Local History

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (759+ words) The Menger Hotel on Alamo Plaza, shown here in 1877, was founded in 1859. It grew from a modest boardinghouse to a sophisticated hostelry, serving fine food and offering a variety of travelers’ amenities. It remained in family hands until it was…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (679+ words) San Antonio has changed a lot over the years, and that includes some landmarks like statues and signs being lost, removed or relocated. MySA asked locals to tell us which ones they remember from the city's past - and if you…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (393+ words) Three years ago, members of my unit, the Commemorative Air Force Gulf Coast Wing, attended the Spooky Brotherhood reunion in Pensacola, Florida, for the first time. At the time, we had recently taken ownership of a C-47/R4D painted in a camouflage…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (383+ words) BOSTON – A maritime expert planned to visit a Nantucket beach Monday to inspect weathered wooden beams exposed by the weekend’s powerful nor’easter, possibly the remnants of a 19th-century shipwreck buried beneath the island’s southern shore. The Egan Maritime Institute said…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1723+ words) Getting into Friesenhahn Cave requires descending a 30-foot creaky metal ladder, through a narrow shaft that opens into a dark one-room cave. Water drips sporadically from its limestone roof, and the cave floor is a mixture of clay, mud and…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (978+ words) NEW YORK – For more than two decades, truck driver Joe Macken spent his free time building a massive scale model of his native New York City out of balsa wood and foam board. When he finished, his daughter convinced him…...