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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:34:00

A World War II machine shop kept its lathe and got a brewery. Central Machine Works at 4824 East Cesar Chavez Street in East Austin occupies the Quonset-hut complex of Capital Machine Works, a custom metal fabrication shop that opened in 1940 producing aircraft parts and transport trailers - men and women both on the wartime floor - and spent the following seven decades machining custom industrial components for Texas businesses until the shop finally closed in 2016. Rather than let the 9,821-s...