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Favorite San Antonio Attractions |
"As
a casual tourist you'll be dazzled by this romantic atmosphere - and the history,
and the music, the food, my God. It's an easy city to love." - Walt Lockley
POPULAR
ATTRACTIONS:
The
AlamoThe
Alamo - Book Hotel The
Alamo Cenotaph - The Spirit of Sacrifice
Alamo
MuseumAlamo
Defenders - Mass GraveAlamo
HistoryBen
Milam CypressBexar
County CourthouseComanche
Lookout ParkFort
Sam Houston - Book Hotel Fort
Sam Houston - The Quadrangle
Hertzburg Circus Museum International
and Great Northern (or I&GN) Depot
The King William DistrictSan
Antonio Missions
by Byron Browne
Beginning
two and a half miles south of downtown San Antonio there are four eighteenth century
missions along what the National Parks Service refers to as the “Mission Trail”.
This route will lead you on an afternoon’s journey through some of this country’s
few, yet greatest, antiquities...San
Antonio Missions
by Sam fenstermacherStatue
of Lady Justice Unveiled
Sunken
Garden AmphitheatreTexas
Pioneers, Trail Drivers, Rangers Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TexasRiver
Walk - Book Hotel Casa
Navarro State Historic Site
- Downtown San Antonio, Texas
Across from the Police Dept. Headquarters.
Two blocks from Market Square.
228 S. Laredo Street San Antonio TX 78207
210/226-4801
Forgotten
San Antonio:
"The reverent, the irreverent and the irrelevant"
First
Portland Cement PlantMr.
Guevara’s NeighborhoodFive
Buildings of San Antonio
The Star, the Pig, the Dealership, the Icehouse and the Chinese Grocery
Dr.
Aureliano Urrutia's Gates
by Walt LockleySan
Antonio's Roatzsch-Griesenbeck HouseHays
Street BridgeBerg's
MillBerg's
Mill BridgeThe
Last Humble Station, San Antonio by
Mark Louis RybczykSan
Antonio's New Braunfels Avenue Bridge
by Mel BrownUrban
Landscapes of Jacinto Guevara
Book
Hotel > San
Antonio Hotels |
About
Historic San Antonio |
San
Antonio Stories The
San Antonio Council House Fight
by Jeffery Robenalt
In
March of 1840, a meeting took place in old San Antonio between representatives
of the government of the Republic of Texas and the Penateka Comanches to discuss
terms of a peace treaty. The disastrous results of this meeting would soon lead
to the Great Comanche Raid of 1840 and the Battle of Plum Creek. San
Antonio's Blue Book (from
"Charley Eckhardt's Texas" by C.F. Eckhardt)
'The Blue Book.' Those three
words stir up quite an image among those who delve into the more esoteric history
of 19th and early 20th Century America. 'The Blue Book' is the legendary directory
of a city's 'red light' district.... National
Dish of Texas
("Charley Eckhardt's Texas" Column by C. F. Eckhardt)
- Chili con
carne is the national dish of Texas. It was invented in Texas by Texas natives-literally-and
it's made right only in Texas...Fannie
Porter of San Antonio
by Maggie Van Ostrand
If even half the legends passed down through generations
are true, the Old West was a riotous and exciting place. Whether heroes or desperadoes,
these legendary people all seem to have either been born in, traveled through,
or fought for the great Republic of Texas... But they didn't fight, shoot, and
rustle all the time. They needed rest. They needed relaxation. They needed love.
And Fannie Porter of San Antonio supplied these diversions. This is her story.Early
Movie Making (from
"Texas Tales" column by Mike Cox)
The Star Film Company was the
first movie company to do any substantial business in Texas. Owned by French producer
Gaston Melies, the company came to San Antonio, where he set up shop adjacent
to the Hot Wells Hotel early 1910...Texas'
Favorite Ghost Story - San Antonio's Overworked Ghost Children by
Raoul HashimotoSan
Antonio's Humble Oil Company
Vintage photos Brown's
Humble Service Station, 1938
On S. New Braunfels Avenue. Vintage PhotosEarl
Abel's
- San Antonio Landmark (from "Texas Tales" column by Mike Cox) The
Little Engine That Couldn't: The Fredericksburg & Northern Railroad
("Charley Eckhardt's Texas" Column by C. F. Eckhardt)
"...
Even after the War, with much improved roads and a much lessened Indian problem,
it still took freight wagons the better part of a week to travel from San Antonio
to Fredericksburg... The people north and west of San Antonio wanted and needed
a railroad..." Runaway
scrapes by Mike
Cox
Thousands of people die every year in traffic crashes, but the horse and
buggy era had its injurious and fatal accidents as well. |
Books
"San
Antonio Uncovered"
by Mark Louis Rybczyk
"Chinese
Heart of Texas"
by Mel Brown
The
San Antonio Community, 1875-1975
Native
SonsAlex
Sweet and His Siftings
by Clay Coppedge
In
terms of popularity and a reputation for being a real Texas wise guy, Alex Sweet
could be called the Kinky Friedman of his day. Sweet’s day was roughly the last
half of the 19th Century, a time when Texas was by all accounts wild and wooly.
To Sweet, it was also funny... |
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San
Antonio Tourist Information |
San
Antonio Forum:
Subject:
Haunting in San Antonio
I am
seeking your help in locating information. As a former long-time resident of San
Antonio, I am familiar with many of the local legends about ghosts and the like.
I know all about the "haunted"
train tracks, and the optical illusion responsible for the phenomenon, I remember
tales of Midget Mansion (actually hiked up that way a time or two), and I have
heard fascinating, and rather scary, stories of the ghostly activities in the
old Hertzberg Circus Museum. More specifically, I have heard tales of what occured
in the basement, used at least at the time by the library for storage. The mother
of a personal friend of my brother actually worked in that basement, and had her
own stories to tell. Cases of a man in dark/black clothing, often very threatening,
books moving, being "grabbed" by nothing visible, and more. While looking around
online for these old stories, I found many of them, but can locate nothing on
the circus/library building. I did visit the museum there once, and only once,
and was rather uncomfortable, for lack of a better word, the entire time. I am
hoping that you might have some information on this "haunting". Thank you.
- Deborah Fisher, May 25, 2006 |
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