Oat Willie was a cartoon creation that was used as a stunt when he was entered into the Austin mayoral race in the 1960s. While Willie was not elected mayor, he would become the namesake of Doug ...

The name "Oat Willie" derived from a cartoon that was entered as a joke into the Austin mayoral race in the 1960s. The name became the inspiration for the shop founded Doug Brown and George Majewski.

Oat Willie’s — a full-service smoke shop and novelty store business that’s been around since 1968, according to its website — will soon be no longer. The shop has been making social media ...

Five days after the last remaining Oat Willie’s location closed up for good, 83-year-old Doug Brown is inside the shop, cheerfully unstocking a shelf of incense. “We’ve had some pretty good ...

Oat Willie was a cartoon creation that was used as a stunt when he was entered into the Austin mayoral race in the 1960s. While Willie was not elected mayor, he would become the namesake of Doug Brown ...

Oat Willie’s, a smoke shop that has been around since 1968, is officially closing its doors, taking a bit of Austin’s original weirdness with it. In that time, the head shop opened two ...

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