Reply With QuoteThey were around till the late 90's...hehehe...how old are you again?
guess I am not as old as you are CC! :wink
They were around till the late 90's...hehehe...how old are you again?
OK...time to go....
It was Winn's Variety Stores Mikey...
They were a SA based company started in the late 40's...eventually had stores in 5 states..it was a big SA story in the late 90's when they went bankrupt...hundreds lost their jobs...
my apologies sir.
Damn! Winn's....oh man.
Good call bro. I totally missed that.
I am 34 so yes I remember Winn's.
I always get them, Woolworths and Woolco mixed up.
What restaurant parking lot did I bang Sally Jenkins in back in 10th grade?
For bonus points... what kind of car was it in the backseat of?
Christies on Broadway and it was a 64 Volkswagen. Did you kick the headliner out?
The Winn's distro warehouse is on 410 south wher it splits from IH35. I remember them because I would go to the pet store next to the one on Austin Hwy all the time. Hmmmm what was the name of that pet store?
Hey CC wasn't that Mexican food place called Alfonzo's not "?Alfaros?", or was that a different one? The Alfanzo's were painted puke/sea green. My mom got food poisoning from one a long while back.
What building is located at 300 Alamo Plaza?
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the old sears & roebuck department store !What used to be where the new "enchilada" colored downtown library now stands?
is the alamo at 300 alamo plaza?
i know i worked across the street at 307 alamo plaza......
as strange as it sounds this link seems to say that 300 Alamo Plaza is the actual "plaza"...
www.sanantonio.gov/sapar/alamoplazareservations.asp?res=1024&ver=true
and Taz you are correct...The new library is where the old downtown Sears used to be...
ahhh...you are correct...it was Alfonsos...Alfaro's didn't sound right when I wrote it the first time and thats why I put ?'s around it...Hey CC wasn't that Mexican food place called Alfonzo's not "?Alfaros?", or was that a different one? The Alfanzo's were painted puke/sea green. My mom got food poisoning from one a long while back.
I blame the momory fart on the everclear in the margaritas...
Mmmm.....3am Super Nachos at Alfonso's.
And strawberry Margaritas that we'd go in, buy, and walk back out of the door with.
8o
My guess is The Pig Stand on Broadway.What restaurant parking lot did I bang Sally Jenkins in back in 10th grade?
or, how 'bout der wienerschnitzel ?:eyebrow
For many years there was something unusual located just north of the entry to Fair Oaks Ranch. What was it?
it was a large metal tower....there were many rumors surrounding what it was to be....everything from an office building to a new airport!
yep...it was the steel skeleton of an office building. The story I heard is that it was an S&L scam. The promoter arranged financing for the office building...the construction draw schedule was set up to allow him to draw the bulk of the construction funds after the frame was up...he got it that far and then took the rest of the cash and ran...the promoter allegedly had organized crime connections...
an easy one:
Before the airport was remodeled Airport Boulevard went from 410 directly to the original terminal. This boulevard was divided and had landscaping down the center. There was a row of trees down the center of this divider. What kind of trees were they and what happened to them?
^^Just a guess but were they Pecan Trees?
*BZZZZZ*
nope
palm trees.
yep...and what happened to them?
I hope they were transplanted...but I fear they were cut down in the name of progress.
actually it was an act of god...they were originally a semi-"native" palm tree specie that could stand pretty bad cold weather...they were planted when they were small and grew to be very big... but about 20 years ago we had a reallly BAD spell of cold weather...12 days straight that it never got over 20...killed the out of them...the city spent hundreds of thousands replacing them with new palm trees the same size that WEREN'T "native" and cold resistant...the first cold snap the next year killed them all...it was a big scandal...
speaking of city screwups...what did they tear down to build the UTSA downtown campus?
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