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.”
Memories of San Antonio 