Roosevelt Avenue named after Teddy, not FDR

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.”

Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Roosevelt-Avenue-named-after-Teddy-not-FDR-955594.php#ixzz1BG8wvbB6

Historic Homeowner Fair

August 28, 2010, 9 A.M. to 2 P.M.

Municipal Auditorium 

100 Auditorium Circle , San Antonio, TX 78205

Join us Saturday, August 28th, for the second annual City of San Antonio Office of Historic Preservation Historic Homeowner Fair. The fair will include sessions on repairing wood windows, “green” living in older neighborhoods, appropriate repairs and additions to historic properties, kids activities and more. In the Exhibitors’ Hall find products and services of interest to owners of older homes.

Free and open to the public, the fair provides citizens and professionals a unique opportunity to interact and discuss issues related to caring for homes more than 50 years old.

If you are interested in becoming a Historic Homeowner Fair exhibitor or sponsor,  please contact Amy Unger at the City of San Antonio Office of Historic Preservation for space availability and reservations.

And don’t miss your chance to register for the Window Restoration Workshop offered by the Office of Historic Preservation and the UTSA School of Architecture,  August 20-21.  Visit our website at www.sanantonio.gov/historic for more  information on this and other upcoming preservation events.

Concepción Acequia

The San Antonio Express News reports on an archaeological excavation in our neighborhood this week:

Crews have found what they believe is part of the upper layer of a nearly 300-year-old acequia that provided water to Mission Concepción on the near South Side.
After digging 11 feet deep Tuesday just east of Roosevelt Park, near Roosevelt Avenue and Whittier Street, workers found a small section of what's believed to be the acequia, possibly confirming what historians had long suggested about its location. Crews also found about 20 unbroken bottles dating as far back as the late 1800s and a stoneware pitcher from about the mid-1800s.
Tuesday's archaeological work ... was done under a Texas Historical Commission permit as part of construction of a hike-and-bike trail of the Mission Trails project.
The 15-foot-long excavation trench, measuring just over 30 inches wide, was being refilled late Tuesday. Hindes didn't know if the discovery would affect the hike-and-bike project.

Read the entire report on the mySA.com website:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/dig_unearths_1700s_mission_acequia_98873934.html

Fritos recipes

The empire that is Frito-Lay got its start in the Roosevelt Park Neighborhood in 1932, when Charles Elmer Doolin bought the recipe for Fritos from a Mexican man who was selling bags of the little fried masa that was already popular on Mexican beaches.



Louise of the Months of Edible Celebrations blog wrote a brief and includes some of her favorite recipes for Fritos. Click here.