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Post by Jake on Apr 10, 2011 12:57:55 GMT -5
Paul, you must have sat there and paged through every page of the book. Sounds like a compulsive disorder of some sort to me.
Thanks for finding these other pages -- I can use some of them.
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Post by cantador4u on Apr 10, 2011 19:38:03 GMT -5
Paul, you must have sat there and paged through every page of the book. Sounds like a compulsive disorder of some sort to me. Ya Think?!?!?! You can find the Campo Santo on page 11 I did various searches using different names and terms and then looked through the results. So no, I did not go page by page,... yet. I pour over maps of San Antonio, the older the better, and try to imagine what it was like in 1836. This is like pouring gas on a fire. It's wonderful! Paul Meske
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Post by Paul Sylvain on Apr 11, 2011 9:23:24 GMT -5
Ah, 'tis spring and love is blooming all around -- and this sounds like a true labor of love to me, Paul.
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Post by Mike Harris on Apr 11, 2011 14:05:31 GMT -5
The 1854 (I believe) plat of the Veramendi house on p. 223 was wonderful. Too bad there's nothing on the Alamo showing the layout right before Grenet took it over. Something pre-Sanborn would be nice to see.
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Post by cantador4u on Apr 11, 2011 22:46:23 GMT -5
Ah, 'tis spring and love is blooming all around -- and this sounds like a true labor of love to me, Paul. Is it true love or just insanity? Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. In the end it doesn't matter as long as you have a good support group. Thank goodness for everyone on this forum! - Paul Meske
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Post by Allen Wiener on Apr 11, 2011 22:59:25 GMT -5
That includes you, Paul!
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Post by TRK on Apr 12, 2011 11:48:14 GMT -5
Thanks to that map book, we now know the location of the "New Masonic Hall," where the first documented photographer in San Antonio (Robert Payne Kelley, 1848) had his gallery: on the south side of Commerce Street, the east end of the first block east of Main Plaza.
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Post by tmdreb on Apr 27, 2011 0:24:18 GMT -5
Anyone notice how on the original plat, what we are so careful to call the "church" is labeled as "Church Chapel" and that the rooms "on the north side of the church" are labeled as the "chapel and vestry". I guess this is probably old hat to a lot of folks here, but that's new to me.
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Post by TRK on May 3, 2011 7:23:56 GMT -5
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