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Post by Greg C. on Mar 13, 2007 14:13:22 GMT -5
great shots. i'll try to take my own photos from those same spots.
i also remember there being a minor league hockey team there, the San Antonio Rampage. Tickets are pretty cheap so i'll have to see if they are playing that week.
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Post by Bromhead24 on Mar 14, 2007 8:01:41 GMT -5
Make sure you look for "Battle" damage on the church...if you can
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Post by Greg C. on Mar 14, 2007 14:02:29 GMT -5
i just got my Travel Tex guide in the mail. it is filled with lots of good information and even come with a map and accomadations guide.
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Post by Bromhead24 on Mar 14, 2007 20:36:43 GMT -5
Plenty of things to do there and good food too...i'm hungry
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Post by neferetus on Mar 15, 2007 12:25:17 GMT -5
Sit yourself down for a little rest, Bromhead and have some free-holy beans.
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Post by neferetus on Mar 15, 2007 13:10:57 GMT -5
Map of present-day Alamo grounds and surrounding streets, with an ovevrlay of the Alamo compound of 1836.
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Post by Greg C. on Mar 15, 2007 17:38:13 GMT -5
my mom really wants to take the mission tour and im looking forward to it too.
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Post by Cole_blooded on Mar 15, 2007 18:43:17 GMT -5
Greg make darn sure you take "several spare camera batteries",a "big photo/memory card" and take a million pics while your there! You`ll be suprised at the photo oppertun ities! It would/might be helpful as well to take a small lens brush! TED COLE....aka....Cole_blooded ;D
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Post by neferetus on Mar 17, 2007 12:48:10 GMT -5
Casa Rio Mexican Restaurant, with Market Street Bridge in the distance, taken from the Commerce Street Bridge. Upon the Commerce Street Bridge, Green Jameson held a parley with Colonels Juan Almonte and Jose Batres.) (If you eat at Casa Rio, prepare to save some tortilla chips for the fish and ducks.)
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Post by Bromhead24 on Mar 18, 2007 18:52:52 GMT -5
But don't eat too much or you will be full before the main course
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Post by neferetus on Mar 19, 2007 12:22:03 GMT -5
But don't eat too much or you will be full before the main course Too true, Bromhead! ;D
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Post by neferetus on Mar 19, 2007 12:24:30 GMT -5
Oh, another thing about the Commerce Street Bridge. It was benerath this (formerly Portrero St.) footbridge that the Bejareno washer woman spied an escaping Texian and turned him in to be shot---or worse.
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Post by Greg C. on Mar 25, 2007 8:45:33 GMT -5
1 week to go!
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Post by Bromhead24 on Mar 25, 2007 9:38:23 GMT -5
Hey Greg, if you run into my sister-in-law down there, say hi for me ;D
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Post by Greg C. on Mar 25, 2007 10:57:02 GMT -5
Hey Greg, if you run into my sister-in-law down there, say hi for me ;D she lives in san antonio?
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Post by Bromhead24 on Mar 25, 2007 13:22:51 GMT -5
Hey Greg, if you run into my sister-in-law down there, say hi for me ;D she lives in san antonio? YES I have two of them that lives there.
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Post by Greg C. on Mar 25, 2007 18:12:35 GMT -5
is it weird to be more excited to see the Wayneamo then the actual alamo?
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Post by Bromhead24 on Mar 26, 2007 11:14:02 GMT -5
is it weird to be more excited to see the Wayneamo then the actual alamo? Thats exactly how it was with me...
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Post by neferetus on Mar 29, 2007 12:50:00 GMT -5
Well, you'll be on your way in just a few days, Greg. Below, Rich Curilla tells of his first Alamo visit and what you should look for on yours:
My first visit was June 16, 1958, at 4:00 A.M.!
We travelled by car all day and all night from New Orleans on Highway 90 (interstates weren't built yet) and arrived in the wee hours of the morning when all was verrrrry quiet. No people or traffic. Way cool.
My brother (who drove) slept in the car. Dad, Mother and I walked all around the Alamo (the developed block behind). Strangest memory is that the facade was rich with large, black beetles or water bugs. I mean two inches long. Never have seen them since. (Grinned off?)
I noticed a small pile of rock shavings on the flagstone at the very right bottom of the facade and gathered them up. A few actually fit the facade stones at the bottom. Somebody before me had been carving. Lucky for me. The bad news is that I can't find them. They are stored somewhere in an empty One-A-Day vitamin bottle marked with masking tape and my label saying "Piezas del Alamo."
We stayed for about two hours after the shrine opened at 9:00. I was very impressed with the model of the Alamo that was in the shrine in a glass case. This was the early one that looked like it was made of clay. Tom Feeley hadn't been invented yet, and Mike Waters was still in swaddling clothes. This model effected me so much that I thought about it all the way back to Pennsylvania in the car. Built one out of Playdough. The smell of the stuff still gives me Alamo flashbacks. (And it tasted better than those cruddy pink Topps bubble gum squares.)
I got a few of the prints of the rather bad paintings of the heroes that used to hang in the shrine. The only one that had class was the one of Travis fighting on the north wall. The rest were junk. I knew that at eleven!
For folks going to the Alamo the first time, I have one very clear reccommendation. Look at the inside walls. That's the history. You can even see the original tops, since the Army's 1850 additions are only half as thick. You can see how the apse came way down to enable the cannon ramp to be lower. Look in the Baptistry and Confessional to see the awesome vaulted ceilings and understand why Jameson and/or Cos chose to use them as powder magazines. Look in the Sacristy and see the very surfaces that stared at Susanna Dickinson and Ana Esparza for twelve days and nights of utter fright. Do this, and then you will understand why rebuilding all the outer walls of the fort is totally bogus.
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Post by Greg C. on Mar 31, 2007 11:04:18 GMT -5
this time tomorrow i'll be in the car on my way to the airport.
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