Liberty Lunch

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Liberty Lunch was a live-music venue in Austin, Texas. It began in the 1940s as an eatery and, over the years, evolved into a live-music venue. During its heyday in the late 1970s and 1980s, it featured all kinds of music, including reggae and ska, punk, indie, country and rock.

The venue was forced to close to make way for Austin's downtown redevelopment rampage in the late 1990s. Since then, Liberty Lunch has attained a (mostly deserved) legendary status in the history of Austin music. Now-defunct Armadillo World Headquarters has attained a similar status.