I lived in San Antonio for 20 years between 1995-2015 and I was always interested with the history of the city. I love looking up what things used to look like and how the city changed over the years. I still find it interesting.
San Antonio was like the Milwaukee of the Southwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. At one point there was over 100 (possibly upwards of 160) breweries in the city.
I love the map. I grew up in San Antonio. The Menger Hotel is famous for Teddy Rosevelt and the Rough Riders meeting in the bar. In 1966 I helped my father’s engineering company do a fallout shelter survey of downton SA and it included the Minger Hotel. When we drew up the floor plan there was a hidden room that we could not get access to. I would love to see you do a video overlaying this old map and a new map of San Antonio. The river bend project in the 30’s changed everything. There is a old saying in San Antonio that the streets were layed out by cattle trails. I don’t know the truth to that, but it sure looked that way.
Just a few small corrections on the pronunciation of some of the names, and a few other explanations. 01:38 Bonham is pronounced "Bon-Um". 01:55 the brewery Menger's is pronounced "Meng-ers" not Menj-ers". 03:05 Hutzler's was another brewery in San Antonio. If you look underneath 35 Mengers Brewery in the References, you'll see the " mark under the word Brewery, indicating it is the same word as the above word. Thus.. Hutzler's Brewery. 03:30 Lewis's.. same thing as before, you'll see the " mark next to it, indicating the same word as the above, which was Mill. Thus Lewis's Mill (which makes sense as it is right on the river). 04:15 Vane House (which is the big building below the number 19 on the map) was/is a hotel, and is now the location of the Sheraton Hotel in San Antonio. The Menger family was quite prominent in San Antonio.
The Menger & Sons Soap Works (#34) is now an apartment complex known as the Soap Factory. The original administration building is the leasing office. Of course it's been renovated heavily.
Dude, cool video! I love this old stuff. Just for future reference, Menger is pronounced with the G as a G sound, not a J sound. Main-Gor. The hotel is still in use today, the brewery is not. I didn't even know about a Menger brewery until this video, and I grew up here. Cool stuff.
+danmocz ah thanks! I need to work on my pronunciation skills... Thank you for the kind comments, we love vintage maps too, they are great historical tools in looking into the past!
Bravura Media Company Hi! Love your San Antonio map. I have a 1886 map of San Antonio and cannot find the German English school. Can you help me locate it or can you tell me how you got this map so up close? Thank you!
San Antonio's elevation is like a lifted page.If you lifted the top left corner of the page that would be the north western edge of the city.The more northwestern you go the higher and dryer it becomes,wherearea the more southeastern you travel the flatter and greener it is.
Those are Ditto Marks under the words Brewery and Mills. That is Hutzler's Brewery and Lewis's Mill, Guenther's Mill. Look at Fireman's Hall No 1 and Fireman's Hall No 2. Looks like he chose not to use them for Turner and Munch's Halls.
It is a south eastern view of San Antonio, I've researched many older maps of San Antonio especially the river system and comparing the maps too Google maps views of the same area now, both parents were born in Bexer county in the 30's during the depression so my interest, The Alamo plaza and Travis plaza helped me determine the direction of the maps point of view, also the bend to the of Alamo plaza is an interesting feature that has changed somewhat, I like the large empty lots and how they figure into the streets and layout now. P.s. there were a lot of German businesses in San Antonio, my father worked at a German bakery
I also have family born in SE San Antonio and would be interested to know if you have knowledge of old maps of southcross blvd aka old sulphur springs road?
Your pronunciation sounds a little funny. You must not be from around here lol. Menger is pronounced 'Mang-ger'. The hotel is still there and open for regular business. Opened in 1857 and has been non stop since. VERY beautiful hotel! But his soap works was a big deal around here apparently too. Love your video bro!!!
This is awesome! Thank you for making this video. Where can we find a copy of this map? 5:23 /6:24 a few moments later I learned we can purchase this map with the link in description 💡🙌🏽
Have you done the 1886 Koch's San Antonio map???? Please say you have a video of that one. I have gone crazy looking for the English-German school on the map.
