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Post by neferetus on Apr 11, 2006 14:24:02 GMT -5
 The Vramendi Palace. Jim Bowie's home, when in San Antonio. Ben Milam was felled by a sniper's bullet near it's doors. The Palace was torn down in 1910 during the widening of Soledad Street. The original doors of the Veramendi Palace are now on display inside the Alamo church. |
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Post by Bromhead24 on Apr 11, 2006 17:06:13 GMT -5
If only "Foresight" was 20/20
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Post by Cole_blooded on Apr 13, 2006 15:31:17 GMT -5
Geez Mike is that not you and some of your Navy squad there dressed as Minute Men,sent in to protect the Alamo?
TED COLE....aka....Cole_blooded
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Post by neferetus on Apr 29, 2006 22:47:49 GMT -5
 Here's another photo of the Rolling Stones at the Alamo, taken to help promote their 1975 U.S. tour. |
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Post by neferetus on Apr 30, 2006 23:05:11 GMT -5
 Another nice aerial view of the Alamo, as seen from the Emily Morgan Hotel. |
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Post by Bromhead24 on May 1, 2006 6:45:27 GMT -5
Hey Nef, do you think the cattle corral is original? I mean that it was not rebuilt or moved over the years and is in it's origonal state...  |
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Post by neferetus on May 1, 2006 23:50:56 GMT -5
Hey Nef, do you think the cattle corral is origonal? I mean that it was not rebuilt or moved over the years and is in it's origonal state... It was rebuilt upon the original foundations, so the location is the same. There also wou'dve been a second courtyard extending towards the end of the Long Barrack. While Reuben M. Potter shows this 'Cattle Pen' as a stockade fence, most plats of the Alamo depict it as a stone wall. (Green Jameson's plat depicts it as a stone wall, supported by 'pickets all around'. Today, this second courtyard is represented as the 'Cavalry Courtyard' where most of the Alamo arillery is on display. |
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Post by neferetus on May 3, 2006 23:41:01 GMT -5
 North wall of the Alamo church, as seen from the Long Barrack arcade. |
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Post by neferetus on May 4, 2006 13:06:43 GMT -5
Here are two amazing photos that I just received in the mail of the Alamo, circa WWI.  Some sort of construction seems to be going on behind the chapel there.  An interesting perspective of the Long Barrack, taken from mid-plaza, with the corner of the chapel there, to the right. |
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Post by Bromhead24 on May 21, 2006 8:29:10 GMT -5
Makes you wonder if the arched doorways and windows are original.
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Post by texianatheart2 on Jul 26, 2006 22:22:17 GMT -5
 Aerial view of the Alamo looking south, from a window in the Emily Morgan Hotel. In the foreground is the Alamo Giftshop/Museum, while to the direct right of that is the 'Wall of History' and the east courtyard wall. Beyond the Giftshop/Museum is the Alamo church, with the DRT Library and Alamo Hall in the distance, to the left. Beyond the DRT Library and Alamo Hall is the Menger Hotel. (Notice the acequia running behind the Alamo church.) the gift shop looks bigger than the alamo Of course the gift shop is bigger than the Alamo. It has to be hold all the geegaws and foovarahs that folks want to buy. |
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Post by Bromhead24 on Aug 6, 2006 18:47:12 GMT -5
Are those A/C's on the roof of the church?
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Post by Greg C. on Sept 10, 2006 15:02:44 GMT -5
Are those A/C's on the roof of the church? looks like it. |
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Post by Greg C. on Sept 10, 2006 15:08:00 GMT -5
 Selling Cattle at the Alamo |
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Post by neferetus on Sept 21, 2006 12:57:31 GMT -5
NIce photo, Greg. Got any more?
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Post by Greg C. on Sept 21, 2006 17:50:23 GMT -5
nothing else with cattle but here is one from 1900. hard to believe its from that year becuase of its clearness and condition.  |
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Post by neferetus on Sept 22, 2006 13:02:23 GMT -5
Very nice, thanks. I've never seen that one.
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Post by TexasMac on Nov 6, 2006 6:21:02 GMT -5
nothing else with cattle but here is one from 1900. hard to believe its from that year becuase of its clearness and condition. When did the stores in the Long Barrack close up? Was the building abandoned long before it was torn off the original structure in 1911? |
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Post by TexasMac on Nov 6, 2006 6:49:26 GMT -5
 Fall Of The Alamo, by Theodore Gentilz This is the image that really got me going on studying the architecture of the Alamo. A copy of it was in a 1961 issue of American Heritage Magazine that I just happened to see, right after viewing John Wayne's "The Alamo". The scene is much in harmony with the look of the Waynamo set. Gentilz depicted the walls stark white, just like the Waynamo. I couldn't figure why the palisade would've been abandoned, though. After all, didn't the Duke say, "HALF of you men, throw up a barricade"? Half? It looks like they ALL did!  I remember this Gentilz painting from my Texas history school book from 7th Grade. It is one of my favorites because it looks so real and it was thefirst to show me how the plaza looked before it was turned into a street. |
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Post by Greg C. on Nov 6, 2006 17:24:15 GMT -5
that painting almost looks like an actual photograph. its one of my favs too.
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