Anyone know which street in SA this is?

[andy england]

Hi all, really strange request but...

Does anyone know where this photo is?



(Larger versions here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/6507756...n/photostream/)

I found it on a postcard in a market in the North East of England (where I live) and have started painting it. I'm just curious to have a look on Googlemaps and see what it looks like now. All that's on the back of the postcard is "Night view of Houston street in the oldest city in the state - San Antonio, Texas. A thriving, modern city in every respect, San Antonio's mellow background is preserved with all its romantic history and Old World atmosphere."

Thanks,

Andy

[Blake]

Didn't you answer your own question?

It looks like Houston St around the tear 1960?

[Drachen]

Looks like this



Houston and Navarro facing east on houston. That drug store to the right is still there.

Closer to the OP perspective

[andy england]

I'd searched Houston Street but couldn't really figure out where it was along there, although I know the entire street could have changed appearance in the 40/50 years since it was taken.

[CosmicCowboy]

That is the corner of Navarro and Houston Street.

[CosmicCowboy]

Good pickup Drachen!

[Drachen]

Good pickup Drachen!

Thanks, not bad for someone whose dad was 8 years old in 1960!

[andy england]

Looks like this


Houston and Navarro facing east on houston. That drug store to the right is still there.

That's the one. Awesome. Thank you so much for your help. Looks freakishly different!

[andy england]

Thanks Cosmic too, even if you were beaten to it!

[I. Hustle]

It's cool. CC remembered it from his days of working that corner in the 50's & 60's.

[mrsmaalox]

Majestic is on the right, middle of the block.

[Blake]

Hi all, really strange request but...

Does anyone know where this photo is?



(Larger versions here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/6507756...n/photostream/)
"Night view of Houston street in the oldest city in the state - San Antonio, Texas. A thriving, modern city in every respect, San Antonio's mellow background is preserved with all its romantic history and Old World atmosphere."

Thanks,

Andy

I think the best thing about that postcard is that it says SA is thriving and modern while there are only three dudes in the night life picture, standing across from a Walgreens.

[Drachen]

Majestic is on the right, middle of the block.

Nope, Majestic is behind the photographer across houston street. If he pivoted and did a 180, the majestic would be on the left side of the street about the middle of the block.

[gameFACE]

When I was a kid there was a pretty good NY style pizza place two blocks down on the left side. Late 70's.

The Majestic is on the right side but behind where the photo is taken. This whole area is still my stomping grounds.

[mrsmaalox]

Nope, Majestic is behind the photographer across houston street. If he pivoted and did a 180, the majestic would be on the left side of the street about the middle of the block.

Gotcha

[rascal]

Didn't you answer your own question?

It looks like Houston St around the tear 1960?

1960 or very early 1960s looks like a good guess. Those cars look like late 1950s.

[rascal]

A moment captured from a long lost time. I was alive at the moment of this photo. If I could go back to the 1960s I would go back and live there forever. Listen to the sweet soul station I put up at LIVE365 called Whisky Soul (1960s-early 1970s).

[benefactor]

Just walked this street Saturday night. The hotel I stayed at this past weekend was just a couple blocks from here.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

it looks like it's at the corner of Walk and Don't Walk.

[Trainwreck2100]

guy signs up for a picture, has only 4 posts, and is already better than super

[rascal]

Bumped: Listen to my station( I put it up- I collect the stuff) at LIVE365 called Whisky Soul. Sweet soul from the 1960s/ early 1970s. Many you have never heard before, they won't play on the radio.

[Woo Bum-kon]

Where's Wild Cobra when you need him?

[rascal]

I don't know how to post photos.
What do you put in the insert image box? URL?

I don't even know how to put up an avatar but I never looked into it because I didn't care to have one.

[rascal]

Bumped: Listen to my station( I put it up- I collect the stuff) at LIVE365 called Whisky Soul. Sweet soul from the 1960s/ early 1970s. Many you have never heard before, they won't play on the radio.

Currently have 0 listeners, just myself listening. Sweet soul - old school
I have 929 listener presets and over 1100 listening hours per month.

[rascal]

The photo looks like it was taken on a warm day in Nov or Dec- year around 1960 or 1961. The stores are still open and it is dark, must be after the clock change to standard time, one guy with long sleeves and one guy with short sleeves, it is not the summer.

Sidewalks are wider, a bench or two and some trees planted but streets narrower the store fronts lack the marquee lighting. I'll take the 1960 Houston St over Houston St. today.