August 14 in San Antonio history...

1922
The Bexar County commissioners wiped a town out of existence this morning. This was the town of Viva, about 18 miles north of San Antonio on the Kerrville branch of the S.A.A.P. railroad.

1957
San Antonio’s new $750,000 traffic light system officially went into operation last night. At a ceremony at the corner of St. Mary’s and Houston, Mayor Kuykendall and Willard Simpson, board chairman of the Public Service Company, threw a switch which activated the system.

1968
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans entertain at the Hemisfair Theater for the Performing Arts (now Lila Cockrell Theater) during Hemisfair ’68.

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