San Antonio Then and Now: 1995 - 2003

[Buddy Holly]

I-10 @ De Zavala - 1995



I-10 @ De Zavala - 2003




Stone Oak - 1995



Stone Oak - 2003

[CharlieMac]

I know people say they hate living in that area or whatever, but god damn, it was great. Probably the best area I lived in aside from the traffic.

Walmart, Zio's, Petsmart, Home Depot, UTSA was like 2 miles away, Whataburger, EZ's, it's great.

[FromWayDowntown]

It would be crazy (but impossible, I think) to compare an overhead shot of Bandera Road from Huebner to 1604 in about 1980 to a shot of the same area today.

The growth out there just since 1995 or so is incredible.

[CharlieMac]

It's nuts isn't it? My dad used to drive us out to some land he had in Helotes a decade or two ago and it was just so nice and quiet. The state took some of his land to widen some road out there or something. get this, before the paid him for it, they asked him if he wanted to donate it to the state. Ha.

[KEDA]

that overhead of Stone Oak in 03 is Blanco & 1604

my shopping center wasnt even finished yet.

Id like to see the comparason between 03 and today.

[CharlieMac]

Hook it up Buddy. Where are the 06 shots?

[Buddy Holly]

The growth out there just since 1995 or so is incredible.

Yep.

Great Northwest (Bandera Road area) - 1995


Great Northwest (Bandera Road area) - 2003

[Mark in Austin]

'Bout time San Antonio's sprawl has started to catch up with everybody else's.

[MannyIsGod]

'Bout time San Antonio's sprawl has started to catch up with everybody else's.

Meh.

I hate sprawl.

[FromWayDowntown]

When I was a first grader in the late 70's, I attended Leon Valley Elementary, which was then located at Bandera and Grissom. My first two years at Leon Valley, the school's attendance zone encompassed everything on Bandera out to almost Helotes, wrapped just south of Braun Station, ran up Tezel road to the Great Northwest, and then back up Grissom to Bandera. The district split the school in 2 after my second grade year.

When I got to middle school at Stevenson Middle School, at Guilbeau and Tezel, the attendance zone for that school included the entire area that had been split, and added all of Braun Station and Helotes. On top of that, all of Stevenson was included in Marshall High School, along with half of the students at Rudder M.S. (Pembroke and Abe Lincoln) and a good number of students from Neff M.S. (410 and Evers). The district split both of those schools in 2 after my seventh grade year.

Now, the same geographical area that one had a small enough population to provide students to a single elementary school needs something like 8 or 9 elementary schools, at least 5 middle schools, and parts of at least 4 high schools. It's incredible!

[TheTruth]

All those pretty trees destroyed.

[Buddy Holly]

All those pretty trees destroyed.

Trees are pretty?

[MannyIsGod]

Trees are pretty?

Even if you don't like trees, how can anyone find beauty in acres upon acres of asphalt? There's no life in modern suburban building. Its just plani and ugly.

[SpursWoman]

EZ's

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My best friend was an MIT at that one ... she now is the Manager of the one closest to my house. Pretty convenient, huh?



@ those pictures ... but I remember the area of Stone Oak way back then very well. There was nothing out there and we used to park & party all of the time.

[Buddy Holly]

Even if you don't like trees, how can anyone find beauty in acres upon acres of asphalt? There's no life in modern suburban building. Its just plani and ugly.

I don't find beauty in neither.

I find beauty in certain landscapes, sure, and trees are part of said landscape but they are just part of what makes up a landscape.

I don't find the desert beaufitul and the desert has trees.

[tlongII]

Buy real estate.

[CAGE]

No wonder traffic down 1604 & 281 seems worse each day.