If you're heading to 7-Eleven today for a free Slurpee, raise your glass to the City of Austin and her Texas Longhorns: After all, it was here in Austin the convenience store giant first went 24/7.
The south campus 7-Eleven location sits at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Guadalupe Street., raise your glass to the City of Austin and her Texas Longhorns: After all, it was here in Austin the convenience store giant first went 24/7.
In its corporate history, the Dallas-based chain writes that in 1963 “one 7-Eleven store in Austin, Texas, located close to the University of Texas, stayed so busy after a football game, it couldn’t close. The store just remained open.” That night’s success kept the store open 24 hours from there on out — inspiring other locations to do the same.The vacant storefront to the left is the former site of Austin's first 24-hour 7-Eleven.
That store, according to 7-Eleven media relations, was at 607 W. 19th St. . It's long since closed. While it’s in the shadow of a dry cleaners, another 7-Eleven just a few blocks east serves as its spiritual successor., the season the Horns earned their first national championship. All 7-Eleven can say is that it knows it was on a Saturday — which could be one of four home games that year.
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