50% Off Sunday: A Space Race and Fun Finds on Farhills Drive
estate sale•3 day sale •sale is over
Dates
Fri
Dec 6
10am to 3pm
2019
Sat
Dec 7
10am to 3pm
2019
Sun
Dec 8
10am to 3pm
2019
Terms
Very Limited entry, no numbers given. Cash, debit & credit cards all accepted. Note: $20 minimum credit or debit purchase to void a $2 service fee. Purchases are subject to local sales tax (8.25%), re-sellers must present a valid Texas Sales and Use Certificate or have one on file with us. All sales are final and all items are sold "as is" with no returns, exchanges, NO EXCEPTIONS to this rule will be made. No strollers and no pets please, and the house, unfortunately, is not wheelchair accessible. Personal shopping bags not allowed except for transparent ones (i.e. Mexican market bags). We provide handled shopping baskets for your shopping convenience as well as a secure "HOLD AREA" at check out so you may shop unfettered. Paper and boxes while they last provided at our outside 'wrap station.' The driveway and space in front of the house are reserved for loading ONLY. DO NOT remove tags from items for any reason. If you want an item and you cannot carry it to check out, stay with it and call out to a staffer for assistance. Buyers are responsible for carrying out and loading their purchases- we do not have staff available to do that. There are no previews or early sales. Out of area inquires and phone orders are handled on Saturday afternoon see telephone order instructions below. Purchases must be picked up no later than Tuesday following the sale. We appreciate your understanding and thank you for your cooperation and for attending our sales!
Austin Estate Sales is pleased to present another vintage time capsule sale in bucolic Northwest Hills; a mid century estate sale dipped in the history of air and space flight and an American family's life of service around the world. This is the estate of Gordon Wayne Dykes (1924 - 2019) who enjoyed over 50 years of marriage and raised four wonderful children with his wife Margaret Claire nee Tisdale before death did do them part. They met at at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia at NACA, the predecessor to NASA, where Margaret was "a computer girl" doing flight meteorology calculations for the nation's earliest supersonic pilots. Gordon enlisted in the Army Air Force shortly after graduating from Saint Petersburg High School in Florida. He had a strong interest in sailing as a young man and as he set off for military service where he was to conduct 20 combat missions as a first lieutenant and a navigator on a B-17 in the 457th bomb group the St. Petersburg Times ran an article "Gulfport Yacht Club Goes to War." After the War he earned a civil engineering degree and began his professional career In 1960, Wayne began his career with NASA which extended through the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs during the singer at NASA he rose to Director of Facilities and Design for the Marshall Space Flight Center which was responsible for designing wind tunnels for supersonic flight, neutral buoyancy tanks and rocket testing stands all now part of space history. the family's military and civic service took them at different times to Italy and Saudi Arabia and the American states of Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Virginia and, finally Austin,Texas.
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