There used to be a couple of locally-owned restaurants around Austin that were destinations in the sixties and seventies.The original
Night Hawk stood at Riverside and Congress. In Threadgill's downtown some vintage Night Hawk neon flashes hawk wings in the bar.
The Frisco Shop by Night Hawk at Burnet and Koenig survived the demise of the little empire and then was razed to build a chain drugstore. It re-emerged in a
location further north on Burnet serving the
same hamburgers with history.
I seem to recall a Nighthawk at the intersection of 19th(now M.L. King) and Guadalupe streets, right near the U.T. campus. I ate there only once in a while, as an impoverished student I couldn't eat out much.
ReplyDeleteMy father was a carpenter who worked on building that Night Hawk on Guadalupe. Actually, it was a block north of 19th.
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