by Susan | Apr 18, 2023 | history, San Antonio insider, tips
San Antonio touts its annual Fiesta as a “party with a purpose.” It traces its origins to 1890 with the first “Battle of the Flowers” parade, commemorating the Texians victory over Santa Anna at San Jacinto. The participants pelted each other...
by Susan | Feb 11, 2023 | history, nature, San Antonio insider, Sightseeing
One of the American Volkssport Association’s Special Programs is “Take a Walk in a City Park.” During the Texas Trail Roundup, you will do that. And do it again, and again, putting you on track to fill up the 20 walks required to earn the cool patch....
by Susan | May 11, 2022 | San Antonio insider
You can still observe traces of San Antonio’s elaborate colonial-era irrigation system of dams, gates and canals. Together, these are known as known as acequias (pronounced a-SAY-key-as.) They irrigated the labores (pronounced la-BORE-ays, meaning fields) and...
by Susan | May 11, 2022 | San Antonio insider
The statue of the founder and long-time president of the American Federation of Labor was commissioned by the AFL-CIO in 1982 to celebrate a national convention that was being held in San Antonio. The city approved a small bust on a pedestal and was surprised —...
by Susan | May 11, 2022 | San Antonio insider
Joske’s, a home-grown department store chain, started business in Main Plaza in 1867 and operated there until 1873. Julius Joske sold the store when he returned to Berlin, but came back to San Antonio with his family and opened a new Joske’s on Alamo...
by Susan | May 11, 2022 | San Antonio insider
El Camino Real de los Tejas (also known as “The King’s Highway”) stretches 2,500 miles from colonial Mexico City through Texas and ends in Natchitoches, Louisiana. This trail provided the only primary overland route from Mexico across the Río...
