east austin

Ashley Salazar: @AshleysTreatsandEats

"Who doesn’t love chocolate covered strawberries?"  In February 2018, Ashley’s chocolate strawberries were in such high demand, she left her job to create a business out of serving her community with treats 365 days a year.  Four years later, the orders are not slowing down.  Ashley’s Treats and Eats was born.

Ashley runs every aspect of the pastry business herself and considers it a gift to do what she does.  Four years in, she has over 120 treats on the menu - many of them inspired by customers.  

@AshleysTreatsandEats

www.ashleystreatsandeats.com

Lonnie Limón could have worked anywhere in the country after graduating from the University of Notre Dame. But eventually, Limón moved to back to Austin, where he is closer to relatives — more than 3,500 of them.

The Limóns and the Estradas — the latter is his mother's family — have lived in Central Texas since the late 19th century.

More than 100 years ago, some members of the two clans moved into Austin proper, where they labored as cab drivers, shop clerks, and domestic workers before starting businesses and turning out community leaders.

The two families are almost universally familiar to longtime Austinites, especially in East Austin.

Lonnie joins the show to tell his family story, share memories of old East Austin as told by his family elders and give us his thoughts on the ever-changing community his family shaped. 

A little over a month after they said goodbye to their mother, 10 of the Zamarripa children gathered in their childhood home on Tillery Street.

Now in their 50s, 60s and 70s, they showed two guests the spots in the house that made family history. One sibling might disagree with another, but with so many eyewitnesses to that history, a shared narrative emerges.

Austin leaders wanted more integration in the 60’s and didn’t know where to find black owned business and started a black registry. In 1973, the Villager was born. 

53 years of serving steak a la Mexicana, chicken mole, soft tacos, menudo and barbacoa de cabeza on East 7th St. This is the story of Jorge Guerra and a welcoming East Austin family owned restaurant that was welcoming and shaped and improved this part of East Austin.