Lawyers--Texas; San Antonio (Tex.)--Politics and government.
San Antonio, Texas
Interviewed in his downtown office during his 71st year as a practicing attorney, San Antonio civic leader and historian C. Stanley Banks shares his recollections of an Anglo-dominated community of fewer than 100,000 people he...
Photographers.; Photography; Photography--Negatives; Rock paintings; San Antonio (Tex.)--History
San Antonio, Texas Jim Zintgraff's father started a still photography business in San Antonio in the early 1920's and worked as cameraman for the movie, Wings, that was filmed nearby in 1926. Zintgraff describes some of the many people and places...
San Antonio (Tex.)--History.; San Antonio (Tex.)--Politics and government.; Medical colleges--Texas--San Antonio--History.; Physically handicapped.
A native of San Antonio, Reeves was wounded at Okinawa during World War II, resulting in lifelong confinement to a wheelchair. Returning home, this physical handicap was not a barrier to completing his law degree and serving in legal and political...
Choral societies--Texas.; German Americans--Texas.; Beethoven Hall (San Antonio, Tex.).; Beethoven Maennerchor.; Texas Folklife Festival.
San Antonio, Texas Edmund Seidel discusses the history of Germans in San Antonio, particularly the German choral groups and their performances at the Texas Folklife Festival and throughout the year.
Depression--1929--Texas; San Antonio, (Tex.); La Villita (San Antonio, Tex.)
San Antonio, Tex.
Noted potter Harding Black recalls the people and places that contributed to San Antonio’s artistic and handicrafts legacies. Teaching and creating in La Villita during the Depression, Black reveals how the buildings were...
Hugman, Robert Harvey; Hungarian Americans--Texas;Cookery, Hungarian;San Antonio Hungarian Association
"San Antonio, Texas
President of the San Antonio Hungarian Association, Rose Safran discusses the organization's involvement with the Folklife Festival."
Taylor, Amanda Cartwright;San Antonio Conservation Society;Historic sites--Conservation and restoration;Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo (San Antonio, Tex.)
San Antonio, Texas
Lane Taylor Sealy, grandson of Amanda Cartwright Taylor (Mrs. Lane Taylor), relates family history, particularly about his grandmother, her involvement with restoration of the granary at the San Jose Mission, and her work with...
San Antonio (Tex.)--Theaters; Motion picture projectionists; Theaters--Employees; Majestic Theater (San Antonio, Tex.); Municipal Auditorium (San Antonio, Tex.)
Taught by his father to work as a movie projectionist, Parnell discusses experiences and aspects of movie and stage production through multiple jobs he learned.
Covered wagon trips.; Austin (Tex.)--Social life and customs.
San Antonio, Texas Whitaker recounts the history of her family who moved to Texas during the 1830s, settling around Austin. Each summer her family took a covered wagon trip into the nearby hill country, camping, fishing and learning about the...
German Americans; Battle of Flowers Parade (San Antonio, Tex.); Fiesta San Antonio (San Antonio, Tex.); Education; School integration; American Association of University Women; San Antonio Teachers’ Benefit Association
San Antonio, Texas
Elizabeth Zogheib’s father was Turkish-Lebanese and her mother was German-American. She grew up in the German-American community and saw the beginnings of Fiesta celebrations in San Antonio. Zogheib discusses her personal...