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Post by neferetus on Dec 14, 2006 22:03:08 GMT -5
 As you can see, the floor plan for the Concepcion church is very similar to the Alamo, save that the Sacristy is in the opposite transept and a block of buildings runs south off of the baptistry, much like the modern Alamo arcade. |
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Post by Greg C. on Dec 14, 2006 22:11:03 GMT -5
nice find! and thanks for bringing some much needed life back to A.S
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Post by Bromhead24 on Dec 15, 2006 10:49:51 GMT -5
Thats what i was thinking
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Post by neferetus on Dec 21, 2006 0:07:13 GMT -5
 Model of the Alamo currently on display inside the Long Barrack. |
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Post by Bromhead24 on Dec 21, 2006 12:19:12 GMT -5
Now thats pretty cool.
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Post by Greg C. on Dec 21, 2006 18:32:41 GMT -5
very realistic!
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Post by Bromhead24 on Dec 21, 2006 19:37:32 GMT -5
I wish i had the time and talent to do something like that..Well i have the time anyways..lol
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Post by Cole_blooded on Jan 30, 2007 23:58:16 GMT -5
Great pic Neff and a nice look to it! ;D Who did the work on that Alamo piece? Have there been other Alamo diorama`s there before? It would be cool to see some of these Alamo diorama`s photographed in B/W! TED....aka....Cole_blooded  |
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Post by alamoal on Feb 27, 2007 12:33:40 GMT -5
Tom Feely had one on display some years ago, HO scale I think. It was a depiction of the assault. You should see his new one at 54mm.
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Post by neferetus on Mar 3, 2007 13:46:27 GMT -5
Tom Feely had one on display some years ago, HO scale I think. It was a depiction of the assault. You should see his new one at 54mm. So, you've seen Tom's 54mm model? Hmmm... Do I know you, Alamo Al? |
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Post by neferetus on Mar 3, 2007 13:48:22 GMT -5
 Here's a nice overview of the Alamo by Gary Zaboly, I believe. |
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Post by TexasMac on Mar 4, 2007 18:55:12 GMT -5
I went looking for where the Alameda and funeral pyres were this afternoon by walking up and down E. Commerce, but couldn't figure where they were. I saw no signs. I'm thinking the Adams Freeway (I-37) is too far east based on the drawings and models. It seems to me it should be closer to Macy's or maybe the La Quinta. Nef?
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Post by alamoal on Mar 5, 2007 12:41:16 GMT -5
Nef.......I don't know. I'm part of the Jersey contingient. I know Mike B., Tom F., Billy C. personally, and only know others by reputation. These folks, plus the other Alamo Society 'locals' used to meet around this time at a Texas style restaurant near Bill Chemerka's. Bill used to live in East Hanover about 2 or 3 miles from where I worked. I have spoken to a few other people on the phone while doing some of my early research; Gary Z, and once to Craig Covner. Both great people. That had to be at least 10 years ago.
I'm not as active as I'd like to be, and only just "re-up'd" in the society this past year.
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Post by Rick on Mar 5, 2007 14:13:28 GMT -5
I went looking for where the Alameda and funeral pyres were this afternoon by walking up and down E. Commerce, but couldn't figure where they were. I saw no signs. I'm thinking the Adams Freeway (I-37) is too far east based on the drawings and models. It seems to me it should be closer to Macy's or maybe the La Quinta. Nef? A few years ago in Texas Monthly, Texas writer Stephen Harrigan had a piece entitled "Remembering the Alamo: Thirteen Ways to Look at It." In it, he described 13 different stops that would give visitors a sense of 1836, one of which is a plaque marking the location of the pyres. I've never hunted up the plaque, but Harrigan says to walk south from Alamo Plaza, cross Commerce at Dillard's, then walk east "thirty or forty yards" until you reach a spot across from the Rivercenter Mall's parking garage. Judging from the photo in the magazine, the plaque is mounted on a rock wall on the south side of Commerce. Harrigan added that he thinks the true spot of the pyres is a tad farther east, "perhaps where the Denny's or the La Quinta Inn now stands at the edge of Interstate 37," in his words. Harrigan's story is a good one to tote along when you walk downtown San Antonio. The old three-story La Quinta motel he mentions has been razed and replaced by a high-rise La Quinta hotel that sits farther north from Commerce. I believe the latter's new parking lot now occupies the space the old La Quinta and its small (and free) parking lot once occupied. I also think the Denny's (corner of Commerce and Bowie) is still there. Hope this helps. Did you take any photos while you were there for HHD 2007? If so, will you be posting any? |
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Post by wisconsinalamobuff on Apr 28, 2007 12:13:26 GMT -5
you guys found some great photos here! it would take me hours to look through all the pages!  |
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Post by RebAl on May 14, 2007 1:39:21 GMT -5
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Post by neferetus on May 14, 2007 12:47:07 GMT -5
Great detail there, Alex. It's the first time I've been able to actually read the inscription on the monument in a photo.
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Post by bubbabod on Sept 8, 2007 1:17:08 GMT -5
By the funeral pyres, I assume you're talking about where they burned the defenders' remains? I'd never heard that the site was where the La Quinta now stands. Isn't that quite a distance to transport all those bodies to burn them? I had always thought the burned them where the monument with all their names now stands. No?
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Post by bubbabod on Sept 8, 2007 1:58:53 GMT -5
For some cool pictures, including one marble marker marking where the pyre was, check out the subject of "Ashes and bones."
Great pictures. The guy who took them found many markers I never even knew existed or had never found them or seen tham.
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Post by neferetus on Oct 1, 2007 15:13:20 GMT -5
 Tourist guide to downtown San Antonio from 1912. |
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