Look for the Spear, Austin Texas
by John Rogers on Mar.02, 2010, under Austin Texas, HDR, Texas, Texas Buildings, Travel
Austin Texas seems to have an ever changing skyline. I do a fair amount of Austin Stock photography sales so I am always looking for new images. Yesterday the clouds were looking interesting so I decided to do a little walking around downtown looking for photo opportunities. I parked my car on Congress Avenue (the main street in downtown Austin) and this wall was directly in front of me. I’m not sure why I had never noticed it before, but it was calling my name. I particularly like the juxtaposition of the ‘spear like’ Frost Bank building as though it’s providing an alternate answer to the message on the building.
February 15th, 2012 on 5:10 am
Found the photo in a Google image search; great work! I’m glad somebody documented this when it happened, as it is of course gone now forever in favor of new growth. The only other photo I know of is from KLBJ am’s website and it’s in black and white.
I love old ads, especially the bits of old Austin still around in this day and age and this is a rare treat. Now if only someone could recover one of those old LBJ murals I’d die happy.