[AGL] Picadilly gone and best forgotten

[Fontaine Maverick]

It lasted til 2004 when a vegan landlady wouldn't renew the lease.

From the Chronicle:

Holiday House 
For the first time in 50 years, Austin  is without a Holiday House restaurant, 
the family-friendly,  dine-in hamburger joints created by longtime local 
restaurateur Ralph  Moreland. Locations on Barton Springs Road and Airport 
Boulevard  have been closed for quite some time, but the original Tarrytown 
outlet  lasted 50 years at the heart of that West Austin neighborhood. In  
anticipation of losing the lease in the Tarrytown Center, Moreland  opened a new 
Holiday House in West Lake Hills last fall, but the  business didn't survive the 
move and closed recently. Score another kill  for animal activist Jeanne 
Daniels, who inherited the Tarrytown  Center at Windsor and Exposition several 
years ago and has  systematically ousted every business that sold meat products 
from her  property. Repeated efforts to contact Moreland have been unsuccessful,  
but we've heard from Tarrytown residents of all ages who are grieving  the loss 
of a business that was an anchor in their community.





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From: Fontaine Maverick <fontainem at att.net>
To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Sent: Sat, July 17, 2010 6:52:33 PM
Subject: Re: [AGL] Picadilly gone and best forgotten


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




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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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