Gone but not forgotten in San Antonio!

[Primo]

Originally Posted by GWhopper

And only a faint trace of the original Wolfe’s Inn entrance gate remains today, a slim stone wall….residue of an almost forgotten past, still stands at the intersection of Fredericksburg and Wurzbach, in front of an abandoned Diamond Shamrock once used for payday loans.

I propose another field trip..and we need to go take a photo of the historical marker for 9 Mile Hill and rest on this wall and see what it says.

[Willsatx]

Originally Posted by kevinm_03

I remember the Bookstop bookstore on N. New Braunfels. I used to love going to that store in the late evening. Now it's a boring art gallery, they should've kept it the same.

I agree loved the futuristic sign it had.

[940]

Very interesting history, GWhopper...I'm headed back down to SA tomorrow for Christmas..I may have to drive over to the old location of Wolfe's Inn and snap a pic or two of what's left of the old stone wall.

[Primo]

Originally Posted by 940

Very interesting history, GWhopper...I'm headed back down to SA tomorrow for Christmas..I may have to drive over to the old location of Wolfe's Inn and snap a pic or two of what's left of the old stone wall.

This is on what is left of the wall to Wolfe's Inn...at the Corner of Fredericksburg and Wurzbach....

[Primo]

The Nine Mile marker is on the right pillar...the short wall connecting the 2 pillars is new. This must have been the arched entranced to Wolfe's Inn.

[Primo]

Same entrance....1959

[940]

How sad to see what's on that corner now from Primo's current pic of the two rock pillars...what a shame to have torn down Wolfe's Inn and what we have left is that old gas station-looking structure.

[Primo]

Originally Posted by 940

How sad to see what's on that corner now from Primo's current pic of the two rock pillars...what a shame to have torn down Wolfe's Inn and what we have left is that old gas station-looking structure.

IT is amazing how the conservation society, city, etc, picks and choose what historic things stay and go.

Why was a historic building like Wolfe's Inn torn down in order to build a Po-Folks and Diamon Shamrock?

Why was the mansion and farm land at I-10 and Wurzbach...which was on a hill top with a view of the entire city...torn down for a Lowes?

Most of the Springs that feed the San Antonio River on the Incarned Word Campus are now covered by parking lots, and soccer fields...and...all you see now water coming out of a pipe from the side of the parking lots and Fields?

The Onion House has been in disrepair forever...why hasn't that been preserved? At least it is still standing
Same things with the stage coach house at Leon Springs.

[txtea]

Originally Posted by Paka

Check out just beyond Marshall HS at the corner of Echart Rd where it T intersects with Abe Lincoln...turn left and go about 1/2 mile...the towers and the little building in the middle (with the radio stations call letters on it) still sit in the middle of the field. Towers are easy to find...and I think the property is up for sale now.

Those radio towers and building you speak of are the KCOR spanish radio station....been here forever. I live right behind them now! The old KKYX radio station and towers were where the new walmart is now....that was wayyyy out in the sticks back then.

[majormadmax]

Originally Posted by Primo

The Onion House has been in disrepair forever...why hasn't that been preserved? At least it is still standing Same things with the stage coach house at Leon Springs.

Have you been by there lately? The Huebner-Onion house is being restored by the Leon Valley Preservation Society! There are also two other old German homesteads, the Grenwelge/Braun Farm Complex across from Nichols Elementary and the Jospeh Steumple farm next to the Sonic at 1604 and Braun, which have been saved from destruction. I agree that there needs to be more of an effort to preserve the landmarks that represent San Antonio's history; but at least some are being saved. We had a nice discussion about it here, and even discussioned possibility of the Heubner-Onion house being haunted here!

By the way, I had not heard about the Stagecoach House in Leon Springs...now we have to go check that place out! Thanks!

Oh, and in search for info on it, I came across this great list of Registered Historic Places in Texas on Wikipedia!

Cheers! M2