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This Is What West Side San Antonio Looked Like in the 1960s


San Antonio - Wikipedia

Founded as a Spanish mission and colonial outpost in 1718, the city in 1731 became the first chartered civil settlement in what is now present-day Texas. The ...

The Case of San Antonio, Texas, 1960-1965 - jstor

defeated in 1960, the San Antonio Register was still attempting two years ... side ghetto, the demonstrators were condemned by the white press as. "the ...

San Antonio Springs and Brackenridge Park - Edwards Aquifer

We galloped up the west side, and paused at and above the head of the ... The bed of the San Antonio River as it usually looks. This photo was taken ...

WESTSIDE CREEKS ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION

River Avenue as well as the Westside. In some areas of San Antonio, rushing walls of water were described as 10-. 30 feet high. STUDY FOCUS. As a result of ...

Historical Loop 410/San Pedro Interchange Photos - The Texas ...

Loop 410 at San Pedro looking west (1960) This is the same view as the previous photo but with all of North Star Mall in view. (TxDOT). San ...

History - Historic Market Square

By 1900 San Antonio was the largest city in the state and the fastest-growing. ... Three city blocks bounded by Dolorosa, Santa Rosa and West Commerce Streets ...

Casa Navarro History | Texas Historical Commission

... Texas Declaration of Independence in 1836. Casa Navarro is the last remnant of the historically Mexican west side of San Antonio, known as Laredito (Little ...

Mapping the Movimiento - ArcGIS StoryMaps

During the 1960s and '70s, when the West Side was the local base ... West Side students, political activists were present at every corner of San Antonio.

San Antonio River Tributaries - The Historical Marker Database

creek channels on the city's west side during the 1960s and 1970s (center), and the San Pedro Creek flood control tunnel (right). Upper Right: The San ...

Remembering San Antonio's Horn-Infused Doo-Wop Scene - NPR

... San Antonio's West Side from the early '60s to the mid '70s. The ... Jesse and the Teardrops were listed on their records as Texas' fastest ...

Article 2: A History of Urban Renewal in San Antonio

The housing conditions of the Hispanic west side were paralleled in the predominantly black east side, although (at least, by 1939) that area ...

Sunday Revisited - San Antonio Radio Memories

... west side of the road, and I wondered about its past. ... Both instantly told me that what I described was known, in the 60s, as San Antonio Drag Raceway.

West Side Sound sax player Rocky Morales born, 1940

In recent years, scholars such as those with the West Side Sound Oral History Project at the University of Texas San Antonio have brought ...

'Chato's Bridge' at the Guadalupe Theater depicts 1970s West Side

A play by San Antonio playwright Mono Riojas Aguilar traces the violence of the West Side through generations.

Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Western San Antonio area

Interstate 35 was constructed during the period of 1960-65." As seen in the 1995 USGS aerial photo,. not a trace remains of the former Bexar County Airport.

San Antonio's forgotten jazz mecca: The lore of the Keyhole Club

SAN ANTONIO – A West Side building now known for its outdoor lucha ... as the economy took a downward turn in 1940 — San Antonio was different.

Ghost Town Survivors see West Side neighborhood history preserved

Jose Miguel Arciniega served as mayor of San Antonio in 1830 and again in 1833. His portrait is one of five that are part of Los Alcaldes de ...

San Antonio Transportation History Ox, Mule, and Horse Drawn Era ...

... San Antonio from Alabama in 1854 was as a freighter bringing goods from Indianola. Stagecoach Service. Most new Texas settlers arrived via the coast. Ports like ...

History of African Americans in San Antonio - Wikipedia

San Antonio ranks as the top Texas destination city for Black professionals. ... African Americans are also located in parts of San Antonio's West Side.

DISCOVERING SAN ANTONIO: A Photographic Souvenir

Because the height of the side aisles is nearly that of the central nave, I am tempted to refer to this interior as a “hall church,” which was ...