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Mon, 10 April 2006 13:20  |
LaMont
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incorporated city which was surrounded by Austin. It was named
Westlake Hills and over the years it became a very desirable locale for both
extremely wealthy folks and still had it's shar of hippies living in the
woods along the river that ran through the area. There were a couple of
restauranteurs in Austin at the time named Cookie and Joy Swanson who didn't
live too far from us and Cookie's brother owned a nursery in Westlake Hills
that sold plastic pink lawn flamingoes. Well as the years passed, people
like Tommy Lee Jones, Shawn Colvin and Sandra Bullock all moved into the
neighborhood and then Michael Dell built as 65 million dollar obscenity
about a mile down the road and brought along all of his Dellionaire friends.
The property values skyrocketed and the politics started getting a bit
......errrrrr....Reagan'esque and PC at the same time. The city council
eventually was set upon by the rich developers and landowners to pass an
ordinance banning the display of pink
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