Threadgill's | 162 followers on LinkedIn. It has been said that "Threadgill's was Austin's first theme restaurant and its theme is AUSTIN." (John Morthland in the L.A. Times) That sounded good to me so let's take it a bit further and claim the 1930's through 1960's in Austin as the theme of the original Threadgill's on North Lamar Blvd.