Download or read book Downtown San Antonio Historic Walking Tour written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book River Walk written by Lewis F. Fisher and published by Maverick Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated photographs and narratives describe the history, restoration, and continued development of San Antonio's River Walk.
Download or read book Downtown San Antonio written by Joan Marston Korte and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archvial photographs and text describe the history, social life and customs of San Antonio, Texas.
Download or read book Haunted History of Old San Antonio written by Lauren M. Swartz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything is bigger in Texas—including ghosts—especially in San Antonio, considered one of the ten most haunted cities in the world by National Geographic. As the saying goes, “dead men tell no tales.” Or do they? From its humble beginnings as a Spanish settlement in 1691 to the bloody battle at the Alamo, San Antonio’s history is rich in haunting tales. Discover Old San Antonio’s most haunted places and uncover the history that lies waiting for those who dare enter their doorways. Take a peek inside the Menger Hotel, the “Most Haunted Hotel in Texas,” and just a block away, peer into the Emily Morgan Hotel, renovated after a decade of being vacant, was once the city’s first hospitals where many men and women lost their lives. Explore the San Fernando Cathedral, where people are buried within the walls and visitors claim to see faces mysteriously appear. Uncover the legends behind Bexar County Jail. Join authors James and Lauren Swartz and decide for yourself what truly lurks behind the Alamo City’s fabled past. Includes photos!
Download or read book Wild West Frontier Town written by Tom Woodley and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book San Antonio written by Charles Ramsdell and published by . This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps By David Price, Green B. Jameson, And Daryl Engel.
Download or read book Foodies of SA written by Chantal Botha and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local is extra lekker in this cookbook that brings you mouth-watering recipes like Pap in a Pumpkin, Cheesy Braai Bombs, A-maize-ing Chakalaka Dippers, Croque Meneer and Steri Stumpie Hot Chocolate. Foodies of South Africa is synonymous with epic recipes, wicked combos, extra cheesy delights and dripping sauces. With over 730 000 followers on Facebook, including a few local celebrities like Lorna Maseko and Dineo Ranaka, Foodies of South Africa's videos have gone viral. In the last year their videos got more shares than all of the top 50 brands in the country combined. Every week 4 million of their fans view their delicious recipes – in a good week this figure goes up to 10 million. Their fans also love to comment on and share the recipes and even upload photos when they have made the dishes. The book will also include several fan comments from Facebook. To the team from Foodies of SA food is much more than just food. It is also an intimate and intricate part of one's life story, it is belonging, heritage, culture... and connection. This is a book that is bound to become a much-consulted, dog-eared, flour-dusted, timeworn companion.
Download or read book Saving San Antonio written by Lewis F. Fisher and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few American cities enjoy the likes of San Antonio's visual links with its dramatic past. The Alamo and four other Spanish missions, recently marked as a UNESCO World Heritage site, are the most obvious but there are a host of landmarks and folkways that have survived over the course of nearly three centuries that still lend San Antonio an "odd and antiquated foreignness." Adding to the charm of the nation's seventh largest city is the San Antonio River, saved to become a winding linear park through the heart of downtown and beyond and a world model for sensitive urban development. San Antonio's heritage has not been preserved by accident. The wrecking balls and headlong development that accompanied progress in nineteenth-century San Antonio roused an indigenous historic preservation movement—the first west of the Mississippi River to become effective. Its thrust has increased since the mid-1920s with the pioneering work of the San Antonio Conservation Society. In Saving San Antonio, Texas historian Lewis Fisher peels back the myths surrounding more than a century of preservation triumphs and failures to reveal a lively mosaic that portrays the saving of San Antonio's cultural and architectural soul. The process, entertaining in the telling, has reverberated throughout the United States and provided significant lessons for the built environments and economies of cities everywhere.
Download or read book Look Up San Antonio A Walking Tour of San Antonio Texas written by Doug Gelbert and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frommer s Texas written by Janis Turk and published by Frommermedia. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Find the Texas of your dreams -- do some two-stepping in a honky-tonk dance hall, float down the Rio Grande through chiseled desert canyons, sample fiery Tex-Mex, visit world-class museums (and historic sights) and watch the big Texas sky light up a field of Hill Country bluebonnets. Our author has personally visited every hotel, shop, restaurant, attraction and nightspot listed in this book -- and hundreds more -- to better guide you on the trip of a lifetime. Here's to the Lone Star State!" -- Back cover.
Download or read book Historic Photos of San Antonio written by and published by Historic Photos. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Antonio was named for the Portuguese Saint Anthony of Padua when a Spanish expedition stopped in the area in 1691. The actual founding of the city took place in 1718 by Father Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares. The ?River City? is famous for the Alamo and the River Walk, the two most visited tourists attractions in the entire state of Texas, along with Sea World, Six Flags Texas Fiesta and a very strong military concentration. This book follows life, government, events and people important to San Antonio history and the building of this unique city. Spanning over two centuries and two hundred photographs, this is a must have for any long-time resident or history lover of San Antonio!
