(San Antonio, TX) Located at the 1400 block of Austin Highway, this resort is no longer. Set on 23 acres with its own par three pitch and putt golf course, this once grand motel fell to its true one star rating - playing host to model railroad conventions and UFO conferences.

(San Antonio, TX) Former corporate headquarters of Tobin Surveys, a mapping company started in 1928, by famed mapping and aerial photography pioneer Edgar G. Tobin.

(San Antonio, TX) The Roaring 20's Nightclub. Not much available on the web as far as the history - Nothing easy to find, anyway. The Roaring 20's was a spot that I understand, through the years was a dinner club, dance hall, music venue, a place for private parties. The sign remains and a condemned building - soon to be demolished. Not clear if the sign will remain or not.

Places like this was one of the reasons this site was created. So that after the places (and signs) are long gone..... there is a place to remember what was once a sign of life...

(San Antonio, TX) Eeho Mexican Cuisine is a single unit restaurant off Broadway by the airport. This sign replaced their earlier logo: a simple computer bar code - EEHO!

(San Antonio, Texas) Refrigerated air and television? Count me in. Can you imagine - back in the day - this combination must have been powerful enough to pull any sedan off the highway.

This sign located somewhere on the southwest side of town -- Off Old Castroville Highway, I think.

(San Antonio, TX) Stuarts, a retail apparel store on W. Houston Street has long been closed.

(Austin, TX) This hand made stencil poster has been on the drag in Austin, Texas for some time now. Somewhere I think where Tower Records used to be.

I always thought it was cool.

Randy's Rodeo (San Antonio, TX) It's been a bowling alley, dance hall and bingo parlor, but on January 8, 1978 it was to become a notorius part of the Sex Pistols history. As part of their 7-city (originally 11-city) U.S. Tour. The San Antonio show is well known to be the best show of their short American stint. It was also to signal the beginning of the end of this landmark band.

The Vogue (San Antonio, TX) - Apartment Homes located in downtown San Antonio, Texas. This granite marquee does the job simply.

The Joe and Harry Freeman Coliseum- (San Antonio, TX) Often called a barn by many even in its prime (remember the urinal WALLS in the men's room?). Played host to everything and everyone from The Rodeo to The Beatles. From The San Antonio Iguanas to The Foo Fighters.

From The Harlem Globetrotters to Dylan's Graduation.

The Alamo Quarry Landmark Smokestacks. (San Antonio, TX). Leftover remnants from The ALAMO CEMENT COMPANY.

The Alamo Cement Company was chartered in 1880 after Englishman William Loyd discovered what he believed to be a natural cement rock near San Antonio. With the help of chemist George H. Kalteyer, who confirmed that the rock's lime and clay could produce Portland cement, Loyd organized a group of investors to form the Alamo Portland and Roman Cement Company, the first Portland cement plant west of the Mississippi and one of the earliest in the United States.The original plant was powered by steam engine and ground ten barrels of cement daily.
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Also appeared on The Texas Tornados' first CD Cover.

(San Antonio, TX) Opened in 1940, the Earl Abel's Coffee Shop and Restaurant is located at Broadway and Hildebrand, just north of the zoo.
The Austin Chronicle recommends this to their own as a "Day Trip". For the lucky people in San Antonio; it is a "Tradition".
UPDATE: Earl Abel's set to CLOSE. Read about it in the San Antonio Express News.

Olmos Pharmacy (San Antonio, Tx) Sure, you can find Pepto-Bismol, aspirin and a myriad of other phar-maceutical needs in this small neighborhood drug store. But it's the lunch counter in back that draws the locals. Plop down on a stool and order a juicy burger or a perfectly prepared BLT (bacon, lettuce and tomato) sandwich with fries. But by all means, order a large chocolate shake. Thick and creamy, they're rumored to be the best in the city and many a patron has agreed. - Yahoo Travel

The Majestic Theatre (San Antonio, Texas). Located downtown, this beautiful theatre first opened in 1929.
Shown here, the sign is promoting the World Premiere of THE ALAMO (Disney / Touchstone Pictures - 2004) - which many people have chosen to forget.

(San Antonio, TX) Originally named The San Antonio Little Theater (SALT), this theater has been active since 1925. Read more of the history here.

Shown here, the sign is promoting the San Antonio Premiere of "Santos y Santos" March 4, 2005.

(San Antonio, TX) The Bill Miller Bar-B-Q Water Tower (complete with giant straw) at their corporate offices acknowledges the big deal made about their huge iced tea servings.

According to the Bill Miller web site: In 2001 they "used 2 MILLION POUNDS of sugar to sweeten iced tea. . .

Used 600,000 tea bags, to brew 3 MILLION GALLONS of tea, or 10 MILLION large iced teas. . .

And sold over 100,000 TEXAS TEA BUCKETS, in quart-size insulated drink mug."

The Pearl Brewery - (San Antonio, TX) Located at 312 Pearl Parkway,The Pearl Brewery, now closed, began producing beer in 1886. The brewery and adjacent buildings are still there, soon to be refurbished and transformed in to a multicultural business / education complex.

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(San Antonio, TX)Taco Land was a small bar with no shine and no sheen. But for many bands and fans, it was the biggest and best joint in the world..."
Read the San Antonio Express News article here.