The windows at Waterloo Records are made with reinforced steel frames and triple-pane, shatterproof glass. Staff members call it Shamu glass, because it reminds them of the material used at SeaWorld to hold millions of gallons of water in the famous killer whales’ tanks. That strength is needed at the 43-year-old Austin shop’s new location, which is set to open this summer, because it sits in a notorious floodplain along a stretch of North Lamar Boulevard that’s abutted by Shoal Creek.It’s the same site once occupied by another Old Austin institution, Louis Shanks Furniture, until the 1981 Memorial Day flood destroyed the family-run store’s inventory. “If a car or a dumpster is floating down Lamar and hits the glass, it won’t break,” says John T.…
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