My first exposure to the Sun City development north of Austin was via billboards in Austin in the mid 80s. They were really selling it up: lots of billboards.
Of course, at the time, there was a Steven Van Zant protest song of the same name. I recall it protesting some gambling city being run for whites only in an Apartheid environment.
(Ahh, the 80s, the decade of tepid protest songs: “We are the world, we are the children,…” what are we protesting? But, I digress.)
Anyway, I thought it was a quite unfortunate choice of names for this new development, and they still had time to change it. Well, they didn’t. And now it’s active senior haven: Sun City, Georgetown, Texas.
But more specifically, it will soon be my dad and step-mom’s new residence. They’re selling the Big Ol’ House in Canyon Lake, and moving to a reasonable sized, two-person residence in Georgetown.
So, good luck to them in the move and the hecticness of selling and buying a place. And I hope to get over there soon to check it out.
This is so funny! On our ride out to Fredericksburg just this past weekend we passed a brand new billboard for Sun City. And who was representing the modern, clean, strategically immaculate development on the billboard? A grinning, embracing, middle-aged black couple. I tried to explain to CLH why I thought this was in bad taste but his response was “So, there are Sun Citys everywhere. Not just South Africa. There’s one in Florida too.”