Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Postcard showing San Fernando Cathedral, City Hall, San Antonio, Texas

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This undated but vintage shows San Fernando Cathedral, one of the main attractions in San Antonio, and a place very closely associated wit...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Buckhorn Saloon and Museum- San Antonio Texas

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The Buckhorn Saloon and Museum is the OTHER legendary must see site in San Antonio.  This AMAZING collection of taxidermy and other items...
Monday, April 11, 2016

Old Postcard showing First Mission, Mission Concepcion in San Antonio Texas

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This postcard was sent from Mexico, but the date is indecipherable.
Sunday, April 10, 2016

Mission Concepcion- San Antonio Texas

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After visiting Mission San Jose, we stopped by Mission Concepcion nearby. We had a nice tour with a great ranger here too.  The tour is...
Saturday, April 9, 2016

San Jose, Second Mission, Built 1718, San Antonio Texas

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This postcard was sent from San Antonio to Frankfort Kentucky in 1911!
Friday, April 8, 2016

Mission San Jose- San Antonio Texas

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Building started on the San Jose Mission in 1768.  it would become known as the Queen of the Missions. From a brochure given out at ...
Thursday, April 7, 2016

Greetings from San Antonio Texas- Alamo Plaza

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This great old postcard from San Antonio was sent in 1911!
Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Market Square- San Antonio Texas

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According to Wikipedia, Market Square is the largest Mexican market in the US.  The place is large, and there was a good crowd there on th...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

US Post Office, San Antonio, Texas

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This postcard went through the mail in 1908 from San Antonio- probably from the exact post office shown on the card!
Monday, April 4, 2016

San Antonio at Night

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Here are some photos of San Antonio Texas at night.  I took these from on top of the previously mentioned Hyatt River Walk Hotel. ...
Saturday, April 2, 2016

The Guenther House- San Antonio Texas

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 The Guenther House was built by Carl Guenther in 1859.  Guenther was the founder of Pioneer Flour which has been in business since before...
Friday, April 1, 2016

Random Thoughts on Friday

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I wanted to take a second to mention that I just found out that the Marx Museum in Moundsville West Virginia (near Wheeling) will be closing...
Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Alamo Trolley Tour- San Antonio Texas

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We were in San Antonio for several days and we did a lot of walking.  We also did a two day pass on one of their Hop On Hop Off trolleys. ...
Monday, March 28, 2016

Sisters Grimm Ghost Walk- San Antonio Texas

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I mentioned before that we did the Sister's Grimm Ghost Tour in San Antonio.  We had a great time with our tour guide Mark. I w...
Saturday, March 26, 2016

Andean Fusion

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We caught these guys playing music on the River Walk in San Antonio and we loved them!  Its funny, I have pretty much stopped going to con...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

The Menger Hotel- San Antonio Texas

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San Antonio is FULL of cool, historic hotels!  We were pretty excited about getting the opportunity to stick our heads into a few of them....