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Post by neferetus on Mar 15, 2008 18:20:13 GMT -5
San Juan ruins.
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Post by neferetus on Mar 15, 2008 18:21:42 GMT -5
Original bastion at Mission Espada.
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Post by neferetus on Mar 15, 2008 18:22:36 GMT -5
Ruins at Mission Espada.
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Post by neferetus on Mar 15, 2008 18:23:20 GMT -5
Damaged wall of Mission San Juan's church.
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Post by neferetus on Mar 15, 2008 18:24:29 GMT -5
Another shot of the San Antonio River, near Mission San Juan, as it must've looked back in 1836 around the Alamo.
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Post by Cole_blooded on Mar 15, 2008 21:57:58 GMT -5
Thanks Neff for sharing your stills of the photogenic and historic mission tour! I bet you stared at the missions some and got taken to another time! ;D TED COLE....aka....Cole_blooded
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Post by neferetus on Mar 16, 2008 0:23:20 GMT -5
Thanks Neff for sharing your stills of the photogenic and historic mission tour! I bet you stared at the missions some and got taken to another time! ;D TED COLE....aka....Cole_blooded Yeah Ted, especially at San Juan and Espada. Those two missions are particularly remote and the nearby, untouched river still looks as it must've, back in 1836.
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Post by neferetus on Apr 5, 2008 1:48:12 GMT -5
Yes, that's an amphitheater outside the mission. The other building in question is the giftshop, Museum and theater, which shows a film on the mission and mission life every hour on the hour. Great! So they have plays about the mission at the amphitheater? It´s nice to see that they have a museum and a Theater showing a film about the mission. It´s important to have such things, to keep history alive and interesting... Back in 1958, 50 years ago this coming June, the mission amphi- theater featured a play concerning the Alamo called A CLOUD OF WITNESSES by Ramsey Yelvington. (I just got this old flyer for it in the mail.)
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Post by seguin on Apr 5, 2008 20:39:02 GMT -5
Nice looking flyer! - And a cast of 50 players! It must´ve been a great play (if the script was any good, of course. They certainly did´nt have to invent the dramatic parts of the play!)...
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Post by neferetus on Apr 6, 2008 12:06:48 GMT -5
Here's a picture of the stage from the flyer. As you can see, it's right next to the mission church.
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Post by neferetus on Apr 6, 2008 12:10:27 GMT -5
Some scenes from the play, from the flyer.
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Post by neferetus on Apr 6, 2008 12:17:46 GMT -5
The rest of the flyer.
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Post by neferetus on Apr 6, 2008 12:18:27 GMT -5
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Post by Greg C. on Apr 6, 2008 13:16:17 GMT -5
I love that it was only $3 lol...
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Post by seguin on Apr 6, 2008 18:35:53 GMT -5
I love that it was only $3 lol... Yes, for box seats! The general admission was only $1! Thanks for posting the whole program, Nef! "the viewer sits in the center of the battle. The fighting goes on all about him...no detail of the gory action is lacking." - It sounds like a great play!
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Post by neferetus on Apr 6, 2008 19:17:16 GMT -5
What Things Cost in 1958:
Car: $2,200 Gasoline: 30 cents/gal House: $18,000 Bread: 19 cents/loaf Milk: $1.01/gal Postage Stamp: 4 cents Stock Market: 584 Average Annual Salary: $5,500 Minimum Wage: $1.00 per hour
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Post by neferetus on Apr 6, 2008 19:18:30 GMT -5
With the above stats, imagine spending three hours of today's salary to acquire a box seat.
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Post by seguin on Apr 6, 2008 19:43:36 GMT -5
And a concert ticket to watch say, Neil Young, costs much more than three hours salary today! More like eight hours salary - before tax. Neil Young is touring Europe right now and I believe a ticket costs about $150!
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Post by Greg C. on Apr 6, 2008 19:52:08 GMT -5
Only $150 in Europe? In the US his tickets were going for an upwards of a thousand dollars!
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Post by seguin on Apr 6, 2008 19:57:35 GMT -5
I believe you could get tickets to some of his concerts for $200 (not $150, my mistake) but I could be wrong. Maybe it was much more!
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