Scenes from around San Antonio during our visit. This is the view of our hotel, The Emily Morgan Hotel, looking down East Houston Street.The Emily Morgan Hotel.Frost Tower.The old Robert E. Lee Hotel, “100% Air Conditioned”!Tower Life Building, the oldest tower in San Antonio, built in 1928.Statue of Theodore Roosevelt.Majestic Theater. When we lived here we saw several off-Broadway shows here.The Alamodome. Michigan and Washington were in town to play in the Valero Alamo Bowl on December 29.View of the Alamodome from the Tower of the Americas.AT&T Center, home of the San Antonio Spurs. This is their 50th anniversary year.Tour boat on the River Walk.“The Torch of Friendship” sculpture.Sculpture honoring the arrival of the Canary Islanders, who were the first colonists to organize civil government in Texas and founded the village of San Fernando de Bexar, in 1731.The San Antonio River running through a hotel on the River Walk.This sculpture is on the River Walk near River Center. Stargazer, by Pedero Reyes, 2022, volcanic stone and marble.Christmas Eve at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse.Pearl Brewery area. Pearl Brewery dates back to 1883. It is now a thriving cultural center, with upscale hotels, condos and apartments, shops and restaurants.Hotel Emma!The boots at North Star Mall. They were here back in the 1980s too!We lived in this house in 1987-1988.This was my office for Security Trust Insurance Company.This was the location of the Crystal Baking Company where MJ worked. It is now a gun shop!Leaving San Antonio December 26, at the airport. Or will we? This is the line in front of us.This is the line behind us.The Baltimore flight was ours…CANCELLED! Fortunately we were able to obtain a rental car, so off we drive to BWI airport from San Antonio 1630 miles!
One of the highlights of our trip – dinner at La Margarita Restaurant. The best fajitas!Steak and chicken fajitas.Historic Market Square is colorful year-round, not just Christmas!For Christmas night, we ate at Mi Tierra, which was packed and colorful!
So after church Christmas morning we had lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe on the River Walk.Buddy Holly memorabilia.Waylon Jennings.Willie Nelson.Roy Orbison.So the restaurant was playing Rock and Roll Christmas videos, the whole time, of course being Christmas Day. This one really got me- Twisted Sister singing O Come All Ye Faithful, head-banger style.
The Christmas tree in the lobby of our hotel, the Emily Morgan.More hotel decorations.A tree in a downtown alley.Being Christmas, there were many Christmas trees in hotels and restaurants all through the downtown.The River Walk.
This is Building 100, known as the “Taj Mahal” which houses administrative offices. The tower is of Art Deco style, and the wo story office building is an example of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture.Missing man monument, inscription reads “We who came home must never forget those who could not.”Historic chapel.
