the drag and on barton

>springs rd (or riverside), there were fish tanks and live birds

>respectively. they even had a small alligator in a tiny pond at

>the south austin branch but some frat rats stole it i was told.

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

>From: "michele mason" <m_11 at att.net>

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

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

>Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 1:29 PM

>Subject: Re: [AGL] Picadilly gone and best forgotten

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>Of course, I was a child, but I loved it. I remember the tile, but

>when I was here, there were lots of plants and the food was more like

>down home  and the seats were so comfortable and they weren't stingy

>with the ac. Maybe you knew it better in its dying days. Those were

>pies and cakes from scratch—came straight out the kitchen. Those

>ladies in the kitchen knew what they  were doin' dawg. You musta

>missed the good times. mm

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>On Jul 17, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Michael Eisenstadt wrote:

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>> yes. and what a dreary place it was. think white tile.

>> the chipotle on the other hand is a vast improvement

>> visually and gastronomically.

>>

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

>> From: "Fontaine Maverick" <fontainem at att.net>

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

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

>> Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 11:55 AM

>> Subject: Re: [AGL] Theater stand-ins in Austin 1961 or so

>>

>>

>>> was that the picadilly?

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>>> ________________________________

>>> 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: Sat, July 17, 2010 9:51:19 AM

>>> Subject: Re: [AGL] Theater stand-ins in Austin 1961 or so

>>>

>>> What was the name of the cafeteria on Congress & 9th

>>> (where Chipotle is now)? It was a chain headquartered

>>> in Louisiana and was segrated until the Civil Rights act

>>> was passed. I don't remember it being picketed but maybe

>>> it was.

>>>

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

>>> From: "Fontaine Maverick" <fontainem at att.net>

>>> To: "Frances Morey" <frances_morey at yahoo.com>; "survivors'

>>> reminiscences

>>> about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s" <austin-ghetto-

>>> list at pairlist.net>

>>> Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 8:34 AM

>>> Subject: Re: [AGL] Theater stand-ins in Austin 1961 or so

>>>

>>>

>>>> This is interesting. I hadn't remembered that about the Night

>>>> Hawk. In

>> the

>>> sixth

>>>> grade (58?), I went to Woolworth's for grilled cheese before the

>>>> movie

>> at

>>> the

>>>> Paramount or State & didn't even notice that neither was

>>>> integrated. As

>> a

>>> 12

>>>> year old from San Antonio, I was blissfully unaware of the "colored

>> only"

>>>> restrooms on the outskirts of Austin. Took a greyhound down to

>>>> Lockhart

>> to

>>> see

>>>> my recently transplanted best friend and was shocked to see one as I

>> gazed

>>> out

>>>> of the bus. Woke me the hell up. It wasn't much later that my mom

>> started

>>> taking

>>>> me to the Varsity stand-ins.

>>>>

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>>>> ________________________________

>>>> From: Frances Morey <Frances_Morey at yahoo.com>

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

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

>>>> Sent: Sat, July 17, 2010 12:36:59 AM

>>>> Subject: Re: [AGL] Theater stand-ins in Austin 1961 or so

>>>>

>>>>

>>>> Harry Akins as mayor had a meeting with the other restaurant

>>>> owners and

>>> told

>>>> them that if they all integrate their facilities at the same time

>>>> then

>>> there

>>>> would be no grounds for singling out any one of them to effectively

>>> boycott over

>>>> the issue. They saw the logic of that and the public accommodations

>>> ordinance

>>>> passed and the restaurants were integrated overnight. That's the

>>>> story I

>>>> remember.

>>>> Best,

>>>> Frances

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>

>>>> ________________________________

>>>> 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: Fri, July 16, 2010 4:27:06 PM

>>>> Subject: Re: [AGL] Theater stand-ins in Austin 1961 or so

>>>>

>>>> I arrived in Austin only in 1963. I do remember participating in

>>>> a protest at a gas station on the drag which did not serve

>>>> African-Americans. At that time Harry Akins' Night Hawk

>>>> restaurants were the ONLY integrated restaurants. The

>>>> next year, spring 1964, the City Council considered but

>>>> did not pass an equal access ordinance. Their excuse was

>>>> that Congress was working on Civil Rights laws which indeed

>>>> were passed that year, forced through Congress by then

>>>> Pres. LBJ.

>>>>

>>>> Mike eisenstadt

>>>>

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

>>>> From: "Jim McCulloch" <mcculloch at mail.utexas.edu>

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

>>>> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 10:39 PM

>>>> Subject: [AGL] Theater stand-ins in Austin 1961 or  so

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>> Chandler Davidson is arranging a reunion in December of people who

>>>>> participated in the standins.  Some members of the list may have

>>>>> participated, and if Chandler has not  contacted you and you

>>>>> would be

>>>>> interested in such a reunion, you can reach Chandler at

>>>>> fcd at rice.edu

>>>>>

>>>>> As I understand it, the reunion would be in Austin.

>>>>>

>>>>> --Jim McCulloch

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