Andrea-- My Mom and I were living in Wimberley when I met my husband!
Tom (my husband) and I have tried to remember the name of the
gallery that closed. It was out on the west loop somewhere in a
strip mall. I think it had been there for 15-16 years or so–but it
was not Clarkesville. We were in there around 2 years ago when I was
checking out galleries in Austin and the clerk said she was sad that
they were closing after 15 or 16 years in business. She was dreading
informing the artists, but said that the Austin economy was so bad.
Also, I am a pharmacist and graduated from UT Austin. At the risk of
one of those tiresome, “Back in my day…” stories, Austin just
doesn’t have much character anymore–mostly chains and no Guadalupe
Street vendors across from the university anymore.
I spent 6 years at UT and now I live near the other UT (University
of Tennessee). I loved being in Austin, but things never seemed to
work out (wrong places at the wrong times). Here in East TN
everything is green and everything falls into place.
Wimberley is still nice but they are now a city, yuck…had to spoil
a good thing…
Sue, I moved to Austin in 1974 for graduate school and ended up
staying for 10 years. It was a wonderful place to live the, and I
still have a whole photo album full of pictures from the People’s
Renaissance Market on Guadalupe across from the University. I’m so
sorry to hear that the vendors are gone. They are the reason that
all these years later I finally started learning to make jewelry. Do
you know what happened, did the city kick them out? They were always
trying to do that in the 70’s.
A non-metalworking friend of mine is looking for a place to relocate
to and since this has also been an occasional wonderment of my own,
I had a link to this website that might be helpful and/or amusing: http://www.findyourspot.com/. I haven’t used the service so I don’t
know what it entails.
Christine in Littleton, Massachusetts
No one deserves lung cancer.
So am I. The Drag (Guadalupe Street) was the heart and soul of The
University of Texas at Austin while I was doing my doctoral work
there in the late '70s. It always seemed strange that the heart of
The University was not on campus, but that was because the
administration did not want students to socialize any more than
necessary for fear of protests during those turbulent years. Some
things improve with age; some things don’t.
Del Pearson
Designs of Eagle Creek in beautiful South Texas where the rain has
been replaced with HEAT.