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Article: CHRISTMAS CARD FROM AUSTIN; 'Tis the Season for Neighborhood Pyrotechnics
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- The Washington Post
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- December 18, 1994
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A lot of individuals still live here on 37th Street at
Guadalupe, a fact never more obvious than at Christmastime.
In one yard, the Christmas lights make a giant peace sign, and
in another, those twinkling orbs are really bowling balls. A
motorcycle drips with purple lights, a hedge is trimmed to look like
a car, and Elvis and the Madonna stare down like a holiday king and
queen from an upstairs room.
It is common nowadays for longtimers to lament the changes in
Austin, its transformation from a friendly, laid-back town where
most of the waiters and waitresses were working on their PhD's to a
computer-chip city of 450,000 that ranks second only to California's
Silicon Valley in the ...