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Old 03-08-2010, 02:45 PM
 
Location: South Central Texas
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I agree GY. I think neon is making a big comeback!
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Old 03-08-2010, 02:59 PM
 
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If you like old San Antonio neons the best preserved neon I have seen is the old Pig Stand pig, inside the restaurant on Broadway street.

Here is a picture of the blinking pig and a story that Sonny Melendrez wrote about the Pig Stand.

Sonny Melendrez (http://voices.mysanantonio.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=31&tag=Sonny%20Melendrez&l imit=20&IncludeBlogs=31 - broken link)
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Old 03-08-2010, 04:50 PM
 
Location: Austin, Tx.
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Default Downtown SA Nights

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At night downtown would twinkle with all the store signs. Not to mention the noise of crickets in the summer time.
This old postcard of Houston St. at night has fun details like the Hertzberg Clock and Empire Theater sign. The other card shows West Houston looking eastward so the opposite of the card I posted earlier today. Hope nobody minds this plug for my book "San Antonio; Then, Now & Always" but all these postcards are in it for those interested in such things.
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Old 03-08-2010, 04:58 PM
 
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This old postcard of Houston St. at night has fun details like the Hertzberg Clock and Empire Theater sign. The other card shows West Houston looking eastward so the opposite of the card I posted earlier today. Hope nobody minds this plug for my book "San Antonio; Then, Now & Always" but all these postcards are in it for those interested in such things.
Does your book have any pictures of the old Buckhorn Saloon at the corner of Houston & Flores, pics of the Coney Island? Pics of St. Mary's Churrch, School. School of Law?

Great pics of Houston street. I am trying to figure out where John Hardy Shoes used to be. Most of their shoes in 1966 sold for one price, $4.40. Even the Beatle boots!
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Old 03-08-2010, 04:59 PM
 
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This old postcard of Houston St. at night has fun details like the Hertzberg Clock and Empire Theater sign. The other card shows West Houston looking eastward so the opposite of the card I posted earlier today. Hope nobody minds this plug for my book "San Antonio; Then, Now & Always" but all these postcards are in it for those interested in such things.
The night time picture was shot during Rodeo Week. You can see the rodeo banners hanging atop the street.
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Old 03-08-2010, 06:58 PM
 
Location: Austin, Tx.
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Default more downtown cards

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Does your book have any pictures of the old Buckhorn Saloon at the corner of Houston & Flores, pics of the Coney Island? Pics of St. Mary's Churrch, School. School of Law?
The first San Antonio book by Schiffer has Buckhorn cards so I did not add any to mine and couldn't find any cards of the other places you asked about. Some places just never made it onto postcards as far as I can tell thus far but I'm still looking. My book contains 350 San Antonio images which was the max allowed by the publisher while I had nearly 500 available and there are lots more out there. Here are a couple more of E. Houston while for unknown reasons Commerce St. was not put on cards except for some very early ones. The third card is the only E. Commerce card I have. So few people present suggests a Sunday shot when the stores were closed. Enjoy!

ps for Nix54; Seen in the earlier sidewalk shot, my grandmother was a nurse at Nix Hospital during the 1940s and early '50s.
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Old 03-08-2010, 07:18 PM
 
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The first San Antonio book by Schiffer has Buckhorn cards so I did not add any to mine and couldn't find any cards of the other places you asked about. Some places just never made it onto postcards as far as I can tell thus far but I'm still looking. My book contains 350 San Antonio images which was the max allowed by the publisher while I had nearly 500 available and there are lots more out there. Here are a couple more of E. Houston while for unknown reasons Commerce St. was not put on cards except for some very early ones. The third card is the only E. Commerce card I have. So few people present suggests a Sunday shot when the stores were closed. Enjoy!

ps for Nix54; Seen in the earlier sidewalk shot, my grandmother was a nurse at Nix Hospital during the 1940s and early '50s.
Great memories of a great downtown.

BudB, maybe your Grandmom helped deliver me. I am a product of the Nix hospital, March 1, 1954. Dr. Potthast was our doctor.

And by fate stayed downtown I would take the bus daily downtown from St. Michaels, then in 65' transferred to St. Mary's School in the heart of downtown. For 8 years 60 to 68 downtown was a daily ritual

My Mom worked as a clerk at the old Rubin's Clothing Outlet later renamed Casa Ernesto at the corner of Houston & Flores. It was one of the original locations of the Buckhorn Saloon. As you walked into the store the octagon tiled floor at the entrance read "The Buckhorn."
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Old 03-08-2010, 07:22 PM
 
Location: North Central S.A.
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Product of the Nix, too. 1973!
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Old 03-08-2010, 07:24 PM
 
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Product of the Nix, too. 1973!
We're both made in the heart of Texas!

You can't any closer to the Alamo than the Nix!
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Old 03-08-2010, 07:29 PM
 
Location: North Central S.A.
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I tell visitors I was born on the Riverwalk!
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