Though a much-extended Roosevelt Avenue has become an important thoroughfare, it started as a mere “driveway to the fairgrounds,” according to the San Antonio Express, Sept. 14, 1899, referring to the San Antonio International Fair and Exposition. To be planted with two rows of shade trees, the new roadway “(would) be known as Roosevelt Avenue in honor of Col. Roosevelt, whose famous Rough Riders were organized at the fairgrounds.”
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