A magazine article on the impending closure of Armadillo World Headquarters.
Date: 1980
Total Pages: 3
A concise history of the music poster artists and their styles starting with the Vulcan Gas Company, Austin's first countercultural music venue.
Date: 1991
Total Pages: 11
A newspaper article by Josh Alan Friedman about Keith Ferguson, best known as bassist for the Fabulous Thunderbirds, a game-changing white blues band in the late 70s/early 80s.
Date: March 28, 1996
Total Pages: 15
Marc Savlov's take on Austin's anti-postering law with a dive into Austin's historical poster scene.
Date: September 12, 1997
Total Pages: 16
Jason Mellard's analysis of Armadillo World Headquarters' impact on Austin's music culture.
Date: 2010
Total Pages: 14
An Austin Chronicle newspaper article recounting the times the Grateful Dead played the Manor Downs Racetrack with references to Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh jamming Thanksgiving day at Armadillo World Headquarters.
Date: 2015
Total Pages: 8
A look at the cultural forces at play in Austin, Texas during the 1970s
Date: 2018
Total Pages: 11
Art Levy's blog on how Freddie King impacted Armadillo World Headquarters.
Date: August 18, 2020
Total Pages: 6
StoryArk grew out of a website we built for the Texas Coastal Bend Collection, a documentation of the ranching culture in South Texas (Black cowboys, Vaqueros and the Irish immigration). The site houses 1,400 hours of audio interviews, 9,000 photographs, 4 books, journals, maps, and other historical ephemera all cross-linked using the StoryArk platform.
For more information, email mark@storyark.io.
