Boot Manufacturer
Austin-Hall Boot Company
Austin-Hall Boot Company of El Paso started out as the Joe Hall Boot Company and had stayed in the same family for three generations by 2002. The shop built straightforward, basic boots alongside flashy made-to-measure pairs such as its "red flame" design, with past clients said to include Dwight Yoakam, WWF wrestlers, and NASA astronauts.
Related: Joe Hall
History
Austin-Hall Boot Company was an El Paso bootmaking house named in Joe Nick Patoski’s June 2002 Texas Monthly “Next 25” list. The profile says the company was originally named the Joe Hall Boot Company and had been making boots for three generations by that point.
Its specialties included straightforward, basic designs, flashier styles on request, and made-to-measure “red flame” jobs, priced from $200 with a turn of about fourteen to sixteen weeks. Dwight Yoakam, WWF wrestlers, and NASA astronauts are named as clients. Joe Hall boots carry vintage 1964 ad plates under that earlier name.
Known for
Three-generation El Paso shop; made-to-measure red flame boots