The San Antonio Blue Book- red light district circa 1911

[gtoman67z]

Danbo: Thanks for the link to the map! Helped me get an idea referencing the current streets (Santa Rosa, Commerce, Durango); correct in asuming those haven't changed in the interim-other than the name change to Cesar Chavez?
Guessing a lot of this area became Santa Rosa Hospital, Milam Park and Market Square.

[TrapperL]

Back in the late 60's I got to witness 2 guys get murdered at this place. It was a corner convenience store at the time. One guy came busting out of the place while another guy stepped out and shot him in the back. The other guy was standing on the corner chatting with a "lady" when he took off running with her in hot pursuit. She had a knife almost as big as her. She caught him and carved him up. This area was also where a lot of the building material wholesale suppliers were located and since I was in the building materials business I was in the area almost daily. There would have been Davidson Corp, Champion Building supply which was the old US Plywood, and George C Vaughan & Sons which had millwork, windows, cants, odd lumber, etc. It was always interesting to be in the area.

[Merovee]

Originally Posted by Chaka

Odd, as Prohibition didn't end in September, it ended on Dec 5, 1933. Prohibition in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I know because we just celebrated it

(there are other sources for this date, wiki was just the easiest)

Thank you for fact checking.

Hope you don't mind if I do the same now (:

The Twenty-first Amendment became federal law ending Prohibition across all the land in every state on December 5, 1933 but there was prior legislation such as the Cullen-Harrison act on March 22, 1933.

The Cullen-Harrison act was an amendment to the Volstead act, the Volstead act first began Prohibition in 1919. It changed the Volstead limit of alcohol from 0.5% to 3.5% in beer with a similarly low level for wine.

Then there was the Beer and Wine Revenue act also signed on March 22, 1933 which allowed the states to sell 3.5% beer when they decided.

So while Prohibition (the Volstead act) was still in effect on April 7, 1933 it became legal to sell beer in some states. In September 15, 1933 it became legal in Texas. What was not legal, since it was still Prohibition after all, was the sale of liquor.

A bit more nuanced than simply saying Prohibition ended on December 5, 1933, which it did, but if one imagines beer was not legal until then they would benefit from this additional information even if it is trivial in nature.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ibitionEnd.JPG

The San Antonio Brewing Association became Pearl Beer.

April 7 is celebrated by beer drinkers as the end of Beer Prohibition.

In 1933, shortly after the signing of the Cullen-Harrison Act – effectively ending national Prohibition for beer – the Budweiser Clydesdales became a part of Anheuser-Busch. August A. Busch Jr. and Adolphus Busch III presented a hitch of the mighty horses to their father, August Busch Sr. to commemorate the first bottle of post-Prohibition beer brewed in St. Louis. The Budweiser Clydesdales were formally introduced to the nation on April 7, 1933 in St. Louis.

BUDWEISER CLYDESDALES CELEBRATE 75 YEARS AS AMERICAN ICON, HOLIDAY TRADITION | With Photos

Here are the Clydesdales making their first delivery to the White House soon after.

http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/an...sdaleApril.jpg

[Chaka]

My day would not have been complete without all that information. Now instead of one day to celebrate the end of prohibition, we have three. Hooray!

[Iintothepast]

I was little in the 50's and lived in the red light district of San Antonio. By then prostitution had been outlawed but the area was full of bars, fortune tellers,cafes,gamblers,drugs and remnants of a bygone era. The unit that we lived in consisted of a front room with a smaller room behind. In front of the unit was a porch and in the back was the outhouse. All housing was roach and rat infested. Most units rented for $25 a month. When Hemisphere 68 was to be open all that area was demolished and the last time I was in the area, a KMart was built where I used to live on Matamoras & Concho streets.

[elgallo]

this a good post. wish this is something I found earlier. I have always been into San Antonio history. Ive always wanted to take a look at that blue book. it would be interesting to see the locations listed. I love matching what i read to google maps. I am curently looking for a picture of a saloon called flo's saloon. it was supposedly across the street from casa navarro.