Alamo's Long Barrack savior to get her due

[Bill Manuel]

Alamo's Long Barrack savior to get her due
Saturday, February 25, 2012

www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Alamo-s-Long-Barrack-savior-to-get-her-due-3360169.php

Not sure where to put this.. Please move if needed.
Bill

[Paul Sylvain]

I'll be sure to check it out when I visit the Alamo later this week. Thanks for posting.

Paul

[Allen Wiener]

I always found it to be ironic that, when the Long Barrack Museum was established after restoration, the small movie theater in it was named the "Clara Driscoll Theater" rather than the "Adina de Zavala Theater."

[davidpenrod]

Long, long overdue. Somebody should make a movie about this lady.

I'd also like to see a more prominent memorial for Lasoya and some form of individual recognition for the other Tejanos who died defending the place.

[Jake]

You know, there is a life-sized memorial statue of Toribio Losoya across the street from the entrance to the Hyatt Riverwalk, at street level above the waterfall feature that runs down from Alamo Plaza, with a little plaque telling who he was -- pretty good work. Toribio and his uncle Domingo were mistaken for a single person up until 1980 when I sorted the two out and told the DRT they were making a mistake with "him." I wrote that up in 1982, in "The Losoyas and the Texas Revolution," Alamo Newsletter 4 March 1982, pp. 12-13.

But not enough is said about him, Seguin, who lived only to be badly treated later, or the other Tejanos that served at the Alamo. It is even possible that the skull we found in the fortification trench inside the north wall of the courtyard belonged to one of the Tejano defenders, rather than an attacker.

Isn't there a marker in the north courtyard mentioning the "unknown soldier" of the Alamo? There was discussion at one time about reburying the skull in the north courtyard and indicating the place with such a marker, but I don't know if they did so.

[Allen Wiener]

Here's a photo of the Losoya statue with your's truly, taken a few years ago. I thought it could have been displayed in a more prominent place.

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[ranger2518]

Feb 26, 2012 22:55:28 GMT -5 Jake said:

Isn't there a marker in the north courtyard mentioning the "unknown soldier" of the Alamo?

No, but there is a bronze plaque inside the north end of the Long Barrack honoring unknown defenders.

[Allen Wiener]

Here's a better photo of the Losoyo statue:

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[Bill Manuel]

Speaking of Clara Driscoll, She put up the $75,000. for the DRT for the Alamo and all that money was to be used for the park, That was alot of money back then in 1904.
There is a deed under her name that explains the whole thing.
Book 223 page 261
Bexar County Deed records
So to get a theather named after her, isn't that bad.

[Kevin Young]

I believe she got paid back....
Adina certainly deserves her place...the marker placed near the long barracks inside the grounds by the DRT recognizing her...the marker placed on her grave...and now this. She certainly was "A force of nature." I always found it somewhat amusing that Clara's Texas Rev ancestor was actually a deserter from the US Army (at least according to research the Walravens did).

[Allen Wiener]

The irony is that, without Adina, there would be no Long Barrack at all, hence no theater, yet it's named for Clara (not taking anything away from what she did accomplish).

[Jake]

And it was Clara who was trying to tear down the long barracks. Irony, or what?

[Kevin Young]

Of course, having seen Adina's concept for the restoration of the Long Barracks...but still, it would have retained the building...and her plans for the restoration of the Perez House (AKA Spanish Gov Mansion) were even more spectatular.

And yes-the Clara Driscoll Theatre inside the Long Barracks that Adina fought her tooth and nail to save is, at best ironic...

[Paul Sylvain]

"At best," indeed, sums it up.

[Bill Manuel]

Yes Clara got paid back..
However reading up on her she did do alot of good too! So not all was bad.