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Showing posts with label Texas Showdown Saloon Austin Texas Bars Bar Beerjoint Beer Joint Honky Tonk Saloon Hang Out Tavern Pub Bar Watering Hole Drinking Establishment Downtown. Show all posts

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Texas Showdown Saloon on Guadalupe by UT in Austin. Once Raul's












Now this is a place that I have been wanting to blog about since before I started. It's a good thing my kegerator ran dry and I was almost out of CO2 or I might not have gotten around to this place for a while. I had already planned to walk over there from the Spiderhouse, twice before because parking is so limited, but I ended up blowing it off for some other joint each time. Not this time, the stars were aligned and I had a great time. I have been to this bar before during the happy fifteen minutes from three to three fifteen in the afternoon and almost everybody has two beers and I think I once had three, when I was on a bicycle and had called in sick to work that day. It is a student, neighborhood, old hippie hangout and it once was the location of the world famous Raul's, a punk club from the 80's. I never liked punk then so I never went there. My tastes have broadened however and I like it now. It's fun, it was always fun but I was too uptight to have fun then. But, I'm having fun now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B44oBqf3gSA click the YouTube video to join me on a tour.