Leonidas

As always these days, even the main branch of the library has few books on the shelves and very beaten-up music for the borrowing. This will only get worse. K. remembered that we had wanted to check out the Austin History Center, since some kind neighbors had thought they'd seen a vintage photo of the house. They had, as it turns out, though it took a bit of a search to find it. This image has been added to the archives since the last time I searched for one, probably about ten years ago. There are more city directories, too, so we could add to the chain of ownership one Matt Howard (and Wilma, his wife). In the early thirties he was the chief auditor for the State Liquor Control Board. The photo is marked Roy L. Thomas, and the "L" is for Leonidas, after the Spartan hero of Thermopylae.