Above: “Restoration,” mural by Kathy and Lionel Sosa
Once upon a time, I logged a lot of hours at City Hall, sometimes parking on a surface lot behind it. Behind it meaning on the other side of an unrecognizable creek. An ugly footbridge, hemmed in by chained-link fencing, crossed a narrow trash-filled concrete-walled ditch – San Pedro Creek. A place creepy enough to leave me feeling I should pay an extra dollar or two to park in front of City Hall.
Above: 1889 photograph of San Pedro Springs, Austin History Center via Portal to Texas History
Development and insensitive flood-control projects had destroyed what had once been a healthy spring-fed creek.
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