This is the air traffic control tower from the old Mueller Airport. When I first came to Austin, that was the commercial airport for the city, so I did many drop-offs and pick-ups at that airport. That was back when you could wait at the gate, too, so I remember seeing friends off as they disappeared down the gangway to board their plane, and then watching the plane as it took off. People can't have that experience anymore. It's kind of sad.
Mueller closed in 1999, when Austin Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA) opened. Bergstrom used to be an air force base. The base was closed in 1993, and the property was redeveloped into the ABIA. The Mueller property was sold to a developer and is in the process of being developed into a residential community, but they kept the old control tower as an homage to the area's history.
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