[AGL] Monday was nickel beer day

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Slight correction: Longnecks at Scholz' were 40 cents then.

We missed the hole thang, drat! 

We were in Italy on our honeymoon and stopped
for coffee on the Autostrada, the newspapers in the
newspaper rack read FOLLE EX-MARINE TUE 15,
looking a little closer we read Austin Texas. Holy Shit!

Bill Helmer our local gun nut said he had to run as fast
as he could TOWARDS the tower and was lucky enough
to catch some of the action

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harry Edwards" <laughingwolf at ev1.net>
To: "ghetto survivors" <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 7:08 AM
Subject: [AGL] Monday was nickel beer day


> Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Charles Whitman shooting 
> gallery. What some of you might not remember is that that day was also 
> the 100th anniversary of Scholz Garten. To commemorate, Scholz's was 
> offering nickel beer. I rode in from Lake Austin in mid-afternoon to 
> encounter a truly bizarre and chaotic scene at Scholz's. Whitman was 
> dead by then and everyone was trying to somehow deal with the 
> immensity. Suds were being drained at a phenomenal rate by faculty  and 
> students alike. I remember drinking with some art department types, Vic 
> Babu of ceramics, Bill Walsh, sculpture, Jobn Lednicky, metalsmithing. 
> They ran out of tap beer fairly, unprecedented on any  other day. 
> Six-packs were then sold for 30 cents apiece. As most of us know, beer 
> is a sloppy anesthetic, but it was the best we had on August 1, 1966.
> 
> twisty dodds
> 
>