@HeathAllyn Yep, and now you have me thinking of who all lived in this tiny condo unit (originally an apartment) over the past 50 years. Probably more than a few UT students. Before it was built, what was on this hill in southeast Austin in 1970? Just scrub? E Oltorf and E Ben White ran east toward Montopolis and where SH-71 crossed US-183 to Bergstrom Air Force Base, where B-52 wings drooped. #ATX #History #ATXhistory

“Shudde Bess Bryson Fath, a prolific activist who battled to protect Austin's environment and its energy consumers, died early Friday at age 106.

“…[H]er indefatigable civic activism, often in partnership with her husband, Conrad Fath, … endeared her to generations of Austinites who loved their green city.”

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/local/2022/12/09/austin-activist-shudde-fath-dies-106-years-old-obituary/69715479007/

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In 1904, 118 years ago this month, the first paving of Austin’s Congress Avenue began.

From The Austin Statesman, Tuesday, November 29, 1904, p. 5, c. 3: “Eighty thousand brick have been ordered by Brown & Dabney from the Thurber Brick Company…Present indications point to the laying of the first brick within a week or 10 days at the outside.”

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