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Turns out I work a couple blocks away from the strip model where that shop was. One day I walked by and saw a memorial placard in the ground and started googling to find out what happened there. Pretty nuts. There’s been so much gentrification since the time of the murders that it’s hard to understand what kind of neighborhood it was back in the day.

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That part of Austin (I lived in North Shoal Creek for about fifteen years) is pretty slow to change. Most obvious change on Anderson would be part of Northcross Mall becoming the Walmart.

It's honestly not all that different today. The Shoal Creek neighborhood behind it was well established then, and the mall buildings were the same. North of Anderson has changed a bit more, but not radically.

Yeah, I was about to say the same thing. The strip mall's basically the same. The shops have changed. Some of the stuff around there has been changed, but it's actually not that different.

I've been in Austin for 25 years. It's actually one of my favorite parts of town. What has completely changed is the people.

Used to be kind of a slow college town with kind of a counterculture, some hippies. Now it's a buzzing urban area. Fancy cars, a lot of tech money.

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