For years, the Dining Room was used for lunches, served from 11:30am – 1:00pm, at first catered the Driskill Hotel, then the Victorian Hotel in downtown Austin, and finally by University Housing and Food. The meals were especially popular with faculty on the east side of the campus....
The Zilker shelter inspired UT alumnus Cactus Pryor, then working for Austin’s KTBC-TV station, to write and narrate a 20-minute film that dramatized what might happen if an atomic bomb exploded in the Hill Country just west of the city. Titled “Target . . . Austin, Texas,” it was...