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On April 5, 1776, the de Anza Expedition called the area El Cañada de San Vicente. [4] The 1956 Thomas Brothers map spells it San Antone. This spelling mimics the way it is pronounced in common, modern usage by locals. It was spelled San Antone on the 1924 "Mount Boardman, California" U.S. Geological Survey 15-minute quadrangle. [5] [6]: 1–2
VitaNova Brands, based in San Antonio, Texas, was an operator of a number of American national buffet chain restaurants including subsidiary company Furr's. All of their Old Country Buffet, HomeTown Buffet, Ryan's Buffet, and Curry House locations have closed. [citation needed]
Taco Cabana was founded by Felix Stehling in September 1978, with its first restaurant at the corner of San Pedro and Hildebrand Avenue in Midtown San Antonio. [2] Stehling purchased a vacant Dairy Queen because the family needed additional parking space for their bar across the street, the Crystal Pistol. Stehling decided to open a taco stand ...
On Aug. 8, CosMc’s, the small-format, beverage- and breakfast-focused restaurant concept from McDonald’s, officially opened its newest outlet in San Antonio, Texas.
In 1945, seeing an opportunity to serve the Manhattan Project workers at the Trinity site, Miera's son-in-law Chavez opened the bar and café adjacent to the store. [ 2 ] Inside the Owl Bar is a 25 foot (7.6 m) mahogany bar built by the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, now known as the Brunswick Corporation .
San Antonio Heights is a census-designated place (CDP) in the San Bernardino County, California. It is in the northern Pomona Valley and the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains . The population was 3,371 at the 2010 census, up from 3,122 at the 2000 census.
Located along the city's Broadway corridor about two miles (3 km) northeast of Downtown San Antonio, lies Alamo Heights, an incorporated city completely surrounded by San Antonio. Often known simply by its ZIP Code ("78209" or "the '09"), Alamo Heights is roughly bordered to the south by Hildebrand Avenue, to the north by Interstate 410, to the ...
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]