[AGL] Picadilly gone and best forgotten

[michele mason]

YEAH! That's 2 for Fontaine!  mm


On Jul 17, 2010, at 8:52 PM, Fontaine Maverick wrote:


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

>

> 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

>

> 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?

>

> 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.

>

> ----- 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

>

>

> 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

>

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

>

> > 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?

> >>

> >>

> >>

> >>

> >> ________________________________

> >> 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.

> >>>

> >>>

> >>>

> >>>

> >>>

> >>>

> >>> ________________________________

> >>> 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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