Some 1985 pics (Austin, Liberty: how much, landscaping, bankrupt)

[Trainwreck20]

the Cutting Edge : poison

[hound 109]

Thanks for posting. Great pics of Escovedo (with True Believers). Also the first 4-5 pics (surrounded by kids in the water) were of the fabulous Joe King Carasco (who wasn't listed or mentioned).

Late 70s & early 80s in Austin delivered one crazy gumbo of people & music.

[austinnative69]

For all of you who arrived after CptnRn tore it down, witness Liberty Lunch in all its glory. Did i mention that you could actually park in an old dirt lot off second street for free? Good times....

[Eastcoasting]

Thanks for posting.

I miss being young.

I don't miss being poor however.


The summer of 1985 was between my senior year of HS and the start of college. I worked landscaping 7am-3pm, short order cook 4pm-10pm 5 days a week. Saturday was spent installing carpet anywhere from 6 to 12 hours a day, cash. Sunday was all mine (aside from church and chores)...still managed to go out almost everynight to parties, dates or just waste time in that way that teenagers could.

I don't know how but I think I existed off 4 hours of sleep a night.

[Trainwreck20]

^^That makes you and I the same age, give or take a year . Drinking age was 19 then, btw.....

That summer I scored a job at IBM for $6.80/hr. Anything over 8 hours a day was overtime, as was anything over 40 for the week. Holidays and Sundays were double time, over 55 hours was double time, and second shift was a 10% premium. All those bonuses stacked. I worked two weeks in a row right at 76 hours/week over the 4th of July weekend. I did not know you could get paid so much...then I found out how much Uncle Sam took .

[Eastcoasting]

Originally Posted by Trainwreck20

I did not know you could get paid so much...then I found out how much Uncle Sam took .

Ahhh yes I remember that very first paycheck.

Looking at all the numbers and wondering who FICA was and why he got so much of my money.

[Trainwreck20]

I wasn't so much of a regular at LL as Steamboat. Hey, look at all the 'times they are a changin' angst in this 1999 piece:
The Boat: When Rock & Roll Was Dangerous - Music - The Austin Chronicle

Edit: For a short time, I worked the door at Headliner's East. Had to google it and found this. The picture section has several people I remember from way back then. Looks like the reunion party was actually 10 years ago and the link has just been handing around since then...

http://headlinerseast.com/hep.html

[scm53]

Originally Posted by Trainwreck20

I wasn't so much of a regular at LL as Steamboat. Hey, look at all the 'times they are a changin' angst in this 1999 piece:
The Boat: When Rock & Roll Was Dangerous - Music - The Austin Chronicle

Edit: For a short time, I worked the door at Headliner's East. Had to google it and found this. The picture section has several people I remember from way back then. Looks like the reunion party was actually 10 years ago and the link has just been handing around since then...

Headliners East | Party Details

So you know T Boothe? Were you there for the famous Bradley - Wooley fist fight?

[Trainwreck20]

So you know T Boothe?

More that I knew of Terry and recognized him....he didn't have much to do with a part-time 19 y/o ID checker .

Were you there for the famous Bradley - Wooley fist fight?

That was some years before and I knew nothing about it at the time, only heard about it years later when SOS was in full swing.

For those of you wondering, here is a semi-random Chronicle article that covers them both a bit (Gary Bradley and John Wooley).
Can Lazarus Rise Again? Will Gary "Bankrupt" Bradley live to fight -- and spend -- another day? - News - The Austin Chronicle

Edit: What I do remember is that HE carried corona when it first became available and it was about the hottest drink in the city at the time....

[ScoPro]

1985?

We were working too hard raising a family of three sons who were in high school at that time to afford to attend any frivolous things like concerts & clubs.