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Earl Abel's is a popular restaurant in San Antonio, Texas [1] [2] [3] that opened in 1933 and existed at one location at Broadway and Hildebrand from 1940 until 2006. It has been popular for its diverse menu ranging from Fried Chicken and Rainbow Trout to its selection of desserts including German chocolate cake and lemon meringue pie; its clientele included the well-to-do from nearby Alamo ...
Typical Monte Vista Historic District street sign. Bounded by Hildebrand Avenue to the north, Broadway to the east, I-10 to the west and I-35 to the south, Eastside of San Antonio's Historic District features an assortment of neighborhoods ranging from the working class Beacon Hill to the up-and-coming Five Points to the established upper middle class Monte Vista.
The remainder of the buildings along Houston between Alamo Plaza and Broadway, as well as the buildings along Broadway behind the 300 block of Alamo Plaza, are not significant architecturally or historically, but they are compatible in scale and use. Post Office and Federal Building (San Antonio, Texas), 615 East Houston. The Post Office is a ...
San Antonio: Recorded Texas Historic Landmark 150: The Toltec: The Toltec: July 26, 2010 : 131 Taylor Ave. San Antonio: Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks; part of San Antonio Downtown and River Walk Historic District 151: Travelers Hotel: Travelers Hotel
The tallest office building in San Antonio. [7] 3 Grand Hyatt San Antonio: 424 (129) 34 Hotel / Residential 2008 A 1,000 room hotel that was the tallest building in San Antonio completed in the 2000s. [8] 4 Tower Life Building: 404 (123) 30 Vacant 1928 First known as the Smith-Young Tower. Also on the National Register of Historic Places. It is ...
Sufficiently exceeding the listed time restriction, the theatre's opening on June 14, 1929, in many ways symbolized a progressiveness with which San Antonio wished to identify. The city actually deemed the month of the opening "Prosperity Month," celebrating the recent era of development Texas was experiencing.
In 1858 the Mengers hired an architect, John M. Fries, along with a contractor, J. H. Kampmann, to complete the two-story, 50-room hotel in San Antonio, Texas, [2] which became a stopping point on the Chisholm Trail where cattle drovers could replenish their supplies while cattlemen sold and bought their livestock.
The Fox company started as a small photo studio by a man named Arthur C. Fox in San Antonio, Texas. Carl Newton, a Canadian, moved to San Antonio and purchased the studio at the end of 1909 for $700 (equivalent to $21,111 in 2021), as amateur photography was in its infancy.