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...
by Susan | May 10, 2022 | San Antonio insider
From the Greek words kenos (empty) and taphos (tomb) cenotaphs are tombs or monuments erected to honor a person or persons whose remains are elsewhere or their whereabouts unknown. This one in San Antonio’s Alamo Plaza is sometimes referred to as...
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...