Download or read book Insiders Guide to San Antonio written by Paris Permenter and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Travel Destination. Your Home. Your Home-To-Be. San Antonio Stroll along the River Walk and grab a bite to eat. Relive history at the Alamo. Experience the exotic blend of Texas frontier and Mexican marketplace. • A personal, practical perspective for travelers and residents alike • Comprehensive listings of attractions, restaurants, and accommodations • How to live & thrive in the area—from recreation to relocation • Countless details on shopping, arts & entertainment, and children’s activities
Download or read book The Alamo Story written by Dean Kirkpatrick and published by The Alamo Story and Tour. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you going to the Alamo? Read this book first, then take it with you to see and remember it all. Most visitors just see the Alamo compound, where it ended, but the 1836 siege and battle took place all over the city. The Alamo Story and Battleground Tour is the first Alamo history book that tells the story at the places throughout San Antonio where Alamo events actually happened. This book combines an Alamo history from 1685 to 1836 with a self-guided tour. The places on the tour may be experienced through the pictures in the book or by following the maps and directions the book provides and actually walking the ground where the Alamo heroes walked. Covering a distance of about two miles, much of it along the San Antonio River Walk, the written history and self-guided tour take you to the locations of: Davy Crockett's ashes, Jim Bowie's river palace, General Santa Anna's death flag, the Cos surrender house, La Villita, the forbidden footbridge, the Old Mill Ford, Jim Bowie's wedding in 1831, and many others. "It was a really interesting concept on that book and I enjoyed reading it. He did a good job on that one." − Daughter of the Republic of Texas, Alamo Committee Member (Designated Reviewer) "We can see that this book was a true labor of love....." − Ann Serrano, Librarian, The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas "To see the Alamo in a new way, you need to get this book." - Texas Country Reporter "Your research and knowledge and gift for the telling of this story is truly a tribute to those brave men who perished at that place and time in history." − Reader
Download or read book San Antonio on Foot written by Diane Capito and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an abundance of historic sites, gracious old residential neighborhoods, and lush garden areas, San Antonio is guaranteed to excite the urban explorer at every turn.San Antonio On Foot, second edition, by professional walking guide Diane Capito and former tour guide Mark Willis, is the walkers' guidebook of choice--newly revised and expanded. In addition to offering three new neighborhoods to discover, the walks have been streamlined to offer a short or longer walk option with estimated walking times included. Accurate, easy-to-use maps accompany each walk description.Designed for all abilities, these walks are stroller and wheelchair friendly, covering flat terrain (with only one clearly marked hilly exception), and are filled with the kind of information the city ambler needs--where to find the restrooms, restaurants, telephones, and water sources along the way. Complete with historical information as well as lively anecdotal details, San Antonio on Foot provides the perfect opportunity for native San Antonians as well as visitors to get out and discover one of America's most exciting and unusual cities.
Download or read book The Midnight Assassin written by Skip Hollandsworth and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller, The Midnight Assassin is a sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885. In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolical than London's infamous Jack the Ripper. For almost exactly one year, the Midnight Assassin crisscrossed the entire city, striking on moonlit nights, using axes, knives, and long steel rods to rip apart women from every race and class. At the time the concept of a serial killer was unthinkable, but the murders continued, the killer became more brazen, and the citizens' panic reached a fever pitch. Before it was all over, at least a dozen men would be arrested in connection with the murders, and the crimes would expose what a newspaper described as "the most extensive and profound scandal ever known in Austin." And yes, when Jack the Ripper began his attacks in 1888, London police investigators did wonder if the killer from Austin had crossed the ocean to terrorize their own city. With vivid historical detail and novelistic flair, Texas Monthly journalist Skip Hollandsworth brings this terrifying saga to life.
Download or read book A Guide to Historic San Antonio written by Frank A. Driskill and published by Sunbelt Media. This book was released on 1982 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Where to Stay in San Antonio TX A Brief Travel Guide written by Paul Samson and published by Paul Samson. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the heart and soul of one of Texas' most vibrant cities with "Where to Stay in San Antonio, TX." This comprehensive travel guide takes you on an immersive journey through San Antonio’s rich history, diverse neighborhoods, and unique attractions, providing everything you need to plan the perfect trip. Begin your adventure with a captivating introduction to San Antonio’s storied past, from its founding as a Spanish mission to its pivotal role in Texas' fight for independence. Learn about the cultural influences that have shaped the city and continue to make it a dynamic and exciting destination. Explore the best places to stay, from luxurious hotels in the trendy Pearl District to charming bed and breakfasts in historic Alamo Heights. Each recommendation includes detailed descriptions and insights to help you find the perfect accommodation to suit your needs and preferences. Indulge in San Antonio’s culinary delights with our guide to the city's diverse food scene. Whether you’re craving authentic Tex-Mex, mouth-watering barbecue, or innovative contemporary cuisine, you’ll find the best restaurants and eateries to satisfy your palate. Discover a plethora of activities and attractions that cater to every interest. Visit iconic historic sites like the Alamo and the San Antonio Missions, stroll along the picturesque River Walk, and explore world-class museums and vibrant cultural festivals. Our guide to outdoor activities, family-friendly attractions, and hidden gems ensures that you'll experience the best of what San Antonio has to offer. Delve into the unique character of San Antonio's neighborhoods, each with its own charm and attractions. From the artistic vibes of Southtown to the upscale elegance of Alamo Heights, uncover the distinct personalities that make each area worth exploring. Learn about the city's seasonal activities and experiences that highlight San Antonio's lively community spirit and cultural heritage. From the colorful Fiesta San Antonio to the festive Holiday River Parade, you'll find events and celebrations that make every visit special. Reflect on the warmth and hospitality of San Antonio, a city that seamlessly blends history with modernity and offers a welcoming atmosphere for all visitors. Whether you're a first-time visitor or a seasoned traveler, "Where to Stay in San Antonio, TX" provides valuable insights and practical information to make your trip to San Antonio an unforgettable experience. Let this guide be your companion as you explore the hidden treasures and vibrant culture of this enchanting city.
