Store
Allens Boots
Western boot emporium marked by a giant red boot sign, with thousands of pairs inside.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Allens Boots on South Congress Avenue in Austin follows the store Steve Allen Greenberg opened in nineteen seventy-seven, and the western superstitions still swapped over its counters -- the old warning against setting new boots on a table, and the belief about which foot goes in first. It traces the shop's rise through the Urban Cowboy craze of the early eighties to the giant red boot that has marked its storefront ever since. Listen for what that boot sign itself has to do with luck.
This audio guide was created using AI.