Gone But Not Forgotten in San Antonio! - Part I (Austin: close to, center)

[bleubaron1]

Youngbloods Chicken....
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speed boat {Chris Craft} rides on the San Antonio River over by the Zoo...
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K,C. Dancehall out on the Austin Highway.
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The Alamo Drive-in Theater
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When Vandiver was named Fey Road
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double eagle drag strip
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The "Green Door" strip club
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rental bicycles at the entrance to the Park right across the street from the Witte...
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The little "trains" that took people all the way around the zoo to see all the animals
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The "Big Orange" drive in restaurant right next to the Pig Stand

[bleubaron1]

I believe it was called the "Smith & Young Tower" originally

[ld001]

Anyone know the history of an old iron bridge that's close to E. Houston St.? You can't miss seeing when you're on IH-37 headed north. It's an odd shaped road, not curved, but at a sharp angle. Was it perhaps a private road to ship from many of the warehouses in the area? (Think of Merchant's Ice Storage - katty corner to present day Spaghetti Warehouse) The bringe is beyond that, close to where they still have the stalls for the horse carriages.

ld001

[irnag]

Originally Posted by ld001

Anyone know the history of an old iron bridge that's close to E. Houston St.? You can't miss seeing when you're on IH-37 headed north. It's an odd shaped road, not curved, but at a sharp angle. Was it perhaps a private road to ship from many of the warehouses in the area? (Think of Merchant's Ice Storage - katty corner to present day Spaghetti Warehouse) The bringe is beyond that, close to where they still have the stalls for the horse carriages.

ld001

For some reason they closed down Hays St. There is a sign on Austin St. and on Hays St. that may be a clue, but I can't read the sign from G-maps. Type in 782 Cherry San Antonio and go to street view. Gives a good view of the bridge. And a clearance of 10'8" going under the bridge.

San Antonio, TX, USA - Google Maps

[irnag]

Oh, if you go to 758 N Cherry, the bridge says Southern Pacific on it.

[Deep Forest]

That would be the Hayes Street Bridge, actually two RR spans brought here from Louisiana in 1910. The bridge(s) were condemned in 2001 as being structurally unsafe and there is an on-going effort to preserve them and to make it a walk-way and bicycle path. I cannot say for sure where it is right now but I have lived in SA long enough to say "I've driven over that bridge". Google "Hays Street Bridge San Antonio" and you'll find more than you ever wanted to know about it....

BTW, hello all, this is my very first post on City-Data and I live in the Culebra-Potranco-151 & 1604 corridor.

[mikeold]

Originally Posted by RedOregon

Sounds like this:

Handbook of Texas Online - KENDALIA, TX

I went there a couple of times around 1975. It was a one of a kind place. I remember jumping off the cliff...probably 40-50 feet up. I was scared to death but the peer pressure got to me. I went back in 2001 with a friend who had gone there with me in the 70's and it was closed but we ran into the caretaker. He said some family in Houston owned it and it was "off limits" due to liability issues. He did let us in and it was just how I remembered it except I couldn't smell any weed in the air.

[mikeold]

Yea, some guy called the old man a communist and Henry B punched him. I think Henry B was a boxer at one time.

[Deep Forest]

Originally Posted by mrstxcop

i remember there being an A frame whataburger building on Bandera Rd. --- inside Loop 410 --- if you are coming from 410 it was have been on your rt hand side after you crossed over Hillcrest --- past Randy's ballroom --- pretty close to a dept. store called Gibson's --- not sure if the A frame building is still there or not...

There's an old Whataburger building (A-frame) just this side of a La Fiesta on Bandera Rd. not real far from Hillcrest and it's on the right-hand side as you're going towards town. It has been at least two different taquerias in the last 18 months. This is probably the one.

[mikeold]

Originally Posted by sereneintexas

Yes, I loved Shakey's! can't remember any others.

There was one on Austin highway. It had aself playing piano and good root beer and thin crust pizza.