Why Taylor makes a great daytrip from Austin

In recent years, the city has embraced its small-town feel, managing to preserve the pretty brick facades of its century-old heyday.

Why it matters: Taylor is an easy day trip from Austin, and there's plenty to occupy you.

⌚Go antiquing at the Vintique Collective .

• The place has vintage vinyl and old lace dresses up top and attractive toy engines and classy drinking glasses down below.

Old drinking glasses for sales at the Vintique Collective. Photo: Asher Price/Axios

🏫 Relive your high school years at Old Taylor High , whose green lockers, auditorium and bathrooms will thrust you right back to teenagehood.

• Classrooms have been repurposed as an apothecary, book store, pinball arcade, bar and hair salon.

☕ Enjoy a coffee at Good Strangers , the kind of independent coffee shop with locally roasted beans that Austinites love to frequent.

• And grab whatever's on tap — usually some yummy smoked meat — from their collab with the innovative restaurant Mixtape .

📚 Browse the new and used books at Curio Mrvosa .

• A hub for creatives, it hosts block-printing workshops and "writing the weird" get-togethers.

Art and books on display at a Taylor bookstore. Photo: Asher Price/Axios

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