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Burger King in Clash "Rock the Casbah" Video

Posted: 16 Feb 2011 08:13
by StoreLiker2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9r8LMU9bQ

There is an old BK in this music video by the British rock band The Clash, the song is "Rock the Casbah" (1982).

The video was filmed in Austin, TX - so, could anyone here identify exactly where this BK is and, if it still exists? At the time of this music video, the restaurant still had the old red shingles on the roof. I believe they became brown shortly after the video was released, or perhaps a few years later. The lettering for "BURGER KING - HOME OF THE WHOPPER" is from after 1969, of course.

~Ben

Re: Burger King in Clash "Rock the Casbah" Video

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 17:35
by wrallen99
I think that it must be the one at 2700 Guadalupe Street because the roof of the one in the video has a straight bottom edge on the bottom across the front, as does the Guadalupe one. The one on Ben White (1001 E. Ben White) has a section of the front edge that cuts down where the two front doors are. Compare the two streetviews. Both of them are still in business.

This site http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1549 says that its the Burger King on Guadalupe (2700 Guadalupe), which is still there and has been for as long as I can remember:

Google streetview: http://bit.ly/hrTwj7
Bing: http://bit.ly/hA4bdD

This other site says it's the one at Ben White and I-35 (1001 E Ben White), but the front roofline doesn't match as I noted above: http://www.alternativereel.com/includes ... p?id=00035

Google: http://bit.ly/exzPoP
Bing: http://bit.ly/en0Vxj

Re: Burger King in Clash "Rock the Casbah" Video

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 18:32
by StoreLiker2006
wrallen99 wrote:I think that it must be the one at 2700 Guadalupe Street because the roof of the one in the video has a straight bottom edge on the bottom across the front, as does the Guadalupe one. The one on Ben White (1001 E. Ben White) has a section of the front edge that cuts down where the two front doors are. Compare the two streetviews. Both of them are still in business.

This site http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1549 says that its the Burger King on Guadalupe (2700 Guadalupe), which is still there and has been for as long as I can remember:

Google streetview: http://bit.ly/hrTwj7
Bing: http://bit.ly/hA4bdD

This other site says it's the one at Ben White and I-35 (1001 E Ben White), but the front roofline doesn't match as I noted above: http://www.alternativereel.com/includes ... p?id=00035

Google: http://bit.ly/exzPoP
Bing: http://bit.ly/en0Vxj
I would have no doubt that the BK in the Clash video is the one at 2700 Guadalupe St., for its store # is 1332 and would've dated to about 1970-77. The Ben White location, on the other hand, is #2171 and would've been built in the 1977-79 period (considering BK opened its 2000th location in Hawaii in '77). By 1977, the roof shingles on then-new BK stores were no longer red, but were natural cedar shingles.

~Ben