Austin-based WholeFoods Market said it will issue up to $1 million in emergency, no interest loans for businesses damaged by Monday’s flooding along Shoal Creek. The organic foods giant said Tuesday it’s part of a “pay it back” effort after its own store saw devastating damage following the Memorial Day floods of 1981. In 1981, Whole Foods’ only store at the time had been open for about eight months near Shoal Creek in the spot where a Goodwill store sits today at 10th Street and Lamar Boulevard when the devastating Memorial Day floods arrived. The store’s interior and inventory was demolished and at the time, the retailer had no flood insurance, no savings and no warehouse inventory. Read more at statesman.com/instagram This picture from the #StatesmanPhoto archive in a folder titled "Floods - May 1981." #atxhistory #austinhistory #filmphotography #wholefoods #wholefoodsmarket #atxweather #atxflood #atxfloods #centraltexasfloods