The Challenge:
In 38 hours,
I will ride 38 miles a day and along the way:
visit and photograph 38 Austin Landmarks
find and capture 38 examples of Austin's "Weird" Public Art
Stop in to 38 restaurants famous for their tacos, and eat a taco at each one!
Related posts:
The write-up
The final list of events
Map of the challenge
17 comments:
The "How are you?" guy by Daniel Johnson on the drag.
Elsie's breakfast tacos on Burnet
360 Bridge
tamale house #3
enchanted forest
big chicken on johanna st
Landmark: Radio towers in Westlake
Art: 37.5th Street lights at Christmas Time
Taco: Migas Breakfast Tacos at Marias
tacos at the convience store just south of Far West on North Hills next to the HEB. great verde sauce.
sculpture - at house, maybe Harris blvd and W 30th St, west side of the street. you past it on a bike hash last summer.
Taco: taco village at 51st and 35. Beef taco on soft corn
Landmark: Mount Barker, Brightleaf park
Art: pemberton hights off Mopac (sign for mopac access). The house and yard is art
Mi Madre and or El Chilito both on Manor about a blcok apart. Whatever looks good to you.
I'm a migas taco lover too but how many of them can you eat?
art...a Great neon sign...a crescent moon being peeled out of a banana peel on the entry ofg a house at 29th and the corner of the Breed's parking lot
landmark would be ToyJoy - corner of 29th and Guad
Hole in the Wall
lost music landmarks:
CSC- Liberty Lunch
Ecomat/I heart video - Antones
Threadgills - was Armadillo World Headquarters
Showdown - was Rauls
4th & Colorado - Club Foot
UT Tower
UT South mall George Washington view from behind
moomlight towers
austin nature center
umlauf
botanical gardens
sculpture falls
twin falls
campbell's hole
Austin State Cemetary
Austin Motel
weird art: statue of Liberty and map in front yard on east manor - I'll check
Broken Spoke
Cathedral of Junk:
4422 Lareina Drive, Austin, TX
Dart Bowl
5700 Grover Ave.
Ginny's Little Longhorn - 5434 Burnet
KOOP Radio
Esther's Follies
La La's Little Nugget
My favorites are:
Polvos-spinach, egg and cheese
Taco Deli- "Cowboy"
Changos for tacos
Mount Bonnell
Laguna Gloria
We're home and thought of some more landmarks to add to our previous comments:
We mentioned the Riverside Threadgills earlier as the former Armadillo Headquarters. We just found out that it is also the resting place of the Terminix bug (Austin's traveling landmark)
Locations of the moonlight towers are listed here http://austin.about.com/library/weekly/aa110300b.htm
French Legation Museum, 802 San Marcos St (7th and I35)
Continental Club
Wheatsville Coop
Cheapo Discs - site of the original Whole Foods 10th & Lamar (the very first one)
Peter Pan Miniature Golf - Barton Springs Rd
Nau's Enfield Drugs - W. 12th at West Lynn
Sphinx on texas yard art at 2400 east MLK
Pink Flamingos -360 and Bee Caves (not sure if they are still there but there was battle over them years ago between the Weird Westlakers and the more pretentious ones - Pro-flamingos won)
Hyde Park Bar and Grill fork with changing food
Oh and Janis Joplin used to sing at the original Threadgills on Lamar.
We listed the statue of Liberty yard art on manor earlier, but I found it in a Chronicle poll and it's on MLK along with the Sphinx:
Best Yard Art: Ira Poole's Yard
Chances are Ira Poole has probably had more people stop at his home wondering if he was selling cemetery memorials rather than asking for a tour of his mini-lawn museum. It's just too unbelievable that some guy would have: a 900 lb. concrete sphinx sitting on a raised slab of Texas, a replica of the Statue of Liberty, a fountain, a 3-dimensional granite map of the U.S. and Mexico, and another smaller map of Texas with a yellow rose bush growing, yes, in the "heart" of it. Stop and ask him for a tour. Or just drive by on your way to the airport as the final attraction for your houseguests.
2400 E. Martin Luther King Blvd.
HEY! One of the best breakfast tacos I've ever eaten was at Live Oak Market on Manchaca (at 71).
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