The Military Plaza is now the Head quarters of HEB ...The Hoyer house and Dwyer house are still standing ..significant to 1843 court house battle with the Comanche's..really an ambush as the towns folks got them to visit thinking they would be celebrating a peace treaty ..not the case..those buildings had a doctor from Russia living there under Czar who wanted artifacts sent back to russsia so this doctor tookone of the dead warriors and basically boiled the flesh off the bones and sent them back to the Czar..HEB has office there but some nights the air is full of spirits ...I worked on site as security and can tell yah some stories...the Church you pointed out is still standing ..St Joseph Catholic Church ...people ask are there ghost down here ..got to be honest ...yes.. but its the history of events that leaves these areas like Menger ..er ..Historic Menger Hotel very active with ghost...oh I can say more contact me on facebook ..leave a message ---- I now live in Leander Texas by the way...:)
Place Names of San Antonio: Plus Bexar and Surrounding Counties by David P. Green is a good reference. Several older roads were named for the farms to which they led and the landowners who may have paid for them initially for example Marbach and Wurzbach. Some such as Fredericksburg, Pearsal and Bandera were named for the town to which they led. Harry Wurzbach was named for a local politician over the objections of his family. They noted that Wurzbach road already existed and that Harry had disliked confusing street names in the area.
I lived in San Antonio for 20 years between 1995-2015 and I was always interested with the history of the city. I love looking up what things used to look like and how the city changed over the years. I still find it interesting.
Fun fact - San Fernando Cathedral is the geographical center of the city!
San Antonio was like the Milwaukee of the Southwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. At one point there was over 100 (possibly upwards of 160) breweries in the city.
Just FYI - “Menger” like the Menger Hotel is said with a “hard G” sound. Thanks for an interesting exploration of the 1873 map!
Sitting on the balcony of the Evelyn Raper suite at the Menger hotel as I watch this. Drinking a lone star beer
thats whats up man san antonio for life!
I love the map. I grew up in San Antonio. The Menger Hotel is famous for Teddy Rosevelt and the Rough Riders meeting in the bar. In 1966 I helped my father’s engineering company do a fallout shelter survey of downton SA and it included the Minger Hotel. When we drew up the floor plan there was a hidden room that we could not get access to.
I would love to see you do a video overlaying this old map and a new map of San Antonio. The river bend project in the 30’s changed everything.
There is a old saying in San Antonio that the streets were layed out by cattle trails. I don’t know the truth to that, but it sure looked that way.
Just a few small corrections on the pronunciation of some of the names, and a few other explanations. 01:38 Bonham is pronounced "Bon-Um". 01:55 the brewery Menger's is pronounced "Meng-ers" not Menj-ers". 03:05 Hutzler's was another brewery in San Antonio. If you look underneath 35 Mengers Brewery in the References, you'll see the " mark under the word Brewery, indicating it is the same word as the above word. Thus.. Hutzler's Brewery. 03:30 Lewis's.. same thing as before, you'll see the " mark next to it, indicating the same word as the above, which was Mill. Thus Lewis's Mill (which makes sense as it is right on the river). 04:15 Vane House (which is the big building below the number 19 on the map) was/is a hotel, and is now the location of the Sheraton Hotel in San Antonio. The Menger family was quite prominent in San Antonio.
The old building you mentioned on Solidad was a jail back then, you are correct. The building stills stands today and has been converted into a Hotel
The Menger & Sons Soap Works (#34) is now an apartment complex known as the Soap Factory. The original administration building is the leasing office. Of course it's been renovated heavily.
#35 labeled Mengers Brewery is correct but it is the brewery for the Menger Hotel which is the majority of the structure.
Dude, cool video! I love this old stuff. Just for future reference, Menger is pronounced with the G as a G sound, not a J sound. Main-Gor. The hotel is still in use today, the brewery is not. I didn't even know about a Menger brewery until this video, and I grew up here. Cool stuff.
+danmocz ah thanks! I need to work on my pronunciation skills... Thank you for the kind comments, we love vintage maps too, they are great historical tools in looking into the past!
I grew up there also. When and what part of toen did you grow up there?
Bravura Media Company Hi! Love your San Antonio map. I have a 1886 map of San Antonio and cannot find the German English school. Can you help me locate it or can you tell me how you got this map so up close? Thank you!
Instablaster.
I'm really feeling this....this is cool
+Michael Mitchell Thank you Michael!
I was born in San Antonio TX 1998 February 27 I'm excited to see my ancestors past
San Antonio's elevation is like a lifted page.If you lifted the top left corner of the page that would be the north western edge of the city.The more northwestern you go the higher and dryer it becomes,wherearea the more southeastern you travel the flatter and greener it is.
Those are Ditto Marks under the words Brewery and Mills. That is Hutzler's Brewery and Lewis's Mill, Guenther's Mill. Look at Fireman's Hall No 1 and Fireman's Hall No 2. Looks like he chose not to use them for Turner and Munch's Halls.
