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As for the river walk itself, living in Amsterdam predisposes you to treat the bone-dry, car infested asphalt and concrete jungles we call cities as weird places where humanity aggregates for ritualistic suffering. Discovering that San Antonio is different was a great and pleasant surprise.
If you're ever downtown, checkout the Chihuly installations in the main library. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/fiesta-tower
The first time I visited San Antonio I'd never heard of the river walk. We were simply walking along the street downtown and saw some stairs leading down and many people taking them so we went down and a whole magical world opened up. (I went back later and it wasn't nearly as magical).
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Because it goes against the everything is bigger in Texas narrative. It’s just hard to express how small it is until you’ve been there. Once you are there, it’s just underwhelming.
Doesn’t the small size make it more impressive that the Texians held out for so long?
Really only the chapel is left, and that was never intended for anything other than church services for a few hundred people.
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Why does a building have to be large in order to be historically important?
Because it goes against the everything is bigger in Texas narrative. It’s just hard to express how small it is until you’ve been there. Once you are there, it’s just underwhelming.
Having grown up in San Antonio, I have many memories of spending time as a teenager downtown and around the river walk. The best time to visit is during the riverboat parade after Thanksgiving. Everything is lit up and many restaurants along the route offer dinner and nice views. Going during the summer can be incredibly hot and uncomfortable.
Interesting and refreshing choice to stick to a pure textual description without the usual torrent of photos. Needs frequent looking up of terms though :-) As for the river walk itself, living in Amsterdam predisposes you to treat the bone-dry, car infested asphalt and concrete jungles we call cities as weird places where humanity aggregates for ritualistic suffering. Discovering that San Antonio is different was a g…
It's the transcript of a video (at the top), so there is little reason to bother with pictures: if you want visuals you can watch the video, or use it as a slideshow.
I thought the way he referenced the hydraulic pumps compared to electric motors with gear shafts was interesting.
Grew in San Antonio as well and one of the best parts about the Riverwalk is that it offers a fantastic pedestrian corridor across almost the entirety of downtown San Antonio and connects a lot of really interesting places, The missions down south, Pearl Brewery and it's shopping district, downtown mall and Convention center as well as La Villita and The Art Museum. Sure you can walk the streets but getting around vi…
San antonio is easily my favkrite city in the US. Awesome, food, events, bars, music scene (saw some sweet ultraviolence bads there) etc. The city is pretty, clean,easy to navigate. Its just great
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As someone who went to public school in Texas, the textbooks in Texas are vetted by revisionists who still claim the Civil War was about states rights and not slavery, my civic teacher argued this repeatedly in the 1980s. A lot of kids are indoctrinated with the BS that downplay the slavery aspect, it's like the Big Lie of the south.
1984 / George Orwell: 'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.'