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Priscilla is the greeter for the event, pointing us in the right direction. |
Kathy was working the registration table. |
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John was passing out the walk directions. |
Monument to Fallen Police Officers and Firefighters. |
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The author of "The Gift of the Magi", O. Henry, lived in this house. It is now a museum. |
Bluebonnet mural on the side of the probation building (behind O. Henry house). |
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City Hall is a Italian Renaissance Revival. It was built in 1889. The Cinco de May Obelisk in front of it. |
Virgin Mary and a worshipper in a courtyard behind San Fernando Cathedral across the street from City Hall. |
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Our Lady of the Flowers on the courtyard wall as we continued to the front of San Fernando Cathedral. |
Cross in the courtyard of the Cathedral features a dove, symbolizing the coming of the Holy Spirit, an the Sacred Heart of Jesus being pierced by a Roman Spear. |
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Ed and the Statue of San Antonio de Padua (for whom San Antonio was named). |
The Aztec Theater opened in 1926. It closed in 1989. It was renovated and reopened in 2009. |
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Heads decorate the top of the Aztec theater done by Hannibal Pianta. |
"First Inhabitant” is on the Smithsonian Art Inventory list, also done by Hannibal Pianta. |
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Monument in shape of the 141st Infantry Regimental crest was erected in 1991 to remind us to “Remember The Alamo.” |
Moore building erected in 1904 is a lovely flatiron building in the Victorian-Empire style. |
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Buckhorn Saloon, Museum, and Texas Ranger Museum |
Art Deco Kress building erected in 1938. |
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“MORF” abstract art next to the Majestic Theater. |
The Majestic opened in 1929. It closed in 1974. It was renovated and reopened in 1989. |
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Faces above the entrance of the Empire Theater are more of Hannibal Pianta's work. |
Empire Theater opened in 1914. Closed in 1978. Restored and reopened in 1989. |
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Texas Theater opened in 1926. In 1983 all by the façade of the theater was razed. |
Four mosaic decorated pillars are on the Houston Street bridge. |
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Boulder on the City Hall lawn tells us this is Mile zero on the Old Spanish Trail. |
Statue of Moses Austin, first Anglo American settler in Texas, located on the City Hall grounds. |
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Fountain in the courtyard of the Spanish Governor’s Palace. |
Spanish Governor’s Palace – The only remaining 18th-century Spanish aristocratic home in Texas. |
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Statue of a Spanish Conquistador in front of the Spanish Governor’s Palace. |
The gazebo in Milam Park is one of the largest in San Antonio. It was given to the city by a sister city in Mexico and when the foundation was being dug, the grave site of Ben Milam was discovered and moved to its present location. |
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Checkpoint volunteers. |
Chapa Lion mosaic mural circa 2000. |
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Water Tower above Bill Miller’s corporate offices looks like a cup with a straw in it. |
Pat was working the finish table. I asked her to show off the club’s t-shirt. |
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