Longhorn Mobile Home Park is one of Del Valle’s long forgotten trailer parks and well remembered trailer parks. This news article will explain the history behind Longhorn Mobile Home Park.
Longhorn Mobile Home Park was plotted and graveled in the year of 1970 where the Sunscape Apartments once stood across from Bergstrom Gate to Bergstrom Air Force Base (now Austin Bergstrom International Airport). Finley Real Estate owned some of the land where Longhorn Mobile Home Park was plotted out on. Robert Finley owned some of the land which Longhorn Mobile Home Park was located on. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/358020694/)
Paul R. Salyers, son of US Air Force Sergeant Paul E. Salyers Sr., was the manager of Longhorn Mobile Home Park throughout much of the 70s and 80s. The phone number for Longhorn Mobile Home Park was 512-365-1530. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/379175257/)
Many of the trailers at Longhorn Mobile Home Park were 18 foot long double wide trailers which were specifically designed for single family usage. Longhorn Mobile Home Park was located within the National Mobile Parks subdivision owned by Wichita, Kansas-based National Mobile Parks Inc.
Longhorn Mobile Home Park was part of a 10-acre luxury mobile home park owned and operated by National Mobile Parks Inc in 1971. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/386611052/)
[An $800,000 first phase scheduled to begin in January will be a 10-acre luxury mobile home park, It is part of a 153-acre tract with frontage on Highway 71 and Colorado river. National Mobile Parks Inc. of Wichita, Kan., and S-C Management Co., an affiliate of Shindler-Rummins Inc., Houston real estate firm, are planning the development.]
A public hearing was held at Travis County Commissioners Court on Monday, February 26, 1979 regarding a restrictive traffic zone sign. There was too much incoming traffic on Cardinal Lane. People parking their cars on Cardinal Lane in front of Longhorn Mobile Home Park restricted the flow of traffic. The resolution passed. A restrictive traffic zone sign was installed on the north side of Cardinal Lane from SH 71 Frontage Road to the Longhorn Mobile Home Park entrance road. A "NO PARKING" was installed on the north side of Cardinal Lane from SH 71 Frontage Road to the Longhorn Mobile Home Park entrance road. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/357058803/)
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE COMMISSIONERS COURT OF TRAVIS COUNTY WILL HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1979 AT 10:00 A.M. PURSUANT TO THE RESTRICTIVE TRAFFIC ZONE SIGNING IN PRECINCT FOUR "NO PARKING" ON THE NORTH SIDE OF CARDINAL LANE FROM SH 71 FRONTAGE ROAD TO LONGHORN TRAILER PARK ENTRANCE ROAD. A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD IN THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT, TRAVIS COUNTY COURTHOUSE ANNEX, 10 A.M. SAN ANTONIO STREET, AUSTIN, TEXAS.
Longhorn Mobile Home Park was rated as Austin's highest rated RV Park by Austin American-Statesman in 1980. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/379192350/)
“Austin's highest rated RV Park has spacious sites for travel trailers, campers, motor homes. Daily, weekly, monthly, Secluded, quiet; security. Close to UT, Capitol, city parks, auditorium, pool, stores, bus lines. Low rate includes utilities, maintenance, restrooms and laundromat.”
Robert L Steiner, T C Steiner, and Robert Finley sold the property which Longhorn Mobile Home Park was located on to Pacific Southwest Bank and Guaranty Federal Savings Bank on a warranty deed in 1981 and again in 1991. (Ref: Travis County Land Deeds, Volume 11707, Page 1565)
Longhorn Mobile Home Park was shut down and sold to a California-based partnership called Sunscape Partnership LTD which owned and operated the Sunscape Apartments. 1983 was the year apartment complexes for Sunscape Apartments were constructed. Sunscape Apartments were demolished in 2005 due to being located in the flight path of Austin Bergstrom International Airport. Nothing remains of Longhorn Mobile Home Park currently. [Ref: http://www.austintexas.gov/Geocortex/Essentials/External/REST/sites/AirportNoiseMappingApp/viewers/AirportNoiseWebMap/VirtualDirectory/Resources/Data/Noise%20Mitgation%20Parcels/Parcel%20104/Appraisal%20Parcel%20104%20(Hornsby).PDF]
Longhorn Mobile Home Park was located at 2426 Cardinal Loop, Del Valle, Texas, US 78617. The original address was 2426 Cardinal Lane, Del Valle, Texas, US 78617.
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