June 29 in San Antonio history…

1904
Constable Charles Stevens and City Marshal Irvin praised the county’s new-fangled automobile for enabling them to reach the scene of a crime seven miles from the courthouse in just 40 minutes.

1973
Tom Nissalke, former coach of the ABA Dallas Chapparals and the NBA Seattle Supersonics, is named the first head coach of the San Antonio Spurs.

2013
San Antonio reaches its all-time high temperature for the month of June – 108 degrees.

June 29 in San Antonio history…

1904
Constable Charles Stevens and City Marshal Irvin praised the county’s new-fangled automobile for enabling them to reach the scene of a crime seven miles from the courthouse in just 40 minutes.

1914
The San Antonio newspapers report on the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary on a visit to Sarajevo yesterday (right) – the casus belli of what will be called “The Great War.”  The secretary of the Legation at Belgrade sends a dispatch to Vienna suggesting Serbian complicity in the assasination.  There are anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo and throughout Bosnia.

2012
San Pedro Playhouse changes its name to The Playhouse San Antonio.

March 24 in San Antonio history…

1904
The Empire Theater announced a new electric fan system and uniformed boys to distribute ice water to audiences.

1966
The groundbreaking is held for the South Texas Medical School and Bexar County Teaching Hospital (later renamed The University of Texas Health Science Center and University Hospital.)

1988
The long-awaited union between classical station KPAC and National Public Radio affiliate KSTX was formally voted on and approved today by the boards of the two stations.  “With any luck, this plan will be approved by the Federal Communications Commission and KSTX will be operating by the end of the year,” said Joe Gwathmey, who will be general manager of the two stations.

January 26 in San Antonio history…

1904
Autoists and dealers protested City Council’s action limiting speeds of bicycles and cars in San Antonio to six miles per hour.  A good horse can go faster than that, they argued, yet is not so controllable as a mechanical conveyance.

1927
The Plaza Hotel (later the Granada) holds its grand opening.

1946
Work was begun this week on a $500,000 enlargment program at Sears, Roebuck & Co. on Romana Plaza (now the site of the downtown Central Library.)

September 11 in San Antonio history…

1904
Burglars took $53 from the saloon of Louis Mueller on S. Alamo less than a week after burglars had broken into the same spot and taken $30

1944
Two holdup men robbed patrons of the exclusive third floor of San Antonio’s Turf Club.  The two escaped with more than $1,000.

1964
An insurance agency became the victim of San Antonio safecrackers as burglars pried open the door to a safe and fled with $1,000 and several checks.

June 10 in San Antonio history…

1904
A burglar broke into San Antonio’s Cosmopolitan Cafe, ignored cash and silverware, ate one piece of pie and departed.

1946
The polio ban age limit was lowered to those 14 years old and younger by the city health authorities today.  This change will permit the opening of summer school for students 15 years or older and will permit young college students to register for summer courses.  Authorities are suspicious that the Fiesta San Jacinto might be a possible cause for the outbreak.

1955
Television station KCOR UHF Channel 41 (now KWEX) takes to the airwaves as the country’s first Spanish language TV station (right).

March 24 in San Antonio history…

1904
The Empire Theater announced a new electric fan system and uniformed boys to distribute ice water to audiences.

1960
Blues legend Etta James performs at Eastwood Country Club.

1966
The groundbreaking is held for the South Texas Medical School and Bexar County Teaching Hospital (later renamed The University of Texas Health Science Center and University Hospital.)

March 23 in San Antonio history…

1904
Joan Crawford is born Lucille Fay LeSeur in San Antonio.

1962
The Dodge Turbo-Dart and Plymouth Turbo-Fury turbine-powered cars (right) go on display at O. R. Mitchell Chrysler and Rieger Motors on Broadway.

1966
Members of the City Library Board, meeting in special session today, made general plans for construction of three new branch libraries in the northeast, southwest and western sections of the city.

January 24 in San Antonio history…

1904
Firemen estimate losses at $200,000 in a fire which destroyed L. Wolfson’s clothing store on Main Plaza.  (It would be destroyed by fire again and for good on Oct. 1, 2011.)
(right, photo courtesy Maria Watson Pfeiffer)

1905
The State Legislature passed a bill to purchase the Alamo for a historic shrine for $65,000.

1953
Oscar Levant performs Gershwin’s “Concerto in F” and “Rhapsody in Blue” with the San Antonio Symphony at Municipal Auditorium.

 

June 29 in San Antonio history…

1904
Constable Charles Stevens and City Marshal Irvin praised the county’s new-fangled automobile for enabling them to reach the scene of a crime seven miles from the courthouse in just 40 minutes.

1985
San Antonio’s new Water Park U.S.A., located off Interstate 35 between Binz-Engleman and Coliseum Road, holds its grand opening. (It is now known as Splashtown U.S.A.)

2013
San Antonio reaches its all-time high temperature for the month of June – 108 degrees.