Historical Marker Unveiled! Austin's quintessential and best known Historical Music Club was awarded a Historical Marker by the City of Austin August 19th, 2006. The Armadillo World Headquarters was open at the southeast corner of Barton Springs Road and South First Street from August of 1970 through New Years Eve of 1980. During the time it was open, it featured thousands of bands and tens of thousands of musicians, including Willie Nelson, a young Bruce Springsteen, B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan and pretty much anybody else that you could name that was playing and touring in the 1970?s.Read more...
Austin is lucky to have available to us one of the coolest ways to tour the city?by using the Segway personal human transportation device. Remember not so long ago, when it first burst on the scene, proclaimed as ?IT? and promoted as something that was going to be bigger than the internet? Well, it fell short of all that hype, but it is still the coolest way to see downtown Austin and can go anywhere that people are able to walk.
A bit of Deutschland in Austin.
You KNOW that you have seen them driving on downtown streets and floating on Lake Austin, but do you know what those giant-wheeled, awning-topped things full of screaming and singing tourists are doing in our town? Or what the heck they are?
They are the amphibious vehicles known as the Austin Ducks.
When the weather here in Austin turns cold or cloudy, there are many indoor activities available throughout the town and the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum downtown at MLK and Congress is right at the top of fun things to see. It’s not just another boring old dusty museum, it’s the newest museum in Austin and it offers three floors of interactive exhibits that appeal to all ages as well as Austin’s only IMAX Theatre. Physical exhibits and media programs are augmented by recreated environments that bring home the sights, sounds and even the smells of Texas to you as you take the tour.