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Fox Photo Inc. was an American chain of photo stores, which sold cameras, photographic equipment and developed film. 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 ...
Ximenes Chapel (Chapel of the Miracles) is a historic chapel at 113 Ruiz Street in San Antonio, Texas. The chapel has long been an important gathering place for San Antonio's Mexican-American and Hispanic Catholic population. [2] The chapel was rebuilt in the 1920s to replace the original chapel from 1813, which had been destroyed in a fire.
Playland Park was an amusement park formerly located in San Antonio, Texas. Playland Park opened in 1943 and was owned by Jimmy Johnson. Prior to this it operated as a small venue at Brackenridge Park. It was the original home of The Rocket, a popular wooden roller coaster currently located at Knoebels Amusement Resort. Ed Gaida, who lived at ...
San Antonio (/ ˌ s æ n æ n ˈ t oʊ n i oʊ / SAN an-TOH-nee-oh; Spanish for "Saint Anthony") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio, the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 2.6 million people in the 2020 United States census. [12]
People use raster graphics editors to repair digital images, or to add or replace torn or missing pieces of the physical photograph. Unwanted color casts are removed and the image's contrast or sharpening may be altered to restore the contrast range or detail believed to have been in the original physical image.
The Buckhorn Saloon & Museum is a privately run museum located at 318 E. Houston Street in Downtown San Antonio, Texas, U.S. Originally privately owned by Albert Friedrich, the Buckhorn became a tourist attraction for its unique collections.
The mall, originally known as Wonderland Shopping City, was constructed on a 61-acre plot in Balcones Heights, Texas, an enclave city surrounded by San Antonio.At the time of its opening in 1961, the mall boasted 650,000 square feet of air-conditioned shopping area, 62 stores, and two anchors, a 2-level Montgomery Ward in a 149,000 square foot store and a 66,000 square foot Handy Andy ...
The Alamo Plaza Historic District is an historic district of downtown San Antonio in the U.S. state of Texas. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. [ 1 ] It includes the Alamo , which is a separately listed Registered Historic Place and a U.S. National Historic Landmark .