by RoadRunner | Jun 12, 2017 | history, San Antonio insider, Sightseeing
Since 1957, the San Antonio Zoo Eagle has chugged along the tracks skirting the banks of the San Antonio River in Brackenridge Park, on the route of the longer Sunday walks of the Texas Trail Roundup. Stops include the Witte Museum, Kiddie Park, and the Japanese Tea...
by RoadRunner | Apr 17, 2017 | history, San Antonio insider, tips
San Antonio touts its annual Fiesta — 20-30 April this year — 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...
by RoadRunner | Apr 10, 2017 | food & drink, history, music, San Antonio insider
On November 23, 1936 Robert Johnson created the template for electric blues, which became rock-and-roll, in Room 414 of the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio. You’ll pass the Gunter, which opened in 1909, on the Friday Friendship Walk: it’s on E. Houston St.,...
by RoadRunner | Feb 24, 2017 | history, San Antonio insider, Sightseeing, technology
On Friday’s Friendship Walks you stroll by the Hertzberg Clock. Cast in iron by E. Howard Clock Company of Boston, it was first installed in front of Eli Hertzberg Jewelry Company on Commerce Street in 1878. In 1910, when Commerce St. was widened, the company...
by RoadRunner | Feb 23, 2017 | art, history, San Antonio insider, Sightseeing
The San Antonio is not a majestic river; its bridges are accordingly modest. You won’t find a Chesapeake Bay Bridge here, or a Clifton Suspension Bridge. The model for the River Walk was Venice, but we we have nothing like the 400 bridges that span the narrow...
by RoadRunner | Feb 23, 2017 | history, San Antonio insider, Sightseeing
Just opened in 2013, the San Antonio Fire Museum, just steps away from the Alamo (801 E. Houston) is housed in “Central Fire Headquarters,” or Fire Station #1, built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1938. The city moved it’s firefighters...
