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you are getting warm Jim...not lantern but had something to do with light
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Lamplight Inn
Way before my time, but I remember guys talking about it when I was a kid.
the Lampost Inn
and if wasn't before your time head...
CC, I was a kid when that place was around...hence it WAS before my time.
This thread should be re led ...
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More like the most Knowledgeable posters in the forum.This thread should be re led ...
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hehehe
old?
naaaaaaaaah....
I was a kid too but that didn't stop us from going in there and buying pitchers and laughing at the skankhos...CC, I was a kid when that place was around...hence it WAS before my time.
hmm...OK...new questions...I bet no one gets this one...
The most popular type of shopping center building construction today in the world is called "tilt wall"...concrete slabs are poured on the ground on site and then stood up to form the walls of the structure...virtually every one you drive by today was built this way.
The process was invented in San Antonio and the first tilt wall building in the world was built here.
What building is it?
For extra credit...
Who was the inventor and what other San Antonio Ins utions is his name associated with?
The Alamo??
(j/k)
I don't know the original "tilt wall" building you're talking about...but I suspect the inventor was H.B. Zachry.
The other "ins ution" he is associated with is the Hilton Palacio Del Rio...Zachry invented the pre-fab "building block" method used to build that hotel. (There is at least one dormatory at St. Mary's that was also built using that method)
hey darlin!
Sorry Cosmic, "tilt-up" concrete construction wasn't invented in San Antonio. The man first credited with casting a wall on site and then raising it goes to a fellow named Robert Aiken who did it in 1908 in Ohio at Camp Perry. Link
I had to cheat and check the internet, but I work in construction and had heard about this before.
Hey, you could always ask what was special about the construction technique that was used to build the Palacio del Rio?
Hey sara! how you been?
since you asked...they built the rooms out of concrete off site and finished them out including plumbing, electrical, carpet, wallpaper, etc...then trucked them to the site, tied a helicopter tail boom to them and then raised them by a crane...literally "flew" the new rooms into the slots made for them where plumbing and electrical was then hooked up to the new room...they broke all sorts of construction records on that project...
hey now...I get the Palacio del Rio credit...
Another one.
What what the name of the restaurant that preceded Maggies?
Interesting...Tom Slick of Southwest Research fame is generally credited with creating the modern tilt wall process along with a New York architect Phillip Youtz in 1948. I could see how it could develop independently in different areas though...It is my understanding that the student center at Trinity is generally considered to be the first modern tilt wall structure but your link obviously disputes that...Sorry Cosmic, "tilt-up" concrete construction wasn't invented in San Antonio. The man first credited with casting a wall on site and then raising it goes to a fellow named Robert Aiken who did it in 1908 in Ohio at Camp Perry. Link
Can't quite remember that one, but I do remember that there was a "cat house" that was in the strip center behind it.What what the name of the restaurant that preceded Maggies?
anyone, anyone?
I don't remember the name but I vaguely remember that it sucked...What what the name of the restaurant that preceded Maggies?
It was pretty good actually. Reeds' Red Derby.
La Fogata restaurant on Vance Jackson...
what was it before they converted it into a mexican restaurant?
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