It is a south eastern view of San Antonio, I've researched many older maps of San Antonio especially the river system and comparing the maps too Google maps views of the same area now, both parents were born in Bexer county in the 30's during the depression so my interest, The Alamo plaza and Travis plaza helped me determine the direction of the maps point of view, also the bend to the of Alamo plaza is an interesting feature that has changed somewhat, I like the large empty lots and how they figure into the streets and layout now. P.s. there were a lot of German businesses in San Antonio, my father worked at a German bakery
I also have family born in SE San Antonio and would be interested to know if you have knowledge of old maps of southcross blvd aka old sulphur springs road?
Your pronunciation sounds a little funny. You must not be from around here lol. Menger is pronounced 'Mang-ger'. The hotel is still there and open for regular business. Opened in 1857 and has been non stop since. VERY beautiful hotel! But his soap works was a big deal around here apparently too. Love your video bro!!!
it's upside down lol, the bottom of the map on the video is the north side and top would be south correct?
Hahaha right dumb ass dude
He might not be from San Antonio thanks career point👍
Juan Mangel correct, it made it hard to find the Alamo
Absolutely correct
A Casino was a meeting hall for the German community. It wasn't for gambling.
This is awesome! Thank you for making this video. Where can we find a copy of this map? 5:23 /6:24
a few moments later I learned we can purchase this map with the link in description 💡🙌🏽
Ty for the video. Old San Antonio has so much important rich history
Have you done the 1886 Koch's San Antonio map???? Please say you have a video of that one. I have gone crazy looking for the English-German school on the map.
nice video. it's good to see someone keeping up with the past.
good job.😉😎🙂🍍🍔🍟🍦🍺🍻🥃
35 is now the Menger Hotel... harsh G
The Military Plaza is now the Head quarters of HEB ...The Hoyer house and Dwyer house are still standing ..significant to 1843 court house battle with the Comanche's..really an ambush as the towns folks got them to visit thinking they would be celebrating a peace treaty ..not the case..those buildings had a doctor from Russia living there under Czar who wanted artifacts sent back to russsia so this doctor tookone of the dead warriors and basically boiled the flesh off the bones and sent them back to the Czar..HEB has office there but some nights the air is full of spirits ...I worked on site as security and can tell yah some stories...the Church you pointed out is still standing ..St Joseph Catholic Church ...people ask are there ghost down here ..got to be honest ...yes.. but its the history of events that leaves these areas like Menger ..er ..Historic Menger Hotel very active with ghost...oh I can say more contact me on facebook ..leave a message ---- I now live in Leander Texas by the way...:)
I can see my crib
I am a bit confused, is the upper part of the map the North or South? (I expected the Alamo somehow being on the other side of the river)
The map has the North in the lower left corner and the south in the upper right corner more or less.
Thanks!
Casino is Casino Hall, a German theatre.
The Casino had a theatre stage. The Hall was similar to Hermansons a German social club.
You found an “artist’s rendition” of the city.
Now fast forward to 2021, San Antonio has upward of 3 million people in its metro.
Menger is pronounced Minger it's call the Menger(Minger) hotel that is still there in 2021............
Appreciate this, thank you.
Cool!
PLEASE learn the correct pronunciation of the names!! Also, the building that named Casino Building was never a gambling casino.
I think Hutzlers and Lewis's were dry good stores. Not sure though
Who are the people that the streets named after .?
Defenders of the Alamo, prominent Tejano's and Texians dating back to the Texas Revolution, and local Leaders.
Place Names of San Antonio: Plus Bexar and Surrounding Counties by David P. Green is a good reference. Several older roads were named for the farms to which they led and the landowners who may have paid for them initially for example Marbach and Wurzbach. Some such as Fredericksburg, Pearsal and Bandera were named for the town to which they led. Harry Wurzbach was named for a local politician over the objections of his family. They noted that Wurzbach road already existed and that Harry had disliked confusing street names in the area.
Where I am from
Jump to 2019.. the whole southeast side up to the I-10 corridor is a complete ghetto..
Any maps of San Antonio De Bexar before the Gringo invasion? I noticed the streets are named after opportunist
🤣🤣🤣 there was no San Antonio before white people. What are you on about? Garcia is one the whitest names out there
Bonam.... Mengrrrr. ... and then you lost me... you are not from around here
no one is perfect.
Right. I'm surprised he didn't pronounce Main Plaza as "May-in Pluh-zah".
The Jail is still there! Ha!
Bonham is pronounced "bawnum".
Where my family is from.
Clumsy
Paul Brown bitchy...
You must not be from San Antonio. You don’t pronounce “Menger” correctly.
You should of studied the map first then explained it to us. The way you move the map is annoying
jose jorge balderas the way you don’t move maps, is annoying.
Why don’t you look for the map yourself and do it all yourself dumb fuck
@@mindyabusinesses649 why are you so mad?
No viva Texas
The Alamo doesn't have basement say Pedro and Inez