by Instead of empty streets in the financial district on weekends after the brokers and bankers have gone home, downtown San Antonio is busy 7 days a week. The city’s biggest tourist attractions–Riverwalk and the Alamo along with a couple of museums and some other entertainment venues–are right in the heart of city. And shuttling tourists from place to place around the area is good business.
Here are a few things I saw…
The San Antonio River is not much more than a canal lined with broad terraces used for outdoor dining and walking. The first effort to line the river to control flood damage began in 1907, but it took over 20 years before the Powers-that-Be moved ahead vigorously with the Riverwalk. Now it is much more than a flood control channel.
A motorized pink boat filled with tourists glides under footbridge built in the Chinese (or Japanese) Moon bridge style. The San Antonio River, which rises from 4 nearby springs, is quite shallow.
Before the tourists in that pink boat go much farther, they will see to their right this stage and, below, the amphitheatre seating on the other side of the river. This man was setting up for a concert that evening in honor of the crowning of Le Rey Feo for Fiesta, a huge 10 day celebration in San Antonio. The name “Le Rey Feo” means The Ugly King!
Only a few hundred people could squeeze into the event.
Back on the streets of San Antonio a 18th Century Landau carriage meets 21st Century Lime scooter.
A landau painted white circles the plaza in front of the Alamo providing rides for tourists.
I love the pink flowers on this carriage! This must be a designated carriage parking zone.
When is too much just about right? When your carriage horse has a sparkly silver pedicure!
Lime and Bird scooters are everywhere in downtown San Antonio, but only the young and fearless are riding them. Maybe during the week, young stockbrokers cruise from place to place on them, or maybe not..
I didn’t tour the Alamo on my first visit to downtown San Antonio, but thousands of other people did. I visited it later. It is surprising how few of this group were looking up at the monument to the dead at the battle for the Alamo.
