Cost of a date in 1981

Think it's expensive to go out on a date now? Back in 1981, KTBC reporter Tony Lee compared the cost of the date to a decade prior.

Drinking age in Texas goes up in 1986

We're used to it now but did you know that the drinking age in Texas was 18 around 40 years ago? Texas and other states raised the age in order to keep federal highway funds. A look at how the change was affecting people and businesses in 1986.

Echelon Building plane crash 10th anniversary

53-year-old Joseph Stack took off from the Georgetown Airport and intentionally flew into a building in northwest Austin that housed the IRS on February 18, 2010. FOX 7 Austin's Dave Froehlich has a look back at what happened.

The Carolyn Jackson Show: An Austin broadcasting legend at 92

If you lived in Austin in the ’60s and ‘70s you’ll know: Carolyn Jackson was a household name. She hosted The Carolyn Jackson Show right here on KTBC. Using footage digitized by the Texas Archive of The Moving Image, Good Day Austin’s Casey Claiborne interviewed Carolyn and…Carolyn even interviewed Casey.

Y2K: How Austin dealt with new millennium

Remember Y2K? Mass hysteria about computers switching over to the new millennium and it all ended up being much ado about nothing. Well 20 years ago that’s what the world was worried about. Austin included. But Austin business owners were also worried about something else: a big downtown New Year’s Eve party called “A2K.” Fox 7 Austin’s Casey Claiborne is taking a look into the Fox 7 Austin video vault.

X-Files fans still 'out there'

Back in 1997 when our favorite show was in its heyday, we aired a profile of three X-Files fanatics and FOX 7's Casey Claiborne caught up with them 20 years later.