{"id":1643,"date":"2007-03-20T09:14:53","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T14:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2007\/03\/20\/original-alamo-is-moving\/"},"modified":"2007-03-20T09:14:53","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T14:14:53","slug":"original-alamo-is-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/original-alamo-is-moving\/","title":{"rendered":"Original Alamo is Moving!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thechunk\/34081022\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/21\/34081022_ce71bea010_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" border=\"0\" alt=\"draft house\" \/><\/a>I just read a <a href=\"http:\/\/originalalamo.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/alamo-drafthouse-downtown-moves-to-ritz.html\">huge post<\/a> on the Alamo Drafthouse blog. They&#8217;re announcing their 10th Anniversary celebration and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.originalalamo.com\/downtown\/frames.asp\">original location<\/a> on Colorado between 4th and 5th is moving to the Ritz!<\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<p>I knew they were having trouble at the current location because of increasing rents. They started <a href=\"http:\/\/rememberthe.originalalamo.com\/\">Heroes of the Alamo program<\/a> last year looking for donations to remain at the current location and I guess it just wasn&#8217;t working out. It sounds like they had a lot of help in working out a deal to move to the Ritz. It&#8217;s hard not to sound gushing and stupid about this, but it&#8217;s so damn cool. The Ritz has been around since 1929 and has a long history in Austin as a theater, concert venue (Stevie Ray Vaughn, Big Boys and other have played there) and bar. Its <a href=\"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/uproar_at_the_r_1.phtml\">future was in doubt<\/a> (at least for me anyway) since the pool hall era ended last year. The fact that both can come together to preserve a location important to Austin and one of the best local businesses is just too great. You can&#8217;t help but pull for Tim and Karrie.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like they expect to move sometime this summer, so if you want to experience the old location, you&#8217;ve only got three months or so.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update (03.21.07 09:31 CDT):<\/strong> I traded e-mails with Tim League. They mistakenly posted the announcement yesterday. It was supposed to go up today. They&#8217;ll start construction on April 1st and plan to blog the progress with photos and updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read a huge post on the Alamo Drafthouse blog. They&#8217;re announcing their 10th Anniversary celebration and the original location on Colorado between 4th and 5th is moving to the Ritz! Wow. I knew they were having trouble at the current location because of increasing rents. They started Heroes of the Alamo program last <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/original-alamo-is-moving\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-qv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}