Fairmount Hotel….Traces of Texas The event was featured on news broadcasts around the world, and it earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. The transportation of the historic Fairmount Hotel, six blocks along the downtown streets of San Antonio 40 years ago. Prior to his death in 1903, Theodore Felix, who wasContinue reading “THE FAIRMOUNT HOTEL….IT WAS A MOVING EXPERIENCE !”
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Remembering sharpshooter Elizabeth “Plinky” Toepperwein
Photo: Elizabeth Servaty…..Frontier Partisans She was born Elizabeth Servaty in New Haven, Connecticut in 1882, the daughter of German immigrants. Three years after she began working for the Winchester gun company, Elizabeth went to a vaudeville circus shooting act and it featuring a young man from Boerne, Texas, Adolph “Ad” Toepperwein. Photo: Adolph ” Ad”Continue reading “Remembering sharpshooter Elizabeth “Plinky” Toepperwein”
Remembering the opening of the Hard Rock Cafe on the San Antonio Riverwalk.
Photo: Vintage Rare USA The day had finally arrived, and it was 30 years ago that the doors opened to the long-awaited addition to the San Antonio Riverwalk, the Hard Rock Cafe. Full of rock ’n’ roll memorabilia, the San Antonio Hard Rock Cafe, the 29th worldwide, and the 9th to open in the UnitedContinue reading “Remembering the opening of the Hard Rock Cafe on the San Antonio Riverwalk.”
The day a future U.S. President tied the knot in San Antonio
Today we remember the 90th wedding anniversary of Lyndon Baines Johnson and Claudia Alta Taylor, who we all fondly remember as Lady Bird. Photo: A young LBJ….Goodreads Photo: Claudia Taylor ( Lady Bird ) aged 17….Traces of Texas It was November 17th, 1934, and after a whirlwind courtship of 10 weeks, 26 year old CongressionalContinue reading “The day a future U.S. President tied the knot in San Antonio”
KAREN SHARPE…FROM SAN ANTONIO TO HOLLYWOOD !
Photo: Pinterest Born in San Antonio on September 20th, 1934, Karen Sharpe, grew up in Willshire Terrace and attended Alamo Heights High School. Following initial interests in ballet and ice skating, she left San Antonio in 1948 with her mother to pursue an acting career in California. She got the acting “bug” at an earlyContinue reading “KAREN SHARPE…FROM SAN ANTONIO TO HOLLYWOOD !”
REMEMBERING JOSEPHINE LUCCHESE…“THE AMERICAN NIGHTINGALE”
Photo: The Library of Congress Josephine Lucchese was born in San Antonio in 1893, one of 7 children whose parents were Sam and Frances Lucchese. Her father was rapidly earning a reputation as a master boot maker after establishing the family boot company in 1883. Photo: Lucchese Boot Company As a young girl, growing upContinue reading “REMEMBERING JOSEPHINE LUCCHESE…“THE AMERICAN NIGHTINGALE””
REMEMBERING HENRY BARTELL “PAT” ZACHRY Snr.
Photo: Henry Bartell (“H.B.”) Zachry….Lone Star Flight Museum After graduating from Uvalde High School with Honors in 1918, debater, footballer, baseballer and band member, H. B “Pat” Zachry was looking forward to using his scholarship by studying Animal Husbandry at Texas A&M University with the hopes of a career on the land. However, World WarContinue reading “REMEMBERING HENRY BARTELL “PAT” ZACHRY Snr.”
THE TRAGIC AND MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF MARTHA MANSFIELD IN BRACKENRIDGE PARK
Photo: IMDb.com Martha Mansfield was born in New York City in July, 1899 with the name Martha Ehrlich, and at a very early age she had decided on an acting career. She took the name Martha Mansfield, choosing a new last name after the town in Ohio where her mother was born. Her career beganContinue reading “THE TRAGIC AND MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF MARTHA MANSFIELD IN BRACKENRIDGE PARK”
Memories of a San Antonio Presidential visit 60 years ago.
It was 60 years ago today that President John Fitzgerald Kennedy visited San Antonio and Brooks Air Force base for the dedication ceremony of a complex of buildings at the $6.2 million extension of the School of Aerospace Medicine. The President was accompanied on the visit by his wife Jackie, along with Vice President andContinue reading “Memories of a San Antonio Presidential visit 60 years ago.”
ST. JOSEPH’S CORNERSTONE LAID 155 YEARS AGO TODAY ON ONE OF THE ALAMO’S FORMER LOCATIONS
Photo: Author Originally, the San Fernando Cathedral served as the place for Catholic worship in San Antonio, until in 1855 the Bishop of Texas, Bishop Odin, began the St. Mary’s Parish which became the center of Irish and German-speaking Catholic worshippers. At that time, the majority of those in the San Antonio German community wereContinue reading “ST. JOSEPH’S CORNERSTONE LAID 155 YEARS AGO TODAY ON ONE OF THE ALAMO’S FORMER LOCATIONS”
Memories of San Antonio 