Mourning Texas French Bread

Tuesday was a day for grieving, after the iconic Texas French Bread restaurant went up in flames.

Context: Once upon a time, in its incarnation as the Rome Inn, the building, built in 1939, was a classic hang-out, where Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Lou Ann Barton and scores of other musicians performed.

• In recent years, the restaurant had been an airy getaway where UT kids went with their visiting parents and lobbyists headed for a bite away from the Capitol.
• "[Impossible]," Harvey Kronberg, editor of the Quorum Report, wrote on Twitter. "Decades in Austin. All old Austin went there."