The Wrong Side of the Street

What you see here is basically all I saw up and down South Lamar (is it SOLA now?) twenty years ago when I first moved to Austin. Look at the post on "the right side of the street" to see the future. All the structures and businesses in theis posts will be gone in ten years or quicker. Maybe not all. And I've got future posts about the stuff that will probably stick around. Iconic places. But most of  the regular businesses you see here are not iconic or beloved enough to warrant saving. And the big names like Torchy's and Kerby Lane can just move to another spot or get incorporated into the new condo model. I'm not sure it's going to work. There are a lot of empty business spots or one's with few customers connected to these monstrous nouveau apartments. It's not that the old businesses were doing great either. I'm not a fan of consumer capitalism no matter how it looks or is organized geographically in the modern urban environment.