Gone But Not Forgotten in San Antonio! - Part I (Marshall: frequency, ride)

[Primo]

Originally Posted by 1313

The Alamo Heights pool is still alive and open... the giant diving platform is long gone but both pools are still there.

The Colonies North Pool used to have the 3 meter diving board too...that and AH are some of the few pools that had a diving board that high. Those are all but gone, because they are basically not insurable.
High Diving boards....yet another thing GBNF in SA!

[Snowglobe]

Originally Posted by Macgrad89

Target opened in San Antonio in February 1982. It seems to me FedMart shut their stores for a while, remodeled/expanded the buildings and reopened them in the mid to late 70s. FedMart left SA for good around 1981.

Target opened their first stores in San Antonio in February 1983, not 1982. I was a cashier at the Bandera-410 store when they had their "soft" opening on either 2-7-83 or 2-14-83, then the "grand" opening a week later. I worked there part-time almost 4 years while I was in college. I'm pretty sure that the other locations that opened in '83 were Marbach, Vance Jackson, Bitters, SW Military, and Walzem.

[Willsatx]

Originally Posted by Snowglobe

Target opened their first stores in San Antonio in February 1983, not 1982. I was a cashier at the Bandera-410 store when they had their "soft" opening on either 4-7-83 or 4-14-83, then the "grand" opening a week later. I worked there part-time almost 4 years while I was in college. I'm pretty sure that the other locations that opened in '83 were Marbach, Vance Jackson, Bitters, SW Military, and Walzem.

WOW only one of the original locations is still open.

[SAnativegirl]

We would go to Alamo Heights pool as kids, mid-60s. I was always afraid of the diving boards because we were told of a guy who died when he tried to jump to the other pool far away, they said his legs went up into his body ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, dont know if its true or not-maybe it was the older kids trying to scare us, but I always think of that story when I hear of that pool.

[Dwangle]

I always heard that story too. I never knew if it was true or not.

[Dwangle]

I think the only store at Crossroads now that was there in the beginning-or at least near the beginning- is the Radio Shack Store. I remember it as the place to buy a Transistor Radio. They had a large assortment starting at around three dollars for a two transistor radio, all the way up to eight or nine dollars for an eight transistor radio. The more transistors the better the radio and some had leather cases. Radio Shack also had a battery of the month club. They would give you a card and they would let you have a free battery every month and would punch the card.

[Willsatx]

Originally Posted by Dwangle

I think the only store at Crossroads now that was there in the beginning-or at least near the beginning- is the Radio Shack Store. I remember it as the place to buy a Transistor Radio. They had a large assortment starting at around three dollars for a two transistor radio, all the way up to eight or nine dollars for an eight transistor radio. The more transistors the better the radio and some had leather cases. Radio Shack also had a battery of the month club. They would give you a card and they would let you have a free battery every month and would punch the card.

Good post makes you wonder what stores are left from the early days of Ingram, North Star, and Southpark mall. Anyone????

[OzzyRules]

Waldenbooks has been at Ingram as long as I can remember.

I think one of the hair salons at the end of North Star Mall has been there a while, possibly.

Luby's.

[Dwangle]

Originally Posted by Primo

My cousins lived in the Delview area and we would go to Pilgrim years ago. The thing I can still remember is the the cold water you had to walk through in a narrow alleyway to get in. My cousins always joke it was to clean off all the dirty kids before they got in the pool. But now that I think about it...I guess they weren't joking.

We always heard it was so you wouldn't get Polio..Silly huh!

[Chent]

I'm sure this has been brought up, but I'm only halfway through the thread, what a great read! Wasn't KTSA (back when they used to play music) supposed to be the first am stereo station? And I seem to rememeber one of the dj's used to play an audio clip that said, "Big Bad Momma, Big Bad Momma". Anyone else remember this??