READ MORE: A winner in the 1950 Austin cafe mystery.Ī few weeks later, we stumbled on another astounding coincidence. READ MORE: Do you know this Austin cafe from the 1950s?Īustin Nelson, whose family design firm operates out of 905 Congress Ave., persuasively argued that their building had been the pictured Manhattan restaurant and deli. Even more, they loved guessing the name and location of the Austin cafe.

Some background: Readers loved this photo from the 1950s. A living witness puts a 1950s Austin gay bar, perhaps the city’s first, in a backroom on Congress Avenue.