cje
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Post by cje on Mar 19, 2011 17:51:34 GMT -5
As you look straight on at the front of the Alamo Church, then look to the right at the "added" walkway, my question is when was this arched walkway added. Some visitors could be fooled into thinking that this was a part of the original Alamo compound.
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Post by ranger2518 on Mar 19, 2011 19:15:22 GMT -5
1936.
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Post by Paul Sylvain on Mar 19, 2011 20:37:22 GMT -5
Yeah, I was going to say "a long, long time ago." It was there when I visited the Alamo for the first time in 1967, and had seen photos in an old schoolbook before that showing it. And, yes, at the time I thought it was part of the "real" Alamo from 1836.
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Post by Allen Wiener on Mar 19, 2011 20:41:17 GMT -5
So did I on my first visit in 1961; kept trying to see how it fit into the first drawings I saw of the "original" compound.
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Post by Rich Curilla on Apr 3, 2011 19:27:27 GMT -5
So did Louis Marx. The Alamo playset had walls with round arches filled in with logs. Had to be from this modern Alamo feature rather than the Disney production design which had different style arches on the inside of the compound.
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Post by alamojohnuk on Apr 14, 2011 3:17:46 GMT -5
I seem to recall reading somewhere that part of the walkway was built from debris from the original long barrack when the Grennet store was demolished.
not sure how accurate this info is though.
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Post by Hiram on Apr 14, 2011 13:26:02 GMT -5
I seem to recall reading somewhere that part of the walkway was built from debris from the original long barrack when the Grennet store was demolished. not sure how accurate this info is though. |
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Post by alamojohnuk on Apr 15, 2011 4:43:52 GMT -5
Thanks for the clarification on that one Hiram.
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Post by Paul Sylvain on Apr 16, 2011 19:14:10 GMT -5
That's what I love about this place. I had no clue about the stones used for the reconstructed LB. My next visit to the Alamo will be that much more richer for this.
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Post by Chuck T on Apr 16, 2011 21:13:53 GMT -5
"So did Louis Marx" I have been wondering about that since 1956.
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Post by Kevin Young on Apr 17, 2011 11:19:32 GMT -5
...and I believe the wood bars in the windows of the LB are from the Veramendi House?
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cje
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Post by cje on Apr 23, 2011 17:11:48 GMT -5
Well I got my answer and then some. Built in 1936 and used some "spare parts" from here and there.
CJE Charles Erion
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Post by edward on May 12, 2014 12:01:34 GMT -5
As you look straight on at the front of the Alamo Church, then look to the right at the "added" walkway, my question is when was this arched walkway added. Some visitors could be fooled into thinking that this was a part of the original Alamo compound. 
Sep - 1934
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