This independent woman won’t be “put in a box”
Sara Laas has lived all over Texas, and she has lived as far away as Venezuela. But there’s something about Austin that’s special, the 94-year-old on-and-off Austin resident will tell you. There must be, because it keeps pulling her back.
While she was a student at UT, Sara said the highlight of her day was hearing the Tower bells ring at noon. She majored in English, which she considered a bit rebellious because women were expected to go into nursing or teaching. After graduating, she jumped around different places and fields, working jobs in teaching, human resources, and television.
Sara moved to Austin for the second time in 1972. She’d just gotten a divorce and wanted a credit card. So Sara waited for six months, then went to a bank. She recalls bringing a briefcase in an attempt to look more “businesslike.” Banks could refuse to issue credit cards to women until the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 became law; however, in 1972 Texas passed its
The first time Sara had lived in Austin, the city was two things: the university and the Capitol. By 1993, the city was changing. Live music, film, and technology industries grew, along with attitudes toward them. Museums seemed to be popping up. And Lady Bird Lake had gone through a transformation, a result of a beautification effort spearheaded by Lady Bird Johnson.
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