by Susan | May 10, 2022 | history, San Antonio insider
Unless you’re a native, you won’t realize that until a decade ago, when Cesar Chavez Blvd. was re-named after the Chicano labor leader, the street was called Durango. When I-35 was built in the 1950’s, it interrupted S. San Saba: you’ll see San...
by Susan | Apr 12, 2022 | history, San Antonio insider
The five San Antonio missions got their names from saints and benefactors: who were these men and women who left their names on our landscape? Saint Anthony, by the way, is considered to be the finder of lost things. So, if you get lost in San Antonio, you can recite...
by Susan | Feb 27, 2019 | history, Japanese Tea Garden Walk, music, San Antonio insider, Sightseeing
Yesterday we wrote about the Japanese Tea Gardens, which were constructed in an abandoned quarry that bisected Brackenridge Park. Actually, the Gardens only took up half the quarry. The other half — the northern part — is now the Sunken Garden Theater.When...
by Susan | Feb 14, 2019 | art, history, Japanese Tea Garden Walk, San Antonio insider, Sightseeing
Sunday’sTexas Trail Roundup 21k walk will take you through the campus of Trinity University, located between Brackenridge Park and the historic Monte Vista neighborhood. Presbyterians founded Trinity in 1869 in Tehuacana, Texas (about 40 miles NE of Waco) from...
by Susan | Feb 12, 2019 | art, history, San Antonio insider, Sightseeing
On every walk you get a view of San Antonio’s Enchilada Red Central Library, opened in May, 1995. It’s a prominent part of the San Antonio skyline. Here’s a short video explaining how it got built: You’ll walk past our two previous libraries on...
by Susan | Feb 5, 2019 | history, San Antonio insider
Nagashino is the Alamo of Japan; The Alamo is the Nagashino of America. Whoever knows the heroes of the Battle of Nagashino Knows the heroes of the Alamo Two monuments, one in Okazaki, Japan and one in the Alamo courtyard in San Antonio, bear these words commemorating...
