San Antonio

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SAN ANTONIO A Historical and Pictorial Guide $2.95 BY CHARLES RAMSDELL All the color, past and present, that has made San Antonio one of our most distinctive cities is faithfully distilled within the covers of this unusiial guidebook. Charles Ramsdell skillfully traces the city's development from 1691, when San Antonio de Padua was merely a small Indián village, to the dramatic present. Particular attention is paid to the Spanish missions and other beautiful relics of the past, but much of the book deals with today-the giant miiitary installations, the museums, the parks, the churches, the zoo, everything that is of interest to the visitor. The chapters on the blending of Mexican and Anglo culture are especially appealing. This HemisFair Edition preserves intact the much-praised originál text and its nearly 200 photographs. But it alsó contains, at the front, a 32-page Special Supplement, with new text, photographs, and maps,... Tovább

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Now in a new enlarged edition for HemisFair visitors


SAN ANTONIO A Historical and Pictorial Guide $2.95 BY CHARLES RAMSDELL All the color, past and present, that has made San Antonio one of our most distinctive cities is faithfully distilled within the covers of this unusiial guidebook. Charles Ramsdell skillfully traces the city's development from 1691, when San Antonio de Padua was merely a small Indián village, to the dramatic present. Particular attention is paid to the Spanish missions and other beautiful relics of the past, but much of the book deals with today-the giant miiitary installations, the museums, the parks, the churches, the zoo, everything that is of interest to the visitor. The chapters on the blending of Mexican and Anglo culture are especially appealing. This HemisFair Edition preserves intact the much-praised originál text and its nearly 200 photographs. But it alsó contains, at the front, a 32-page Special Supplement, with new text, photographs, and maps, describing in detail the changes that have taken place in San Antonio since the Guide was first published in 1959. r i ' 8 5 ¦ fi, | ; f íi : ;! ¦ . fi!ir \. \ I í, I Rp-1 f M f > ' • M V? i» . II íNhí í\i''V i y I r V. ; ::;. U , ' l u r : , j! ' I ií ' I J ' ; tj. ¦> , J J Vili;' ' '¦<!,! I I i ' i ii fi h ií i • ! ; i ' ' • t P) I Ur ih < 1 ' il f ' I í t í 'Ü r • , ¦ 1 " • 1 : i ' 1 ! ) tl , ! I f I Vissza