Supermarket
Whole Foods Market
Organic grocery flagship descended from a flood-tested nineteen-eighty market on this street.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Whole Foods Market flagship on North Lamar in Austin goes back to Memorial Day weekend nineteen eighty-one, when Shoal Creek rose without warning and put this stretch of the street under water. You'll hear about the fledgling grocery's first year, the neighborhood that showed up with mops and shovels, and the twenty-seven-year-old co-founder who stood surveying the wreckage afterward. Best heard standing near the entrance, close to where the water once came through the doors.
This audio guide was created using AI.