Category Archives: Places

Copyright 2011-2022 Susan Burneson. All rights reserved. Kindly talk with us before reproducing any content you find on the website. Updated in 2016 For the next five weeks, the blog focuses on the often-dry creek east of Brentwood Elementary and Brentwood Park. Some call the creek Arroyo Seco or Arroyo Seca. I discovered it also has other names. In 2003, I began researching neighborhood history. I was surprised to discover maps, including a recent one … Read more

If you haven’t yet seen it, we invite you to take a look at a film we made, We Planted 115 Trees, which documents the inspiring Friends of Brentwood Park project in November 2010. There’s a separate clip about the donors and honorees of 15 trees dedicated in the park. FOBP is the latest in a long line of individuals and groups who have helped maintain our park over the past 60 years. Long before … Read more

In 1940, Al Kirby moved with his parents and brother to a farm on North Street, between West 49th and North Loop. Back then, North Street was outside the Austin city limits. Now it’s part of the Brentwood neighborhood. That same year, Eddie Joseph opened the North Austin Drive-in on the southwest corner of Lamar and Justin, where Walgreen’s is today. Al talks about going there in the video clip below. (More about the neighborhood’s … Read more